Per chi non l'avesse visto, The Weather Man è un film di Gore Verbinsky, scritto da Steve Conrad, uscito nelle sale nel 2005. Il protagonista è David Spritz (Nicholas Cage), uomo delle previsioni per un'emittente televisiva of Chicago. While his career is about to take off, his family life is falling apart: he can not resume relations with his wife by which it is separated, unable to have a normal relationship with his children and tries to please in every way his father Robert (Michael Caine impeccable).
Perhaps the cornerstone of the film is in this relationship with her father, a perfect man, a writer who has friends with the president and Pulitzer prizes, one who has done a brilliant career and a great family man at the same time. Necessary introduction to better understand what I'm going to write.
I focused on The Weather Man with some friends and one of them commented "that" - referring to Dave Spritz - "is a loser, he's a jerk." I wondered, who could think that Dave
Spritz is a loser asshole? It 'a character who was sympathetic to me once: you forget to request an idiot of his wife and tells a lie that is quickly discovered and forget to leave with money in his wallet and can not buy coffee for his father but there puts it all to educate his children, and to patch up his marriage to be recruited by the national broadcaster. And 'one who tries. Try to write a novel. Fails, it fails in all but in his work. I loved it .. Dave Spritz It 'a nice "Half" inept. And 'one of us, like many others. Sometimes he wins and sometimes loses, but we always try. E 'unlucky? No, it's normal. Dave Spritz there are billions, Robert Spritzel (Dave changed the name on the advice of his first employer, considered it more "cooling"), unfortunately or fortunately only a few hundred. Dave confesses sadly, at the end, he thought he had the qualities that anyone would notice, they would have felt like an aura of energy. Yet, 40 years is aware of being "just" what it is: a normal person, on average, maybe even more than the average, all right, but sees no genius horizon. Maybe, I think, that the director has wanted to divide the public into two parts, with Dave Spritz who is and who with his father, who makes him feel nothing, or with his wife, who tells him that he is nothing (even the parents are of two categories: those that you make you feel a genius and those that make you feel good for nothing, then there are the middle ground, but those do not interest me much).
So I wonder, who is this calling Dave Spritz "jerk and loser? I watch for one minute the pulpit from which echoes the sermon. And 'maybe a literary genius, mathematical or chemical? No. It is a 'Dave Spritz "whatever? Yes Maybe even a little bit less of Dave Spritz. So? Then there is a substantial difference between this court and Dave: who called him fool and confident, sometimes cocky. Why not? I know him! He's on the Pulitzer Prize, not a laissez-family whatsoever. He feels a Robert Spritzel infallible. Instead, there is a part of the public who believe that anyone has messed least once in their life can not be considered a loser Dave Spritz. From your side then? Hard to choose. The Pulitzer Prize-winning book that dispenses advice and left and right, or the "non-meteorologist, but the man expected to leave the family, the happy girl fuck"? For me, I think many people want to be in the life of Robert Spritzel, but I also believe that eventually, all things considered, it must be admitted to resemble more Dave Spritz.
I never checked if that my friend has never made any mistakes or if too much of his life resembles that of a Nobel Prize. Maybe. Who has not heard that his unsuspecting neighbor really was an eccentric writer who prefers to live in an apartment of two hundred feet in the suburbs instead of living in a downtown loft or a villa in the hills? It happens every day.
For this post I thank my brother for the idea and Gore Verbinsky for the film. Bello, I straconsiglio.
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