The movie “Le Grande Seduction” highlights what it is like in a dying town. A comedic film that tells the tale of a once booming fishing village that has turned into an unemployed town of little over a hundred people. The film takes place in St. Marie-La-Mauderne a town in Quebec. The town has an offer of a plastics factory to be constructed in the town but would require a resident doctor in the town. A former resident of the town, now cop in the big city stumbles upon a doctor under the influence of drugs. The Cop sets up a month long community service in St. Marie as a resident doctor. Now the town must shape its self up to become attractive enough for the doctor to never want to leave.
I found the movie very humorous from this point on in the movie. The lengths the town went, to impress the Doctor were quite clever. One of the subtle ways the town was made more impressionable was just the cleanness of the characters. The mayor before the doctor came to was a mess. His hair was everywhere; he was unshaven and was wearing dirty looking clothes. He and many others almost looked like entirely different people. The town figured out what the doctor liked, such as beef stroganoff, bare footed women and cricket. They then made sure he was always presented with things.
I enjoyed how each character had specific roles and personalities. This was great because that is what you get in a small town. Everyone has their thing and is well known for their personality. The attractive female postal worker had an interesting role I thought. She was not in many scene but had a significant role in the movie. Throughout the whole movie I was thinking where the good-looking girl was. Thinking that she could really help the town out if she herself would seduce the doctor with charm and her good looks, but now looking back that would have been too easy and would have taken away from all of the other clever things the town was doing. You really got a grasp of the postal ladies personality without even her talk in the movie. It safe to say she is a truthful person, since she did not participate in the swaying of the doctor.
This was a great plot line for a movie. Along with these dying fishing villages, there are many other dying towns in the world that once had a niche and now are no longer thriving. A drive through Nebraska and you will see dying towns first hand. I have grandparents that live in a town of about 350 people. When I was younger it wasn’t a booming town by any means but was more populated and had excitement in the town. People would cruise up and down main street on a Friday night honking their horns and the bars were filled with people. Now you would be lucky to see one car go down the street and the bar would most likely close early. Whether the town used to be a fishing village or a railroad town they will be faced with the growing trend of people moving to the big city where the money is.
I found the movie very humorous from this point on in the movie. The lengths the town went, to impress the Doctor were quite clever. One of the subtle ways the town was made more impressionable was just the cleanness of the characters. The mayor before the doctor came to was a mess. His hair was everywhere; he was unshaven and was wearing dirty looking clothes. He and many others almost looked like entirely different people. The town figured out what the doctor liked, such as beef stroganoff, bare footed women and cricket. They then made sure he was always presented with things.
I enjoyed how each character had specific roles and personalities. This was great because that is what you get in a small town. Everyone has their thing and is well known for their personality. The attractive female postal worker had an interesting role I thought. She was not in many scene but had a significant role in the movie. Throughout the whole movie I was thinking where the good-looking girl was. Thinking that she could really help the town out if she herself would seduce the doctor with charm and her good looks, but now looking back that would have been too easy and would have taken away from all of the other clever things the town was doing. You really got a grasp of the postal ladies personality without even her talk in the movie. It safe to say she is a truthful person, since she did not participate in the swaying of the doctor.
This was a great plot line for a movie. Along with these dying fishing villages, there are many other dying towns in the world that once had a niche and now are no longer thriving. A drive through Nebraska and you will see dying towns first hand. I have grandparents that live in a town of about 350 people. When I was younger it wasn’t a booming town by any means but was more populated and had excitement in the town. People would cruise up and down main street on a Friday night honking their horns and the bars were filled with people. Now you would be lucky to see one car go down the street and the bar would most likely close early. Whether the town used to be a fishing village or a railroad town they will be faced with the growing trend of people moving to the big city where the money is.
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