Eternal Beauty

We are all different

Comedy Drama Romance
95 min     6     2020     United Kingdom

Overview

Jane (Sally Hawkins) is a fragile, but, at the same time, an irrepressibly cheerful woman who hears voices and has paranoid fantasies. On top of this, the symptoms of schizophrenia are exacerbated by her disgusting, selfish family. Jane was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at the age of 20, after her fiancé left her at the altar. After spending most of her life in a psychiatric hospital where shock therapy was used, Jane decides to stop taking medications. While this means she begins to see giant spiders crawling all over the place and begins to tear off tiny strips of wallpaper, Jane also feels more alive and energized. One day, Jane meets an aspiring musician Mike (David Thewlis), who also has serious mental problems. Together they have fun and learn about life in their own way, touchingly awkwardly, but with an huge supply of perseverance and confidence in happiness.

Curious situations replace each other, and biting remarks additionally enhance the comic effect. Nevertheless, this does not at all interfere with the fact that in some places, both lyrical and dramatic notes break through.

The loud name Eternal Beauty is easy to consider as another author's joke, especially since in one of the episodes on the screen of the television receiver, which the characters are watching, there are shots of advertising for the cream of the Eternal Beauty brand, which promises to smooth out age wrinkles, give the skin a healthy shine, and so on.

We are so used to such things that we have do not notice the blatant vulgarization of lofty matters. With a smile, the director-scriptwriter hints to the audience that the real eternal beauty is different – it lies in the ability of individuals to believe in beauty and not subject to the destructive effects of time. Of course, Jane should not come to terms with betrayal, but the fact that the heroine experienced love partly expiates the subsequent disappointment.

Reviews

Jayson wrote:

In general, the film "Eternal Beauty" is sad and difficult. Authoritarian mothers would look and selfish about loved ones. Sometimes, what feels right can cripple the lives of others. Well, here is such a film, if you are ready for a serious, thoughtful viewing, then why not. I regret a little that Saturday morning began with such blue melancholy. I had to find something different, more positive)

Rose wrote:

The first 40 minutes are impressive - the person with schizophrenia's attitude is correctly shown, especially the perception of time. Scary to the chills. The film loses all its originality and tempo from the middle, growing into a snotty melodrama with a primitive message.

Johnson wrote:

The romanticization of psychopathology as something more "fun" than normalcy - frankly, well, that is. But they play well.

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