Mid-1990s. The time of criminal disputes and the absence of domestic cinema. Cinemas were closed one by one, everywhere trading tents, where you will notice the latest Hollywood blockbusters and domestic "film products" are not very high quality.
The time of video salons is gone, replaced by VCRs and videotape recorders for one or two films. Most often, the quality of the recording left much to be desired, but if the cassette with a licensed recording, and this is one film, then there is not much to complain about. Translation and quality correspond to the price, and it is not small at that time.
Study time at school, respectively, the easiest way to watch an American novelty is to visit school friends or at home, taking a cassette from someone for a while. In fact, I had this film with Jim Carrey in the title role.
I’ve seen two of his films before, 1985’s Once Bite and 1994’s The Mask, which became a hit. After the Mask, there were Dumb and Dumber and Ace Ventura, but they missed my attention.
Cableman is the most unusual Jim Carrey movie for me. From the beginning to the end, you do not understand what you see on the screen. Whether it is a comedy, or a melodrama, or a kind of team hodgepodge, where laughter and sadness, surprise and understanding merged together, the film is as if replete with contrasts and this holds the interest of the viewer. Here you do not know what will happen in the next 5-10 minutes, as it is difficult to catch the director’s message to the audience. In the end, everyone must understand what he sees and thus evaluate the film.
The film was shot at a time when there was a breakthrough in the development of television and satellite technology, so relevant for its time. Although you can draw parallels with the Soviet picture “Genius” in 1991 with Alexander Abdulov in the title role.
The cast besides Jim Carrey is quite interesting. Matthew Broderick and Leslie Mann as a duo lovers look convincing, Jack Black and Owen Wilson perfectly performed their small roles, the friend of the main character and the guy on the date of the main character, respectively. It's unusual to see Eric Roberts as himself. Other actors don't fake either. Here the merit of Ben Stiller as a director, who is also involved in a small episode.
The film collected a decent box office, remembered as film critics and viewers.
10 out of 10
A very unusual role of Jim Carrey in the late 90s. Just shot "Ace Ventura" and "The Mask" as Kerry changed genre and set the heat in "Cableman." The curvature of the actor is all right, but this time the tape shows a painful effect, the theme of the plot changes slightly, and we have not a funny comedy, but a dangerous thriller, which gives an amazing story with its specifics.
Accidental acquaintance of the main character Matthew Broderick with cableman Jim Carrey. It's Jim Carrey in the late '90s, so you're going to get the desired effect from the movie. It seems like nothing. Acquaintance, communication, but director Ben Stiller (by the way, also occasionally appeared in the tape) begins to escalate the situation. Here's Jim Carrey, and here's Jim Carrey, but something's not right. We see Broderick’s life, get acquainted with his work, personal life, but the cableman flashes more and more often, exerting influence (both passive and active) on what is happening around.
In some places, fueling humor in the style of Kerry’s role, but the growing sense of anxiety is reflected in the character. The picture more and more turns into an irritation of Matthew, thereby throwing the cableman to create unknown cases. In the image of Kerry there is a drama, which we touch a little, a couple of flashbacks give a little understanding of the problem, but in the present time the film draws a dangerous attraction.
At first, inadvertently there are meetings of the main characters until you forget that this is an obvious obsessive pressure, but etiquette and a sense of tact still stop. We see Kerry taking over the attention and time of his television client, constantly alerting the viewer. The film gives a sense of persecution that is frightening and incapacitating. Gradually, comedy is replaced by a thriller, and the completion of the performance allows you to fully assess the degree of influence of the cableman on everyone around Broderick.
When the veil of mystery is opened, when inquiries are made, the picture completely changes the tone. Ben Stiller was able to smoothly transition from entertainment and the inconvenientness of refusing to thriller, to tension and fear. It's always interesting in movies, it tickles your nerves and it boosts your adrenaline, but here, that suspense is Jim fucking Carrey. It's just a double serving.
You're predicting the end of the movie, but you don't know when the cable guy will stop. But the climax scene leaves an open ending, which makes you realize that the story of the cableman is not over. It’s an amazing experience for an actor, it’s a complete way out of comedy, albeit with Carrey’s inherent twists, faces and charisma.
