If Davis thinks he’s helping this kid discover his voice by taking him into the woods, donning a bulletproof vest and encouraging the child to shoot him - please. Got it.Ī subplot about the friendship between Davis and Karen’s young son, a sensitive rebel coming to terms with his sexuality, feels gratuitous, creepy and condescending. Davis keeps smashing and breaking things - a refrigerator, his computer, his TVs, his very home - because he wants to demolish the walls around his heart and he wants to feel something. The talented director Jean-Marc Vallée (“Dallas Buyers Club”) attempts to shock the senses with jarring, ear-rattling music and artfully executed, indie-style camera moves, but almost nothing feels organic or supportive of the story. (Perhaps it’s an attempt at black comedy when Davis buys a bulldozer on eBay and rams it into his house while the neighbors look on - but shouldn’t somebody call the cops?) He’s rude to his grieving in-laws, he becomes a liability in the office and he literally demolishes the house he shared with Julia.
We don’t know that much about how Davis comported himself prior to Julia’s death, but in scene after scene in “Demolition,” the new widower is a borderline sociopath with zero sense of self-awareness and no social graces. Her name is Karen Moreno (she’s played by Naomi Watts in a thankless role), and she’s so taken with Davis’ letters she calls him in the middle of the night, and then she starts following him around - and eventually they strike up a relationship. This becomes the decidedly unsubtle device for Davis to tell us what he’s going through: In the guise of writing complaint letters, he gives us the back story of how he met Julia and tries to explain why he feels nothing about her dying.Ĭonveniently enough, the customer service rep for the vending machine company lives nearby. When the bag gets snagged by that annoying circular dispensing device and fails to drop, Davis takes pen to paper and writes a long letter of complaint to the vending machine company. Still at the hospital, he meticulously wipes his wife’s blood from his designer shoes, and then he casually pops six quarters into a vending machine to get some Peanut M&M’s.
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Julia is driving, but she doesn’t see it coming, because for approximately the 100th time in motion picture history, an auto accident happens because the driver keeps looking at her front seat companion for lingering gazes instead of FOCUSING ON THE ROAD.ĭavis reacts to his wife’s death with an absence of emotion. SPOILER ALERT, but only if you haven’t seen the trailer or read anything about this film: Davis and Julia are driving together when their car is struck.
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