Review: « Bob Trevino Likes It » does not save on tears.
« I thought drama was when the actors cried, but drama is when the audience cries, » said director Frank Capra once a long, long, long ago. It is an ideal to strive for. But there are crying attacks you will never forget, often located to the end. An damn tension that fails: Emma Thompsons in « Reason and feeling », Timothée Chalamets in « Call Me By Your Name » and Robert de Nirros in « Bull from Bronx ».
Lily Trevino is already crying under the front texts. Huling, grimacing in the dark, leaning over the blue light on her mobile, where her guy has misplayed a hot after-sex sms to someone named Heidi. She first writes a snug response, then a meaningless and adjustable, which she sends.
Barbie Ferreira Do that well throughout the movie, separate actions from emotions. Her Lily walks around the world a bit like someone trying to be normal and nice with blood spraying out of her head. She is for everyone’s needs except her own. She is a personal assistant for a cocky bride with MS (Lauren « Lolo » Spencer from « The Sex Lives of College Girls »). She humiliates herself to the stalker level to get her narcissistic dad’s (French Stewart) love. A psychology visit ends with her comforting the therapist.
When she contacts a man on Facebook in infant symbiotic daddy who has the same name as the father, everything speaks dramaturgically wit because it has to go bad.
Everyone would have Blocked her, put her legs on her back or utilized the position. Everyone except this alternative Bob Trevino (lovely John Euduizamo finally must be as kind as he looks), who lives in a childless, tender but sad marriage and is ignored by an idiothasist manager.
Instead, they become two seeds. Bob does everything a dad should do and as Lilys never did: laws broken things, camp, listen when she talks.
He needs someone to give another puppy. She needs someone who gives her a puppy. More is not with it
It is a true story, the director’s own, but it is an unlikely story because it is so frictionless. Is unexpected kindness from a stranger is all it takes for a woman with lifelong trauma to have a new life? Can you commit such a boundless action unpunished? Lily is like a cute, asexual Martha Scott in « Baby Reindeer ». It may seem a bit pointless now that the series is there and goes so far and is so brave.
They also had Definitely be able to follow Capra’s advice and at least saved on the tears to a decisive moment instead of letting them seep out throughout the movie.
At the same time, it is somewhat liberating about presenting such serious « daddy issues » without translating them into sexual « issues ». He needs someone to give another puppy. She needs someone who gives her a puppy. More is not with it.
The surprise is that the horrible does not happen. The relief is contagious.
See more. Three other films with John Leguizamo: « Romeo & Julia » (1996), « Summer of Sam » (1999), « Moulin Rouge! » (2001).
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