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Summary: not the greatest plot, but solid acting
Review: Some actors and actresses out there can only deliver a good performance if they're given a particular type of material to work with. Some can only act well if the plot is good. Jennifer Lopez is an exception. This girl is a strong, strong actress who is very much believable in all her roles, even if they are crazy ones like the one she played out in "Enough."If you have any idea of what might happen when a good husband turns bad and hits his wife and the wife flees with the child, then you'll probably have a pretty good idea of what to expect in this movie. I think the film tries hard to depict the struggles that a woman faces when she's got a child and her fairy-tale marriage turns deadly, but it's so ridiculous and off-the-wall at parts that it's just kind of funny, almost. For instance, what was with the scene where Mitch (the husband) shows up in their house? Ok, so Slim (Lopez) wakes up and all of a sudden, Mitch is just there. How did he get in? Through the open door? Did he break a window? Oh, wait, I forgot, it's Hollywood. You're not supposed to ask; you're just supposed to go with it. The best and most commendable thing that Lopez's character did in this film was leave that maniac after he hit her once. Sadly, that's not how it always works in the real world when a spouse starts slapping them around, and somewhere in there was a good example from Lopez. This might be a fun movie if you like thrillers (despite all else, I will admit that it keeps you on the edge of your seat) and you need a Saturday night rental. But the acting is pretty much its strongest point, not the film itself.
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Summary: ONE TOUGH COOKIE-
Review: I am a fan of JLO , I never miss a new movie of hers, but this one left me wondering (?), after seeing the trailers. I realize now they were quite misleading and I pegged the film as a B rating. I had interpreted them as a typical "Sleeping with the Enemy" type of film. Husband beats wife, wife runs. Well, to a point that's the basic plot of "Enough". On the otherhand, Jennifer Lopez as "Slim" gives us another advantage point. We see her fall and bleed, we see her run for her life, we see her reach her limit. What we also see is the humanity. (And yes, she makes the Julia Robert's character seem terribly useless in "Sleeping with the Enemy")It's not all cat and mouse. The characters in this drama must play by the rules. The law is not really on anybody's side. Slim leaves her abusive husband with her daughter Gracie in tow and with help from friends old and new, lives a life on the run. It's not her daughter who's in danger, it's her. If she is found her husband (played by Billy Campbell)he will kill her. So what to do? Go to the police? He'll find her. Go to a friend? He'll find her. She decides to use the rules her own way...she spends one month traing heavily with a martial arts instructor and decides to make the fight fair. Jennifer Lopez does a fabulous job, as usual, of never playing herself. She is Slim, the once submissive wife who wants to be happy. Be we watch her become much more...a tough cookie who knows how to play a man's game. I enjoyed this movie very much. Lopez always surprises me with her characters. Some scenes were very difficult to watch. Many times heartfelt moments between Slim and Gracie were real tearjerkers. I am not sure how a movie like this would translate into the real world, but on-screen it seems quite convincing. My only problem with the movie...I wanted more from the ending. It left me a little dry. Otherwise, I would say most would enjoy "Enough" as a great night's rent. Kudos to Juliette Lewis, I haven't seen her in a film for years. She is an outstanding actress (remember "Cape Fear")?
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Summary: Anything but a feminist film.
Review: Jennifer Lopez delivers a bomb, with Enough. Although not as hideous as Gigli, Enough tries to pass off the usual segmenting of the body and booty shots, with a feminist cover. This movie has made many claims about its modern, feminist messages, but in reality it defies the messages it sets out to portray by depicting JLO's character as it does. The very name of the main character, "Slim," is a commentary on the nature of the film. Slim is the surveyed. She is constantly being viewed and judged by her male counterparts. The film also ignores other aspects of Slim's life. Her race, economic, and social class are ignored for the better part of the film. She is seen in only one role until her husband finds her, and that is the role of a waitress. A father figure later appears in the film to help the character, however this only serves to reassert the fact that a woman needs male intervention to survive on her own.
I think this film is severly lacking in the areas that it claimed would be the strongest. Enough is an anti-feminist view of the world in which we live.
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Summary: An incredible movie.
