Rating of
4/4
inside llewyn davis
Amy - wrote on 01/19/14
I sorta loved it but boy was it depressing. there's just something really perfectly observed about the way there's this guy, this singer, and you can tell that he is pretty good, and he really cares about his music, and has a lot of artistic integrity. and there are all these other goofballs in the music scene who are having a lot more success than he is, and he is looking at them and being like -- why? why these gimicky morons and not me? am I missing something? are they actually better than me and I am so clueless I can't see it? and how heartbreaking is that.
also just beautiful, understated acting throughout, except for John Goodman, weirdly, whom I normally love in Coen Bros movies, but here felt like he walked onto the wrong set by accident.
oh the other weird thing is that I have seen MANY reviewers complain that the main character was not sufficiently "likable" to build a movie around, but I have no clue what they were talking about. I mean, yeah, he's kind of an asshole, but only in exactly the ways everyone I know is. mostly he's just a little snarky and sarcastic, and uses curse words when he shouldn't, but like... don't we allow that from artistic types? or have I been sorely misled?
