Three salesmen working for a firm that makes industrial lubricants are waiting in the company's "hospitality suite" at a manufacturers' convention for a "big kahuna" named Dick Fuller to show up, in hopes they can persuade him to place an order that could salvage the company's flagging sales.
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First, this is NOT about three salesmen. Rather, it is Spacey as a salesman, Divito as a Marketing Executive and Facinelli as a young engineer sent along to his first convention as a technical support guy. Pay no attention to any review that can't even correctly identify the three main characters.This is not a comedy. It is a drama. It is a less cynical Death of a Salesman; a more reflective Glenngary Glen Ross. Expect complicated conversations that you may want to rewind and parse again. Expect to have your assumptions challenged and your heart touched.Watch this if you want an intelligent examination of work, belief and morals.
If we paused for a moment, who would we see? The big man on campus, or a man questioning life? We are all actors in a play, and we know our roles well. But do we want more? Do we wonder if we are living the life that we are supposed to be living? Faith is the guiding light to keep us strong, but dreams leave us dreaming, lost to the confines of this real world. Do we know who we are, and is this all that we would become? If we could let go, accept, would we then be free, free to be who we were meant to be, but then what would wait for us at the end of the road? Life is a funny thing, one that keeps us on our toes, but the one lesson that it will always teach us is never to take things for granted. Life is always changing, and time is pushing us along. But as time marches on, where we were, the mistakes we've made are the threads intertwining, weaving into characterization, and becoming the fabric of our definition, and we are more than we thought, exceeding limitations, and discovering new heights, greater dreams, and a breath of destiny.
This felt like. This looked like. This tasted like. And this was enjoyed like a Coen Brothers film. Would also be a great stage production. Need I say more.Wait I have to say more or they won't post this review???Gee golly I liked this film a lot. Seriously, if your brain works at all, and if you happen to be a Coen Bro. fan, you will absolutely enjoy this movie. An excellent, well written script. Excellent acting - though I have to admit as much as I like Kevin Spacey, he is always Kevin Spacy in his parts. Hopefully this is now long enough to post. Hopefully you will see this film. Enjoy!
Set in a single hotel room, Danny Devito, Christian Bale, and Kevin Spacey, discuss aging, faith, and what it means to be a salesman. All actors at the top of their game, Christian Bale as the young conservative Christian newlywed on his first assign meant, Kevin Spacey as the middle aged jocular fast talker(similar to American Beauty), and Danny Devito as the suicidal old goat, ready to throw in the towel. Religion and Business clash, and boil over in the films final moments, and best of many dialogs.Like all single setting films, this resembles a play, however with oneiric fantasies of the characters as they'd like to see themselves, keep the movie afloat.I can't really think of anything I didn't like about this movie