Review of The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) by Dawdlingpoet — 20 Nov 2021

The movie has quite a comic book and moralistic feel to it, being set in a city in the late 1950s, whereby the characters are quite over the top in an exaggerated way, with the loud mouthed executives/bosses and a scheming woman who isn't what she makes herself out to be.

Its a very American movie, with the start of the movie giving a glimpse of the end and with narration by Bill Cobbs (who also plays the character of Moses), with a thick southern accent. The musical score adds some effect at points too with an enthusiastic orchestra adding crescendos at points and giving it more of a 1950s 'hustle and bustle' feel to it.

It does seem to be a movie with some morals behind it and its interesting to see the way Norville changes as a person after being made president of the company. I guess you could say the movie is all about judging the characters your introduced to and about how that could lead to you changing too.

It does have a 'fantastical' feel to it, with it seeming almost like its set in Gotham city, as a dark, money centric city with its fair share of villainous type characters. The ending has an interesting twist, it is a little 'Its a Wonderful Life'-esque I believe but its not too mushy, I found it quite clever actually, the orchestral score again adding to the atmosphere then.

Tim Robbins does well playing the main character as a seemingly eager, enthusiastic and naive graduate looking to work his way up the career ladder in business and the other characters are equally well acted. All in all, I thought this was a well made movie that could perhaps be seen as a bit over the top perhaps but its obviously meant to be, to get its point across I think and I certainly enjoyed it, so yes I would recommend it.