Review of Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) by Staticon3 — 30 Aug 2016

The problem with Florence is that she's a narcissist worthy of a bigger personal discovery than this script gives her. On her deathbed, she says "Can say I didn't try." Um, that's it? Are you sure you don' want to give her a bigger inner battle?

One of the big problems with a script like this is that people are keeping secrets that never get revealed, and the lead is too self involved to care. When secrets get revealed, that's the fun part. That's where the social embarrassment is. But in Florence, her husband keeps a secret that he cheats, Simon Helberg's character keeps a secret that he's gay, and Florence keeps a secret that she had siphyllus.

So maybe her moment in front of that Carnegie Hall crowd could have been more of a come to Jesus moment as she faced her own delusions, in front of everyone. Instead we settle for continuing the delusion that she's wonderful and everyone loves her, which helps the world not a bit.