Possible Spoiler...(i really don't know if this spoils anything, but just in case...)
Finally, I got the dvd and sat down and watched Death to Smoochy. I prepared myself to be dragged through another painfully slow "dark comedy," Devito starts everything off with a bang, literally. In general, the action is quick in the beginning as it is with the current film archetypes. Boom, Devito throws us into his world immediately.
His world, of course, is that of the absurd. Anyone who talks bad about this film's cruel language, plot realism, purpose, "kill Barney" jabs, etc... obviously missed the big point Devito made.
It's all absurd. A competitive market for children's tv show characters? Stat sheets for these up and coming 'performers'? One man, obsessed enough to gather Nazi's to a tractor warehouse? It's all absurd. (Absurd as in, theater of the absurd; although, outrageous fits here also) The whole thing. The environment, the plot, the meaning (which does hold basis in our temporal world of reasoning) Everything is overly dramatic and done over the top. The Sets, the actions, the single-sided characters... It's Devito's own ideas of the state of the American Public.
The film is dark... the seedy underbelly of children's programming, gun-toting charity groups skimming a little 'off the top' (strangely reminsicant of Serpico). Just imagine receiving a tagline that incorporated those ideas... "Why it's absurd!" Exactly. And I believe that that idea is what Devito was trying to convey.
How else could you summarize Williams' performance? Enlightened? Possessed? Out of control? No.
Absurd.
Finally, I got the dvd and sat down and watched Death to Smoochy. I prepared myself to be dragged through another painfully slow "dark comedy," Devito starts everything off with a bang, literally. In general, the action is quick in the beginning as it is with the current film archetypes. Boom, Devito throws us into his world immediately.
His world, of course, is that of the absurd. Anyone who talks bad about this film's cruel language, plot realism, purpose, "kill Barney" jabs, etc... obviously missed the big point Devito made.
It's all absurd. A competitive market for children's tv show characters? Stat sheets for these up and coming 'performers'? One man, obsessed enough to gather Nazi's to a tractor warehouse? It's all absurd. (Absurd as in, theater of the absurd; although, outrageous fits here also) The whole thing. The environment, the plot, the meaning (which does hold basis in our temporal world of reasoning) Everything is overly dramatic and done over the top. The Sets, the actions, the single-sided characters... It's Devito's own ideas of the state of the American Public.
The film is dark... the seedy underbelly of children's programming, gun-toting charity groups skimming a little 'off the top' (strangely reminsicant of Serpico). Just imagine receiving a tagline that incorporated those ideas... "Why it's absurd!" Exactly. And I believe that that idea is what Devito was trying to convey.
How else could you summarize Williams' performance? Enlightened? Possessed? Out of control? No.
Absurd.
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