Have you ever wished
you can up and leave the life you are living and start a new one with a
different name, a different outlook on life, and a different personality? I think
we all have wished that at some point. I definitely wish I could. I would want
to be someone stronger who is not so emotional and attached. I would want to be
like the character Rosa Diaz from Brooklyn
Nine-Nine who is like this total bad ass who could melt your soul with one
look. I would mostly want to just live my live. I feel like I have not lived
that for all of my twenty-six years on earth I have been afraid to let go and
just do things. I have always felt stuck and it is killing me to no end.
Arthur Newman
takes two people from two completely different backgrounds and brings them
together through their want to be someone they are not.
Wallace
Avery (Colin Firth) feels stuck in his life. He is a manager of a Fed Ex with a
girlfriend who kind of likes him but just puts up with him for the most part and
a son who does not even want to speak to him. Wallace buys a new identity and
decides to fake his own death. He tells his girlfriend that he is going on a
camping trip that will end with him on the beach. On the beach Wallace throws a
few beers around, takes off his socks and shoes, and leaves his wallet in one
of his shoes.
Wallace
takes off on the road as his new identity Arthur J. Newman. In one town he
drives through he sees a group of cops have blocked off part of the road. They
are trying to get a young woman (Emily Blunt) out of a car she has stolen.
Arthur does not think anything of it until he sees the girl at the same motel
he is staying at. She is sitting incoherently on a chair beside the pool.
Arthur sees something is not right with her at all and takes her to the
hospital. Trying to get her checked in he finds her ID and finds her name is
Michaela and she snaps back that she wants to be called Mike. Sometime later a
doctor tells Arthur that Mike overdosed on cough syrup with codeine and needed
her stomach pumped.
The
following day Arthur waits for Mike so he can give her a ride. He did not want
her to go along with him but they get to know each other. They find out they
are both trying to run away from their responsibilities and from being who they
originally were.
Colin
Firth and Emily Blunt were great together. Their roles were corky for them or
at least they seemed so to me. Arthur and Mike were darker roles for Firth and
Blunt than I am used to seeing them in. Both Blunt and Firth did a fantastic
job with their characters. They were both so uncomfortable and unhappy with themselves
that they make you feel kind of uncomfortable watching them. I like those kinds
of characters and they only really work if the acting is good.
Arthur Newman was a good movie. I remember wanting to see it
when it was originally released. I had no clue what it was about but I just
wanted to see it because I really like Emily Blunt. She did not disappoint and
neither did Colin Firth. The story did not disappoint either. It was unlike
most movies that are released today. The characters were not very likeable and
the story ended in a not so typical way. I like untypical endings very much. I liked
how this showed that running away and becoming some else is not all it is
cracked up to be, there is no real happily ever after. Arthur Newman is a movie I suggest seeing
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