Joy is a more simpleminded and less ambitious work than writer/director David O. Russell’s last effort American Hustle, but that doesn’t mean that it’s a worse film. American Hustle was a slight, and kind of funny story that couldn’t really work because none of the world that it had built up seemed to be very authentic. It wasn’t the 70’s. It was a cheesy and stupid looking version of the 70’s that seemed boring in contrast to other films that had presented this period in time. Joy almost solves this problem by completely throwing out any type of outside existing world whatsoever. This does mean that it completely sacrifices any sense of weight or any really existence beyond its frames, but that’s not bad. The fact is Joy is a film chiefly