The first thing I want to say is that this opinion is for people who had already seen the film, but I also won't say things that could reveal the entire film, so don't worry if you haven't seen it yet, but I totally recomend it. The second thing I want you to know is that I'm not going to write a synopsis, the cast or further information about the film you can find in Wikipedia.
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| "Ginger and Rosa" - Sally Potter (2012) |
I usually find the films I end up watching in Tumblr, because I know it's a good place for recomendations, however I was in Youtube this time and I saw Ginger & Rosa's trailer randomly and I defenetly wanted to watch it. I was attracted by its light, the apparence of the earlys 60's with the fearniture, the clothes, the music, the war, even sometimes the way people think. I always loved these times, even although they were terrible ones. However the film isn't only about how the war destroyed the country or how it could destroy it more, I think what's also powerful is love, and maybe that's the reason of all the tears, and the pain of all of them.
I also was attracted by their british, because I love its accent. I'm spanish and I'll probably never speak like they do, but if I had to choose an accent I'd defenetly choose the british. It has something special, something old and spectacular. But that's not what I want to say.
I have to say that everything I'll explain is my opinion, even if it's wrong or I captured the film in a way it really isn't. I'm a complicated person and all the teachers I had taugh me how dig in the things, look for more information, create a theory on my own; they taugh me to think. So that's what I want to do in this blog, create a theory that might not be true but real for me. So here it is:
In the first scenes of the film I was in love with the two of the girls, but as the film went off I started hating Rosa, not only because of the Ginger's father trouble, but also by how it changed her, it turned her in a completely different person. On the other hand, I was more in love with Ginger. The way she was concerned about the world, about saving all of them, no only herself. She was truly a pacifist living a messed up life. I think Ginger was full of love but she could not share it with anyone when - if I can say that - Rosa kind of left her behind. She though her mother didn't love her and when her father started loving another person I guess Ginger felt alone, without anyone in her side apart from May and Mark. That's why I asume Ginger wanted the things back to normal and she finally forgives Rosa, she wanted to share her love with someome again and because they had a dream: be best friends forever.
Analysing the way it's filmed, I found the movie amazing, it's what made me love it at first actually. Despite of all the bad things that happens, Sally Potter, the director of the film, could have done it dark and sad, but it never loses the lighter essence. I'm also in love with the first scenes where apparently nothing happens, the meaningless, because I think they are the ones that made the film so special and unique. These are the moments where it's shown the kind of relationship that Ginger and Rosa have: so powerful, peaceful, calm, sincere... It reminds me of the first steps of a child and while the time passes, all the bad things arrive like you couldn't avoid them. And I think Rosa quite tryed to avoid them by believing in God and the fact that the love she felt was the most important thing at the moment. However, in the end, she realised it wasn't and Ginger knew that, because they were best friends.