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...Leigh at the Brattle Theatre...
Mussburger's plan is to let dopey Norville, an all too recent graduate of Muncie College of Business Administration, run the company into the ground so that he and his colleagues can pick up shares in a basically sound company on the cheap. The tough newspaper gal (Jennifer Jason Leigh) who's supposed to expose the fraud and falls for Norville is distinctly Capraesque too. There's even angelic intervention and a touch of time warping, devices Capra employed in It's a Wonderful Life...
Following in the same lines of his other films, "Life is Sweet," "Nuts in May" and "Abigail's Party," Mike Leigh his created a minor masterpiece with his rich-black comedy of the working class in London, "Naked." The beauty of Leigh's newest film is lodged firmly in the brilliantly caustic characters he has created...
...combined with his penchant to answer a questions with another question, makes the pace of the film move very fast. His psycho-babble seems off-putting at first his lucid, outrageously original ideas surface from all of the verbage. This technique, combined with the Johnny's vagabond lifestyle, allows Leigh to put Johnny in unexpected yet realistic situations. For instance, a security guard wants Johnny to quit loitering in front of the empty building he protects. When the guard opens the door, Johnny embarks on a diatribe about how the security guard is goig to ask him to leave. When...
...house, Johnny returns from his many days of wandering, beaten to a pulp. His outward emotions change, almost as visibly as his eye blackens. But by the end, he opts not for love but for wandering. This type of movie could undercut all of the statements of modernity Leigh has spent two hours making. Johnny must continue his solitary, vagabond ways with only his sharp wit and active libibo. Like a modern-day Huck Fin, Johnny sees the skeleton that forms the basis of the human psyche, he also sees the skeletons in everyone's closet. With this knowledge...