"Click: with remote control for life." Actors, roles and philosophical and psychological meaning of light comedy

Adam Sandler - the actor is very uneven in terms of the quality of the films in which he allows himself to act in films. There are masterpieces, but there are failures. Today we’ll talk and analyze in detail the picture “Click: With the remote control for life”. The actors in it are good, in particular, Adam Sandler and Kate Beckinsale.

The American Dream is our everything

That's probably what Michael Newman thought at the beginning of the film. Michael (Adam Sandler) is an architect. He, like any respectable American, wants to make a successful career in the company in which he serves. He is saddened by several seemingly mutually exclusive things. For example, on the one hand, he does not really like to bend under his bosses, take a lot of work, but he understands that these are the rules of the game. On the other hand, in order to complete all the tasks assigned to him, Michael needs to escape from everyday, as he considers at first, phenomena: talking with his wife (Kate Beckinsale), playing with children, walking with a dog, dinners with parents. The actors of the movie “Click: With the remote control for life” play perfectly the main conflict of the film, which erupts between the wife of Michael, who embodies family values ​​in the picture, and the hero himself. Here he acts on the side of evil, i.e. money and the "American dream." It became, it would seem, irrevocably her slave.

When fate holds out ... the remote

Michael also has a very specific problem. He can not find the remote that is needed at the moment. For example, going to work, he tries to turn on the TV, and instead opens a garage. Someone will think - a trifle, but when everyday troubles occur every day, then over time they slip into one big lump of problems called "uncontrollable life."

Michael cannot allocate his time so that he has enough energy for his family, for work, and, possibly, for himself. It is not surprising that the hero of the movie “Click: With the remote control for life” (the actors who played in the ensemble with Sandler are also quite good) dreams of a device that could answer his almost existential silent cry for help.

And after another quarrel with his beautiful wife Michael “accidentally” gets into the store “For Your Life”, where the seller Morty (Christopher Walken) kindly gives him what he wants - a universal remote control from everything. Michael still does not know how omnipotent this unit is, that he not only controls the TV or the garage door, but also is able to restore order in the life of the protagonist. The trouble is that each “order” understands in its own way. The actors and roles of the movie “Click: With the remote control for life” are well selected. None of the performers are fake. Everyone plays great.

Tragic film in a comedy package

In the interest of the intrigue of the film, we interrupt its plot presentation here. In the future, we will focus on its strengths.

“Click: With a remote control for life” (the actors played wonderful in it) - the film is tragic. At first she begins so unpretentious comedy. The action even occasionally takes part in the famous comedian Rob Schneider. Then the viewer is presented with an existential drama. Simply put, under the influence of the remote control from life, Michael voluntarily or involuntarily cleans up everything important and living, leaving only work. It is clear that the director of the film “Click: With a remote control for life” (the actors played under his strict guidance), Frank Korachi, hardly set himself the task of seriously reflecting on the fate of the world and the fate of the “American dream” in it. Nevertheless, he came out with a very relief image of the western version of the Pushkin old woman with a broken trough.

People are the most important

This film is not once. I want to review it. Therefore, he is a film about the "automatic mode" in which we all live. While we are children, we do not know anything about “success”, nor about companies, nor about the need to build a career. And even, it’s scary to say, a person at this remarkable age does not know anything about corporate ethics and other things.

The child is very poorly informed about the world, both external and internal. He is simple. But the little man is tightly connected with life. He feels the most important inwardly. For example, what you need to love mom, dad, brother or sister, if any. You can’t offend another person in vain. For a child, people are most important because he does not know anything about money. Maybe this is exactly what the whole crew of the film “Click: With a remote control for life” wanted to tell the viewer.

“The worst thing in this world is to pay bills” (S. King)

When a man grows up, sexual passion awakens in him, and with it the need to satisfy it. Sexuality acts as a guide to the adult world: when we look for a partner in life, we need money. Like it or not, some models of social behavior require that the courtship process be paid by the man. There is an option in which a young couple shares the costs equally, but it is not so common. So at that time a person had an idea: to be successful, "you need more gold to build a Ziggurat."

Family is a source of spontaneity and joy of being

It’s a paradox, but when a girl becomes a wife, it’s already possible for a man to relax and begin to build another model of relations with his lover. In her, a woman is no longer an element hungry for something, but a full-fledged partner. In the family you can forget about the modern social race and relax your body and soul, play with children. In short, as V. Butusov sang: "To be, to be, just to be." It would seem that this is not so difficult. But, unfortunately, a person can no longer get out of the "automatic mode" - to separate his family and work, to close his private life from her. Thus, professional implementation submits and dominates the whole being of a person. He is no longer able to break free.

“Be like children”

The film “Click: With a remote control for life” insists that a person does not change his life for money and public recognition. Because, firstly, they cost little, and secondly, after all, the most expensive time is given in return. In addition, a person loses, just like the hero of a film, something important.

Of course, the story is banal and simple, but it can serve as a reminder each time about how important it is not to go into automatic mode.

It remains for us to finally touch on only one topic, namely: "The film" Click: With the remote control for life ", actors and reviews." The movie is good, and it was appreciated by the Russian audience, who gives her 9.5 out of 10. In America, she received only not too prestigious awards and was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Makeup category, but did not win.