"Ever since she became the youngest person ever to garner two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress, Jennifer Lawrence has seemingly been on the lookout for roles that could liberate her from the restrictions the industry placed on a woman seen by some as the world's most decorated ingenue. Sometimes that meant subverting action franchise tropes by playing Katniss Everdeen in the presciently dystopian Hunger Games franchise."
"Other times, it meant working with auteurs such as David O. Russell in idiosyncratic award-caliber films such as American Hustle and Joy. But maintaining global megastar status seemed to tumble on Lawrence's list of priorities around the time she appeared in Darren Aronofsky's criminally underseen 2017 Mother!, entering what one might call her DGAF era. The stunning and confounding apogee of that admirably ballsy arc, at least to this point, is Lawrence's gloriously unhinged performance in director Lynne Ramsay's ."
Jennifer Lawrence pursued roles intended to free her from industry-imposed limitations. She subverted action-trope expectations as Katniss in the Hunger Games and collaborated with auteurs like David O. Russell. Lawrence shifted away from prioritizing global megastar status around her turn in Darren Aronofsky's Mother!, entering a DGAF era. That arc reaches an apogee in her gloriously unhinged performance in a Lynne Ramsay film. The film opens with Grace and her husband arriving at a rural farmhouse, singing a John Prine and Iris DeMent duet. Frames within frames create a wrenchingly subjective narrative that emphasizes Grace's descent while eschewing easy moralistic tropes. Grace is presented as a writer who does not write, and little background is given about her or Jackson.
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