Overall impression: The drama of one man who was looking for friendship. What is it like to be lonely since childhood? Have no friends, instead of a friend, talk to tv? That's the lone Chip Douglas (Jimm Carrey) - the guy with the oddities, and part-time cable. One day, Chip comes to Stephen Kovac (Matthew Broderick) to set up the TV, and connect the channels illegally. But is it that simple? Chip wants to be his best friend, and he wants to see Steven. Stephen himself understands that the guy is clearly not friendly with his head, and such a friendship is fraught with consequences! He decides to get rid of a new friend. As it turned out, Stephen does not yet know how many problems he has made himself.
Despite the small timekeeping of the picture, the story fully reveals all the plot moves. What is it? At that time, in 1996, almost all films ± were with such timekeeping. We’re used to having a movie at least 2 hours. And sometimes writers for such a long time can not fit all the necessary details. It also reveals the character of the villain, i.e. the hero Jim Carrey. Gradually, the viewer observes the colorful role of the actor, increasingly sinking into the abyss of the madness of a lonely man. Such stages are clearly visible in increasing. Yeah, we see Chip Douglas in the beginning, and of course we know you can expect anything from this guy. Which ultimately comes out. But you still look, you wonder, you laugh! Comedy filigree played thriller, easy, but at the same time there is a pepper suspense in this tape. How beautiful is Kerry? Still go to him such roles, crazy, but funny.
By the way, "Cableman" is a godsend for a moviegoer. In the film, there are so many references to different films, and how they are steeply woven into the story that when watching the episodes you catch yourself thinking that somewhere it has already happened. And only then comes to mind the name of the film! The script is very cool, even after a while (I watched the film a long time ago), the story is fascinating. And it is not only the tragedy of man, but the problem of education itself. The root of evil lies in Chip’s childhood.
Many predictions from the film came true after, and what to say, tv moved the Internet, which is generally the same. I was pleased at the moment where the nameless hero, after breaking the TV, takes a book, a smile of bliss froze on his face - this says a lot.
Jim Carrey made this film incomparable and memorable, but it is also worth remembering that the director of the film Ben Stiller is a great comedian, actor, producer, screenwriter. He had this idea in his head to do a tragicomedy about how a damn box takes people's time. Children grow up, and the babysitter is always there, but everyone needs a real friend. And even in our time, it is important to remove gadgets from children, remember this. Who knows what will happen next.
Stiller, as it turned out, is not so simple as a Stiller actor, fueled by lightweight comedies and template gags in them. “Cableman”, in its essence, does not have trivial humor, although here Kerry squabbles and curves in its usual at the time of 96-year-old form (by the way, the actor “pulled” from the filming of the second part of “Ace Ventura”). The bias here goes more into the acutely social channel of the very "television" America of the end of the XX century, the "discoveries" of which, at one time, brought up a whole generation of such hopeless characters as Chip Douglas.
What about Chip? Very eccentric cable, who knows his business and just creepy like he wants to make friends with Matthew Broderick. The latter, in fact, does not mind. Until I realized the price of that trust, of course. A hundred channels (including porn) for $ 50, a catalog of simulators with a free trial period and TV series with an erotic bias will soon be complemented by a truly crazy and lost person in the world. And it’s not so funny when there are obvious parallels with Fincher’s Fight Club. Not so serious, of course, but it can not be called funny.
I learned everything about life from the program "Facts of life"
I learned everything about life from Facts of Life.
Last NG, I filled the gap in the filmography of Jim Carrey, who I absolutely adored, by watching ' Grinch' this time I got to ' Cableman' which should have been seen at least 10 years ago. The story of a man who has become a sacrificial product of American mass media culture led by cable television, prayed in the 80s-90s by every American schoolboy and every potty prototype of Homer Simpson, accustomed to sipping beer on the couch in front of a stupefying box with antenna antennae. Not that he himself was a metaphorical human-substance, carrying us an uncomplicated morality about the moral, spiritual, and finally physiological destruction of the modern personality, succumbed to the temptation of statically stupefying fiber optic charms, the conductors of the American dream.
