Scabrous look at the time of the Organization Man, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. This was a two-hour diatribe, a shrieking in the face of the audience about the pointlessness of the American Dream. More of a polemical expression of outrage than a filmed drama.
Both players were so good I was able to overlook the grievous flaws in the screenplay...for a time, at least. Their comfortable lives of middle class 1950's mediocrity were painted with such a negative brush I was hoping the entire cast would commit seppuku.
A truth-telling crazy guy went too far over the top for me to accept, even as a dramatic device. He was one of the clumsiest characters I've seen on screen.
Mendes is British who seems to truly hate America and all it purports to stand for. I don't disagree with his political/social views but he might want to use some other type of forum for his screeds. They do not a movie make.
This was more an agonizing train wreck than a feature film. Spare us...
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