3/19/2023 0 Comments The quiet man cast![]() ![]() ![]() When he relents, that's when the two begin a tentative relationship that begins to calm the deadly monster lurking within him. She begs him to finish what the shooter started. His neighbors finally acknowledge him when one of them asks when did he move in, Bob replies, "I've lived here five years." He soon begins to visit Vanessa in the hospital, whose spine was severed by a bullet and is now a quadriplegic. (She gets her comeuppance in one particular scene that is all of hilarious, disgusting, and disturbing.) He gets a promotion, a brand-new office next to the big boss, Mr. The people he despised are now his best friends, including the office bully and the office slut, who would have never given the time of day before. Her smile could "light up a room," we're told throughout the film.īob is then branded a hero. Afterward, he rushes to the side of the office beauty, Vanessa Parks (Elisha Cuthbert), who was seriously wounded in the attack and is the only person Bob ever really liked. When Bob asks why he's not going to shoot him, the man replies, "Because you're the only person in this office who's more pathetic than I am." Bob takes this personally and guns down the assailant. ![]() In the middle of the carnage, Bob and the shooter manage to strike up a casual conversation. Well, just when Bob finally gets the courage to do the deed, he is beaten to the punch by a fellow enraged office worker. Bob's day-to-day existence consists of him feeding his fish (who he talks to and they occasionally give him bad advice, fueling his murderous rage), going to work, rarely being acknowledged by his neighbors, being picked on by his co-workers, and working up the courage to go on his deadly shooting spree. Bob lives alone and works as a drone in one of those big technology firms where it's never made clear what it is that they actually do, or what everyone's jobs are. Cappello's brilliantly acted, smartly written satire about that unlikely hero whose "heroic" act may not have been so heroic, and in fact masked an inner rage that may actually make him the villain.Ī seriously understated Christian Slater stars as Bob Maconel, a frustrated office worker whose first words in the picture have him counting the amount of bullets in his gun and who his intended targets are going to be. It seems that every once and a while, an occasionally brilliant film will catch my attention in the late hours of the night (or the early hours of the morning, as it was in my case) I found that film in "He Was a Quiet Man," writer-director Frank A. Reviewed by dee.reid 9 / 10 This was a brilliant film Can Bob help her through despair and find himself and joy in life? Or, as everyone says, is this impossible for a man like him? Bob emerges a hero and the one colleague he likes, a woman with a bright smile, is severely wounded. As he's screwing his courage to the sticking place, he drops a bullet while on the floor looking for it, another colleague does exactly what Bob has been planning. ![]() At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. ![]()
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