Punch-Drunk Love
Barry Egan is a socially impaired owner of a small novelty business, who is dominated by seven sisters and is unlikely to find love unless it finds him. When a mysterious woman comes into his life and his emotions go haywire, fluctuating between uncontrollable rage, lust and self-doubt. "Punch-Drunk Love" leaves you addled, a little dizzy and overcome by a pleasing, unplaceable sensation... "A Romantic comedy as wonderful as it is strange that expands the genre to its absurdist outer limits and makes us believe..." From the writer/director of "Boogie Nights" and "Magnolia", "Punch-Drunk Love" is a dark, lovely and unique film experience.
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Slow Story - LilyandMick
I was expecting little more fun and comedy part of this movie, but the story was little boring and I didn't see any funny part in the movie. Adam Sandler's acting was great and he did romantic emotional person, but I was expecting more of funny part than just the romance movie.Stylized and quirky - Shawn_in_Montreal
But too quirky for its own good. Highly, self-consciously off-beat. Great looking film, though. Wonderfully cast and acted.
The film begins with the apparently nebbishy (don't get him mad!) Sandler holed up in some concrete bunker of an office. There's a noise outside. He ventures out, nervously. Something awful happens before his eyes (I won't give it away, it's an effective moment) and then someone drives up in a cab and deposits an old pump action harmonium.
It's destruction and beauty at one's doorstep, get it?
Then shortly after a woman falls in love with him. I could never figure out why she does, really. But she just does, in this dream-like, uneven film.
Along with the childish innocence running through the film, there's also a great deal of menace and violence. But a sub-plot about threats and extortion is wrapped up a little too oddly and unsatisfylingly even for this strange little flick. But that's the way Anderson likes it. Remember the frog-deluge in Magnolia?
At key times, the film gets too quirky for its own good. It doesn't feel like this is a real story happening to real people. And that's where I feel Anderson is short-changing the film, the audience and himself.
Still, whatever its flaws, it's worth checking out.What Lies Beneath - Mahkinah
The desperation, the rage, the violence that simmers within Sandler and beneath the surface is fascinating to watch. And this is what P.T. Anderson has always recognized in the myriad of useless romantic comedies Sandler has starred in before, and since. He's brought light to something innate in the actor and most of us all.
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Slow Story - LilyandMick
I was expecting little more fun and comedy part of this movie, but the story was little boring and I didn't see any funny part in the movie. Adam Sandler's acting was great and he did romantic emotional person, but I was expecting more of funny part than just ...Stylized and quirky - Shawn_in_Montreal
But too quirky for its own good. Highly, self-consciously off-beat. Great looking film, though. Wonderfully cast and acted.
The film begins with the apparently nebbishy (don't get him mad!) Sandler holed up in some concrete bunker of an office. There's ...What Lies Beneath - Mahkinah
The desperation, the rage, the violence that simmers within Sandler and beneath the surface is fascinating to watch. And this is what P.T. Anderson has always recognized in the myriad of useless romantic comedies Sandler has starred in before, and since. ...