It was like a tourist video from some Thai resort. It was annoying and frustrating to look at. And it dragged the movie experience down a notch for me. If you like movies with real life drama in it, then "Cyrus" is definitely worth checking out, because it is so beautifully acted.
You just have to get past the constant fumbling with the camera zoom button. And it was my first acquaintance with Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass movies, and this one was actually a rather good movie. So hats off to you gentlemen for bringing us a movie of this caliber. Quinoa 3 July You might recall the old diddy about Oedipus, who got blinded by having sexual relations with his mother. In Cyrus, the character played by Jonah Hill does not do this, and is not blinded, except perhaps by his affections as the one man in his mother's life - until John comes in as her new boyfriend.
This is not something uncommon in relationships, where a new man comes into a woman's life and the younger son living at home becomes defensive and threatened.
There's also a sense of the bizarre in the mother's attachment with the son, perhaps having spent so many years with him as well there's a scene where Cyrus just casually walks in to the bathroom as Molly takes a shower, and John, sitting on the bed befuddled, hear's some singing. This is awkward comedy for those looking for something to fill the gap while The Office is on hiatus. And while it's not quite as amazing in its characterizations as that show, or even in last year's mumblecore classic Humpday, it does allow for characters who could be easily made into sitcom figures to breathe and be real people in situations that could be out of real life, maybe, possibly.
The premise is simple: John is a lonely guy who, not-so oddly enough, still has an attachment to his ex-wife who is getting remarried. At a party he meets Molly, a happy woman who likes having a good time and is genuinely pleasant to be around. They have a short fling, and one say John meets Cyrus, her son.
This is when things start to get a little messy: John doesn't dislike Cyrus, but he gets a weird vibe from him, and a mind-game starts when Cyrus steals John's shoes. What's clever in the film is how both men, John and Cyrus, cling to their mature woman figures in their lives: Cyrus with his mother, and John with his ex-wife, which is inappropriate as it sounds but makes sense given how friendly and understanding Keener's character can be.
When the comedy arises- and sometimes it's gut-bustingly good, with strange one-liners and lies from Cyrus that ring amazing from Jonah Hill's delivery- it's tense but not too over the top. Gestures and looks and oddball things like Cyrus appearing in the middle of the night to ask to talk with John in just a shirt and holding a knife, make it a little crazy, though ultimately when the story sorts itself out it's how we probably would expect it to. This isn't a bad thing, just what's expected, and, for the most part, true to such a dramedy situation.
I liked the characters, I liked the performances seeing Reilly and Hill in a room together makes for some of the most nutty masculine arm-wrestling seen in years , and the story goes into some good places that make it mature and credible.
What is lacking is a sense of firm direction and cinematography. Of course, the Duplasses, being from the "mumblecore" movement with total improv in the camera and the acting and writing, move over their method to their first semi-mainstream effort semi as in the Scott brothers produced it. While the acting and writing carry over well enough, the camera-work was bugging me throughout the film. Sometimes it could calm down, but every so often in a scene the ZOOM option in caps would be used to such an extent that it didn't mean anything.
On the Office such a stylistic choice works because of how the show is shot with the documentary crew always present meaning there wouldn't "be" a show without the crew there. In Cyrus, the camera is just jittery, like a nervous tic going in for the zoom in or zoom out based on a whim or a moment of emotion, even if it's not called for.
As much as I'd love to say the style works for the material, it gets annoying fast. Which is a shame since the content is wonderful, a black comedy that plays on love and desires and trying to find stability in a personal side of life.
Also, any time Jonah Hill plays synthesizer music culminating in his album "Cyrus: The Dance of the Isotopes 2 and 3" , it's made of 'Win'. A good look into a change in family dynamics Gordon 8 October This film is about a divorced and depressed man falling in love with a woman.
Things get complicated when the woman's year-old son comes into the picture. It follows two lonely people who finally found something special in each other, and yet their relationship is hampered by complex family dynamics.
The interactions between the three leading characters are realistic and not over the top, which further enhances its appeal and engagement factor. John, a divorced man not happy with his new life, cannot get over the fact his wife Jamie is no longer around.
