I've never seen a movie that was animated to such a high degree by the acting as in "Bride Wars". Manhattan, the wedding planner offices, the black wrought iron gate fences are made a Camelot by the cosmopolitan rush of excitements. It's a theme park wonderland because the brides to be, Emma(Anne Hathaway) and Liv-for Olivia(Kate Hudson) crater the linear plot in a field of fascination, following the faces of wedding anticipation within the moments of point A to point B. The buildings and other tracts of obstinacy are negotiable.
Emma and Liv are Manhattan socialites. These two, are also like a projector. Their behaviors, and expressions, are like balls of bright colored yarn lying around a basket. Balloons of irony, and stoppages for plot are deferred by an effete subtlety of facial poses and interpretive resources. The mere motivations of either Emma or Liv segue one scene into another in points of interest. If Liv gets a keychain from her suitor, Daniel, and not a ring, we know that despite the disappointment Liv is going to have a tolerant good humor and some cynical recourse. Liv had mentioned her 'former chubby girlfriend' self and when paired with a cherubim smile at being proposed to an innocent ecstacy is articulated. When details about wedding planning are intruding into Liv's office it's devastation. The viewer observes an attitude laden stipulation: "Just send mom a big box of chocolates.". Cookies and other novelties arrive for Liv to eat: "The wedding has a price", she warns. The film can maintain a threatening premise and a sweet cajolery in a single frame.
Where all the conflict between Liv and Emma begins is with the tradition of 'saving the date'. Emma volunteers this observation: "To 'send the date' you have to 'know your wedding date'". This conjecture is critical. Emma is mobilizing the plot after she hears rumors. Emma is the serious side to the 'googly eyed ambiance'. It is credited here, because her presentation is archetypal, submerging all the artifices of a sabotage comedy. Take for example this joke. Liv confronts Emma about sending out her dates(for the wedding). This is an overt set-up piece, but the culminating aspects of the social repertoire of the two leads sends this scene off into a debonair rat-race. Emma in her jaded situation then ellicits a sense of this injustice to the audience: "You never ask me what I want.". Liv threatens back: "Your wedding better watch it".
Charming or vindictive, it's all inviegling. A stiil photo of Emma and Liv is incongruous, it is a lofty sentiment in a well-paced comedy. Don't think,it doesn't matter, it's just the tension is such, because we can project so much wonder about Liv and Em. I was seduced into accepting that these characters were real, whether walking around, or modeled from sketches. By the time Emma and Liv apologize to one another for ruining each others wedding, it's a quadrant faced sphere of appreciations. Impressions so grossly achieved in a movie, make resonant vital sentiments from material objects; energies exist in stealthy mutability, but something seeks us out. All that I can think, relate about exigent liveliness in this film, is in a line said by one of the caterers or wedding directors: "Let's move, this is not a dress rehearsal".
A final note. The director Gary Winick, is also responsible for "Charlotte's Web"(2006). A story about fabulist characters-animals, that cratered to depths through the use of advanced expressions-what the characters believed, their interactions.
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