Did anyone else think she looked amazingly frail and emaciated? I like her as an actress, but she was almost unrecognizable. I hope she isn't suffering from anorexia or has some other horrible disease.
shareYes, she looks horrible in this one. There are women like that a few miles from me, in the trailer park area. She looks like a methhead, but with good teeth.
shareMaybe it's just method actiong? At times, she looked fine in the film. I imagine they shot this on a fast schedule. So, anything that may have been wrong they had to shoot through.
shareI do not think it is necessary for her to go that thin. Even Christian Bale did not have to go concentration camp thin for The Mechanic but he did. On the other end, Adrian Brody in The Pianist needed to go that thin.
shareI think it is a combination of two factors: a low body fat ratio probably due to lack of food and or heavy exercise routine and 2. plastic surgery. Its obvious to me that she has had her face pulled and stretched in a number ways probably wanting to look youthful. I kept on thinker her nose looked like the late michael jackson's. I am pretty sure it wasn't that small in her earlier work.
shareyes, and thank you so much for bringing it up. I cried through the movie not only due to the storyline, but for her, the actress. My assumption (right or wrong) due to her role as an actress living in LA (and the pressures that come along with that), is that she was either anorexic or bulimic. I was disgusted by her character's referenced "sexiness", when in fact she looked as though she should be hospitalized. What I've found frustrating is that no one else seemed to notice. It's quite a statement about our culture. Again, thanks for bringing it up.
shareShe grew up before those "normal weight/figure" Barbie Dolls. So she felt compelled to starve herself beyond all recognition. Sad really.
shareHer skin looks quite unhealthy indeed.
"I am not a complete idiot, some parts are missing."
Did anyone else just think she shouldn't have been cast in that role? She tells stories and reacts to Tom as if she were in her late 20s/30s, but in fact, she is almost 50 and she obviously looks around that age. Just didn't seem to be a good fit at all.
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i agree fish, i actually couldn't stand her
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Gosh, considering the part and the story I thought she was great and looked great,
or rather appropriate and right for the part. Look at the people you meet in real
life and they have problems, and some of them have big problems that drives their
lives. I thought she played that role beautifuly and that it was well-written as well.
Just because you do not like something about her does not mean she looks terrible
or is sick or did a bad job.
All of them were raw from their lives. I am surprised at so many negative comments.
No comments from me on the actress, but about the character -- I didn't like her at first but sort of liked her by the end. I thought she looked very typical for an older chain smoker. Also, her first scene where she's so mad at "Boomer," well, people are usually the angriest at things in other people that they hate in themselves. This was a good example, the iPod, etc.
shareI noticed she looked emaciated as well. Very, very different from White Noise, which was the last time I saw her and her voice sounded drastically different. Really made me wonder if she is a chain smoker in real life. That'll do it to you. I still enjoyed her performance in The Way though. But yea, definite difference from WN and pics from other movies I've seen of her. Hope she's ok!
shareI kept thinking she looked just like Kim Gordon from Sonic Youth. She sure looks a lot different in this than she did in the movie Crash 15 years earlier.
shareDon't forget, this is a cruel business for actresses. When everything about your paycheck and your ego depends on you being thin enough, cute enough, etc., it's not hard to see how somebody would develop a tendency to want to prove herself in hyperfit shape, even to the point of being too thin. Cf. Demi Moore in some of her later films, as opposed to About Last Night and other such films. Or Cameron Diaz, in Mask versus her later films.
shareYou are quite right Emncaity,
Indeed there is no more insecure place then Hollywood. Trigger for constant "enhancement" due to projection of "imperfection" of living in environment where every week, fresh, younger and prettier faces confirm their fears - all the time. Like in the real life, some are more stable some less. I rarely get pleasantly surprised by anything later then late 90’s. And The Way is truly a charming movie, and Martin takes the blame for great acting and good observing qualities of Martin’s approach to his characters. Sadly, Unger has undergone hefty taxation of plastic procedures, moderation was not her virtue. As result, her performance is constantly reduced to her present looks. But, since such discipline of vane, almost adolescent addiction has become our reality on daily basis, lets look from other side. Martin’s character side if you will. We are also on voyage of faith with him, and we accept Unger weakness as we would accept our own.
Great little movie, nevertheless
by emncaity » Thu Jan 10 2013 09:04:19share
Don't forget, this is a cruel business for actresses. When everything about your paycheck and your ego depends on you being thin enough, cute enough, etc., it's not hard to see how somebody would develop a tendency to want to prove herself in hyperfit shape, even to the point of being too thin. Cf. Demi Moore in some of her later films, as opposed to About Last Night and other such films. Or Cameron Diaz, in Mask versus her later films.
We are also on voyage of faith with him, and we accept Unger weakness as we would accept our own.
Hello again Emcaity,
For one to seriously examine the nature of why we rarely get surprised by preset offer lays in the very core of our present popular culture. Surely not the place to examine in grear analysis, but as you might know:
DJs have replaced composers, books are replaced by quick manuals, and cinema is really replaced by TV. Creative filed of cinema is really more about bureaucracy then any creativity. Where such spark exist, it is often reduced to mediocrity of those in charge. Not to mention entire world of indolence that is driven with the aid of technology. Add to everything my favorite - color grading - and I quickly exhaust any reason to visit cinema again. Just touching the very surface of the problem.
by emncaity» 6 days ago (Sat Aug 27 2016 10:28:32)
IMDb member since November 1999 - Interesting. I think that's exactly right, actually.
I agree that it's a great little movie.
Also, I agree to being rarely surprised at any film in the past 15-20 years. I think maybe it has something to do with being focus-grouped and test-marketed to death, with scripts that are less about somebody's artistic vision and more about checking all the right boxes. Which is only to emphasize just how nice it is to see a film that seems so much less calculated, so much less an empty exercise, so much more an expression of humanity and decency, populated by adults, with seemingly not a single care about whether or not it pushes the right buttons with the right markets. Rare indeed. I find myself oddly thinking about scenes from the film at times when I don't even know why, much more so than with any other film that comes to mind at the moment.
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Also, I agree to being rarely surprised at any film in the past 15-20 years. I think maybe it has something to do with being focus-grouped and test-marketed to death, with scripts that are less about somebody's artistic vision and more about checking all the right boxes. Which is only to emphasize just how nice it is to see a film that seems so much less calculated, so much less an empty exercise, so much more an expression of humanity and decency, populated by adults, with seemingly not a single care about whether or not it pushes the right buttons with the right markets. Rare indeed. I find myself oddly thinking about scenes from the film at times when I don't even know why, much more so than with any other film that comes to mind at the moment.
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