A Funny Week With Mr. Hoffman Thriller, an immoral blood-stirring thriller, is about to eat someone. But not in the beginning? Such thoughts come to mind. Gradually every minute you let go, and as a result we see a touching picture, a romantic story, permeated with subtle humor.
A young lady (Miss Smith) deceives the groom and with fear goes to the apartment to the already elderly director of the company (Hoffman) in which she works. She should spend a week alone with him. Hoffman keeps talking to himself, very unpleasant, sometimes offensive things, as if he wants to intimidate an already pale girl even more.
As one foreign reviewer wrote, “He rationalizes the actions of his loneliness and insecurity.” A rapist and maniac who will never touch her, running at night for laxatives at the request of the victim, carefully sticking patches on her legs, helping her to call the groom. And Ms. Smith gradually notices that the pathetic man is more of a child than a monster.
We remember Peter Sellers, even if we don't know him, from the funny comedies Pink Panther. It is always pleasant to see comedians in roles that are not at all comical (which do not spoil the impression of him). The images he created are still loved. Inspector Clouseau in France, Indus in the Party in India, in general, residents of those countries that the Americans are practically trying to ridicule. We, after all, like even this seemingly unpleasant type - Mr. Hoffman.
This picture is something between the fairy tale “Beauty and the Beast” and the novel “The Collictor”. The film adaptation of the untranslated “Should I eat you now?” is probably literal, because the only author of the script is the author of the book. Yes, it is most likely a comedy, in the sense in which comedy was presented in the time of Dante, when something sad in the beginning ended, in modern language, "happy endom."