... This is a movie about a guy who repeatedly takes it on the chin – someone who is tired – someone who is condemned to a mediocrity and “just existing.” And it goes at two speeds: melancholy and just real, real sad. It’s no coincidence that the best scene in this film (and what will likely be the best scene of 2013) is opposite F. Murray Abraham, forever associated with the patron saint of mediocrity, Antonio Salieri. (We also hear a snippet of Mozart’s Requiem at the beginning of the film, just to lay the groundwork.) Abraham plays a kingmaker, who sits stonefaced as Davis plays his heart out, wet and cold and too poor to afford a winter coat. “I don’t see any money in this,” Abraham says. He doesn’t say Davis isn’t good. Of course, change is coming in the music scene – a change that will fit Davis’ tune. If he can just hold out a little longer.
Posted on: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 19:18:47 +0000
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