Review of Punch-Drunk Love (2002) by Olivierpiel — 28 Jun 2020

Clearly one of this early century's masterpiece of American art. Because it is a symphonic celebration of America's heart: generous but idiotic, impulsive and violent but honest, narrow-minded and egocentric but loving heart. A heart lost in a modern, chaotic, senseless world that it doesn't understand, rationally, and can only be conquered through intuition (the quixotic mileage quest made only sense if there is a purpose suchas following your loved one). Another reviewer courageously called it Nietzschean and he was right.

The saturation of light in many scenes where Sandler emerges and vanishes like from or into another world, the "beautiful alienation" created by the phone calls (à la Paris-Texas), etc... are visual leitmotivs just as certain phrases in a musical piece. Let's not forget the introduction of the movie, with its fantastic shot of chaos and randomness that announce a magical event, the arrival of love. And I forget a lot of other beautiful stuff.

Brilliant.