Backbencher

Muriel’s Wedding is a movie about a young woman whose only dream in life is to get married. Her family and friends make fun of her and tell her she will amount to nothing. Muriel decides to steal some money from her parents and goes on a vacation with her friends. The friends are surprised to see her there and to Muriel’s surprise she meets up with an old high school friend. After the vacation she moves to Sydney from her hometown of Porpoise Spit to start over with a new life. It is during this time that she learns that her friend has cancer. Muriel decides to start looking for a husband. She finds a man who will marry her; he is a Australia swimming star, who needs a wife to make him look good. She abandons her friend in her excitement over her new marriage. A big shock occurs in her family when her mothers die suddenly. Moving home to take care of her family after her mother’s death is the major climax in the movie. Muriel quickly grows up and realizes that her father needs to take care of her family, and also decides that her friend is important to her and that she no longer wants to be married. I thought this movie was ok, it seemed long and was hard to follow at first, it seemed random in parts. Muriel’s Wedding was interesting, because it shows a woman, who after wanting to getting married for so long, decides that marriage is not what she needs. There was nothing in this movie that seemed specific to Australia. The language was a little different, and the scenery was nice to look at.