MULTIPLE SARCASMS was a movie that made me feel reticent because it has a low score of 4,6 and only 15 reviews mostly with negative scores. But since I am like the judge and jury for these sort of movies last June I finally bit the bullet on this one. And to my surprise it was very good.
Gabriel (Timothy Hutton) looks like is living a perfect life: a successful career as an architect, a wife and a daughter that love him. But one day he realizes he is not happy and decides to write a play about the sorry state of his life. After one day he is unexpectedly fired he becomes pushy towards his literary agent friend (Mario van Peebles) for representing him and when Gabriel starts writing and his stage play has success, his life finally changes.
So why this movie is hated by most viewers? Well, probably because most viewers don't want to see stories about men at crossroads in their lives but for me instead they are nice subjects to deal with. And Hutton's performance looked a little bit to that of BEAUTIFUL GIRLS - again, playing a man at crossroads in his life. There is a scene where he has some sort of fever dream where he has the Elvis Presley hairdo and various women lift him up that actually was funny. And the ending, it's really satisfying considering what the lead has gone through.
If you stumble upon this movie give it a try. Perhaps from time to time you feel the need to connect with characters like the lead of this.
Gabriel (Timothy Hutton) looks like is living a perfect life: a successful career as an architect, a wife and a daughter that love him. But one day he realizes he is not happy and decides to write a play about the sorry state of his life. After one day he is unexpectedly fired he becomes pushy towards his literary agent friend (Mario van Peebles) for representing him and when Gabriel starts writing and his stage play has success, his life finally changes.
So why this movie is hated by most viewers? Well, probably because most viewers don't want to see stories about men at crossroads in their lives but for me instead they are nice subjects to deal with. And Hutton's performance looked a little bit to that of BEAUTIFUL GIRLS - again, playing a man at crossroads in his life. There is a scene where he has some sort of fever dream where he has the Elvis Presley hairdo and various women lift him up that actually was funny. And the ending, it's really satisfying considering what the lead has gone through.
If you stumble upon this movie give it a try. Perhaps from time to time you feel the need to connect with characters like the lead of this.