Adam Sandler, when seeing this protagonist, I believe most people will undoubtedly think that this is a very ordinary romantic comedy. Look at the synopsis again, and it's even more so. The only thing that is extraordinary is the PTA of the director and screenwriter, but in any case, when everyone talks about PTA, they will directly go over this punch drunk love and talk directly to Scarlet Black Gold, Magnolia and the master.
This is just the ordinary side of PTA. According to the director himself, he really likes Adam Sandler's comedies, which have spent lonely Saturday night after another with him. He is not an ordinary director, he is a PTA, and he can see what is missing in ordinary romantic comedies. Why can't he make one by himself?
Godard said that the best way to comment on a movie is to make another movie. Punch drunk love is PTA's comment on Hollywood-produced, pipeline-like romantic comedies. Adam Sandler's film, even I watched his first love 50 times and the remote control of his life even though he didn't watch many romantic comedies. The man who played the naive, silly romantic comedy protagonist wanted a chance to stop being a fool on the big screen. So PTA, as a fan of an actor, tailored a script for the actor, and then there was punch drunk love.
The first ten minutes of the movie are destined to be extraordinary. There is a desk in the same place as an underground garage. The table in the camera is far away, but the audience can clearly hear the male protagonist making a call and the voice on the other end of the phone. They are discussing something unknown. Then the male lead heard something and walked out the door with a water glass. The sky outside was very dark. I thought it was dusk at first, but found that it was dawn. Two cars drove over, but there was no sound when they drove over. Suddenly one of the cars overturned. After several laps, the soundtrack suddenly became extremely loud, which shocked me. Then another car drove over, and the people inside dropped a small piano and drove away. Later, we learned that the protagonist has seven sisters, and his private life has been affected by his sister. There will be uncontrollable violent tendencies in his heart, such as kicking the patio's glass door broken during a home party.
This is still an unlucky man who can be blackmailed by prostitutes even if he makes a call to an erotic service. Selling a new product, that new product is as breakable as the protagonist’s life.
Until he met another woman, the woman who wanted to park a broken car at the door of his warehouse at first. It was later said that she wanted to see him as soon as she saw his picture, and that was the only child in the family. So all the puddings that the actor bought before now become so meaningful. He will be able to fly on AA planes almost for free immediately.
He ran to Hawaii in a hurry, and the two of them avoided the lead's sister. The life of the male protagonist suddenly rose to another level, a free life with love. These are the joys brought to him by the little piano in that mysterious car.
But he still didn't escape the trouble caused by the porn phone call, and the group of people injured the heroine. So the male lead came forward and found the Utah porn king played by PSH, so handsome. But the male lead and the female lead left alone in the hospital. He dragged the phone line he had torn off from night to dawn. He held the piano to the hostess's house to apologize, and they were finally together. Playing the small piano I picked up in that shabby little warehouse.
PTA himself called this film "an art house Adam Sandler film". The actor's character has all the shortcomings of Adam Sandler's drama roles. He is irritable, independent, and weak. He has experienced psychedelic events like after taking drugs, and the final ending is as beautiful as all romantic comedies.
The photography of this film has the consistent style of PTA, following the shots of this person extremely much, but pulling several long shots on the main man's office and the door of the empty warehouse. The contrast of lighting inside and outside is extremely contrasting.
Speaking of lighting, the first date of the male and female protagonists, the scene from the restaurant to the car was full of blue light, close-ups of the male and female protagonists’ faces, the faces are also various blue lights, as if They are not in the world where normal people live at all, but their own little world.
The scene where the two met in Hawaii was also a poster for the movie. It was shot with a backlight angle, which was extremely beautiful.
I have analyzed the soundtrack at the beginning of the film. This section is not particularly sound, but it is extremely effective in showing the difference between the life of the male protagonist and ordinary people in the first few minutes.
Since the script was tailor-made for Adam Sandler, he himself is also handy in acting. His acting skills can also be said to be much more delicate than usual in ordinary romantic comedies.
As for the others, like PSH said to the male protagonist on the phone, go fuck yourself.
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