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Did it just get hot in here?
Any way, it should be needless to say that I have followed most of Jeff's work and love to embark on new cinematic adventures where he is involoved. So, you can only imagine my excitement (not unlike the feeling of finding a $5 dollar bill in your jacket pocket after not wearing it for a year and really needing the money) when I found the movie that I am going to talk to you about today. It's called "Adam Resurrected", and it's a Drama made in 2008 and stars another star that I am oddly facinated with - Willem Dafoe.
Of course, I only got to know him Willem a couple years ago when I saw "Boondock Saints" for the first time... There's just something about his face/body/posture that makes you want to continue to stare at him for inappropriate amounts of time. Then, you begin to feel uncomfortable for some reason... Like you caught your grandmother looking at porn. Not that that's ever happened to me but can you just imagine how awkward that would be? ... I especially felt this way when I saw him totally naked in a movie that I will be blogging about at a later date...
ANYWHO, back to "Adam Resurrected"...
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Jeff Goldblum's character, Adam Stein, is a Jewish man who makes a living as a clown/magician/musician. He travels around with his family performing for people and surprising them with his ability to juggle, play violin, throw knives, and read people; sharing some of their deepest darkest secrets.
Of course, all of this is happening in Germany pre-WWII and soon the inevitable happens - Adam and his family are shipped to a concentration camp. When they get off the train, Adam's wife and daughter are separated from him and Willem Dafoe's character, Commandant Klein, recognizes Adam, having been the person who's darkest secrets were revealed at the most recent show. The Commandant's fascination with Adam enables him to spare Adam a life of hard labor until death in the gas chambers. However, Adam is treated like a dog. He's made to walk on his hands and knees, he seldom speaks unless given permission, and he must eat out of a dog bowl, perform on cue, and sleep on the floor with the Commandant's German Shepherd - whom Adam befriends and communicates with.
As WWII comes to an end, Adam is granted his freedom. However, the treatment he had received and the trauma of losing his family - not to mention his predisposition to odd behaviors - leaves Adam in a state of being that leads him to life in an asylum for Holocaust survivors and people with debilitating mental disabilities that are quite interesting.
Inside the asylum, Adam becomes a subject of interest and bewilderment for the doctors. He drinks like a fish and has moments of madness but he is able to connect with the other patients in ways that the doctors can not. He even has a (very odd) sexual relationship with one of the nurses. However, when a new and very young patient gets admitted with a similar background, Adam regresses back to some of his darkest times causing some very weird medical problems that he seems to control with his mind...
I really don't want to tell you all everything because I want you to go watch it on your own. That's how it will be for every movie I talk about... But, by the end of the movie, I was very satisfied with the way things ended up. It was yet another movie that Jeff Goldblum and Willem Dafoe were in that I can not help but love! Maybe I am biased because of their presence in the movie but I truly feel like it could have been a bigger movie had it been given more publicity. However, then it may have lost the charm that often exists in the movies you find on your own.
Adam Resurrected – Drama – 2008 – Jeff Goldblum & William Dafoe
My rating: weird, wild, AND wonderful.
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