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Demolition

After losing his wife in a car accident investment Banker Davis Mitchell feels numb. He tries to access his feelings by wreaking havoc and seeking for an emotional response within in himself.

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After DALLAS BUYERS CLUB and WILD Canadian Jean-Marc Vallée depicts a man in a unique set of circumstances in DEMOLITION. Davis, a financial speculator played by Jake Gyllenhaal, loses his wife in a car accident. He manages to come out of it physically unscathed but his emotional life is completely numbed after the tragedy. But maybe he was like this before? Unlike his father-in-law and boss Phil (Chris Cooper) Davis doesn’t feel pain, he doesn’t feel anything. “ I never loved my life” he explains in a long complaint letter to a snack machine operator – the defective machine was in the ER where his wife died. The letter and the ones that follow are read by customer service representative Karen (Naomi Watts) who is so moved by the brutal honesty that she calls Davis in the middle of the night and meets him soon after. The dead Julia keeps reappearing as fragments of memory, hovering over the tragicomical life crisis, but the focus is always on Davis. He destroys his luxury home with a sledgehammer and lets himself get shot with a bulletproof vest on so he can feel anything at all, Meanwhile, actor-director Vallée looks over his shoulder with almost no music and a calmly moving handheld camera. The underlying question is whether Davis was really always this cold or whether he is going through momentary shock-induced paralysis. The path till we get that question answered is laid with crystal clear metaphors and it is Jake Gyllenhaal’s interesting performance which holds the drama together.

Christian Horn (INDIEKINO MAGAZIN)

Translation: Elinor Lewy

Credits

Original title: Demolition
USA 2015, 101 min
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Director: Jean-Marc Vallée
Author: Bryan Sipe
DOP: Yves Bélanger
Montage: Jay M. Glen
Music: Susan Jacobs
Distributor: Fox Deutschland
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper
FSK: 12
Release: 16.06.2016

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