Analyzing Alexander Payne's Film 'The Descendants'
The Descendants
Movie Review
For this assignment I chose to review Alexander Payne’s film The Descendants. George Clooney stars as Matthew King who on paper has the perfect life. He lives on the beautiful island of Honolulu, Hawaii, has a beautiful family, and is a well-known lawyer on the island. You soon find out that Matthew King is the sole trustee of 25,000 acres of prime land on Kauai which is more of a burden than a benefit to him because his six cousins, who are beneficiaries, have been expressing their opinions to him. He has the choice of selling the land to a developer and making a resort, a golf course, etc. or keeping it. While he is figuring that out, his wife Elizabeth is …show more content…
In The Descendants, the benefit is the property of Kauai with the beneficiaries being one of Matthews cousins along with the realtors of Kauai. Matthews’s decision affects the entire island because his decision will have a major impact on Kauai’s real estate world as well as the landscape and traffic flow on the island. Sometimes people can become greedy or impatient and Unconscionability rears its ugly head. In a web-based article dating back to 2005, The Court of Appeal has dismissed a bid by four trust beneficiaries to recover properties taken over by their trustees more than 10 years ago. This article spotlighted The Patels, who were assigned their interest in properties in 1992 by investment company Greetflow Ltd, who neglected to assert their claim for an unreasonable and unjustified time. They claimed they were "lying low" until 2000, when they realized that the funds had acquired equitable gain. In the Descendants, Matthew did not want to “lay low” in any sense. He realized the value of the land and spent a reasonable amount of time on his decision to sell it or …show more content…
He chose to keep it for now and have more time to decide what he really wanted to do with it as well as what the next step in his life was. Because of the rule of perpetuities, which is designed to insure that some person will actually own land within a reasonable period of time his time, Matthew still has seven years to decide what he wants to do with the land; his cousins were just pressuring him. The death of his wife opened his eyes and made him want to work less and pay more attention to his daughters. Matthew wanted to finally enjoy paradise for the first time in his
Movie Review
For this assignment I chose to review Alexander Payne’s film The Descendants. George Clooney stars as Matthew King who on paper has the perfect life. He lives on the beautiful island of Honolulu, Hawaii, has a beautiful family, and is a well-known lawyer on the island. You soon find out that Matthew King is the sole trustee of 25,000 acres of prime land on Kauai which is more of a burden than a benefit to him because his six cousins, who are beneficiaries, have been expressing their opinions to him. He has the choice of selling the land to a developer and making a resort, a golf course, etc. or keeping it. While he is figuring that out, his wife Elizabeth is …show more content…
In The Descendants, the benefit is the property of Kauai with the beneficiaries being one of Matthews cousins along with the realtors of Kauai. Matthews’s decision affects the entire island because his decision will have a major impact on Kauai’s real estate world as well as the landscape and traffic flow on the island. Sometimes people can become greedy or impatient and Unconscionability rears its ugly head. In a web-based article dating back to 2005, The Court of Appeal has dismissed a bid by four trust beneficiaries to recover properties taken over by their trustees more than 10 years ago. This article spotlighted The Patels, who were assigned their interest in properties in 1992 by investment company Greetflow Ltd, who neglected to assert their claim for an unreasonable and unjustified time. They claimed they were "lying low" until 2000, when they realized that the funds had acquired equitable gain. In the Descendants, Matthew did not want to “lay low” in any sense. He realized the value of the land and spent a reasonable amount of time on his decision to sell it or …show more content…
He chose to keep it for now and have more time to decide what he really wanted to do with it as well as what the next step in his life was. Because of the rule of perpetuities, which is designed to insure that some person will actually own land within a reasonable period of time his time, Matthew still has seven years to decide what he wants to do with the land; his cousins were just pressuring him. The death of his wife opened his eyes and made him want to work less and pay more attention to his daughters. Matthew wanted to finally enjoy paradise for the first time in his