movies with jennifer lawrence not to be missed

How well it starts girlfriend for rent. It immediately manifests exactly what everyone seems to ignore and no modern American comedy (at least cinematic) is interested in showing: the desire to be different, well done. Better. It all starts with the fact that someone removes the car from starring Maddie

(Jennifer Lawrence) who goes out into the street in a dressing gown (morning) in protest. The tow truck operator is revealed to be her ex. They broke up badly, he is very embittered, she does everything to curry favor with him so that he leaves her car. As this rather obvious dynamic continues, we begin to understand a lot about her, who she is and what tone she has, the little squalor of her life, her clothes and her mannerisms and, above all, the main clue that in this story she has a role usually played by men. This scene is nothing new, just men, usually losers, trying to curry favor with embittered exes for being dumped. At the end of the scene, the appearance of the person with whom she slept that night (an athletic and sexy man, the complete opposite of her, who at this moment is unloading in a bathrobe) completes the picture.

One of many actresses Hollywoodtoday to be able to afford a film of this kind is definitely Jennifer Lawrence. Few can afford such nuanced characters, obscure at the beginning of the film, not belonging to generally accepted stereotypes. She’s certainly not a young high school cheerleader (Jennifer Lawrence is 32), she’s not a runaway New York worker who isn’t afraid of men, she’s not a sweet little town girl with lots of dreams, and she’s not even a nerd with big glasses and embarrassment. in front of men. Her character is a girl so sexually unprincipled and professionally bankrupt that she agrees to the most incredible advertising. deflower the son of a wealthy couple in exchange for a car. And a girl who, despite her young age, clearly has a past, already when she first enters the stage. Like the character played by Charlize Theron in young adultwhen we meet her, she seems to have an experience that led her to her current situation.

All allusions to girlfriend for rent (the title is a bit like this, compared to the original No hard feelingswith all the double meanings of the case) it’s something between genius and famous: someone is interested in someone else for reasons of interest, and then (SPOILER!) realizes that under the patina of a loser there is a person they really like. However, the fact that everyone has cars is a little more cynical than usual. Everything, however, is written with great care. Other characteristic components are also very well written, such as the choir of her friends, to which we periodically return in the film and which provides a form of commentary on events, each of characters she is portrayed in a businesslike way, starting with the stereotype and showing with a few jokes that she knows how to subvert or even just cure him.

Maddie and a boy who has been promised to lose his virginity (but who is much more difficult to win sexually than he initially thought) are in a small village by the sea. She always lived there all year round, he and his wealthy parents come here for vacation. Thus, on the one hand, the typical arrogance of those who consider themselves the owners of a place that does not really belong to them, on the other hand, the typical predatory attitude of the locals, who in the summer months have to earn everything they need even in the most depressing months of winter. In a word, instead of the usual obvious location – a small world, characterized with the same care as the characters.

But if such a film is possible today, it is primarily because girlfriend for rent dispels gender stereotypes. As announced in the first scene, Maddie is the hard part of this courting couple who doesn’t get to the point of having sex because of his sentimental excess, the tender part. She is the one who picks him up (on behalf of his parents) and wants to get right down to business, while he needs to feel something in order to understand the meaning of sex and feel desire. Finally when plot flirts and the plot draws them in more and more, it is she who does not want to show up or open up, and he is constantly trying to get in touch, invading her heart. Everything, of course, is less schematic, and the manner, as usual, is masterful. Jennifer Lawrence creates this girl who behaves in the way we usually imagine how boys behave (she is also the more grumpy of the two), but who then, in the depths of her eyes, in her modest expressions, in the surprise of certain moments, also reveals more stereotypically femininity features. Once upon a time we would have called it all “a good and original sentimental comedy”, today it is not only a small miracle, but also the only interweaving of roles, genres, stars, stories and tones that a script-like scenario can allow. girlfriend for rent become not just a platform movie, but one that can go to theaters.