Click (to flip, to thumb) - the main occupation of the viewer, smearing in the next circle all his five thousand cable TV channels in the hypnotic intention to find ' Exactly what he needs so much here and now' To switch is the main primacy of the Cable Chip, which, according to a completely arbitrary algorithm for an outside observer, is able to switch programs of its own personality, and not only broadcast programs. It does not matter who he is in accordance with the idea of the author of this picture, deprived of maternal attention and left & #39; to die & #39; in front of a glossy screen, a victim or a moralizing clown who, at the culmination of the whole story, is already directly appealing to us about the possibility of saving those who have not yet been hooked. One thing is clear - he is a fiction, a simulacrum, a copy in an infinite degree, he can absolutely everything and can nothing, nothing is brought to any reasonable result by them, all his manifestations of himself as a person are reduced to little relevant and ridiculously quoted clichés from all the sub-order of films that have educated and literally weaved (read took) his nature. It is 'Frankenstein' no core. The difference between good and evil. The visual product is postmodern, as always impeccably presented to us by Kerry. 1996. Is cinema relevant now? I think so. With the advent of the Internet, the phenomenon acquired some other features: ' TV viewer' became not heated-no-initiative, but rather lying-dispossessed. The heap of static and poorly moderated forms and the actual lack of a filter of incoming information were replaced by a smart interactive, which never ceases to conquer ever greater heights and far depths of our psyche. Genesis. Souls. The analogue was forever replaced by a number.
In short: the film genre is a funny drama with notes of a thriller. I can’t call this movie a comedy. There was no joke. Just some funny moments. Essentially normal scenes without a hint of a joke, but Jim made them fun with his signature prank. In general, the film is just a good picture, the work of artisans, not craftsmen. The light spectacle, which lasts only an hour and a half, does not contain too deep meanings and allegory. But what is made both soul and contain in itself, all that is to be a good film.
The main theme of the picture is loneliness, which is generated by the inability of a person to meet people. I love it. I don't know about you, but I've had situations where I've been thinking, '. How does this process work? As someone I really want to be friends with, how do I start a relationship with them? How to be interesting?' Usually this process happens on your own, you meet someone by chance and somehow begin to communicate, and then bang, and you are already friends. But not with the main character. He doesn’t know how to be friends. Or they can’t find people who are interested. He craves attention, craves interest in himself from other people and does not know how to win him. Although the question is: ' And is it necessary to win interest?' - deeper than it seems. Do you always have to be yourself? What if you feel like nobody really cares about you? But back to the movie. Chip Douglas (Jim Carrey’s character) is not himself. He can't just be himself. He wants to be always fun for people, because people need a fun friend to entertain them, right? So Jim goes overboard and becomes too eccentric. It’s like he always feels pressure on himself. Pressure from other people for whom it should always be funny and entertaining. Life for him is a show, a movie. It's like he's playing the role of someone else. He is in the shell of another person to make it easier for him to live, because Chip has enough psychological problems, and this is a great way to fence off them. In its finale, the film concludes and gives advice to all those experiencing similar problems: Be real. After all, in the end Chip first revealed to the viewer and his friend. He comes out of the image that helped him not to be alone with the present. Now he confronts him and admits he's in trouble. Then comes the death that spares Chip. He stays alive and reborn. And after the rebirth and exit from the role of the Cableman. And in the final scene, Chip feels... For real. And his friends, for whom he was willing to do anything but showed no interest in him, are now ready to be friends with the real Chip. There are few words in this scene. More chemistry and emotion. Heroes say everything with their eyes and sincere smiles. The message is as old as the world: know the measure. Don't be too boring, but don't try to be too cheerful and unserious. Just be real. Don't be afraid to cry and laugh. Because this is the only way you can be comfortable and happy. That's the message. He is well shown and he, to hide, influenced me and allowed me to look at myself a little differently.
There is another theme in the film that the film flirts with. That's what flirts, I can't say it opens up enough. A couple of very bold and direct visual metaphors and a little storyline. The bottom line is simple: watch less stupefying TV with its exclusively entertaining content. There is something much more important in the world: your friends and family, full-fledged works of art, etc. A lot of people say Chip is a big metaphor for television, but I don’t think there’s enough evidence for it.
In the end, we have a light film that flashes quickly before our eyes, but has enough depth, enough good acting work and enough charm and soul to remain in the memory. If it weren’t for Jim Carrey, few people would remember him. But, you agree, one good actor is not enough to make the tape truly memorable?
7 out of 10
Jim Carrey is not afraid to take bold steps in his career, to shock people with unexpected images that are clearly not expected of him. There have been many ups and downs in his career. Many of the films are on the best lists. There was a film in his career that many thought could end his career.
The film became a threat not only to the career of Jim Carrey, but also to the career of Ben.
The artist who directed the film.
