{"id":17661,"date":"2021-01-26T09:26:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T14:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hunterword.com\/?p=17661"},"modified":"2022-02-23T22:10:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T03:10:41","slug":"film-review-of-david-a-zach-woods-film-by-greggwmorris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hunterword.com\/index.php\/film-review-of-david-a-zach-woods-film-by-greggwmorris\/","title":{"rendered":"DAVID Film Short Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nDirector: Zach Woods<\/strong><\/em>
\nWriters: Brandon Gardner, Zach Woods<\/strong><\/em>
\nStars: Will Ferrell as the Therapist; William Jackson Harper as David; Fred Hechinger as David<\/strong><\/em>
\nClick this link for full cast and crew<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Director Zach Woods. Copyright Picture \u00a9 by Andre Lascaris Andre-Lascaris<\/p><\/div>\n

“I wanted to make a movie about people who are funny and sad and trying their best, which, in my <\/strong>limited experience, is most people” \u2013 Director Zach Woods, as quoted as saying. Can his comment be considered a koan for a film released in grim, pandemic times with polls and news headlines relentlessly <\/strong>telling us that the country is so polarized that people are ready to fight at the drop, or sight, of <\/strong>a face mask?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Yet, it’s easy for this reviewer to imagine that everyone in an audience wherever DAVID streams will be standing and applauding as this film ends, whether their face masks are on or off (on being preferable). The magic in some scenes will catch audiences by surprise so anticipate deep collective, communal sighs. Talk about herd immunity.<\/p>\n

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Will Farrel. Copyrighted \u00a9\u00a0 Picture by Andre Lascaris<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Plot:<\/strong> Follow the hints.<\/p>\n

Hint:<\/strong> One minute and 56 seconds into DAVE, as a depressed and suicidal young man, African American,
\nwhose name is Dave, played by William Jackson Harper, is unloading on his therapist, played by Will
\nFerrell, about the light he might be imagining at the end of his tunnel, when a big bam! on the
\nwindow of the therapist’s office window shatters their somber moment.<\/p>\n

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William Jackson Harper as Dave. Copyright Picture by \u00a9 Andre Lascaris<\/p><\/div>\n

For this reviewer, the plot then sweeps into comedic-of-the-absurd.<\/i> This film can wipe the smile
\noff audiences’ faces in one shot and immediately return them in the next. In DAVE, his first, Director Zach Woods’ deft filmmaking delivers a story you will want to experience more than once.<\/p>\n

One More Hint:<\/strong> The bam!-on-the-window. That’s Dave, white, played by Fred Hechinge, and he is
\ndressed to kill Andy Nolan, known as the Beast because of the way he dispatches adversaries, but first Dave, white, has to check in with his dad.<\/p>\n