Pieces of a woman Review

 

Hi guys! Welcome to my new review: today we’re going to talk about a Netflix movie called Pieces of a Woman. This movie is a drama directed by Kornél Mundruczo, written by Kata Wéber and inspired by her own miscarriage and Martin Scorsese is one of the executive producers. The movie stars Vanessa Kirby as the protagonist, mostly known for her role as Princess Margaret in The Crown, Shia LaBeouf, Sarah Snook, Molly Parker and Ellen Burstyn.

 

The plot:

Martha, the protagonist played by Vanessa Kirby, and Sean, interpreted by Shia LaBeouf are expecting their first child. The baby seems to have some problems during the labour, which took place at their home, and the expectant parents lose their child. The lost of the child occurs because of an alleged error caused by the midwife. In the movie we can see how much suffering was brought by this death, so we see the grieving of both Martha and Sean.

IMDB rating: 7.1

Personal rating: 8.5

Personal opinion:

This movie was really good and it shows what a woman who lost her child goes through. Vanessa Kirby was simply outstanding in her role and I believe that she is going to receive recognition for this. The whole cast actually was really impressive and I also wanted to underline the amazing acting skills of Ellen Burstyn, who won already an Oscar for her role as Sara in Requiem for a Dream. About the movie, I will say that it can arouse various feelings from anger to compassion and sadness. Also, I noticed some symbols and metaphors, one of them for example was the apple: at the beginning, after her child’s death, Martha is at a grocery store and she choose a “perfect” apple, in a second time we see Martha eating a rotten apple which indicates the bad relationship between Martha and Sean, then she starts taking the seeds from the apples in order to make them grow and only when Martha is truly aware and accept her child death the seeds start to germinate. So Martha is represented by apples and we come aware of this in the ending where she finally has collected her “pieces” and created an apple tree.

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