The couple have remained friends, so it is not surprising when Jaimie invites John to a party to get him out of his funk. That party starts as a complete disaster for John, who cannot get close to anyone.
To drown his pain, he begins drinking a lethal combination. Full with liquor, he must find a place to urinate, so John decides to do it discreetly on the patio, but to his surprise, he is found in the act by Molly, who has also thought about doing the same thing. One thing lead to another, John falls hard for Molly. She is secretive about their meetings. Molly always comes to be with John, but one day he follows her, discovering where she lives.
When he tries to surprise her, he gets a surprise of his own in the form of Cyrus, Molly's son! It is clear Molly has not discussed with Cyrus her new love interest. Cyrus is a highly intelligent young man. It appears as though Cyrus likes the new guy in her mother's life, but when John goes to look for his shoes, after spending the night, it becomes clear Cyrus is involved in its disappearance, although he denies it. Thus, the relationship between Molly and John begins.
Cyrus does everything in his power to get them apart. One day Cyrus decides he has had it, announcing he is moving away. That is only short lived because he cannot stay away from his mother. Things come to a head at Jamie's wedding when the two men have a fight that ends up with John conceding defeat and moving away. Cyrus, realizing the void in Molly's life, does a complete turnaround, asking his rival to come back to be with his mother.
Mark and Jay Duplass directed this black comedy, which they also wrote. The brothers show an innate sense for presenting uncommon situations in unconventional ways. The trio at the center of the film, are brought together when John meets Molly. They find they have a lot in common, but Cyrus, a young man who should have been on his own for quite some time, is not able to let her mother go.
He has a plan of action to get the interloper away using whatever tricks he knows to accomplish that. Molly, in turn, must decide to be happy with this new man, or keep on catering to the son that has sucked all her energy by just staying home and expecting this situation to continue as long as he can manipulate it. What the creators of the comedy get is good all around performances.
Jonah Hill, seen as Cyrus, is never overtly nasty, but he has his own ways to get what he wants. Rilley does wonders with his John, a man that was rejected and now finds happiness.
Marisa Tomei is perfect as Molly, the mother of a certain age who must choose between two men, each wanting and needing her love. Catherine Keener is also good as Jamie.
This movie was hard for me to classify. With John C. Riley and Jonah Hill starring in it I wanted to automatically deem it a comedy. But after actually watching the movie it wasn't quite that. There was comedy in it, yes, but not nearly what I'd expect from those two.
Romantic dramedy. The story was nice but nothing fantastic. Jonah Hill plays Cyrus, a mama's boy who, at something, still lives at home and requires childlike treatment.
It was an interesting love triangle where Molly tries to juggle her new found romance and her attention starved son. It was a cute movie with some funny moments although I like Riley and Hill in different roles. The marketing for this movie is terribly misleading. It sells it as a zany comedy, which could not be farther from the truth. I'm not criticizing the film -- I thought it was quite good. But people are going to see this expecting something very different from what they get, and they're going to hold it unfairly against the film.
But "Cyrus" is only mainstream in that it's released by a major studio Fox Searchlight and has recognizable actors in it John C. In subject and style, it imports many of the characteristics of traditional mumblecore -- offbeat humor, improvised feel, bare bones production values -- wholesale.
Which again is not a criticism. I've been impressed with some of the mumblecore entries I've seen recently, like the aforementioned "Baghead" and "Humpday. Reilly plays a lonely man looking for love and finding it in Marisa Tomei. Unfortunately, with her he also finds Cyrus, her twenty-something and morbidly dependent son. He tries to be a buddy at first, until it's clear that Cyrus isn't all that he appears and doesn't want a new guy around.
The two men declare war on one another until fists fly, both figuratively and literally. It keeps its audience constantly guessing as to which direction it's going to go. But the film knows exactly when it's about to push credibility too far, and just before it does, it lets us in on more information that makes everything plausible.
One of the things I responded to most is the respect with which the actors and writers treat these characters. These people are not put on display for us to mock, or feel superior to, or pity. These are people who are trying their best to navigate tricky emotional terrain in the best way they know how, and the actors playing them all give lovely performances. A smart, witty and thoughtful film in a season of cinematic junk food. He started the series being married to James Novak , together they have a daughter, Ella.
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