Having or showing a condition resulting from numerous blows to the head, as from prizefighting, and marked by an unsteady gait, slow muscular movements, hesitant speech, mental confusion, etc. Alternative form of punch-drunk.
Alternative spelling of punch drunk. Dizzy or confused due to repeat blows to the head. Behaving in a bewildered , or dazed manner. Origin of punch-drunk. I just cry with laughter in his movies. All of his films are really solid. Wandering outside into the street for no particular reason, Barry witnesses a mysterious, violent car crash, after which a Checker Cab pulls up to the curb, and someone places a small piano actually, a harmonium on the sidewalk.
Moments later, a young woman, Lena Leonard Emily Watson pulls into the parking lot, and talks Barry into holding her keys until the auto repair shop next door opens, and then vanishes into the distance. Barry watches her leave, and then impulsively grabs the harmonium, and drags it into the warehouse. Maybe we watched his previous comedies with somewhat of a Woodcockian mind; judgmental, constricting, and rigid.
Anderson aimed to make a movie for everyone to see in Sandler what he sees: a jovial, silly, nothing-but-good-natured lug in oversized t-shirts and shorts capable of real on-screen emotion. So, Paul gave himself the gear-shifting task of making a minute comedy starring Adam Sandler. He works at a lowly warehouse as a plunger salesman, where he goes from one asinine phone call to the next. Barry is a man swimming against the current heading nowhere, with no clear path or direction, no stability or certainty.
As movies continue moving more toward the block-busting, movies-as-rollercoaster-rides, Anderson remains happily devoted to his particular blend of people-centric cinema. His genius lies in turning character into cinematic marvel, and with Punch-Drunk Love , Anderson created a whole new genre of Adam Sandler movies.
Where Barry generates his laughs is in his frustrated physicality reminiscent of Jacque Tati, and his behavior, and the very fact that he has difficulties with communication. Emily Watson, as Lena, speaks so well with her love-locked eyes. Rarely are emotions, and their transformations, so explicitly shown.
For Anderson, quite literally in Punch-Drunk Love , emotions are special effects. Anderson has also shot several dreamy music videos for Radiohead.
When he first encounters the harmonium, after a truck drops it by the curb in front of his work, Barry stares at it in a two-shot showdown. He then picks it up and runs it inside as if it were seconds away from exploding, dropping his coffee mug as he see-saws and sways his way back to work.
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