Steven moves into a new apartment, but his TV doesn't work. He's calling the master. It turns out to be Chip Douglas, a cable guy, a weird guy. Chip becomes Stephen’s friend, but this friendship becomes very strange over time, and Steve wants to end the relationship with Chip, it turns out to be not so easy.
"Jim Carrey" (Chip Douglas) the image turned out to be sinister, gloomy, but in this character you can see the usual eyes of Kerry's grimness, a stupid loud whisper. His character from childhood was deprived of the love of his mother, had no friends, so he spent all his free time watching TV shows.
Matthew Broderick has a completely ordinary character, goes to work, spends time with friends and builds relationships. But everything changes when Chip breaks into his life. You can see how on the one hand he is happy with the changes, because the character does not have the courage to be a little braver, and on the other, he understands that the guy is crazy.
I’m not sure why this movie got so many negative reviews. Is it because Jim Carrey’s character was misunderstood by audiences and critics? At the time, viewers were used to seeing him in comic roles and movies as "Ace Ventura" or "Dumb and Dumber." But is it because of unjustified expectations that the film deserves such reviews?
The film is drowned in dark colors, deep shadows and gloomy surroundings, and in one of the scenes Jim he pursues Broderick with eerie glowing eyes, looks and truthfully terrifying.
No one will understand the jokes in this movie. I watched this movie on a videotape, whether it’s old or me.
The idea of the film is not immediately clear. Carrey's character is more likely to be perceived now, because there are enough people in our lives who watch TV shows all day, sit on the Internet. They live in a closed world that has nothing to do with reality. These are the kind of people the film made fun of. Namely, how they would look from the outside, how they could behave in life and how they would find friends. This is as befits such a genre exaggerated situation.
Watching this film as a child, I did not understand the meaning, it is still designed for an adult audience, those who also did not understand the film give it a chance.
9 out of 10
Quite an unusual, humorous film that is unlikely to leave anyone indifferent. This Jim Carrey probably I have never seen, this is probably the first film where a brilliant comedian has something to hate, but he played just amazing.
This is the first film of Ben Stiller, which he directed and in which he did not play the main role and the directing turned out to be simply amazing, and the plot around the hero Ben was quite funny, it is a pity that not so much of his characters were given time, but with what interest the audience watched him.
There are a lot of funny and touching moments in the film, for me it is not just a comedy, there is a mixture of genres, a bit of a thriller, a little drama still was, but of course, most of all there was comedy.
The Cableman himself I liked not only because of the brilliant game of Jim Carrey, I really liked his story, he very much lacks attention - it can be seen by his actions, he resembles Difficult Child in behavior, but in adulthood, that he only did not create during the film and did it in his own unique style, how much fun he did. I can't describe it in words.
Knock knock! Cableman! Knock knock! Cableman! Knock knock! It's the Cable Man! Knock knock! It's a cable guy! . .
I was very attracted to the beginning of the film, or I haven’t watched a comedy in a very long time or it was ridiculously funny, I’m inclined to the second option, because the first appearance of the Cableman was unrealistically funny and the way he did his job is also funny, the improvisation on the theme of the Silence of the Lambs and the basketball game was all on a posh level. I will not say that the film is the theater of one actor, but Jim’s play is simply brilliant, how much strength he still put into his character.
I love movies where there is a lot of talk about cinema, there are many references to other films in Ben Stiller’s film and they talk about cinema oh how much.
Hey, hey, hey!! She's absolutely healthy, I checked her out a week ago.
Jim Carrey, To say that Jim's play is brilliant - it means nothing to say, there were a lot of funny moments and there were serious moments, in this film you can see how brilliant in his role Mr. Kerry, the feeling that he is this Cableman so sincerely he plays, and how he mocked the hero of Owen Wilson - it was just something, in this film his hero and attracts and repels, which means that he did a great job, just a chic reincarnation and amazing acting.
Matthew Broderick, how much he had to endure in this film, and it is understandable that towards the end his patience ran out. He portrayed his hero perfectly, he had a lot of comic situations.
Eric Roberts was amusing, of course, he only had one episode, but it looked very killer.
Great movie for all time. The most brilliant Jim Carrey, who by that time had already starred in such significant films as Ace Ventura, Mask, Dumb and Dumb and some others, and played just brilliant Chip. A brilliant performance from a brilliant comedian.
9 out of 10
P.S. If you meet your girlfriend, do not say what she wants to hear, but on the contrary, seek to know her essence, and in no case talk to her about love. The less we love them, the more they love us.
