AND THEN HER GETTING IGNORED

Yes, my heart ached for her too

That is the look of knowing your best friend inside & out. “Ha, of course she’d do this”

And she also ignored the man who truly loved her. This wedding scene was briliiantly filmed. On the surface it was hysterical, but underneath was heart wrenching pain on so many levels.

BEEN THERE. DONE THAT. OWN THE SOUNDTRACK. NO, REALLY I DO.

🖐 yes me, poor Betty... she was so disappointed!!!!😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

her poor mum was let down by everyone. imagine having four kids and none of them noticed that she was lost and always hurting

Yes, her husband was the worst man possible. Family was not functional to say the least.

Every time

YES 😭😭😭

His face is a classic

y o u c a n t s t o p p r o g r e s s

he's awful

So Aussie lol

Actually she did get what she wanted the most in life. All she wanted was to be noticed and envied by the people who had dismissed her as a nobody. Marrying a famous athlete gave her both. She never really cared for him or the fact that he despised her. That was all secondary to being considered a somebody.

That's the best thing that ever happened to her.

@@ellencarter2668 true but in the end she got to start over again with her life. Also, the swimmer actually started to like her towards the end

She's got what society TELLS HER SHE SHOULD WANT ...& she's no happier.

When she dies? This us up there though. OMG her whole character breaks my heart. 😢

Explain it To me please

@@siennamelake4776 it's about her desperation to be accepted, find love and get married. Her sadness is so strong that even a fake marriage makes her so happy as she lived out her dreams. I was in a similar position so I understand how she felt. But then two years ago my life changed 💜

Wow so you’re like the real Muriel cool thank for explaining and congrats on the change

At least she KNOWS it's fake! How many find that out later?!

That is what i was about to say. Her smiling is contagious to me you can tell she is on cloud 9. Hilarous.

53die9storno because they were already married and know how bad it sucks

I think everyone looked confused because they had never heard an Abba song as a wedding professional..lol

@@catalinasimmons6314 LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! SO TRUE.

@@catalinasimmons6314 I thought it was more so a look of disgust because they all know it's a sham marriage. Hence the irony, she's smiling to ear to ear fooling only herself while everyone else looks on knowing it's a scam.

Muriel's bridal gown is breathtaking😍, but the bridesmaids' dresses are hideous!😖

@@danacarter9147 I just now noticed that her tiara has hearts on it and her gown across the bustline. The ultimate in over the top cheesy. Love It.

it s the saddest part of the film

Indeed.. he was SO into her. If she hadn't been so silly she woulda realized that. I think maybe she did after the movie ended.. hard to say.

@@johnrobert7430 That and how disrespectful she was to her mom.. that broke me on the first watch. No wonder she was so damn miserable before she did what she did.

right she should have married him instead. at least they would have been happy together

I always felt sorry for him whenever I watch this scene.

Lois G funnily enough this was played at my parents wedding in 98😂. They got the idea from this movie😂

again ?.........

Same it's too sad. How could she remember to hug her dad but not even care enough to check around and see if her mum had turned up?

Kitty Katt I fast forward that bit, she is an absolute soul ide be absolutely heartbroken

Kitty Katt Hate it. The look on her face.. 😩

Overwhelmingly heartbreaking when they cut to the mom.

I agree :(

Damn straight! She's had enough negative ?#*$ already!

The only problem is that her hapiness at this wedding is the same as a drug induced happiness

David Young HOW is it comedic? All she does is walk down the aisle grinning madly - like any bride would. Plus, the moment she exits the church is heartbreaking - her mother almost bursting into tears because she ignored her.. PLUS: “slipped out of my chair onto the floor”... no one ever does that. BORE OFF!

@@MrRickster83 DAMN......HATER IN DA HOUSE! If you don't get it then you're the one that needs to "bore off!" Although I would say to piss off, mate.

Ronney Rendon who the hell do you even think you are, talking to me like that?! Arsehole 😂

​@@MrRickster83 Jeanie Drynan explained that she really had nothing to do in the scene, so she asked Toni not to look at her. So when the camera came past her face that's when she gave the totally devastated look. She basically "scripted" and directed that piece on her own. Just one look pivoted the entire scene....

Daniel Lapaine sieht super aus !

It is one of the few ABBA songs that I don't like but it is much more bearable in this scene. It fits this wedding and the film perfectly.

To gloat

She didn't ask them they called her. She said it later that she is as good as they are. But at the end she is better than them.

It s to feel superior to them ,to show that she can marry too and feel beautiful

Muriel didn’t ask them to be their bridesmaids they came crawling back like it was a show then Tania always had to be the Queen bee dispute getting stung by her own actions

I mean her

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I think it's more so because the guests know that it's a scam marriage. They know it's a fake and that's the intended look of disgust on their faces. Hence the ironic and almost bittersweet comedy of the scene. She's only fooling herself. Even her own friends know this is bullshit.

From the look on his face walking down the aisle to "she's all yours mate" just brilliant

I think it's more effective this way.

I always wondered what could have developed between them given time and more maturity...but I do like how Muriel ended it with a clear head.

She needed to realize nothing was there between them. She was only fixated on the idea of getting married (mostly the wedding itself), because it represented getting rescued from her horrible home life, and adoration from both a husband and from the guests (which was obviously absent here) represented her desire to be seen. The second they got to his home is when it dawned on her that her life was not going to be happy, and that she was going to repeat the same cycle her parents had.

@@heyidaroo and the thing is, was she a terrible person to want to escape that horrible family environment? She was completely fucked up through no fault of her own and that's really the point. She could not see what she was doing. The whole film revolves around tragedy and who really is to blame? Who won and who lost?

:'[

Bill Hunter was a brilliant actor.

@Maya DePaz Of course , later she realized the stupid mistakes she made and tried to fix them growing in the process. Take care

It s sad for her mother,though

Emphasis on the "fantasy."

Muriel was on cloud 10. This moment was all she lived for. She didn't see a soul at that wedding.

It took a few viewings but the coach says "Just breathe. Think of the Games." The groom -- an athlete/swimmer from South Africa -- married Muriel so he could stay in Australia and compete in the Olympic Games (this basically constitutes visa fraud in Australia and is quite illegal). The film's script was referring to South Africa's ineligibility to partake in the Games due to that nation's practice of apartheid (national race segregation/discrimination). However, there is a bit of confusion regarding this part of the plot since the film was made in 1994 and South Africa was able to compete in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain due to their abolishment of apartheid the year before.

I've watched this a few times myself and discovered that the audio is a bit off in this clip so that the lips don't match up quite right. I discovered that the groom's lips are moving at the point in question and it sounds like he says, "I'm a goner." I can't hear the coach say "Just breath" but his lips do seem to be forming those words. I can just barely make out him saying "Think of the games."

I thought the groom says, "Oh, God" but I could be mistaken.

🤣🤣🤣

I think David says “god no” and his coach is saying something like “think of the games” or “think of the gold”, since David was only marrying Muriel so he could participate in the Olympics on the Australian team