At a construction site, he pays a foreman to allow him to join the crew-in his business suit-and knock down walls with a sledgehammer. So he sets about dismantling light fixtures, refrigerators, office computers, toilet stalls and whatnot, leaving a trail of wreckage wherever he goes. Soon, following a metaphorical tip from his father-in-law (Chris Cooper), he decides that in order to put his life back together, he has to start taking things apart. On a train into the city from his sleek Westchester home, Davis confides to a total stranger that he didn't love his wife and feels nothing about her death. Recognizable human behavior is not an animating concern of this movie. phone call from a customer-service rep named Karen Moreno (Naomi Watts). Later, obsessed with the injustice of this, he writes a letter of complaint to the machine's manufacturer, relating the candy rip-off but also going into his wife's death, the emptiness of his life, and other unnecessary data. He attempts to buy some candy from a vending machine, but the machine jams. Next we see Davis in a corridor of the hospital where Julia is dying, looking coldly oblivious. Then there's a crash (staged with startling economy by Dallas Buyers Club director Jean-Marc Vallée). At the beginning, we find Davis and his wife, Julia (Heather Lind), bickering in a car.
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By the time the movie arrives at its unbelievably demented feel-good ending, we're lost in a fog of bafflement.īryan Sipe's script-one of those vaunted Black List screenplays-is boldly inane. The filmmakers might not have intended to portray Davis as a born psycho, but since that's the only side of him we see, it's impossible to empathize with him-he just seems like a creep. Was he ever a normal guy? The movie is virtually all aftermath and because the man, a New York investment banker named Davis Mitchell, is played by Jake Gyllenhaal, it's hard to watch his bizarre and heartless behavior without flashing back to the dead-eyed sociopath he played so indelibly in the 2014 Nightcrawler. One of the several reasons this doesn't work is because we don't get to see what the man was like before the tragedy. It's hard to say for sure, since the movie is so near-completely nuts, but I think the idea was simply to show us how the death of a man's wife unhinges his mind and craters his life. I think I know what the makers of Demolition were trying to do.
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