Punch-Drunk Love

To find someone you love so much you’d redeem your whole pudding stash for them… I’ve never seen a film so tender and earnest yet aloof and jarring as this one. PTA does a masterclass in contrasts. Sonically the cacophonous score mirrors barry’s chaotic everyday life. Yet when tender moments occur, the score dramatically shifts to an overly romantic soap-opera esque musical. The contrast of light and dark, chaos and serene, love and hate, softness and brutality and thematically - blue and red, creates a genuinely moving piece of work. If sensory overload was a movie that captures the raw, devastatingly emotional side of real life. There are two moments where this film broke me emotionally, yet other moments where I’m jumping out of my chair in joy.