[Movie Review Memo] Watching 'Steel Magnolias'

Anyway, if Sally Field is playing a mother, I have to watch it.
She is an actress who suits the role of a mother who tries a little too hard.

I wrote a review of 'Places in the Heart' a while ago because I liked it, and Sally Field won an Academy Award for it.

It is difficult to convey the merits of a film to someone who hasn't seen it just by having them read a review.

Since it is impossible to recreate the visuals and sound with just text, I will write this as a rough review memo.

'Steel Magnolias' is a work from over thirty years ago, so I don't think many people have seen it.

The setting is a peaceful rural town in America, where the cheerful conversations of women gathering at a beauty salon before a wedding continue.
However, the bride, Julia Roberts (back when she was very young and beautiful), has diabetes, and we learn that she is in danger of dying from a sudden seizure. The seizure scene was genuinely scary.

Sally Field plays the mother of this Julia Roberts character.
Because of her illness, Julia Roberts is told by her doctor not to get pregnant, but she ignores her mother's objections and gives birth. A boy is born safely, but...
However, her condition worsens. Sally Field cooperates with a kidney transplant for her daughter. I thought that would be the end of the worries.

Just when I thought the happy days would continue like this, Julia Roberts has another seizure and collapses.

But surely, she wouldn't die when she has a small child, right?
I imagine Sally Field thought the same thing.
She gives a passionate performance as a desperate mother who keeps talking to her unconscious daughter in the hospital room.

Sally Field never lets you down.
Even though she prayed so desperately and devotedly.

In the end, Julia Roberts' husband signs the papers and the life support is turned off.
At that moment, both the father and the husband quietly leave the room, but only Sally Field keeps holding her daughter's hand until the very end.

A mother wants to watch over her child until the very end, doesn't she?
Sally Field is a mother with a strong core.
If it were me, I think I would probably run away.
I find myself wanting to avoid looking directly at painful things.

The warm part of this movie is that it ends by giving the mother who lost her daughter a gentle sense of hope.

Like the smile of the grandchild that Julia Roberts gave her life to bring into the world, or the friendship of the women who support Sally Field.
It closes with heartwarming scenes, so I finished watching it feeling like I had seen a home comedy.

All the actresses are charming, but I was personally impressed by Shirley MacLaine playing the role of a mean old lady.

If it is rebroadcast on BS Premium, it is a movie I would like to watch again.