As humans, we sometimes crave to be like those on the Hollywood silver screen. Something better, more exciting, glamorous, and more important. There are filmmakers who attempt to take the ordinary life and portray it as being important or even aesthetic on the big screen, but many attempts are made in vein, as the storyline commonly glorifies the characters too much. Very few successfully transform a human story into the type of film that purely portrays just that. Humanism. Punch Drunk Love makes it ok to be normal. Instead of glorifying the human spirit, Anderson, in a way, picks on our shortfalls and emphasizes them, so we can see the good in them. .
Punch Drunk Love tells the story of Barry Eagan, (played with soul-soaked presence by Adam Sandler) a toilet-brush salesman with a slight anger management and crying problem, which seems to have arisen from the way in which his seven sisters treat him. Taunting him verbally as a child seems to have had an effect on him, as you witness him tearing up a restaurant bathroom, smashing his sister's glass doors and buying copious amounts of pudding to aid in gaining frequent flyer miles and taking advantage of a loophole in the company's marketing terms. Rather intelligent actually.
The opening sequence of the film establishes the off-centered rollercoaster that soon departs, as there are no opening credits and the first shot is Barry seated at a desk to the far left of the screen in an empty garage. This emphasizes the fact that we have actually been thrown right into the middle of someone's story. Like Anderson has just opened a window into his characters lives and we are just looking through it for a couple of hours. The movie has no real beginning or end, just a portion of a much bigger life that we are viewing. Soon after, he meets Lena Leonard (played with devilish cuteness by Emily Watson) who falls in love with him instantly for no apparent reason.
"Punch-Drunk Love" Film Review Once in a while, there comes an independent film that is a hit with the film festival streak. ... For the film, "Punch-Drunk Love," it's on its way up! "Punch-Drunk Love" is not your typical mainstream Hollywood film. ...
Sydney Carton is a mess-up or a low life drunk. ... This is shown first in the beginning of the novel, when Stryver brought his love for Lucie up to Carton; disturbed by this, "Sydney Carton drank the punch at a great rate; drank it by bumpers, looking at his friend" (135). ... Carton began drinking the punch at a great rate because he was disturbed about ever seeing Stryver and Lucie together. ... Carton was willing to die for Lucie because of his desperate, scandalous love for her, just as Jesus showed his love for man when he was willing to give up his life for every man. ... Sydney Carton ...
As well as being featured in a Drama, Punch-Drunk Love (2002), these movies portray the depth of his individual acting. ... His most moving performance was in Punch-Drunk Love, by visionary director Paul Thomas Anderson. ...
His father while driving drunk kills Shane's mom, this causes his reign as champion bull rider to fall. ... The first day he meets some kids who call his dad " a washed up drunk" and he gets into a serious fight. ... This all comes to a halt when he is studying at Casey's house when his dad pulls up in his truck and punches him in the face. ... Shane realizes how his dad is really sincere about his commitment to him now and claims he loves him. ... In the end you realize how he has changed and really does love his son. ...
Although Jamie was having afantastic time, and loved the decorations, the music and everything else about the dance, Landon was somewhat depressed but still managed to hit the dance floor. ... Towards the end of the dance Eric and his woman, Angela, show up to make things more interesting and spike the punch. Angela ends up getting drunk and blowing chunks in the bathroom while Eric somehow is nowhere to be seen, he does that all the time. ...
During the circus, what appears to be a random drunk man in the audience steps out into the circus ring. ... So when the "drunk" man climbed on a horse and began doing trick riding, Huck "was all a tremble to see his danger" (Twain 164). Huck does not realize that the "drunk" man was really part of the act and not drunk at all. ... The joke is played on him and he does not even understand the punch line so to speak. ... Huck learns a valuable lesson throughout the novel, and that is that "you don't lie to someone you love" (Wasserstein). ...
Alfieri informs Eddie that it is not illegal for two people to fall in love... " There's nothing wrong with a girl falling in love with an immigrant." ... Rodolfo doesn't want to hurt Eddie and he chooses not to punch him... Eddie does not want Rodolfo to pity him and insists that he punches him. ... Eddie's punch connects with Rodolfo's face. ...
DATE RAPE DRUGS "I was so sick when I woke up," the 25- year old woman said. "I couldn't remember anything. I didn't know where I was or how I got there. There was vomit on the bed and stuck in my hair. He was naked, and I was naked. He said we made love. This woman, like many others, was a v...
Beth and Jake appear to be happily married at first, but when under the influence of alcohol, Jake's temper is easily fired up and Beth becomes the punching bag he uses to unleash his frustration. ... Beth loves Jake uncontrollably even when he beats her barely unrecognisable but her patience begins to wear thin after 18 yrs of marriage as she loses communication with her children and her husband as the family falls apart. ... The director thoroughly portrays these themes, for example, alcohol abuse, showing Jake when he is sober as a pretty likeable husband, loving to Beth one minute, t...