And even though this picture is not on Jim Carrey's Best shelf, I will definitely put it on the Favorites shelf. In fact, the movie is crazy... strange. What happens on the screen, along with deepening and progressing into the plot, deepens into an indescribable psychedelic (the peak of which is probably a karaoke party of Mr. Cable). This is a masterpiece of hysteria, I would say extreme in the best sense of the word. There are two parts: the first is adoration, the second is destruction. The role of a friend and enemy for the hero Jim Carrey, who is at the peak of facial apotheosis, is performed with full dedication. From stealing equipment in an apartment to stealing a woman and a career out of life, this man will do anything if he is not recognized and betrayed once. I thought for a long time about his role, is he playing a madman, or has television made him so? – and I came to the conclusion that this behavior is pure truth, it is a scheme of communication, reduced to recklessness and absurdity, but not consciously so. It has the soil of deep loneliness. Chip Douglas’ childhood moments are very important in the film, because it was there that the desire to have a real, “non-television” friend grew, with whom you can fall into a club, pretend to fight, dance, etc. Chip's degree of loneliness is proportional to his frenzied returns in what he calls friendship. All or nothing, maximalism from lack of warmth and proper education - these vices turned the genius cableman into a fanatic both from the "light" side and from the "dark".
Of course, it is on this gloomy maximalism that the whole film is built. he breathes it, he makes you feel the despair and fanaticism of an unrecognized cable worker with whom it is “unprestigious” to be friends. Perhaps the other actors are a little lost because of such a frenzied return Kerry. Stephen seems too calm for a man who has lost everything, Robin is evenly infantile, the others are just quality furniture. But, again, perhaps all this is a consequence of the black evil genius of the protagonist.
Throughout the film, I didn’t know what to expect. Absolute unpredictability, and every minute is an ever-increasing surprise.
Very specific, very strange and very deep thing at maximum contrasts.
8 out of 10
Stiller-director - something worse than Stiller-actor and movies with Stiller. But, nevertheless, the tape "Cableman" is very well known and revered by fans Jim Carrey, which means that here you will no longer look at who the director is, but just take and look!
Based on my painful, sometimes, memory, I kind of heard somewhere and read that this is not just a comedy, but something more complicated, dramatic and even more tragic. At the same time, I remember perfectly well that even a few years ago the film was played very often on TV at different airtimes, which means that there was a demand.
In fact, the assumptions about the first point turned out to be correct, but why the film became popular was a big mystery to me.
Probably, with the help of cruel (in the spirit of Fincher in “Gone”) tricks, dangerous drama, gloomy light and rainy weather, to the accompaniment of heavy music Stiller wanted to impress the viewer as much as possible: say, guys, think! You turn into the most natural vegetables in front of the TV screen! Take the book, read it! Meet your friends! Fall in love! Talk to a friend! . And to be honest, this effect really worked. Sometimes, even fear covered the situation in which he found himself "Stephen", when no one believes you, everything is against you, you are trapped, and the good old psycho is already on a low start before strangling your life. But this horror was artificially created not for the sake of horror per se, but for the sake of a more powerful influence on our minds, and this coup of the Stiller is very good in itself.
Apart from the latent motivation of you and me, the film is not trivial. It's an unusual comedy. It is a place of nightmare, and light humor, and madness in one person. This is one of the few films where the talent of Kerry plays on the side of evil, which is even more surprising, because it was one of the beginnings of his acting career.
The film is in a good way stuffed with star guys. In addition to the star, but at that time not too stellar Jim, the film was attended by Matthew Broderick. Of course, he did not forget about his beloved Stiller and put himself in episodes, just like his bosom friend Owen Wilson. Lesley Mann - actress not from the stars, but for us, sometimes familiar. Episodic Eric Roberts Well, barely noticeable the star of "Breaking Bad" and "Better Call Saul", while still "black maned" Bob Odenkirk.
The picture leaves behind mixed feelings. On the one hand, it awakens from the zombification of the box (and now the film is more relevant than ever, but due to the zombification of the Internet) and is very original. On the other hand, it is not very pleasant and not for every mood. Jim Carrey - he is matchless even in a nightmare and with a severed cable in his hands, but the film does not save to the end. It's creepy. It's gloomy. It's scary.
And comedy and a call for life change in one movie by Jim Carrey!