Review: In Enough, Jennifer Lopez stars as Slim, a waitress who meets a charming, rich contractor named Mitch. In no time, they're married, living a beautiful home and have a daughter. They have a perfect life. Until about four years later when Slim discovers Mitch is having an affair. He tells her that men and women have different needs and his mistress takes care of his, but he still wants to be with Slim. When she protests and says she will not tolerate his infidelity, Mitch begins beating her up. She realizes she needs to leave to save herself and her daughter. But it's not that easy. Mitch relentlessly chases them and Slim soon takes matters into her own hands. This is such a suspenseful, exciting and thrilling movie. I've seen all of Jennifer's films, and I must say she is at her best in Enough. She truly gave an amazing performance that will make people notice that she is a very good actress. I also must applaud Billy Campbell (Mitch) for a convincing portrayal, too. Great movie! The only special feature on the DVD is Jennifer Lopez's video for "Alive," which is a beautiful ballad.
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Summary: Jenny Gets Knocked Around the Block.
Review: If you think the title of my review is offensive, then wait til you see "Enough," a hackneyed, simple-minded revenge thriller that doesn't even begin to address the gravity of domestic violence. The movie likes to fancy itself as a feminist picture, but I don't buy it for a minute. Plausibility is thrown out the window, and in its place are a predictable script and cliched dialogue ("If I can't have you, then no one else will."). When this movie came out in the summer of 2002, it totally bombed at the box office. Gee, no small wonder when you consider the plot: boy meets girl at diner; boy marries girl; boy loses temper and slaps girl around; girl takes child and relocate to get away from boy; girl takes fighting lessons and beats the crapola out of boy. Quite frankly, for a real movie on domestic violence, I'd stick with "The Burning Bed," starring Farrah Fawcett. True, that movie had some of the ingredients of a Lifetime feature presentation, but it had something "Enough" doesn't have: believability and depth. I'm also curious as to why Jennifer Lopez, a fairly decent actress, and director Michael Apted, an otherwise capable filmmaker, would bother with exploitative trash like this. My hunch is that they did it for the paycheck, which is the only thing this film had to offer them. For the rest of us, it's 2 hours of your life wasted.
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Summary: Female independence?
Review: Enough is the story of a woman who marries a man and has a daughter with him, only to realize he is an abusive, insane killer who will stop at nothing to bring her down. Jennifer Lopez's character, Slim, is the mother who wants to protect herself and her child from her dangerous husband. However, Slim seems to have trouble with dealing with her problem so she insists on consistently running and hiding away. Though the general idea of the movie is female empowerment, there are reasons to see otherwise. For example, Slim lets herself be chased from her home, her friends, her life, by her vicious husband. Then she proceeds to hide away with another man, seeking protection and housing. Furthermore, she finds her biological father and receives money from him to start a new life, and for training in self defense from yet another male, in order to take care of her little problem, her husband. Her husband throughout all this always has his eye on her, and she knows it. She is forced inside his panoptical view, and must always be on her toes.
J Lo in this case plays a 'damsel in distress' waiting for her knight in shining armour, who comes in many forms until Slim, herself, can get out of this drastic situation. And being J Lo, of course the camera must frame itself on specific parts of the female body, just to prove how hard she worked to achieve her freedom from the madman that is her husband.
Overall, it sparks thoughts about female empowerment, and male dominance in Hollywood films.
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Summary: My view on "Enough" Germ 241
Review: "Enough," a film directed by Michael Apted, is a story about a happily-married mother, Slim, surprised by the abrupt change in her "perfect" life. As Slim discovers her husband's secret mistresses, she also discovers his hidden demons and rage. The plot thickens as she and her daughter escape from his abusive tendencies to live a new underground, secretive life. Slim recognizes her "maternal-animal right" to protect her child which pushes her to train to become the ultimate woman fighter and defeat her abusive, arrogant husband.
In this film, Slim's character is made out to be a strong, independent woman finally liberated to run her life the way she wants to. However, she is nevertheless played by Jennifer Lopez, who carries her own outside persona as a singer/dancer/powerful Latino woman. It is hard to see past J. Lo and perceive Slim as a real mother fleeing an abusive relationship. Slim is still a stereotypically, beautiful, Hollywood-modeled woman in a strong Hollywood woman role. Fractioned camera angles and close-ups of J. Lo's body emphasize her outside persona even more. Therefore, objectifying her character as a sexy woman. She is a spectacle for the mass of viewers to watch. This idea relates to John Berger's concept of the male surveyor viewing the female surveyed in his book, Ways of Seeing. J. Lo creates the desire in Slim's appearance and femaleness for a male perspective to take pleasure in. To conclude, this film contains a good amount of suspense and girl power, but not much aesthetic significance.
