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‘Joy’ Review: Thomasin McKenzie Charms In This Earnest British Fertility Drama – London Film Festival
'Joy' Review: Thomasin McKenzie charms in this earnest British fertility drama – London Film Festival
Their first meeting, ostensibly at a job interview, has the hallmarks of a gentle romcom; Edwards has lost his precious lab rat Sylvia, and Purdy steps in to scoop it up (“If I hear a commotion, I’m not very good at staying out of it,” she explains with a smile). The three scientists come under scrutiny from the press, and their research is both vilified and vandalized: the phrase “playing God” is invoked, and Edwards suffers comparisons to Nazi doctor Josef Mengele and literary Prometheus Victor Frankenstein. Jack Thorne ’s screenplay confects a bit of mild tension between Purdy and Edwards, whom she accuses of seeing his patients as statistics rather than women, but steers admirably clear of creating a whole new fictional nemesis, as Patch Adams did.
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