Emma Stone : Paper Man (2009)

La différence est grande entre être seul et se sentir seul... entre être aimé et se sentir aimé. C'est une belle leçon de vie que nous offre ici le couple Mulroney à travers leur oeuvre. Porté par une épatante Emma Stone (La La Land) épaulée par Jeff Daniels (Dumb & Dumber), Lisa Kudrow (Friends), et Ryan Reynolds (LIFE), Paper Man nous emporte dans un voyage profondément léger au cœur même de la vie.

C'est dans une ambiance mélancolique mêlant tristesse et joie, au milieu du chaleureux froid hivernal, que les Mulroney nous proposent cette thérapie de presque deux heures, nécessaire à certains, intéressante pour d'autres, qui saura captiver le spectateur sans jamais le laisser décrocher. Accompagnés par Mark McAdam à la direction musicale, le couple et leur caméra nous offrent une immersion sans faute, nous laissant le choix de nous identifier à chacun des deux personnages principaux.

L'oeuvre est maîtrisée de bout en bout, et aura un réel impact à long terme sur le spectateur et sa vision de voir les choses, et je ne peux que la conseiller à n'importe qui ayant l'occasion de la visionner. Un très bon moment en perspective... c'est promis.

"Richard regarded his solitude as something sacred as a well earned badge of honor, a cloak to be worn to ward off life. As his safety. Solitude is who he was. This caused those in his life to view him with a barely veiled contempt. Richard was certain that he was not liked. Which is hard on a man. Maybe it was because he gave nothing that he received nothing in return. In any case, his situation had become intolerable. The closest things he had to friends were either imaginary or extinct. And Richard had reached a point of life where this was no longer enough. And then he met a girl... And she was warm. And she was sad. And she was maybe lonely in a way that reminded him of himself. She'd lost things that a girl should never have lost. And she knew things. And she taught him. And Richard thought: "Maybe this is what friendship feels like. Maybe." It was just a glimpse, they'd barely begun, really. But in those long, few winter days, she'd given him so much. Enough so that Richard could go on. And what had he given her? Just a few words on a page. Not much, perhaps. But for Abby, he hoped it was enough."