Living Out Loud was created in 1998 directed by Richard LaGravenese. Holly Hunter stars as Judith Ne
lson, a middle-age, feisty woman who's marriage fell short after her husband left her for a younger woman. She's going through her mid-life crisis, This has deeply depressed her causing her to stop and think about her life ahead.
Trying to see that now being single yet again, what were the right and wrong choices she took in that time period. Where does she go from here? Her voice runs through her mind all over the place. Saying one thing then another thing pop ups right after. There were more than one
occasion where you saw what Judith wanted to see happen in her life, until reality hits and you see what really happens.
On the other side you meet Pat Francato, played by Danny DeVito, a single father due to his addiction to gambling his money away. His daughter passed away just recently and now has job is being the elevator operator of the building Judith lives and the two form a friendship. Together they talk about their pasts and the difficult obstacles they both have faced in their families befo
re meeting and how they will have to forget and move on.
Queen Latifah plays Judith's singer idol Liz Bailey and befriends her at the Jazz club. They share their relationship issues and become rather close, going to a gay club but not before taking drugs and having a random musical dance number happens.
They hint that Pat and Judith might be together but throughout the whole movie you get a feeling that Judith and Pat might become even closer than friends. Pat admits his love to Judith several times throughout the film but she always said no and wanted nothing more than to be friends. He seems more like a father figure to her. She leaves him and several months later after she finally decided she wanted to go back to school to finish up being a nurse, she was too late. Pat had found his voice and began singing at the Jaspers Jazz club.
The performance these characters show are quite rememberable. The film kept moving despite there was no story line to push forward. Judith seemed to be the one character that developed the most and got a lot out of it. Her new experience helped her gain what she was missing.
This movie shows the hardships one can have in their lifetime, showing relationships you can have with a complete stranger, how hard life is and this film has a point in making us stop and think that life isn't always going to happen how you want it, everything can change in an instant when you least expect it. Whether or not you want it, try and make the best of what you have.
Maria, you do a vivid job evoking the story and the feel of the film--but I feel like you get a little bit stuck in the summary here, meaning your whole evaluation of the film is squeezed into those final two paragraphs--leaving you no room to give examples to back up the observations you make there. (Perhaps, if there was no other way to make space, you could have used links to connect us to some clips, say?) Maybe you could have streamlined the post by including only those details from the plot which best illustrate your take on the film (beyond, oh, abotu a three-sentence summary).
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