{"id":106,"date":"2008-11-17T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2008\/11\/rachel-getting-married.html"},"modified":"2011-06-30T20:13:25","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T20:13:25","slug":"rachel-getting-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2008\/11\/rachel-getting-married.html","title":{"rendered":"Rachel getting married"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"rachel2\"<\/a> Rachel getting married is about Kym, Rachel\u2019s sister, and her complicated relationship with her family. It\u2019s about mental baggage; the stuff we carry around in our heads. Kym\u2019s elder sister Rachel is getting married, and Kym is a recovering drug addict, out from her rehab center for a few days to attend the wedding. It is a pretty complicated family structure – Rachel and Kym\u2019s parents are divorced and now married to different people, Rachel is marrying an African-American musician, who comes with lots of family, culture and music, and Kym, an ex-model is an outwardly snaky, inwardly insecure woman, at the center of a deep, dark family tragedy, which no-one can forget.<\/p>\n

This film often feels like a personal movie video, with all the family huddled together, making toasts – some polished, some awkward, and dragging over the familial bits. But there is also a lot of family drama, because guess what – Kym is not the only one with hurt feelings. And while the characters are not saintly at all; all of them have nasty streaks like the rest of us mortal folks, you feel for each one of them – they get under your skin. It\u2019s not about who\u2019s right or who\u2019s wrong, it\u2019s about life. <\/p>\n

Performances are great all around – I especially felt for Kym and her father, played by Bill Irwin. The screenplay is nice with the details, feels a little \u201cdraggy\u201d at times – but probably necessary to give the film the whole \u201cit\u2019s a family spat\u201d kind of a feel. <\/p>\n

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A point of interest in the film, for me, is that Rachel\u2019s wedding has an Indian theme. So the food is Indian, and the wedding cake look’s like a Maharajah’s Indian elephant. The bride and the bridesmaids wear beautiful silk saris (not very correctly though), and the younger men wear kurtas and sherwanis – the groom wearing a heavy brocade one. I didn\u2019t get why they would go for the desi scheme, and no one actually expresses any affinity to the Indian culture, so that sort of went unexplained.<\/p>\n

Nice film. It ends on a high note, but it is a sad story – you\u2019ll shed a few tears.<\/p>\n

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