The film is instructive and humorous. Jim Carrey, of course, at the height, albeit on the 2nd plan, which helps the viewer at least a little rest from Jim. Very good duo Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick, one restless and impulsive, and the other calm and thoughtful respectively.
In this picture, as in "The Truman Show", the subtext implies: "People, stop watching TV!"
Jim plays natural in this movie. He plays a strange man, for whom the main thing is friendship. For such a person, the person to whom he is attached is either the best friend or the worst enemy.
I liked the film, although in some places the creators overdo it with humor, making it a little vulgar. It’s a good movie with some kind of jokes, deep meaning, good image quality and exemplary Jim Carrey. I recommend the film.
8 out of 10
A good comedy that combines black humor and drama. One of Jim's best works, for which he deservedly received a huge fee by those standards.
“And sad and funny” – so one phrase can describe this film.
1. About design.
In the foreground is a rather funny plot: a lonely cableman (Jim Carrey), who was brought up by television, wants to make a friend (Matthew Broderick) and naturally oversteps the line on his ignorance of life.
In the background, the problem of consumer society is already unfolding. "Banal," you say. "Relevant," I'll say.
We are all abusing the fruits of the 21st century. The world is full of easily accessible pleasures: fast food, computer game, social networking and of course... cinema. One click and you are in a new universe. Do not think about your problems, do not strain and build your happiness. Why, when one click and it's a better life, a perfect illusion.
Sounds creepy, doesn't it? But it's true. Involuntarily and think about how often you hide in the light of your TV screen.
Nope! Life can't be compared! It's not a movie! This is reality!
2. About actors.
In my opinion, with such films, the stereotype about comedians, their frivolity and inability to play a serious role begins to break. Unlike detective Ventura, the image of the Cableman is much more complex: he has a dramatic story, his own view of the world and things. Jim perfectly copes with a serious part of this image, but also of course with Comic (yes, you can make the face easier this review of comedy). Maybe the names of this role became the starting point after which Kerry will try himself in dramas.
The rest of the cast does not fall into the mud either. Matthew Broderick and Leslie Mann do a great job.
3. About Characters.
The cableman is an incredibly thoughtful image. He is a sincere, good friend, but also perfectly copes with the task of spoiling the life of Broderick’s hero. It is the children of television who constantly cites the show, sets as an example films, expounds deep morals from the box. Just listen to what the Cableman says about Water World, Star Trek and Golden Eye.
4. Conclusion.
A good comedy under the sauce "worth thinking" seasoned with good performance of Jim and Carrey with the addition of references to the film industry.
I'm not going to retell the story. This movie is worth watching for anyone who is in a bad mood. The Cableman is a beautiful comedy with great comedy actors. I will not say anything about Jim Carrey, because his name in the credits already says a lot. Matthew Broderick and Lesley Mann also did not disappoint and gave a great comedy game. I like Leslie in all the movies he plays. It is very unusual and original.
The whole plot revolves around the hero of Kerry, a simple cable guy who just wants to find a friend, but does it in a very original way. Jim Carrey created a very interesting image. The viewer is amusing and curious to watch the actions of the cableman and the main thing is to think: “Why does he do all this?”
I can’t say that the film will claim originality, but in its genre it is certainly not superfluous. Ben Stiller, another well-known comedy actor who, this time, acted as a director, gave a very high-quality product that will not leave indifferent almost anyone.
8 out of 10
Once upon a time, as a child, I watched this movie. And then he made absolutely no impression on me. Which is understandable. I just didn’t understand the movie then.
"The Cable Man" is a subtle allegory in which the main character - Chip, a cableman, reflects the essence of television. Chip can be funny and funny, can be serious and express philosophical, and, in fact, pseudophilosophical thoughts, sometimes it may even seem to you to some extent crazy and abnormal. But in reality, he carries only the poison that brings chaos into your life, which destroys it, beckoning with the imaginary prospect of a real life. Making you believe that he will do anything for you, creating the appearance that you are a “privileged client,” that he can solve all your problems. Although in reality, he can not without an adorer, without a “friend”, because without him he is worth nothing. You can completely surrender to his clutches, or you can try to remove him from life forever. He can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You can only evoke sympathy if the first case is yours.
The less we love a woman, the more she likes us.
- You're right!
