Deep immersion in the terrific empty life Adam Sandler , likely shammed actor and king of the blockbuster flick is the star to this complex and tormented dark- romantic- comedy. Yes, you have read good, dark-romantic-comedy, maybe can seems strange and unusual but it's just so. The leading character, Barry Egan(Sandler), a little entrepreneur oppressed by 7 sisters and stressed to his work and afterwards he have serious anger attack, he is menaced by a mysterious blackmailer because for mitigate his solitude he had call a erotic number. One way out, a liberator trip away on the Hawaii with a beautiful girl named Lena Leonard(a nice Emily Watson). During the story you can see all the human frustration, the pressure that own engagement subject we, the external life symbolized with menacing sounds and that you must have only the lucky to find something for exit out and all the negative aspect disappear(but you not understand very well if it's a lucky or something to high that deceive this positive change).All in this movie have a meaning, nothing is give to the case, the harmonium that Barry find the same day when he meets Lena as the way where vent the frustration, the Barry's office where the only way for communication is the homonymous telephone, his dress, his anger attack, his fear for the streets out his office
Who define `Punch-Drunk Love' only a comedy do a big wrong, maybe for do see the movie to the Sandler's fan but the feeling that the movie generated is a deeply anguish and alienation from the `ordinary' world. The director P.T. Anderson is a real wiz with the cine-camera, with the only it use he succeed to create a adrenaline tension worthy to best thriller movie without nothing action in the story. The Barry's life is empty to good things and full to bad things, and this situation stop every of his feeling till to make impotent to a external attack, also caused by his goodness and ingenuousness. Adam Sandler give the best performance of his career till to now, he succeed to transformed his usual character in a tormented and extremely real man with a deeply feeling out the ordinary. Before to see this movie I wasn't a Sandler's fan, but now I'm ready to give at least one possibility to movies as `Happy Gilmore', `BIG DADDY' or `LITTLE NICKY' because his players is very good also if the story is goofy. My rate is 9.