Butter falcon11/22/2023 ![]() Shia LeBoeuf decides to come across as a thoughtful, gruffly kind, even introspective character, not the self-absorbed maniac of his reputation. It’s the unpredictable elements that make this film worthwhile. Discovered by Eleanor (Dakota Johnson), who is tasked with returning Zak to the retirement home, the trio eventually form an unlikely grouping determined to help Zak live out his dream by, wait for it, embarking on a homemade raft down a slow-moving river. Eventually, they become friends and Tyler decides to help Zac achieve his life’s ambition – to train at the wrestling school of Salt Water Redneck, whose video Zac has watched incessantly. With a little help from retiree Bruce Dern, Zac makes his escape, eventually meeting up with Tyler (Shia LeBoeuf), who is on the run for his own reasons. Zac (Zack Gottsagen) is a Down syndrome man being warehoused by the state in a retirement home. Happily, for the most part, they pull it off. And they hooked it all on a marginal story that owes much to Huckleberry Finn and moves at the laborious pace of a homemade raft on a slow-moving river. They cast Dakota Johnson in a role that didn’t involve handcuffs. They took on the baggage of Shia LeBoeuf. They cast a man with Down syndrome to portray a man with Down syndrome. In their feature film debut, directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz didn’t make it easy on themselves. There is also this bizarrely genius formula that it repetitively uses and it is that it goes to enormous extent to just push the characters for another step. He doesn't seek attention and that's why you would be attentive, intrigued towards him. And it is because the other contestants aren't good enough and he is a real people pleaser. ![]() Still The Peanut Butter Falcon is the only one you would root for, bet on. There is nothing extraordinary, nothing special and nothing new to put a red ribbon on what it has to say. The performance on the other hand also walks by smoothly just as the film does. And that climax is if not satisfying, is definitely mature and mind clearing to me. But there is this one other final update on this stereotypical script. It would then barely be disappointing for the viewers. And it has every right to get, give, wherever, whatever it wants. As in, it follows the perfect script formula where every element, every scene, every piece of information leads to something. There is also the completeness in the script. This freestyle beach life or sea life is something that I don't get ever attracted to but then with such substantial if not stylish film is served, you cannot keep yourself away from the dish. The only job that they then have is to make sure we like this flavoured ice cream and also not are lactose intolerant. The writer and director Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz is frankly out on about with an ice cream truck gifting us free multi flavoured ice cream. If not quite the bayou mysticism of Beasts of the Southern Wild, the film crafts its own distinctive world – a wetland badlands with its own deeply etched moral codes and systems of enforcing them.It is exactly like the title suggests, it is sweet and every one is going to like it. There’s a moment when he’s gazing at Eleanor from under the frayed brim of a baseball cap with such a naked, vulnerable expression that it’s as if he’s falling in love and getting his heart broken all at once.Įqually impressive is the sense of place that Nilson and Schwartz evoke. Stinging, raw and sinking into a deep, swampy sadness, LaBeouf is tremendous. The one person who sees his potential is Tyler (Shia LaBeouf), a fisherman adrift who finds himself at war with the white-trash crab fishers who muscled in on his patch after his brother died. On his trail is Eleanor (Dakota Johnson), a well-meaning volunteer who, like everyone else, tends to underestimate Zak. Zak busts out of a care home in order to chase his ambition of attending the wrestling school of his hero, the Salt Water Redneck.
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