- Of course he is. That's what Jerry Springer said on Saturday's show. ("Cableman")
Oh, and a difficult fate for comedians. Once successfully glued a smile on his face, pasted a couple of memorable jokes, remembered, made history - and on you: no one takes you seriously. Moreover, you can not rush into hamlets, you can be more modest, and, without claiming high drama and Oscars, go to star in tragicomedy (and shoot it yourself, tragicomedy, if you have enough inclinations). Tragicomedy is when it is not quite funny, but a little sad and somehow not so rosy, and popcorn is less desirable, and the brain strains. Not every viewer will understand you if you go there.
The spectator, who cut through the chip, realized that the comedian is also a person and is prone not to one twist, but also to reflection, to the thought process, in fact, like all of us sinners, will accept you, God willing, with open arms. And the others? Others will have to decide what they want from you: that you take them to another world for an hour and a half or two, away from their problems, to a world where there is nothing but laughter (about the quality of funny - a separate conversation) or that you talk to them. Have you spoken in every way you have as an actor, director, screenwriter, producer and someone else, the talented Mr. Hollywood?
You're Ben Stiller today. And here's your movie "Cable Man." That's a good movie. Truly warm-up Jim Carrey before dramatic roles. The film is a call to dialogue on the eternal theme of what the consumer society can do to a person. The theme is eternal, grated, rubbed, but. It does not become less relevant from this rubbish.
The comedy is funny, don't worry, comrades. Please listen to what the characters are saying. Especially Chip (aka Ricky, aka Larry, aka Cable Man). You will not understand half, so somewhere later read about the realities of the film. Or at least watch Star Trek, Waterworld there (I love this movie, by the way). Or listen to the songs from the rest. Or better yet, get an old great movie, Sidney Lummet's "The Network." You won't regret it.
Chuck Cunningham, with whom Chip compares himself, is the same character who disappears in the new episode of the series due to the fact that the director no longer needs him. But personally, I do not even dare to say who is more “superfluous” and restless in our insane world, and who to be scarier. The absurd demonic madman Chip, the nightmare of his century? Boring Stephen Kovacs, who can neither love, nor be friends, nor actually live? Robin, eluding the routine of a girlfriend doll?
Maybe we should call out Chuck Cunningham. Stop right there! Turn around, an unusual wrapper of eccentric to the edge in the eyes (thanks Kerry) of comedy and open the usual bitter candy of social drama.
7 out of 10
Imho, for Chip's monologue with helicopters, I wouldn't give an Oscar yet, but I was thinking. And if I did what Peter Weir did, I would call Jim to play Truman.
I just can’t ignore Jim Carrey’s work, so when I found out about the existence of this film, I immediately rushed to watch it. I wish you all the same, if you appreciate this charming comedian at all.
In addition to Jim Carrey, such comedy giants as Jack Black, Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson put their hand on this tape, although some of them do not even pull on secondary characters, since they starred in only a couple of episodes.
In the center of the story is the most ordinary guy Stephen, who is very unlucky with a cableman. It turns out that the ordinary challenge of the master can turn into a threat to his personal life and his own reason.
In short, do not waste time and appreciate this creation yourself, now there are not often such colorful villains as "cable guy".
8 out of 10
Unfortunately, most people have tragic fates. Everyone has had at least one big drama in their life and everyone understands how hard it is to live in this world. But everything is not so hopeless, because there are friends who always help to endure sorrows and sorrows. So in the film "Cableman", the main character Chip Douglas was just looking for a faithful friend and comrade, although it may seem that he is not all right with his head.
For Ben Stiller, this is the second directorial experience, and I can say, a very successful experience. First, pleases a decent cast - Jim Carrey, Matthew Broderick, Jack Black, Owen Wilson and it is very bribes. Secondly, the tempting plot also does its job - a strange guy Chip Douglas, working as a cableman, can not lag behind Stephen, as he really wants to make friends with him. If the guy doesn’t reciprocate, you can expect anything from Chip. Of course, one would immediately think that Chip is an exceptionally negative character. In fact, he is not an executioner, but a victim. His mother paid no attention to him as a child, and instead of parental caresses, Chip received only another portion of programs on television. So, instead of a fun comedy, we got a real heartbreaking drama.
It is very interesting to watch what is happening on the screen, events do not bother, and you can laugh for hours over Chip's tricks. The cableman was played by Jim Carrey and I want to say - he played great! This always lispering hero, with incredible facial expressions and a terrifying look, makes you not break away from the screen for a minute. Matthew Broderick plays Stephen, who I found a little dull and too right. I understand a complete stranger broke into his life, but Chip just wanted to make friends with him.
