tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898648102964020929.post1682008818653011710..comments2023-07-13T08:20:38.237-05:00Comments on Reading in Trees: Rachel Getting Married: Welcome to the FamilyReading In Treeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17886679447623730644noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898648102964020929.post-21204815267473402272008-10-03T18:14:00.000-05:002008-10-03T18:14:00.000-05:00A multicultural family calls for multicultural ent...A multicultural family calls for multicultural entertainment at a wedding reception... reggae singer, indian saris & a chant caller, brasilian band and lovely dancers only make it better.<BR/><BR/>also the script was written by jenny lumet. multicultural daughter of sidney lumet, granddaugher of lena horne... it sort of lends itself to a multicultural theme. this IS america, after all ;o)PretaMulattahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01311777180869376490noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898648102964020929.post-65742099821355398432008-09-22T18:09:00.001-05:002008-09-22T18:09:00.001-05:00I replied:Yeah, they did… but still… she was home ...I replied:<BR/><BR/>Yeah, they did… but still… she was home enough to be around to babysitAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898648102964020929.post-18593840130708707672008-09-22T18:09:00.000-05:002008-09-22T18:09:00.000-05:00Dana Replied:Interesting point about the dad and m...Dana Replied:<BR/><BR/>Interesting point about the dad and mom. Didn't they say at one point kym had been a model?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898648102964020929.post-71896157852129326352008-09-22T18:08:00.001-05:002008-09-22T18:08:00.001-05:00I think:Yeah, I know they intimated that the Fathe...I think:<BR/><BR/>Yeah, I know they intimated that the Father was some sort of musician or something, but I don’t think that they could get away with all that diversity without clarifying where it comes from… especially when it is set in Connecticut which is typically more White Bred. I did see on the site that the musicians were taken from New Orleans, which is pretty cool… but still didn’t really fit in. <BR/><BR/> <BR/><BR/>You know they did that blame the mother thing, and she was clearly an “absent” sort of parent… but what role did the dad play. It would have made a lot more sense if there had been a scene where they talk about how the dad didn’t really notice because he was always helping the musicians that were hanging around or that she had been getting drugs from the musicians or something… something to spread the blame that way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898648102964020929.post-29769158496293532252008-09-22T18:08:00.000-05:002008-09-22T18:08:00.000-05:00My friend Dana says:I agree with that the performa...My friend Dana says:<BR/><BR/>I agree with that the performances were good and the Rachel character was believable. But I got sick pretty quickly of how precious and multi-cultural they were (ooh, let's have an Indian wedding and Brazilian dancers!). Perhaps the East Coast wealth thing distanced me, as well. That said, it did a very good job with the photography and slice-of-lifeness.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com