Mr. Wain
Manager Will Sharpe
Year 2021
premiere 9 June 2022
Punctuation ★★
louis wain he saw cats as his relatives, and he developed to attract them—first from naturalism, then by anthropomorphizing them, and finally to surrealism and psychedelia—not only normalized the status of these felines as pets, but also anticipated the current collective. obsess with them. At least that’s what keeps it biographicalSpent the first half both revealing Wain’s extraordinary talents and antisocial tendencies and describing their tragic love story, and the second half reflecting on his increasingly erratic behavior. Meanwhile, the film uses the protagonist’s many eccentricities, sometimes to make us laugh, sometimes to move us, and always to allow actor Benedict Cumberbatch to showcase a vast catalog of tics.
Director Will Sharpe likewise employs an increasing number of visual embellishments that try to convey personality and character. ever-changing view but he treats them so loosely and unintuitively that they soon become boring and never make up for it. vulgar symbolism of them ‘Mr. They do not take abuse because of their over-emotional or, of course, blatant sarcasm. This is a movie that wants to talk not only about death, trauma, and poverty, but also about cute kittens, and accepts a theory about its protagonist that has been widely debated by experts – Wain’s schizophrenicand that condition is the engine of his art to perpetuate broad stereotypes about mental illness.