Me Without you
Cast: Anna Friel, Kyle MacLachlan, Michelle Williams, Trudie styler
'Me Without you' should be a cult classic personally it has all the key elements and is a film I often come back to especially when I don't feel good. I love coming of age films there one of my favourite genres particularly because you get to see the transitions each character goes through but what always makes that better is the era's in which they change so this begins in mid seventies and follows though to the nineties I believe. The film follows Holly (Williams) and Marina (Friel) two neighbours who are best friends and how there relationship grows or I think deteriorates. I like the way their relationship is self destructive Holly is the timid and intelligent one and Marina the Fiery, wild child who is self inflictive.
Marina often brings Holly down and picks at her almost like scab always scratching at her surface making her feel bad not experienced enough to make herself feel better. Marina is self destructive and only has herself to blame but loves hurting Holly in the process which always heightens her mood within the regretful situation that she has made for herself. I think this female relationship is very true to life Ive had friends who have done this to me and perhaps that have influenced me to do with others if Im hones.I have 100% grown out of this. Around the age of 16 I started noticing its not healthy to be jealous and bring hatred and negative comments upon other females just because they are successful or beautiful and many people admire them. Ive recognised a lot of females I know and meet not all but some unfortunately still carry this female inflictive behaviour on their friends and even best friends and other females bringing them down especially at the height of which they are happy or perhaps feel really good about themselves instead of being happy for each other which I think is much more important. I think its hard to find female friends who are happy for you as much as you are for them because when I have a friend who is celebrating something good about them self or an achievement I want to be cheering them on not tearing them down for all the negative things about them.
Im going to call it the anti-best-friend effect which is echoed in many female movies like 'Very Good Girls', 'The Craft', 'Meangirls' and hundreds of others.
I love 'Me without You' for many reasons the outfits the way they change over era the music the setting is very British and the humour is also. The humour is very bitter and hilarious I love the scene where Marina takes Holly into her brothers room and threatens to inpregnate her with her brothers sock and her brother then just walks in to see Holly cackling jumping on his bed.
Plus weird rich family Valium sharing drug enfueled dancing mother T.V time is not to be missed.
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