Matthew Weiner, a writer and director who, in addition to his other talents, created Mad Men presents Are You Here, a meditative comedy featuring three gifted actors Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis, and Amy Poehler who however tries to sell us a tedious story of loss and love and family and yes, even an alienation. Still, one should realize that this does come from first time filmmakers too. Alright, the movie is long, but I reasonably think there are some important things that this film intends to communicate since this is Weiner’s first feature film. Most of the audiences would probably be cringing most likely about just what that was. This simple reason in this case would because there was no one coherent filmmaker intention for why would their story even pose these questions that were contradictory or ambiguous at some times or even all three at the same times.
The story follows Steve Dallas womanizer and Diana’s Dallas weatherman in this case his very weird best friend Ben Baker who has more recently quarreled with his father’s will. Despite this fact, while helping Ben with Uncle Otto’s will and other issues created by his overbearing sister Terri, Steve actively participates in directly aiding Ben’s transformation from a drugged sheeple to a civilized human being. (As to whether that is a good thing or a bad thing is never totally obvious.) It is quite some now when there exists a strain in this marriage between Steve and Ben who has one Angela married to him who is Ben’s father case widow and who is still in Ben’s willed house at Steve’s request to babysit the disturbed Ben.
One should be honest and admit the following: Are You Here is quite an odd film and it is easy to see why – the plot is very strange – but if you think that is strange, it is around this time in the movie that the story gets really stranger. There appears to be some kind of an understood setting that Stve, Ben and Angela you weird strolling around the bed, toward the periphery of which is wrapped up in a giving or a yanking something at which starts saucing meance.
Nevertheless, such persons always appear to encourage one another to reflect upon themselves, although this is mostly not fulfilled in ways that are practical. This is hardly really true relative to Galifianakis’ character, who suffers from Manic depression and has lapse of control over himself. It is laughably ridiculous, of which most of us are unfortunately left with what appears to be dazed ignorant blank-faced people expressionless about the world. Presumably, this has to be the ‘active’ storytelling which Weiner’s almost-empty narrative does not even try to do, but in that case, and this is also more concerning, all this feels incredibly pointless if it all the same cannot say anything.
Not to mention, while the film holds the middle ground with respect to this theme and still feels a bit off balance, it can still be said that it is not a total write off. If not The most amusing aspect of the movie is that within its first half, which perhaps is not too satisfying. Wilson and Galifianakis translate Williams’s choice to exploit the tendency to creat a very funny pair of galifianakis and wilson, by signifying wilson’s immigrant acted as a stereotypical cute causing fear character steve. Though Galifianakis’s character is largely sad, he is able to tell one or two jokes. Although this was the bear of campy medley Poehler agrees to do less than expected, The Office’s Jenna Fischer is also similarly placed.
This is why, ‘Are You Here’ is a fun and enjoyable film but it also goes through some funny levels. In the broad sense, I would say that it does belong to the dramedy category, even if there is a thick fog where the demarcating lines between the drama and the comedy become magnified because of the heavy presence of any sense of dramedy at all. But when the subject drops to the main concern of how easy It is for this cast of actors wherever they are in the film to pull off random spurts of comedy, well let’s just say, this ‘still’ ends with no surprises to the viewer. Nevertheless, if you are one of the fans of the cast, then it may be worth at least the rental.
The Verdict
Matthew Weiner’s new film other than Mad Men is a First of All that should not be inaccurate to explain about it. At the same time, comic WOW in Are You Here strives to just hang out on top of this very messy story that features just brief episodic chuckles here and there. It is almost two hours long adaptive films become frustrating about 30 minutes into it even though there are still scenes with nice actors like Owen Wilson, Zach Galifianakis and Amy Poehler that salvage the rest of this film.
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