"Ocean’s Eight" by Gary Ross - movie review

We live in times when feminism is on its rise. Which sphere to look at, it will be there. Here, however, it will be about art. It is a well-known fact that in the world drama is written mainly male characters. The female presence is scarce and too often it is exhausted to a major female role. At best supporting, plus a few more colorful ones. In the actor's class, women also resent the lack of work after entering the middle age area. Actresses are in constant battle with time ... and for roles. Something you can see in "Feud," which examines how the two Hollywood icons Joan Crawford (Jessica Lang) and Betty Davis (Susan Sarandon) are trying to revive their careers. It does not seem easy to be an actress. The boom of Hollywood sexual abuse scandals is another proof. Something that was always supposed to be, but the cries of the victims were severely muffled. In such a favorable timing, the television formats did not miss the wave and gave birth to two of the most successful productions ever created that look at the woman and her struggle to be treated as equal to the man's being.

HBO gave back to Jean-Marc Vallee, directed by Liane Moriarty, "Big Little Lies," for which actresses Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon are the culprits. Hulu made a worldwide breakthrough with the screening of the novel by Canadian writer Margaret Atwood "The story of the maid". The show is disturbing and sobering cruel. It carries viewers into a woman's future, in which she has lost her right for freedom. It is designed and used solely for the production of children. The two series have an iron dramatic base, they leap over their origins, and they deserve all sorts of awards like "Golden Globe" and "Emmy," and the themes and messages they carry have a broad reputation in society. Somehow, it is quite a matter of women's wave to flood the cinemas in the form of commercial cinema, and this happens with Ocean’s Eight. As an introduction, he can not fail to mention Steven Soderbergh's "Ocean's Eleven", in which George Clooney as Danny Ocean, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, and Julia Roberts made horrifying robberies and giggles everyone they were on their way. 10 years later, Danny Ocean is no longer among the living, and we see his younger sister, Debbie (Sandra Bullock), come out of the cradle where she lived for 5 years, dipped by her beloved. During this time, instead of licking wounds, she creates a plan for punishment and revenge. The first part of the film follows the well-known Ocean's Eleven, and besides Debbie's personal drama, it involves the introduction of all major players in the game. This part seems familiar and therefore more boring - except for the stage where Debbie "adapts" after 5 years behind bars.

The first person to whom Debbie is calling is her best friend, Lou (my heart here would be a bit like a Cate Blanchett look like a leather wedge, motorbike, and helmet). With Lou in the past, daveveries were rolling, and now she has a bar in which she dilutes the vodka with water. The two draw up an action plan and the necessary resources, and the goal is something that women love and craving. Diamonds have a girl's best friend! Necklace of the Cartier brand worth 150 million dollars, which is kept in a safe under the ground, and they somehow have to get out. From here onwards, follow the steps of implementing a slightly naive plan. In order to have such a jewel, it takes an appropriate event such as the red carpet of Met Galle at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which is the editor-in-chief of Vogue Anna Wintour. The ball, where real stars and "stars" defile with costly, sometimes kitsch dolls for millions of dollars. Mute celebrity actress Daphne Clugger (an embarrassingly funny Anne Hathaway) is also required to make the setting-up designer Rose Waal (Helena Bonham Carter) the fly that the necklace should appear in front of the lens of the fashion event of the year. Somehow things that can be said are quickly exhausted. Everything is going on and without any special surprises. The abduction is accomplished. The man is bad and punished. There is a sense of the lack of that swirl and adrenaline that kept us from the front films. Do not get me wrong, I'm not saying that Ocean’s Eight is a bad movie, on the contrary. To a large extent, it performs the function for which it was created. Just in the shadow of his older brother seems to be one-sided. I'll give the idea to the ladies how to "consume" Ocean’s Eight: Dress up for a party, get a big company, get some alcohol in a bar, then cool in the movie theater and get into the movie, that you are at the most exclusive fashion party in America. Relax. Make him intoxicating, you do not have to remember anything tomorrow. The next day you release the first three movies and watch carefully how it is done.

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