It all started in a bus stop, with the following announcement. There are people who improve with age, Vincent is not one of them...
What it is: Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher) is a boy of twelve who just arrived in
Brooklyn with his mother. Shortly after arriving, run into her new neighbor
Vincent (one Bill Murray continues to grow in contention genius and
communicative with each new interpretation). Vicent is a destroyer drunk, their
little revenue is spent on punishing the bar, buy some cans of sardines for
dilettante cat, betting on horse racing and enjoy the services of a Russian
prostitute (chameleon Naomi Watts).
Anyway,
Oliver's mother, Maggie (Melissa Mccarthy, old friend of Gilmore Girls), has to
spend entire days working to finance his new life situation (her husband just being
unfaithful) with his son. She works as a medical assistant, making scanners by
people who have tumors and diseases like that. With such a scenario, no choice
but to hire the uncle Vincent as babysitting the little Oliver is. A
relationship that charge as unexpected as interesting tone, where the two,
especially the lad, end up being changed life.
Why I like. Because it is a story where nothing is quite
as it seems. Because it is entertaining, funny, unorthodox and made several
vital learning, with suggestive ideas that remind us that even when life gets very
complicated is room to share, enrich and discover new relationships. Without
ever losing sight of the sense of wonder and tone of "let's have fun"
that has made a career Murray.
Moreover,
history avoids sentimentality and emotions with integrity and subtlety are
expressed, even portrays a handful of outsiders. Bukowski sure the teacher would take some beers with the creator of this story, Theodore Melfi, to give its approval for this film,
which fights, bazaars, beautiful women, gambling at the racetrack and humor to
counter intertwine, plus considerable dose of bad character and self-destructive
traits.
It has also
captivated me because it adds value to an idea that sometimes we internalize
costs. As time is not linear, the talent of some people, sensitivity, humanity
or transformative power of reality is not necessarily dependent (although probably)
age you put into your passport.
In other
words, children and teenagers can teach us important things crafty adults at
any given time. And, even better, there are some kids, like the case of Oliver,
the real co-protagonist of this story, which meet mature enough to stabilize
their environment and teach-remember-open the road, roads, the most important
people of his life.
The drawbacks: are the fault if you will not see it in
English; It would be heresy when a large part of the character of the characters
and the successes of the film rests on accents and tones using the characters.
When you need to see the movie. One day this Christmas to remember
that life is mysterious and that the chances of finding moments of happiness
are breaking even in the most adverse scenarios.
