Misunderstood

Rating: 8/10 (22 September 2016)

Many watch this film and see a very cliché story of inspiration to follow your dreams and find the plot to be weak, however when looking further into the plot itself you may find that this is not only a story about confidence/financial/business struggles, but also quite a dark story of the struggle with identity.
We see Joy at a young age with her imaginative and creative childhood mind filled with innovative ideas, and how those ideas were physically ripped apart by her father right in front of her.
We also see Joy drifting through life in an average job in her house that's falling apart and overcrowded. We see the dream that she has continuously of her younger self desperately trying to reach her, and we even see her cutting her hair towards the end of the film.
This story is not only that of an inspirational struggle, it is of a woman having an identity crisis just trying to find what made her a person again. I personally believe that David O. Russell has taken a true inspirational story and has added even more moral to it.