“Greenberg” review
When you go to the movie - what do you expect to see? Surely what is written in the advertisement, review or anything else that you have read before going to the cinema.
And if it happens that the description does not fully reflect the fact that you have to contemplate? What if you chose to view the film, which is generally quite difficult to describe?
"Greenberg" – is one of such movies.
The protagonist of this film, a middle aged man named Roger played by Ben Stiller - coward, skunk and somewhere an idiot, but nonetheless, a man with his own philosophy of life. Do nothing, to spoil the lives of others, and then revel in their failure to adapt to life and the ugly character, to build their own shortcomings in the cult – thus he looks to people surrounding him.
In the face of his brother housekeeper, he finds an understanding person, someone who is willing to accept him as he is, not trying to change him. Of course, such kind of person like Roger Greenberg is not able to understand immediately what the gift has been presented to him by fate, so during the movie we are watching the situation, full of absurdity and impropriety on the part of both characters.
Also worth noting the manner of the film - it is deliberately slow, the action is viscous, stringy ... but, strangely enough, it does not get on your nerves. Director Baumbach seems want to show that Greenberg is an ordinary person, without claiming on something. In his life nothing much has happened and will never happen. He will not save the world and find astounding beauty girl and will not stand with her in an embrace on a board of the giant ship.
Baumbach has shot not only one more movie, but done something completely new, like nothing on earth. This creation should be joined, only because it has no single counterpart. In addition, Ben Stiller has played perfect, maybe if was not the main character, the film would have been another.
And in the end. Soundtrack. It is just beautiful and fully consistent with the spirit and character of the film. Be sure to listen, you will not regret.