At the beginning of the movie Company Men, I was happy and psyched. I was flanked on one side by my husband and on the other by his childhood friend. We were sharing a giganto bucket of popcorn that came with free refills. And Ben Affleck had no Boston accent. The movie poignantly portrays the affect the recession has had on, well, company men. Since men are the breadwinners in all families, being laid off is especially hard on them. It’s not so bad for working women because only old, unattractive females are laid off.
The good news is that behind every great man, there’s a woman. And for two of the three leading men, that’s the truth. They have their own cheerleaders accompanying them as they face the hard times during a job search in a horrible economy.
Ben and Tommy Lee Jones have supportive women. At first Ben’s wife, played by Rosemary DeWitt, is a bitch. There is tension in their marriage—until the moment that Ben tells her that that he lost his job. From then on, she grins and bears it. She is comforting, cheerful, and continuously tells him he can do it, even after their circumstances have caused them to move from their cushy house in a cushy suburb into his parent’s three-bedroom house in a low-income section of Boston.
Tommy Lee’s cheerleader is not his wife. No, his wife is a spoiled bitch who only wants to spend more money from their endless funds. His cheerleader is the beautiful Maria Bello, whom his wife drives him to have an affair with. Maria is the only woman in the movie who has a high-powered job as do the three main men in the movie. But Maria has it really hard. She has to fire all the guys. After firing Ben, she is so guilt-ridden that she sits back and actually takes seriously Ben’s vitriolic, curse-laden phone messages—over 20 of them. The only redeeming part of Maria’s character is that she’s good natured enough to continue to have sex with Tommy Lee and after he’s fired, and, like Rosemary DeWitt, she supports him with a smile and continuous cheerleading. Maria is so supportive that when Tommy’s bitch wife forces him to divorce her, Maria lets him move in with her. That way it is easier for her to step up the cheers.
Don’t worry, no sexism here—not all the females are angels. Poor Christopher Cooper has a wife who is not only a bitch deluxe, but is also a fat comatose load who lies around in bed or sits around on the couch. She causes his demise because she’s ashamed of him. She doesn’t want the neighbors to know that he no longer has a job, so she forces him to leave the house everyday in a suit and carrying a briefcase. She implicitly forces him to get drunk every day.
But the real scene stealers, nay, the real co-stars of the movie, are Rosemary DeWitt’s butt and legs, and Maria Bello’s breasts. In most of Rosemary’s scenes, her back is turned to us and the camera focuses on her shapely butt. In a product-placement coup, she wears the same designer jeans in all of these scenes, as we can see from the signature design on the butt. I think that the jeans are from the design label, “7 for Mankind”—that would be fitting of course since the movie is only about mankind.
Rosemary has more than a great butt. She also has nice legs. In a beautiful scene between Ben and Rosemary, Ben leans against the doorway of their bedroom and speaks soulfully and honestly with Rosemary as she applies moisturizing lotion to her legs, caressing them over and over. That lotion is a seminal part to the movie and its underlying theme.
It is Maria Bello’s naked chest that really pulls the film together. After they have some afternoon delight, leathery Tommy Lee Jones sits around in bed while Maria rushes to get dressed to go to a work meeting. The reality is that when changing from a sexy top to a work top, a woman would have to take off said sex top, put on a bra and then a shirt over that. A true artiste, Maria Bello does exactly that. When she peels off her sex-romp top, we see her boobs. It is the climax of this movie. The scene is so important that as soon as Maria flashes her chest, the man sitting behind us let out a super-loud, surprised and delighted “Oo!” The rest of the movie must have been a letdown for him because that’s the only naked moment.
The movie ends on a bittersweet note: A Boston accent re-emerges in a re-energized, happy Ben Affleck.
The good news is that behind every great man, there’s a woman. And for two of the three leading men, that’s the truth. They have their own cheerleaders accompanying them as they face the hard times during a job search in a horrible economy.
Ben and Tommy Lee Jones have supportive women. At first Ben’s wife, played by Rosemary DeWitt, is a bitch. There is tension in their marriage—until the moment that Ben tells her that that he lost his job. From then on, she grins and bears it. She is comforting, cheerful, and continuously tells him he can do it, even after their circumstances have caused them to move from their cushy house in a cushy suburb into his parent’s three-bedroom house in a low-income section of Boston.
Tommy Lee’s cheerleader is not his wife. No, his wife is a spoiled bitch who only wants to spend more money from their endless funds. His cheerleader is the beautiful Maria Bello, whom his wife drives him to have an affair with. Maria is the only woman in the movie who has a high-powered job as do the three main men in the movie. But Maria has it really hard. She has to fire all the guys. After firing Ben, she is so guilt-ridden that she sits back and actually takes seriously Ben’s vitriolic, curse-laden phone messages—over 20 of them. The only redeeming part of Maria’s character is that she’s good natured enough to continue to have sex with Tommy Lee and after he’s fired, and, like Rosemary DeWitt, she supports him with a smile and continuous cheerleading. Maria is so supportive that when Tommy’s bitch wife forces him to divorce her, Maria lets him move in with her. That way it is easier for her to step up the cheers.
Don’t worry, no sexism here—not all the females are angels. Poor Christopher Cooper has a wife who is not only a bitch deluxe, but is also a fat comatose load who lies around in bed or sits around on the couch. She causes his demise because she’s ashamed of him. She doesn’t want the neighbors to know that he no longer has a job, so she forces him to leave the house everyday in a suit and carrying a briefcase. She implicitly forces him to get drunk every day.
But the real scene stealers, nay, the real co-stars of the movie, are Rosemary DeWitt’s butt and legs, and Maria Bello’s breasts. In most of Rosemary’s scenes, her back is turned to us and the camera focuses on her shapely butt. In a product-placement coup, she wears the same designer jeans in all of these scenes, as we can see from the signature design on the butt. I think that the jeans are from the design label, “7 for Mankind”—that would be fitting of course since the movie is only about mankind.
Rosemary has more than a great butt. She also has nice legs. In a beautiful scene between Ben and Rosemary, Ben leans against the doorway of their bedroom and speaks soulfully and honestly with Rosemary as she applies moisturizing lotion to her legs, caressing them over and over. That lotion is a seminal part to the movie and its underlying theme.
It is Maria Bello’s naked chest that really pulls the film together. After they have some afternoon delight, leathery Tommy Lee Jones sits around in bed while Maria rushes to get dressed to go to a work meeting. The reality is that when changing from a sexy top to a work top, a woman would have to take off said sex top, put on a bra and then a shirt over that. A true artiste, Maria Bello does exactly that. When she peels off her sex-romp top, we see her boobs. It is the climax of this movie. The scene is so important that as soon as Maria flashes her chest, the man sitting behind us let out a super-loud, surprised and delighted “Oo!” The rest of the movie must have been a letdown for him because that’s the only naked moment.
The movie ends on a bittersweet note: A Boston accent re-emerges in a re-energized, happy Ben Affleck.
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