Morvern Callar is a modern-day psychodrama that is about a girl, Morvern Callar who, on Christmas Eve, wakes up to find her boyfriend dead, wrists slashed, in the kitchen of their apartment. Shedding her tears over a suicide letter that she found on the computer, Morvern finds that her lover has left behind his unpublished novel, with his last wish being that she tries to find a publisher and sell it. For the 21-year-old who is a supermarket clerk, finds her decision very difficult but decides to place her own name on the manuscript, and uses the funeral money to travel to Spain with her good friend. She takes off to try and deal with the hard events that have changed her life forever. This movie would seem to be a story of a women's mourning period but instead it delivers the tale of a women's life after her loved one has been taken away. The film uses the environment and silent atmosphere to help connect the journey in the movie with the minimum wage slave to a well off free women. The use of this helps emotionally grab the audience and draw them into Morvern's emotional life, because in the movie emotion is what Morvern needs and the director is trying to pull the feeling in throughout the movie and relate the connections. The film uses little dialogue and mostly uses silent moments of thinking and gazing that somehow makes the movie flow wonderfully and keeps the emotional attachment present. One twist in the movie that to some people may feel is a little gory, is when Morvern places headphones on her head and decides to cut up her own husband into pieces and abandon her good friend in Spain. This movie is an excellent portrayal of odd behaviors that most would not expect this heartbroken woman to do. The cinematography of this film was outstanding, and the lighting was excellent. This movie displays a soft, relaxing vibe that keeps the movie flowing until the end.
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