{"id":17148,"date":"2021-09-22T10:17:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T14:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/?p=17148"},"modified":"2021-09-22T10:17:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T14:17:44","slug":"review-the-starling-soars-on-netflix-director-theodore-melfi-on-his-ode-to-marital-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/faithmediaandculture\/2021\/09\/review-the-starling-soars-on-netflix-director-theodore-melfi-on-his-ode-to-marital-commitment.html","title":{"rendered":"Review: &#8220;The Starling&#8221; soars on Netflix + Director Theodore Melfi on his ode to marital commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"title-info-synopsis-talent\" data-uia=\"title-info-synopsis-talent\">\n<div data-uia=\"title-info-synopsis\">\n<h3><strong>Here&#8217;s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media &amp; culture: 09\/22\/21<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>The Starling<\/em> starring Melissa McCarthy, Chris O&#8217;Dowd and Kevin Kline lands (and soars) on Netflix this Friday. <\/strong>My review follows the synopsis and trailer below. After that, you can read my conversation with the film&#8217;s director (and co-producer) <strong>Theodore Melfi (<em>St. Vincent<\/em>, <em>Hidden Figures<\/em>)<\/strong> who talks about why he&#8217;s &#8220;always drawn to stories about a couple trying to figure out how to stay together.&#8221;<br \/>\n<span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"><br \/>\n<strong>Synopsis:<\/strong> Lilly (Melissa McCarthy) struggles through the loss of her infant child due to SIDS and her husband&#8217;s (Chris O&#8217;Dowd) subsequent depression while also battling a territorial starling for dominion over her garden. Directed by Theodore Melfi\/Written by <strong>Matt Harris<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Starling | Official Trailer | Netflix\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fYyImx_KXm4?start=37&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>IMHO: <\/strong>From its creative opening depicting the starling of the title <i>The Starling<\/i> grabbed my interest and never let go. The actual story focuses on Lilly and Jack Maynard, a married couple sympathetically and realistically portrayed by Melissa McCarthy and Chris O\u2019Dowd. She&#8217;s a grocery store manager. He&#8217;s a grade school art teacher. A year before the film begins, their idyllic small town life is cruelly disrupted when their infant daughter suddenly dies of SIDS, an event that sends Jack spiraling into a breakdown and in-patient treatment at a mental treatment facility an hour away from their home. His descent into depression only adds the Lilly&#8217;s own struggle to cope with their devastating loss. Meanwhile, her one release, tending to her garden is severely complicated by the starling that obsessively attacks her whenever she does so.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing that she needs help as well, a facility therapist recommends she make an appointment with Dr. Larry Fine (Kevin Kline), an old colleague of hers located closer to Lilly&#8217;s home. Lilly eventually decides to follow her suggestion and makes an appointment. To her surprise, she finds that Dr. Fine is no longer in psychiatric practice but is now a veterinarian. It&#8217;s a quirky and amusing plot device that also ties nicely into the starling situation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dfp\" data-chars=\"1635\">\n<div id=\"mid_leaderboard_rectangle_1\" data-google-query-id=\"CNvC1tDQkvMCFVcIiAkdo_YDrw\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/1225956\/paste-viewable\/mid_leaderboard_rectangle_1_0__container__\">\n<p>McCarthy and Kline\u2019s scenes strike just the right balance between comic relief and truthful insights as Dr. Fine&#8217;s own past is complicated. He&#8217;s struggling with some issues too. At the same time, though we sympathize with Jack his behavior becomes increasingly erratic and seemingly unsympathetic to what Lilly is going through. It&#8217;s easy to see why she might want to leave him &#8211; and given the ethos of many film these days that&#8217;s sorta what I expected to happen. You know, Lilly bravely starts over and lives her own life on her own terms. And, believe me, I really can understand why someone in Lilly&#8217;s circumstance might opt for that road. Coping with a person with mental illness certainly isn&#8217;t easy. So, no judgment. But that&#8217;s not what this movie is about. This movie is about a commitment that transcends hard times. This movie is about loving someone even when they behave in a seemingly selfish and unlovable way.