Some people say that sarcasm is the dullest form of humor. It is not good for a movie with a title like Multiple Sarcasms. Expecting to fill it with witty scenes does not promise good results.
Ideally, Gabe has a supportive wife, a sweet daughter, a nice best friend, and a good job. On the other hand, Gabe is never happy. He strolls through life with a scowl on his face and a hunch in his back as if he is about to keel over any moment. What is the reason behind this man’s disappointment? Nobody knows. Not even Gabe. He has a goal to write a play. That’s what he aims for. But it seems that to achieve his goal, he must let down everyone else in his life.
Gabe is the most self-absorbed and annoying character I have come across in a long time. Seeing him slosh around in self-pity for 90 minutes is one of the most painful things I have done in a theater this year. Timothy Hutton, (‘Leverage’) who is usually a good actor fits badly into this unconsciously vastly disagreeable character. His automatically me-first attitude is annoying me more than I want to. Put together, all the things he does and all the people he attempts to sleepwalk through life with are exceedingly difficult to ever want to benefit from or be around.
Did I mention that he sits on a toilet and types on a typewriter while composing his play? Yes, he’s such a tortured artist that his time spent on the loo gets drained while he tries to compose a masterpiece of a play. What a joke! The advertisement poster for the play when it finally gets produced features a typewriter rather than a commode and one can be forgiven to ponder if Brooks Branch is the writer/director as was hoped or had such high ideas for himself in writing glory that he substituted the quick fix cama.
Writing about ‘Multiple Sarcasms’ is as painful as watching it. This film is a perfect example for someone trying too hard to be unique and artistic. There is black and white photography, Indie music faintly playing in the background. Characters are curled up in corners with wine and cigarettes and after that there is a montage of photographs that seem to be taken without thought as months pass. The viewer, me is supposed to feel a certain way, correct?
Gabe bulldozes through his well-set life in order to satiate his selfish fantasies. Doesn’t this idiot of a character deserve a better ending more suited for him? Maybe a hail of gun fire being unloaded in Gabe’s direction. Why does it have to be the happy horse crap ending we get?
You do almost pity talented and beautiful actresses like Dana Delany and Mira Sorvino for being stuck in scenes with this freak of nature. It’s such moments that make me say “Seriously, this is how a mediocre buffoon gets women?”
At the end of the day, you’re left with the feeling that Mr. Branch has just dumped a shovelful of manure and insists that it is a well-cooked steak. This has to be one of the most annoying movies I have watched in ages.
The tale is rather disagreeable, and Gabe, for example, is quite a nightmare of a character who makes you wish him ill rather than the other way around. He is an absolute buffoon, and so well rendered at that, he should not get a single flower or a happy ending. Characters like this one get my goat. What is there to like, if anything at all? Nothing! End of story!
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