Paper Man
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"Richard regarded his solitude as something sacred"
The Mulroney's family first film is a collage of the road leading to a paper life but the paper has written on it too many directions. The movie's real sentiment is hidden underneath its quirky dialogue and peculiar approach on newly found relationships.
Jeff Daniel's character portrayal and Emma Stone's performance (look no further for her breakout movie, this is it) keep the script, all the more so, under control. The part that shines though is Ryan Reynolds' character and his surprisingly good comic timing.
Who doesn't want, at least for a little while, a superhero consciousness or a consciousness that is heroic?
An alter-ego, an imaginary friend, a self within itself. Where does an antagonizing relationship lead eventually? That's his part in the movie as Captain Excellent , a parody of a superhero stuck in the mind of a neurotic writer.
The script doesn't lose itself and won't be discouraged even when riding a little dirty bike on a highway. Right there lie the brilliant moments of Paper Man, where just the image connects to the atmosphere rotating around a single emotion buried within the viewer. It's the over-emotional excessive agony of the writers to describe it that makes it stay buried.
You see, indie film making , when at its best, can be just a single emotion in a frame looking at you wondering when you're going to finally get it. And when you do, it winks, smiles and clouds you with its score and imagery. Unfortunately, this is not the case here, the writers obviously went through the same process as their character, Richard.
Reaching out to the untroubled extroverted with an enthusiastic smile has no other alternative but an introverted disaster.
Watch the movie and find out yourselves, it's self-explanatory and that's the catalyst for its own downfall. It actually does not live up to Captain Excellent's standards.
Richard: "It's fantastic! The fact of it, is fantastic that you made something out of nothing."
