Star of Netflix comedy ‘Breaking Bad’ searches for all the right words
Author: Robert Scruch Published
Imagine a world where greeting card companies have disproportionate power over their employees and use their resources to manipulate the masses, one sentimental love letter at a time. This is the world that Bob Odenkirk’s Ray Wentworth occupies in the 2017 film girlfriends dayAn absurd and ambitious romantic crime comedy. Just treat it like a legitimate crime drama filled with deadpan dialogue, girlfriends day As sweet as a box of chocolates on Valentine’s Day and as sticky as a jilted ex-lover trying to get theirs back when they realize they left their Elliott Smith records at your house number and they find out you’ve blocked their number, they’ll slash your tires.
Although I wanted to like this movie because I’ve been a fan of Odenkirk’s work ever since Bob and David’s Mr. ShowI can’t say this is breaking Bad and Better call Saul A star’s finest hour. The storyboarding is crazy, but the concept itself would have been better if it had a running time of 30 minutes, rather than being stretched out into a 70-minute feature.
writer’s dilemma
girlfriends day Ray Wentworth (Bob Odenkirk) is a recently divorced, alcoholic greeting card writer who works for AAAAA Greetings. Known for penning sweet words that are concise yet profound, Ray is a household name and his contributions to the greeting card industry are legendary. However, Cormac McCarthy once said, “If there’s one occupational hazard in writing, it’s alcoholism,” and Ray tended to get lost in the sauce more than he was sober, leading to severe writer’s block and a lot of The coma left him unable to write normally.
Ray meets a former colleague named Taft (Larry Fessenden), now homeless, who left the company to pursue a career as a novelist. Ray sees his future through Taft and knows he doesn’t have much time to get his life back on track.
Well designed settings
over the next three months girlfriends day Over time, Ray fell into alcoholic depression. That is until Ray’s former boss Stuyvesant (Alex Kapovsky) finds him. Stuyvesant explained that California is hosting a card-writing contest for a new corporate holiday called Girlfriends Day.
One golden rule of competition is current Greeting card employees were not allowed to participate, which meant Ray was the perfect person for the job.
When Ray sneaks into his old AAAAA office to retrieve some supplies, he finds Taff free and severely injured, bleeding from a stab wound. The next day, Ray wakes up on the couch after being knocked down by an unseen assailant, with hazy memories of what happened the night before.
After meeting a homicide detective named Miller (Kevin O’Grady), Ray meets a charming woman named Jill (Amber Tamblyn) and learns that she possesses A greeting card shop. Sparks quickly fly between the two soon-to-be lovers, and Ray’s romantic prospects begin to look up.
Ray, newly smitten with the muse-like figure, is faced with a whole new set of problems to deal with when he learns that Miller works for both AAAAA Greetings and Paper Hearts—both companies run by Gandy brother Robert. Two rival greeting card companies owned by Robert. When Miller warns that if he doesn’t give in to the Gundy brothers’ wishes, he’ll be framed for Taft’s murder, Ray finds himself embroiled in a massive conspiracy to ensure Girlfriend’s Day goes off without a hitch.
It should be a comedy skit
girlfriends day There is one serious problem that undermines its storytelling: it shouldn’t be a movie. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve lauded the virtues of tight runtimes and fast pace in the past, but only if the format makes sense for the story being told. In my opinion, girlfriends day will be a powerful short drama living in Mr. Show Universe, not unlike the infamously gritty and surreal sketch “Love and Sausage” produced in 1994 children in the hall.
girlfriends day However, it’s not without charm. Narrated by David Lynch and starring Steven Michael Quezada (breaking Bad) as Ray’s grumpy landlord Muñoz, it’s a well-acted comedy with great chemistry between the main cast, but left me wanting less, which in this case was enough express its point of view.
You can stream girlfriend day If drama, deception, and deadpan delivery sound like what you’re looking for in life, watch Netflix.
