The group is a movie by Sidney Lumet, the person directed dog day afternoon, the network, 12 angry men and many other movies. This movie showcases women from the 40's and the time before and during the world war. The male dominated society where there were only two types of men defined in the movie: honorable knights and the bad men. It tries and showcases the yearning of women for their freedom of expression and the hope to do something meaningful of their lives.
The movie starts with girls chirping and enjoying the last day of their graduation. Like any graduates, there were having mixed feelings about their future life. The movie title “the group” is for 8 friends Lakey, Dottie, Priss, Polly, Kay, Pokey, Libby and Helena from the class of Vassar 1933 who were among the freshly graduated students. Kay one of the brightest in their group who came from a humble background and wants to set an example for the folks back home. She marries to an upcoming theater director after college and engages herself in a job that she doesn't likes; to support her family. Her life goes through some tough times and a bad husband which ends her married life in divorce. Libby, the one who is most ambitious, who wants a job in publishing and whose bravado hides her insecurities when not getting what she wants. Lakey, an outed lesbian who can get any man
she wants but has longing for Kay, after graduation she goes to Europe. Dottie: a Boston girl recovering from her betrayal of first love marries a man to hide her feelings. Polly: An aspiring doctor who quits her dream for some financial problems. Priss: A democrat who ends up marrying a republican. Pokey: She gets married and have kids and becomes a normal housewife. Helena: The communicator who reports the goings-on of her friends to their other classmates.
I hate watching chick flicks, but the reason I got into it was the mention of Mary McCarthy in an article
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-formidable-friendship-of-mary- mccarthy-and-hannah-arendt.
She was an intelligent girl and the movie Group is based on her novel “The Group”. I cannot comment on the authenticity of the characters matching the one written in the book. I did not get the urge of reading the book as I got while watching Lord of the rings. But this is one of the better chick movies and shows real world descriptions of women and men. In the movie though, the female gender is exposed as weak, uncaring, not knowledgeable and it does not shows any real bonding of friends. If this story was meant as enlightenment, it satisfies a voyeur's dream but there's no sharing of intimacy which is found between "true friends". But maybe you could identify, resolve, and move on where these women could not, it is the 40's, where women take a back seat to the men. Maybe, it shows us that we are not that much different in the generations that follow. The situation for women in the movie is relevant for developing countries where still men dominant societies recide. Men or women, the movie gives us a moral that without a voice, our choice to do what we want, we won't be able to do it, and till then we are only pretending.
The movie starts with girls chirping and enjoying the last day of their graduation. Like any graduates, there were having mixed feelings about their future life. The movie title “the group” is for 8 friends Lakey, Dottie, Priss, Polly, Kay, Pokey, Libby and Helena from the class of Vassar 1933 who were among the freshly graduated students. Kay one of the brightest in their group who came from a humble background and wants to set an example for the folks back home. She marries to an upcoming theater director after college and engages herself in a job that she doesn't likes; to support her family. Her life goes through some tough times and a bad husband which ends her married life in divorce. Libby, the one who is most ambitious, who wants a job in publishing and whose bravado hides her insecurities when not getting what she wants. Lakey, an outed lesbian who can get any man
she wants but has longing for Kay, after graduation she goes to Europe. Dottie: a Boston girl recovering from her betrayal of first love marries a man to hide her feelings. Polly: An aspiring doctor who quits her dream for some financial problems. Priss: A democrat who ends up marrying a republican. Pokey: She gets married and have kids and becomes a normal housewife. Helena: The communicator who reports the goings-on of her friends to their other classmates.
I hate watching chick flicks, but the reason I got into it was the mention of Mary McCarthy in an article
http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-formidable-friendship-of-mary- mccarthy-and-hannah-arendt.
She was an intelligent girl and the movie Group is based on her novel “The Group”. I cannot comment on the authenticity of the characters matching the one written in the book. I did not get the urge of reading the book as I got while watching Lord of the rings. But this is one of the better chick movies and shows real world descriptions of women and men. In the movie though, the female gender is exposed as weak, uncaring, not knowledgeable and it does not shows any real bonding of friends. If this story was meant as enlightenment, it satisfies a voyeur's dream but there's no sharing of intimacy which is found between "true friends". But maybe you could identify, resolve, and move on where these women could not, it is the 40's, where women take a back seat to the men. Maybe, it shows us that we are not that much different in the generations that follow. The situation for women in the movie is relevant for developing countries where still men dominant societies recide. Men or women, the movie gives us a moral that without a voice, our choice to do what we want, we won't be able to do it, and till then we are only pretending.
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