There is something about the speed in which Aaron Sorkin thinks, writes, and projects his showy swiftness onto the characters he conjures up on the page. It’s a tense, recognizable pace of one-upmanship and repetition, one that’s made the scribe a perfect match for shouty courtrooms, twisty political tête-à-têtes and come to think of it, poker, if his thrilling directorial debut “Molly’s Game” is any indication. It is perhaps no surprise then that Sorkin’s handsome prose also suits a film centered on Lucille Ball, the fearless helmer of the wildly popular CBS sitcom “I Love Lucy” and America’s immortal redheaded sweetheart with a similar kind of stamina and wit inherently required by the game of poker.It is with a zippy touch and a number of questionable directorial choices—Sorkin is still a much better writer than director—as well as an immersive, pressure-cooker structure that is never less than enthralling, that Sorkin implants his aforesaid signature style into “Being the Ricardos.Being the Ricardos 2021 Movie Download.
The result is an imperfect yet vigorous and thoroughly entertaining quasi-biopic that unfolds over the course of an exceedingly eventful week for Ball in 1953. It was a time when the country was infiltrated by a Red Scare and the star’s storied career was facing the threat of McCarthyism and the Hollywood blacklist due to a piece of gossip dropped by the period’s infamous tabloid figure Walter Winchell, who claimed that Ball was a registered member of the Communist Party. (There was some truth to the statement and the fierce Ball did fight against McCarthyism.)
In a sturdy and convincing performance, Nicole Kidman plays Ball with an assured, casual poise and a shrewd sense of cattiness. You can perceive the prosthetics on her face—possibly some cheek work and whatever it took to give her eyes the round and wide appearance of Ball’s famous gaze: a little cynical, a little bewildered, entirely charming.