Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer 2016 [alternative name Norman] by AverageMansReviews

Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer 2016 [alternative name Norman] by AverageMansReviews

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Warning: there are drugs/medical/suicide/references to Israel, Russia, racism and the rainbow community

Where are we now?: Briefly; this is a story about Norman Oppenheimer [Richard Gere:] he is a Jewish individual that is a social networker/fixer and we the viewers spend some years in his life and what goes on in it

Generally speaking: the storyline/script is very much based around our lead role, his hustle to get to a higher standing in life, the framework is very much an outlay of a theatre production with different Acts, but we have time jumps in those acts which greatly disturbed flow of this movie; so when it settles down it is good pacing, but getting picked up and dropped off somewhere else, quickly becomes monotonous, consequently disjointed and boring [I lost interest;] so when things are good; they are good, when they aren't as I have already indicated I lost interest; it became a chore, because you have to repeat the cycle of settling down and doing the same thing, getting picked up, dropped off somewhere else and repeat the cycle this film also goes on for roughly 118 minutes.

Art, visual representation of this project; really does feed into the whole theatre production side of things, from the aspect of; where things moving on from time to time; it is important to always remain keeping this world tidy and well presented from the wardrobe, to the scene designs and etc and we also have some choir singing.

Character developments and performances; the character developments are very much defined into their roles in their stations in life, the performances reflect those stations in life really well for most parts, a special mention needs to go out to Gere as our lead role; he does come across as someone that is really slimy and trying to elevate himself throughout his social climb, but when this film epic with sales is we don't know nothing about him, so by the end of it without giving too much away, without exposition character developments; it becomes very difficult for with the time jumps and so on and so forth and this on top; it is somewhat difficult to settle down with it.

This film receives: 5/10, this film is mixed; so when everything I have said in this content, this mark is the right outcome really. This film also has some awards accredited to its name such as 1 Winner National Board of Review, USA 2017 NBR Award Top Ten Independent Films and 1 Nominee which is Cleveland International Film Festival Best American Independent Feature Film Joseph Cedar