<\/p>\n<p><i>The Starling <\/i>isn&#8217;t a dark movie about a marriage swallowed into the abyss. It&#8217;s a hopeful movie about what can happen when people are committed to one another and resist the temptation to give up. Jack isn&#8217;t violent. He isn&#8217;t bad. He just needs time and patience &#8211; and Lilly is, ultimately, steadfast in her decision to fight for their future. For people dealing with a similar situation, <em>The Starling<\/em> offers hope of a light at the end of the tunnel. And you know what? We need more movies like this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The bottom line. <em>The Starling<\/em> is strongly recommended.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u200bMy Conversation with The Starling Director Theodore Melfi<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: I&#8217;m happy to be able to sincerely tell you that I watched the film and thought it was great. What drew you to <em>The Starling<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Theodore Melfi: <\/strong>I&#8217;m always drawn to stories about a couple trying to figure out how to stay together. I&#8217;ve been married 25 years. I&#8217;m always trying to figure that out myself. I think people relate to those kind of movies. I think people relate to movies about relationships working out. I think people like movies that show them there <em>is<\/em> a way to work it out&#8230;and there <em>is<\/em> a way to stay to stay together because, ultimately, I think we are rarely with someone (we don&#8217;t want to work it out with). We certainly don&#8217;t start out that way&#8230;We start out with a lot of hope, right? And a lot of belief that &#8220;Yeah, this is the one. I can make this work out. I love this person.&#8221;\u00a0 So, I&#8217;m really attracted to those kind of stories.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: I know that you&#8217;ve been married for 25 years to Kimberly Quinn who is an actress, a writer and your producing partner. Every marriage has its ups and downs. How much did you draw on your experiences for this movie which is really about commitment, right? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TM: <\/strong>I mean I draw on my own marriage like in everything I do. Especially, being 25 years, it&#8217;s part of who I am as a person at this point. It&#8217;s part of the fiber of my soul&#8230;Kim is way better than me in every way &#8211; a way better person (with) much more faith (and) much more belief. I&#8217;m the one that&#8217;s a hot mess. Everything in the past 25 years we&#8217;ve done together has helped move us to staying together and has kept us together. We&#8217;re constantly working on our marriage (and) our selves &#8211; individually\/together. I have a degree in psychology so&#8230;I should be fixed by now. It takes a lifetime, I guess.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: I can relate. I&#8217;ve been married for almost 20 years and pretty much the same dynamic is at work. You&#8217;re, perhaps, best known for writing, producing and directing the Bill Murray movie <em>St. Vincent,<\/em> which is a personal favorite of mine, as well as directing and co-writing<em> Hidden Figures<\/em> which received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. Is it fair to say that there&#8217;s a redemptive theme that runs through your movies?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TM: <\/strong>Yeah, that very fair to say. I think I realized when I was making <em>St. Vincent<\/em> what I wanted to do with my life in this business. I wanted to shine a light on humanity and be a source of positivity, hope and just general goodness. I don&#8217;t know why. Maybe it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m trying&#8230; Well, I know why. That&#8217;s what I hope for myself. So, what I hope for myself is I end up being at the end of my life just good &#8211; (that I) did good (and) left the world a better place than when I arrived. I think it&#8217;s a very common theme and a very universal theme. I think people want to always be better and a lot of times we just don&#8217;t know how. The world is filled with a lot of negativity, a lot of dissenting voices, a lot of division and a lot of tearing (apart). You notice this clearly in America in the last four or five&#8230; Nah, I would say in the last 20 years. The constant tearing down. I mean the minute <strong>CNN<\/strong> and <strong>Fox<\/strong> put up those dueling boxes&#8230;America changed. The news became a &#8220;boxing&#8221; match. So, that sets a tenor for everything. I think my personal mission is to provide some sort of (alternative to) that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: Your movies, including this one, seem to start with the premise that people are flawed. They come with a lot of baggage &#8211; but they are, essentially, good and are not trapped by their past. In terms of the audience, I think you&#8217;re spot-on what people want and need from movies. But, in my opinion &#8211; and I don&#8217;t know if you share it &#8211; Hollywood seems to generally be enthralled with a different message these days. