Demolition – A hatke drama

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper, Judah Lewis

Rated: 6/10

Relationship status: Complicated. That’s what you will say about this “comedy drama” that hit the theatres rather silently. Pivoted over a man losing his wife in accident and then going crazy trying to break down (read demolish) every gadget/structure/relationship/movem-ent/behaviour, the film carts around what you may call weirdo action.

And yet, all this craziness embodied in and displayed interestingly by the dead wife’s husband, grows on you. You kind of wait to see what he does next and he does pretty much any and everything.

That includes writing saga letters of his situation to a vending machine company, picking up the customer care executive for a weird kind of friendship, straightening up his adolescent son with ‘gay’ issues, convincing himself that the loss of his wife means nothing to him and even dreaming about half his heart missing in an X-ray!

Indeed, there’s a lot happening in this differently abled film on how people deal with loss and how they struggle for a long time to come around.

Reconciliation with life’s situations comes with a lot of unexplained lunacy in this film but what it achieves in the process is that it never makes you lose interest. 

Source: Sunday Pioneer, 10 March, 2016