Tully

My friend, Illona said she was going to make an effort to go see this movie this weekend, so that definitely put this movie high on the list of must sees, so we can have something to talk about. Illona comes at this film from a different perspective than I do, being that she is a mother and had far more insight of what’s going on, and I wanted to hear her opinion on that, and have an opinion of my own.

In a lot of ways I feel like I might be judging Tully too hard as I had high hopes for it’s ability to entertain me. It was almost as if I was expecting it to unlock the secrets of women.

I did get to see a side of the after birth, I say is more herd about than actually shown in pictures. When the very beautiful Charlize Theron tones it down in a picture it leads to an Oscar, like the one she got for Monster. You know what they say, adding or subtracting pounds to your body makes you a shoe in for the academy award. Theron shows off a different style of body in this film, In order to sure a more realistic (yet funny) approach to what it’s like after having a baby, both psychically and mentally

Theron plays Marlo, who is stressed out over life with a husband (Ron Livingston) and her two kids and one on the way, and when that third kid comes along, her brother (Mark Duplass), who sees she’s change a lot after two kids, gets her a night nanny named Tully (Mackenzie Davis), to help her out. I empathize with Marlo, as I too am not one of those people who hires other people to take care of your kid, and one of the things I loved about the movie is that they found a way to truly justify having this young 20 something bright eyed cheerleader who has never even had a kid, being the perfect person to bring much needed equilibrium to Marlo’s life, without annoying the shit out of me. Every mother could use a night nanny, but even having the discussion is such a “first world problem” (Especially in the world surrounding Marlo. I mean, I have no kids, but I should be use to hearing about the stuff that needs to be done to raise children now, yet it still warps the mind ). Writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman were able to say “yeah, we know, but we’ll make you laugh about it anyway, about the whole thing.

Overall, the full message Tully is trying to get across is not lost on me, in fact I knew exactly were it was going from the moment we get the first introduction to the title character. I can see why she was such a small part of the two trailers I saw cause it could ruin the surprise if you know too much about her, but that does not ruin the movie for any adults watching.