The Words, which was previously the joint project of Brian Klugman, who was known primarily for television works, and Lee Sternthal, who signed his first feature film, is also on display three months after his home country. The movie, where we watch Bradley Cooper, who is the most sane man in the Hangover trilogy, Phil, who loved him for the wider audience, is centering his “writing agency”, which has started to appear more frequently in the last decade with productions like Adaptation, The Hours and Ruby Sparks.
The film is about Rory’s disappointment in his passionate writing profession, a little coincidentally, with the story and words of another writer under his own signature, and stealing someone else’s work and becoming a brilliant writer. How to be a good writer, is writing a profession that can be acquired through hard work and self-devotion, or is it an inevitable impulse turned into words and sentences? The film asks these questions within the framework of the main story, but without going too far into its psychological depth, on the axis of regret created by an “idea-to-work theft”.
Despite having a wife she has combined her life with her “regular” jobs, she puts everything aside and writes herself to write overtime, Rory is a non-casual man of writing. It is obvious that he took the writing very seriously and dropped his face against his father in the face of financial problems. But let’s see that the novel she worked on by giving herself for 3 years, is considered as a summer that has no place to be published in today’s conditions, even though she received the praise of “this is a work of art”. Neither the author’s name is certain, nor is there a sensational story behind the novel.
Because Rory writes his first book sitting professively. He lives by traveling during the day and writing at night; because he thinks it should be. However, the novels that were written with the feeling of “I did not know how the words came from” were often written by cutting without sleeping or eating. Just like the old man’s typewriter, who made the big bang in the movie but never learned the name.
Sometimes the text written in 2 weeks is more striking than a 3-year ‘labor product’; Since it came from the heart, it appeared 50-60 years later and it does not lose anything of its value. I think the script of the movie can be considered successful, without expressing it directly, but because it makes the audience feel obvious. The story has another narrator, a frame story, apart from Rory and the old man who stole his novel / life; but I prefer to leave his discovery to the audience in order not to spoil the surprise of the fiction.
If we come to acting that keeps this multi-layered scenario that is difficult to put forward; Almost all the difficult emotions such as hope, disappointment, great success, and subsequent regret that cannot be coped are gathered in the lead role Bradley Cooper. Cooper reveals a tidy acting throughout the story, but the point he lost is that he does not give the mess he experienced after meeting the main owner of the book deeper. At this point, there is no doubt that the scenario lacks psychological tension. Rory faces such a situation that neither one-time heavy drunkenness nor intention to remove his name from the book is not enough efforts. The old man is oppressed in front of him; but it remains passive to pass it on to the audience.
From this point of view, the strongest performance of the movie is undoubtedly coming from Jeremy Irons. Irons, who plays the “anonymous writer” who is the main owner of the book The Window Tears, proves that the old man-young writer encounter can be painful and destructive without asking for anything based on material. “I went after my words, not after the woman who inspired me to write those lines,” is probably enough for the message the whole film wants to give. On the other hand, I have to add that I find Zoe Saldana a bit artificial and not seated in the side roles. Towards the film’s slightly longer final, a surprise performance comes from Dennis Quaid; Although her role as an external narrator seems limited, it is obvious that she gives good shoulder to former wolf Jeremy Irons and young Cooper.
In short, I would recommend The Words to every cinephile who has a strong word for work and is more or less involved in writing. Despite his pace going low and his excitement towards the finals a little, he deserves attention with his boring fiction. Why do the words fly, the writing remains, as our Latin ancestors once again proved.
The Words (2012)
Directed by: Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal
Starring: Bradley Cooper, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde, Zoe Saldana, Jeremy Irons, John Hannah, Michael McKean, Lucinda Davis, Kevin Desfosses, Liz Stauber, Brian Klugman
Screenplay by: Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal
Production Design by: Michele Laliberte
Cinematography by: Antonio Calvache
Film Editing by: Leslie Jones
Costume Design by: Simonetta Mariano
Set Decoration by: Frédérique Bolté
Music by: Marcelo Zarvos
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for brief strong language and smoking.
Distributed by: CBS Films
Release Date: September 7, 2012
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