Surely, getting his face smashed and his nose broken would get his attention. That wasn’t enough to make him change his ways. Later, he catches his girlfriend partying with another in the club bathroom and is humiliated and gets tossed out in the street. Loan sharks chased him, caught him, threatened him, stripped him and locked him in the trunk of his car in the school parking lot. He was trying to be a family man attending his son’s school play. It’s exhausting.Įarly on, I thought Ratner had hit his rock bottom. His party-girl mistress gets caught partying with another. He is constantly robbing Peter to barely pay Paul.
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Most of the movie is a mess, just like Ratner’s life.
The angry loan sharks, the profanity, the constant sound of the buzzer every time people came in and out of the cramped jewelry store – it was all getting on my nerves. He’s a wheeler dealer, a hustler always looking for the next big score. Ratner owns a jewelry business with pop music stars and sports legends as clients. Howard Ratner, played by Adam Sandler in what is certain to be an award-winning performance, is the broken man at the center of this noisy, profanity-laden movie. With our main character, a gambling addict, the solution is not as simple. The Ethiopian miner’s leg can be set and bandaged, and healing will take place. Our main character’s injuries are just as severe, but his brokenness is on the inside. The man in Ethiopia has a serious leg injury – visible to all. We go from the mines of Ethiopia to the jewelry district of New York City with lots of angry people, lots of screaming and confusion, and a very damaged man in the center of it all. The setting changes quickly, but the dynamic is exactly the same. Now I see the introduction as a perfect summary to Uncut Gems. Lots of screaming and confusion with nobody focusing on what needed attention – the injured man. Uncut Gems opens with a chaotic Ethiopian mining scene where a worker has been badly injured.
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