![]() And while it's easy as an outsider to point out what Howard seems unable to note himself: that real life isn't in the treading-water, static world of criticism, but when we are active in creating our own world and life. But shhh! Don't tell poor Howard here, and ruin the nice little illusion he's got going for him that he's The One Voice to Rule Them All, The Little Contrarian That Could.īecause how often has anyone who's enjoyed a film or television series thought Howard's thoughts: "How often have we watched a movie and wished we could feel those emotions in our real lives? What's stopping us?" Most everyone, probably, at some point. Howard writes pragmatic pieces (a far cry, it seems, from his younger days of writing what he was feeling), and sees his opinions alone in a sea of middle-of-the-roadness - clashing against the tide of, well, everyone else who perceives themselves to be doing exactly the same thing. The Nymphomaniac actor has stripped this particular subject to its core (metaphorically speaking, natch) to get to Howard's heart, seemingly in disrepair from under-use. ![]() Though LaBeouf does not appear in the film, his presence as a critic of criticism is felt throughout. He's a man alone, you see: even in a sea of reporters, journalist, and other media types, his opinions are different, and real, and true: not a bunch of nice niceness that's clearly only the work of major ass-kissing on behalf of the writer. Jim Gaffigan stars as Howard, the self-proclaimed renegade of modern film criticism. (Spoiler Alert: we're all very silly and self-important. ![]() All of the self-obsessed nincompoopery that lines the streets of criticdom have come to life with this one, needling a commonly held delusion that having an opinion is a very noble task, and those of us who write them down for other people to read are somehow not as silly and self-important as the entertainment ephemera that gets the privilege of being skewered. I feel as though every conversation I've ever overheard at a junket or experienced at an industry-related party has come to life in his new short film, (which, uh oh/ update: turns out might just be a bit of plagiarism on LaBeouf's part.
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