Although an atrocious film to watch, even according to the norms of creaky comedy, Friendship is an independent popular film that has been released in a large release.
The first feature film by the writer-director Andrew Deyoung, who mainly worked on television (Our flag means death,, Pen15),, Friendship is surprisingly well done, supporting a limited vanity long enough to make you consider the oddities of friendship between men in particular and the increasingly common phenomenon of the isolated male. Recent studies have done a large part of the scarcity of adult male friendships, with 15% of men in the United States and 28% of men in the United Kingdom signaling the very close friend.
The black laughs generated by Friendship All strikes the same nerve of social embarrassment, quickly intensifying at a mortification point which continues through the ninety-seven minutes of the film. He presents Tim Robinson from the Netflix Sketch Comedy Show I think you should leave Playing Craig Waterman, a manchild perpetually clumsy and self-involved that has reached an incredible level of upper middle class success. Like Homer Simpson, seen through the eyes of Frank Grimes in the immortal Simples The episode “Homer’s Enemy”, Craig can only amaze us by having managed to become a marketing setting that acquired a beautiful wife Tami (Kate Mara) and her son Stephen (Jack Dylan Grazer) and a beautiful house in the suburbs.
Although how long he can keep them is another question. Tami is introduced into the first scene of a group therapy session for people who recover from cancer. While she is pointing out of a recurrence of the disease, Craig leans for Entone with a strange simulated voice, “it is not the baaaaaaack”.
It is probably his attempt to act as a consoling husband, but the version of Craig of expected behaviors is still far. All his wardrobe is oversized and in tanning tones, but he boasts of large clothes which he buys exclusively from a company called Ocean View Dining. (“They do food too.”)
He spends most of the film in the face of people who watch him, in silence dismayed by what they see. His level of success at work can be awarded to reliable charity in the business world – the work of his team is to make computer applications more addictive. Presumably, he was able to call on Tami because his dysfunctional family life in childhood made her vulnerable – she reveals that her own father was a narcissist that her suffering mother never divorced. And as for his son, Stephen, he loves his mother to an intense diploma in the mouth, when he is at best polished with Craig.
Despite all his success, Craig is so isolated, in fact, that he boasts of having obtained an enclosed office where the big advantage for him is that he can eat his lunch alone. He sometimes looks through the window of his office, practically smoking the glass with his breath, while he looks at several male friends in his business take their smoke breaks together, laughing and speaking with an ease that he cannot make.
In short, Craig desperately needs a friend. And one day, the miracle occurs, when it takes a package wrongly to the new neighbors and the door opens to reveal Austin Carmichael (a perfectly sunk Paul Rudd). Bro Glamor with impressively ruffled hair and a large mustache, Austin is a local television meteorologist who plays in a group and likes to go “Adventure”. He also collects fresh, fresh weapons, and when he passes to Craig a emergency spear
Craig is entitled at the same time, and soon the instant friends enter the sewer system and sail together with his labyrinthian tunnels, hunt mushrooms and gathering for a night beer at night.
And it is then, when Craig is surrounded by the other male friends of Austin, that his oddity, who had only made Austin laughing, is suddenly revealed as too bizarre for ordinary consumption. This occurs during the fight against an impromptu boxing session, carrying head covers and gloves. Austin strikes Craig with a separate face, which is always in the lines of acceptable behavior even after Craig asked him not to do it. But when Craig Sucker-Plumenge Austin before he was ready, it is beyond the line, and Craig only seal his fate when he puts soap in his mouth and acts bizarre lugous excuses, moaning: “I am Sowwy! I am such a bad boy!”
Austin breaks with Craig. And Craig, having been attracted too much “free self -expression”, is devastated and cannot exceed it. Obsessed with Austin’s victory or somehow a sort of avenging, Craig’s mania spreads to the point that all his surprisingly lucky life takes place around him.
But if strict are the “rules” of male friendship, it is established that Austin also maintains a front, preventing his group of male friends from knowing his main vulnerability. In fact, Craig Asatté also takes extreme measures to protect Austin’s secret. But while Austin can “pass” indefinitely as a societal ideal of the “guy” and maintain his male friendships on this basis, Craig can never spend long.
The film ends in an surprisingly disturbing image, which is just a close -up of Craig’s smile, a horrible and abject smile despite everything that happened, because he sees Austin giving him a wink.
At this stage, you are unfortunately taken beyond the narrower subject of male friendship to consider the overwhelming solitude of the whole human race. Even if we are continuously refining technology which guarantees that it will always be easier to stay in touch with each other, the experience of isolation increases. It is perhaps because the perception of human need repels so many people that simulating an atmosphere “play it cool” – while in a state of painful misery – maybe the best way to attract the company.
It makes sense. If you are dealing with your own overwhelming loneliness and your anxiety, why take more someone else? As Groucho Marx said one day: “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”
