Late Marriage (2002)

The Worst Film Ever

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

I came into the movie with good reviews in mind, but in reality found the movie was not "all that," although it was an interesting subject and I liked the authenticity of certain parts, most notably the strange ending. I have read many of the comments posted here and it is interesting to see the different viewpoints of the viewers. Certain comments helped me to better understand the film and my own reaction to it. My initial reaction is to be upset at how inhuman and unloving we humans can be in regards to ourselves and each other. How the family treated the divorced woman that Zaza was in love with, and even worse in front of her daughter, and how Zaza reacted mostly passively, was appalling and infuriating. I thought the mother was just dreadful. The ending was a bitter pill and makes you wonder how people can live like that. How dead life can be. The sad thing is that this situation, of parents, family members sort of maneuvering and dictating others lives, especially in a such a personal realm as marriage, is not necessarily restricted to particular cultures. As the director lets us see, it seems so inconceivable that these things happen, cruel and inhuman as they are, and yet they are what is accepted as normal and right. What is insane is seen as sane, and what is authentic and loving and real is seen as wrong and insane. Everything is upside-down....and that is so clearly evident. I must say this makes me think of the death penalty...we allow others to be killed because they are decided (how??) (is there some mathematical equation!!!) to be declared hardened, when in reality those deciding are heartless, merciless, unforgiving, cold, murderous, calculating, and all those adjectives they love to give about the person in question, in short hardened. They are taking others lives for the very crime they are in fact partaking in. If you believe in the Ten Commandments, "thou shalt not kill.".....there were no if ands or buts, or well in such and such a case..." It's obnoxious, no worse, criminal. Complete insanity and yet somehow this killing is considered legal(?) and right(!)...and these are the same pro-lifers!!! The irony (sickening) never ends. Goes to show how true (scary) that ending is and how numb as a society we can be and in many cases are. Look at the US today. Murder being committed inside and abroad through our "government" and we just watch..and even more scary are going to potentially...I so pray not..going to support it or allow it to be supported (which is the same....i.e by not voting) again. The sin of commission and the sin of omission, they're all one big happy family when it comes down to it. This movie...it's authenticity is so relevant...the more i think about it. In the ending, in the words of the little speech Zaza tells "the audience," he stumbles over their irony....Zaza realizing the absurdity, struggling with it, then swallowing his sense of truth, and "carrying on." It's tragic...what else can be said....except maybe, "How is this possible!!!"

I thought this was an interesting film, though it didn't cover as much of the relationship between the guy and his family. As an ethnic Korean male, I can understand family pressure on marriage and to marry someone who will fit in. The good thing about the film was the end, as unlike most Hollywood fare, the ending was very realistic in that it didn't fall into cliche and the like. It presented the probable ending as opposed to the sentimental ending.Three stars.

Not an ounce of heart in the whole film . Nasty characters , nasty resolution. A film to be avoided by anyone looking for a good experience. I'm surprised it got such good reviews

Apparently certain viewers are easily satisfied with this slice of exotic ethnicity sans the usual requirements of coherence and direction. I am not. As some have noted, it can be defined as a comedy only by some rather twisted logic. That involves the presumption that it is intended as an ironic portrayal of deeply flawed human behavior at odds with contemporary social norms.My own take is that everyone except the dog and the little girl seem to have come out of case studies in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV). From the obese mother to the passive-aggressive son to the to the whole pack of stolid relatives who act as if nothing is strange about how they lead their lives, everything seems just plain weird.As has been noted, the love-making scene is not badly done. And the acting prowess of Ronit Elkabetz should garner some future attention. I would say the same for the dog, but I don't see him credited.A klezmer version of "Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White" opens the final scene that deteriorates from there both in terms of plausibility and structural unity. Credits rolled without warning just as I was in the midst of a great yawn.