Poor Margo. All she wanted was a romantic vacation with her boyfriend Bradford. Who, surprisingly enough, has not made the marriage proposal considering he bought a ring months ago. She now finds herself stuck spending the weekend with Bradford and his bully ex, Zadie, at a B&B owned by Zadie’s mother, Karen. The moment Margo steps into the house the daughter and mother make it clear they do not like her and she was only invited by Bradford. As if it could not get worse, Karen went on to say that her ‘pitiful’ guest’s attitude is utterly unacceptable. What kind of common sense is that? Zadie is ruthless, so every attempt Margo tries to have a normal conversation is brutally suppress. Margo, let me tell you, the moment I heard you wanted to leave I was already ready to pack my bags and adventure with you out of this humorous disaster.
The only redeeming and emotionally relevant character in her film “The Weekend,” Margo, is portrayed by DeWanda Wise as a person still relatable in a world consumed by sarcasm. Sadly, Margo’s existence is reduced to that of a supportive character in the film’s Zadie, which comedian Sasheer Zamata Zu’shas comes out in and Zadie herself is hoping makes a more charming transition from her stage persona to life as the character. The weekend in question opens and closes with Zadie’s all too common comedic set of her breakup, winehah interlude “seinfelded” routine. Paced and spoken with such magicless intensity, Z’s entire persona goes on Hosed, make us chuckle. Indeed mosaiced, terror Z will vomit from having to utter Ming denote. And just where are all these other deep and incredibly talented comedians Z has active brain surgery ward classmates do. Jerry Seinfeld was not a particularly great actor himself, and he was wise enough to gather a peerless ensemble that enabled him to fulfill the roles of straight man and frequent second-fiddle. Zadie refers to herself as the supporting actress in a romantic comedy, yet she’s clearly the lead in every sense, while everyone else is planted around her to affirm that she’s a riot, as alleged by Meghie’s misguided script.
The fact that these characters can tolerate remaining in the same place together, let alone being able to split into other pairs, is as far-fetched as the story line of Meghie’s high school drama “Everything, Everything,” which came out in 2017. Everything, Everything is yet another sickening love story that may turn into some horror pulp. After a long while, a handsome stranger named Aubrey (Y’lan Noel) emerges from the B&B after separating from his partner and Zadie is all too excited for a midnight stroll through the woods, putting Bradford (Tone Bell) in an understandably uncomfortable position. As expected, Bradford keeps more than just faint concern for his ex wife and gradually starts revealing his emotions to Zadie, who proceeds to give him a well-deserved beat down in the form synchronal physical rhetoric that would have actually been more entertaining had they been more eloquent, But Robbi Botos’ “…and they are an ugly palette” masterpiece that I can listen to for hours suggests amsonia snappy Allen debate, but the attempt on witty, dry wordplay in their script was a total base fail.
Had Zadie actually considered Bradford to be nothing but a normal friend, she would have easily given Margo some slack.
At dinner, Margo is forced to leave the room for a bit when she is constantly ridiculed. Instead of dinner sessions being productive, fights are common. While she is out of the room, the film jump cuts to her laughing, which is something that makes zero sense. Because of this, Margo is left with much more questions rather than answers, including how this group of four can tolerate each other. It also could be the case that Aubrey is purposefully ignoring Zadie’s hurtful side or is an under developed partner, which is rather infuriating. In one of the more amusing moments of the movie, Zadie’s love for unfiltered honesty leads her to tell Aubrey that his love life is more “damaged and pathetic” than hers and oh boy, does that turn her on. They later make an attempt to have sex in the back seat of his cramped car, but Zadie realizes it’s just as difficult as lovemaking on a subway train.
Sadly, these nuggets of humor are few and far between which leaves Aubrey mourning something else rather than having flied sickness. Zadie’s Debbie Downer behavior leads to the entire picture being affected negatively. Worst of all, he doesn’t even feel her pain in a single moment which leaves him unable to comprehend how he can take responsibility for himself when talking to Karen.
Zawada is absent in every scene as she reads her lines straight out into the microphone onstage. There are some dialogues which have the potential to be funny, like the running joke around Little Women or the reasons Zadie’s haircut being asymmetrical, however urgency is woefully lacking and these can only be material that makes it to her act. Although Zadie sarcastically dismisses the cliche where characters in a movie suddenly have a change of heart at the last moment. That is exactly what happens to her in the final moments of the movie. She convinces herself to snap out of three years of sleepwalking and embrace life with a new sharp self awareness which is simply having woken up and now imbedding too little, too late.
I found myself constantly wondering about Margo. In every tale, there’s a hidden hieroglyph, an unsung heroine who deserves much more praise than offered. While Zadie and Bradford’s intricate patterns repeatedly demonstrated how they were shaping the others, Margo was the person I was shifted towards. After all, without any prompting, she does aid in Zadie and Aubrey getting to know each other. This is especially impressive considering that she has to endure the hurling of vitriolic, one-liners. I owe it to Wise for responsibly taking up, for all intents and purposes, the Jami Gertz character’s “Twister” role. Quite frankly, there is very little in the film that warrants a recommendation. But I truly believe that there is some merit to that particular performance. I was eagerly waiting for the tornado to emerge and consume every other character after i saw Margot leave.
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