I need nursing back to health (Nurse Betty (DVD))

Member Name: JacintaZoo

Product:	Nurse Betty (DVD)
Date:	29/11/00 (10 review reads)
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Advantages: Nice to see Morgan Freeman up on the big screen

Disadvantages: Pity he had to be playing this role

This film depicts the life of a soap-addicted housewife who is ill-treated by her husband. However, we see that she is addicted to a daytime TV show and everything is very much light-hearted, at times amusing even (like when she pours coffee into a cup behind her very skillfully, eyes still transfixed on the television screen).

Until one day characters played by Morgan Freeman and Chris Rock cme to her house and kill her husband.

This was not done in the spirit of comedy. It is very graphical and very very sick, yet they make light of it.

From this point onwards the film spirals down into nothingness. Betty has seen the killing take place, but she forgets what she sees completely and decided to 'leave' her husband, forgetting that he is already dead.

She goes on a mission to find a TV show character who she now believes to be real. When she finally confronts him, he finds her very charming but only because he thinks that her references to him, the TV show character, are an attempt to impress him with her improvisational skills.

I really had to dig to come up with that reason, because the honest truth is that any sane, rational human being would have become fed up with her within 5 minutes and seen her for the delusional person which she was.

The film becomes a very patronising tirade stringing us along into thinking 'when will he realise she is nuts' when really there is no suspense in this as he should have realised in the first place. It's more like 'let's see how stupid this guy, hence this film, can get'. The ending is dire but I have to say it is probably the high point of the film. It ends.

Nurse!

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