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TM: <\/strong>How much time to you have? It&#8217;s become fashionable in our industry to be negative. It&#8217;s fashionable to show people struggling who have no hope or don&#8217;t get out, who just give up. I mean you look at the crop of films in the last (few) years &#8211; at what we are raising up at the Oscars. There&#8217;s not a mystery why no one is watching the Oscars. There&#8217;s no mystery why no one is watching awards shows. There&#8217;s no mystery about why people aren&#8217;t seeing those movies. The general public doesn&#8217;t want them. That&#8217;s it &#8211; and yet, for some reason, no one&#8217;s listening. They just refuse to listen. It&#8217;s almost like a naive arrogance. We know what the audience wants. <em>I<\/em> know what the audience wants. The audience wants the same thing you want and the same thing I want. The audience wants to leave a movie hopeful, feeling good and going &#8220;You know what? I can do it!&#8221; That&#8217;s the point of it. The darkness and the divisiveness, is it helping? Is anyone getting better? Is it helping anything? Is anything getting better? We have to ask ourselves as a society &#8220;Is anything getting better because of the films or the video games or things we create?&#8221; And the defense is &#8220;Oh, no. It has no impact.&#8221; You are lying to yourself if you think that a kid watching a video game (with) active shooting (and) killing, killing, killing does not affect that child. You are lying to yourself. You are lying to yourself that movies like <strong><em>John Wick<\/em><\/strong> are escapism. They are <em>not<\/em> escapism. I&#8217;m sorry, it&#8217;s not escapism. It&#8217;s a man killing body counts of 50, 60, 70, 80. That&#8217;s not art. I&#8217;m sorry. That&#8217;s not art. That&#8217;s causing division. That&#8217;s causing violence. That&#8217;s my opinion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: What films have inspired and uplifted you?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TM: <\/strong>My favorite movies are movies about people &#8211; <em><strong>Terms of Endearment<\/strong>, <strong>As Good As It Gets<\/strong>, <strong>It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life<\/strong>, <strong>The Shawshank Redemption<\/strong>, <strong>Forrest Gump<\/strong><\/em>. These are movies about people &#8211; people overcoming, succeeding, getting better, figuring out who they are. Again, hopeful movies. Those are the movies I grew up on. We used to have a golden era of filmmaking where we could tell these stories. I thank God for places like Netflix because they have such a broad audience that they need movies like this &#8211; and they have the wherewithal to make them. So, thank God for places like Netflix that are not limited to making eight movies a year where they all have to do 100-million dollars at the box office. Netflix can make a 10, 20-million dollar about two people trying to figure it out. That leaves me with a lot of hope, actually, that we can still make these movies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: There&#8217;s those super-blockbusters and then, as you alluded to, there&#8217;s all those movies that are put out there that are nominated for Oscars and, yet, don&#8217;t connect with the general audience. It&#8217;s almost like something other than the profit motive is in play.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TM: <\/strong>Yeah, there&#8217;s two worlds. Art, basically, is supposed to inspire, right?<\/p>\n<p><strong>JWK: So, what&#8217;s next for you in terms of projects?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>TM: <\/strong>I don&#8217;t know exactly what will be next for me. I have a bunch of projects I&#8217;m working on at this time. I&#8217;m writing a <strong>DreamWorks<\/strong> animated movie with <strong>Trevor<\/strong> <strong>Noah<\/strong> and <strong>Elizabeth Banks<\/strong> who are the producers called <strong><em>Cuckoo<\/em> <\/strong>about a bird trying to find his way. I&#8217;m writing an animated movie for Netflix called <strong><em>The Fourteenth Goldfish<\/em><\/strong> with my wife Kim and <strong>Alessandro Carloni <\/strong>(based on the book by <strong>Jennifer L. Holm<\/strong>). That&#8217;s about a young 12-year-old scientist girl who whose grandfather is a famous scientist who ages down &#8211; and becomes a 14-year-old again and they have to live together. So, that&#8217;s a beautiful story. I have a film called <em><strong>Huck<\/strong><\/em>, also at Netflix. It&#8217;s a superhero movie about the goodest superhero on the planet. He&#8217;s pure good and the rest of the world tries to tear him down. And a bunch of other writing things. 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