Leave it to David O. Russel and co. to make a simple story about the invention of a mop looks fascinating and complex. His unconventional approach makes said mop the driving force throughout Joy, the biographical film that depicts the struggles of Joy Mangano to patent her most popular invention to date: the detachable, self-cleaning miracle mop that eventually became a prominent fixture in almost every household across America, and possibly the world.David O. Russel is certainly not intent in making a conventional biopic; his approach to the story is straightforward — Joy creates, Joy succeeds, Joy fails, Joy rises again — but he infuse the rags-to-riches tale with humour and well-timed energy, especially when Joy decides to sell the miracle mop herself at the Home Shopping Network (where once the late Joan Rivers was the host for one of the program, and here the comedian is exceptionally brought to life by her daughter Melissa), and it goes a bit quirky during sequences where the soap operas her mother is addicted to (starring real-life soap opera stars like Susan Lucci) creeps into her dreams. One weakness Joy has lies in some of the dialogues: scenes involving Bradley Cooper as the head of HSN are fine and interesting, but the way the Manganos behave and talk don’t feel like real people to me, with Rossellini delivers some of the oddest lines.
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