Suffering from mental illness, Jerk, a young guy, suffers from mental illness, who works at a factory and has a crush on an attractive girl, listens to his talked wicked pets that leads him to do horrible crimes, but when his crush asks him for a date, incidents turn upside down.
Casting Ryan Reynolds as a small-town geek who has trouble getting a date may seem as pointless as taking a loving cup to a Leafs game, but the bright-eyed Canadian star makes this dark, dark comedy twinkle with offbeat appeal.
Visually, the film's amazing, blending the everyday with more fantastical elements in a small-town, blue collar version of the fairy tale Iranian landscape in Chicken with Plums.
While it may not necessarily be a film that will be universally embraced by genre fans, The Voices is a triumphant example of independent filmmaking at its very best and is undoubtedly one of the best roles Reynolds' has tackled to date.
Reynolds is fantastic as the deeply confused protagonist, while Arterton and Kendrick do some very subtle work in the margins. Don't read anything more. Just see it.
Joe Bendel
Epoch Times
May 27, 2016
On paper, it all might sound rather sad and grubby, but it is actually a rather elegant little macabre tragedy.