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Summary: Very Good Movie
Review: The movie begins when a working class waitress named Slim (Jennifer Lopez), falls in love with a wealthy contractor named Mitch (Bill Campbell). In no time, they get married and move to the suberbs, where they are living in a beautiful home and have a daughter. Slim has everything she wants. Until she finds out that Mitch is having an affair. When Slim confronts him about the affair, he ends up abusing her. Soon, Slim realizes that she must get away from Mitch to protect herself and her daughter. However, Mitch will not accept this and he begins relentlessly persuing her. Slim tries over and over to make a new life for herself and her daughter by assuming new identities and moving from one city to another. But Mitch continues to persue her, until Slim desides to take a stand because she has had enough. Enough was a suspenseful thriller with very good acting by Jennifel Lopez and Bill Capmbell. I would suggest this movie to anyone. This movie for the most part, was shot through a male cinematic gaze. At some points during the movie, it is clear to see the objectification of Jennifer Lopez is. In a scene you will see a close-up of certain portions of her body for no particular reason. I like the way that the film Enough kinda of critiqued a couple of existing stereotypes about women. The first was that women want this "perfect" life with a house in the suberbs, the perfect loving husband, and an adorible child. However, for the most part in life, the "perfect" life does not exist. In Enough, Slim's perfect dream life turned into a nightmare. Also, this film address the idea that women are weaker then men. During the course of the movie, Mitch says things to Slim like "What are you gonna do to hurt me?" or "All I have to do is hit you once".
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Summary: Review - "Enough"
Review: "Enough" (2002), written by Nicholas Kazan and directed by Michael Apted, is the story of an mother Slim Hiller (Jennifer Lopez) who finds that the man she married Mitch Hiller (Bill Campbell) is nothing but an abusive person, and represents nothing she thought he was. Slim has a daughter Gracie (Tessa Allen), and decides for both their safety to leave Mitch. After Slim and Gracie leave, Mitch relentlessly pursues them wherever they run to, and Slim is then faced with the reality that she could either be on the run the rest of her life, which would be totally detrimental to Gracie's life, or face Mitch and put an end to this conflict.
Through most of this movie, it portrays a stereotypical situation where an abused wife is on the run from an abusive husband. We see a typical portrayal of the woman being afraid in Slim and the typical portrayal of the abusive, not afraid husband in Mitch. Although the end of the movie sort of strays away from this stereotypical setup, for the most part it is thrown in our faces.
We also can take note as to some of the camera angles throughout the movie. When Slim is shown throughout, the general angle is that of her entire body. This is definitely an example of objectifying the woman character because showing the whole body is saying that we (the viewers/surveyors) want to see her entire body (surveyed), not just her face.
Overall, this movie is not the greatest of movies as it presents a stereotypical situation while objectifying Slim's physical appearance. Although the ending gives a sense of retribution, we see that Slim's appearance is still objectified in her tight clothing that she wears that just highlights her figure.
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Summary: Womens Studies 285C Final, Professor O'Sickey
Review: Enough This film takes the socially constructed image of a downtrodden weak, yet family oriented woman, and places her in the visual gaze of combat. The plot of the movie uses Lopez' sex appeal to its full potential as this revenge thriller is cliché down to the last drop. Jennifer Lopez dawns the initial guise of a beautiful, frail waitress, whom seemingly meets and marries the man "of her dreams." That dream however, quickly becomes a nightmare. The two marry, and Jennifer Lopez' character, Slim, has a daughter. She later finds out that not only is her husband unfaithful, he is also abusive. Her solution? Rather than confront the cinematically portrayed "dominant" image of her husband, she flees, reinforcing the stereotypical representation of a "terrified woman."
It just so happens that she is the illegitimate daughter of a business tycoon, who helps fund her "new life" or rather, several of them. She learns that running serves no purpose, as her husband tracks her down time and time again. The law cannot help her, as she has, in a sense, kidnapped her own child. It seems being a woman isn't enough to resolve the issue, as her only solution is to confront her husband man to man. She invests in personal combat training to prove to him once and for all she has had enough of everything, with the exception of tight body suits.
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