I really liked the movie and I’m a bit surprised why the audience wasn’t thrilled. Perhaps Jim Carrey was expected to be a good clown, not a psychopath with manic tendencies. But it is with this role that Kerry proves that he is a versatile actor who can perform tasks of any complexity, but naturally in his unique manner of performance.
Conclusion: This wonderful comedy can be seen both in company and alone. Don’t think it’s a simple movie, it’s actually a simple, but true truth: remember your friends and watch less TV. Good to see you all!
“Soon every home will merge TV, phone and computer!”
While this quote is gradually put into practice through iPads, iPhones and other mudons, I would like to tell you a little about the film in which it was played. This core mixture of comedy and thriller was shot back in 1996 by a dude named Ben Stiller, who is happy to kick Hollywood, then beat his hand feeding, but does it competently (see “Soldiers of Failure”, and if you are too smart conceit – continue to see your arthouses and others). There's a rating on IMDb at 5.90. What do you mean? It's over.
Few people except Stiller get to shoot killer comedies with the same audacity, which is full of barbs about everything in the world and physiological and toilet humor, which is wildly funny because it is properly served. Of such personalities, I would like to mention only Jay Roach, Steve Odekerk and Tom Shedjak. You can cram into the list and take Ev with the Italian name Farelli, for the gift that after the brilliant "Me, Me and Irene again" they did not remove anything worthwhile. The rest care about the youth and diligently revere it with the most insignificant pseudo-comedy sketches about the loss of virginity, jokes in college and the like. One American Pie, let it be. Two American Pies, so be it. Two hundred and fifty "American Pies" - how much can you?
“Cableman” is one of the mainstays of a really funny movie, which does not try to squeeze out the viewer “bugashenny” – it just does it, without the effort and effort on which modern “comediographers” are proud. And not just laughter - wild, sorry, rusty. Oh yes, the tape manages to tell an interesting story about the imposition of friendship. Not without morality, of course, but it is not imposed here and does not flow into pathos.
Everything in this movie is brilliant. Even Matthew Broderick — they say about him that he is not an actor, but his average mumbles are excellent, just need a skilled director and the right material. About Jim Carrey is silent – his Cableman / Chip Douglas / Ricky Ricardo played simply brilliant. If it wasn’t a comedy, Jim could have been sued for the Oscars. His lisp, his directness, his imposition of friendship, everything is brilliant. Leslie Mann plays Broderick's character girlfriend quite normally. Jack Black is good (he is always good), but there were no special barbs in the script for him, so he looks a little sluggish here.
Genius moments here - the car, the trailer - and so on to the horizon. Knightly tournament, "Somebody to love" performed by Kerry, Ben Stiller in a cameo of his brother who killed his brother (also Stiller), the announcement of the film about this showdown between the brothers (in the main roles - Eric Roberts!), Owen Wilson, beaten in the toilet and a cloud of parodies on American television.
That's it. It is very nice that we love this film in spite of something so alien to us as American television (to be honest, not very alien, but still). I hope that someday (in two centuries) we will find someone who skillfully arranges Russian television with all its NTV “blacks”, “Houses 2”, “Malakhov +” and the like – for there is no longer any effort to look at the curves of the lyceums from the “Great Difference”. Of course, you should not forget about friendship either. About a real, strong, unobtrusive male friendship. A strong friendship will not break, will not be unstuck by rains and storms.
10 out of 10
The movie is a comedy, but the closer you get to the end, the more it seems like a drama. That's how Ben Stiller managed to make a comedy under which the drama lies. I think Stiller is better as a director than as an actor. I’m not saying he’s a bad actor, he just did a great job directing.
Chip Douglas, the cableman with the oddities (you could say fool). But he's like that because his parents were replaced by a TV. That is, television brought him up and relieved him of loneliness. Not crazy? But it's actually almost like that. This is a big problem for humanity. There’s a whole generation out there who get everything they know from the box. People dress, eat and listen to what they say on TV. I think there are more computers now. Chip wants a friend. But who would be friends with a fool? He doesn't know how to behave in society because of TV. And as I understand it, he will continue to go looking for friends and not find them. Isn't it tragic...
And finally, I don't understand why Homer in The Simpsons said, "Stupid script cableman, you almost ruined Jim Carrey's career" and tore up the script. After all, the Cableman paid for himself twice and MTV received the award. And my assessment is firm: