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There's also the disquieting sense that the entire project exists so that people can get a nice, long opportunity to hear Gervais sing and think, "Wow-you know, this is a joke, but he's actually not bad. Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian: Walter Salles has brought to Cannes a good-looking but directionless and self-adoring road movie It’s comparable to Salless’ 2004 film The Motorcycle Diaries about the early adventures of Che Guevara and his buddy Alberto Granado but there the travelers were learning to think and care about people.
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In contrast to the original "The Office," everyone else is there mainly to stare in shock at David as he offends people or does something stupid. The film is quite repetitive, essentially a very long sketch, and offers little in the way of character development for supporting players. "Life on the Road" offers no such thrills because David is so far down that he has nowhere to go but up, and there are many moments where the film seems determined to make us flat-out love the guy even though there's nothing lovable about him except his suffering, all of which is self-inflicted.ĭavid embarks on a self-financed tour with a hired-out band of musicians, performing "Ooh La La" and other chestnuts for audiences of half-interested, often aghast patrons, falling down onstage, and somehow wrangling a radio interview that fails to mention his gig that night. The original "The Office" made an art of eating its cake and having it, too, pointedly criticizing David's ignorance and thoughtlessness while deriving a comic thrill from seeing how dreadful his remarks could get and how he could push his luck without self-destructing. you see a man that age and you thinking, 'What are you doing?'" The epitome of a you-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it documentary, THE ROAD MOVIE captures a wide range of spectacles through the windshieldincluding a comet crashing down to Earth, an epic forest fire, and no shortage of angry motorists taking road rage to wholly new and unexpected levelsall accompanied by bemused commentary from unseen and. Another coworker explains that Brent is "like a kid. There's inappropriate sexual innuendo galore, and David and a coworker do a "Chinaman" impression at one point Gervais cuts periodically to bystanders marveling that such a pathetic person could exist, much less have a decent job that places him alongside adults who can function in reality without continually offending each other. Introductory glimpses of David in the presence of coworkers confirm that he has softened a tiny bit, more due to suffering a string of defeats than by conscious choice, and fights a mostly losing battle to avoid offending everyone in sight by blurting out every thought he has at the instant that he has it. David has somehow landed a sales job at Lavichem, a chemical company.