![]() His girlfriend/lover/whatever is Angelica. More than that, he’s an advertising executive.It’s established movie shorthand that anyone whose work is connected with television is soulless. He has numerous TVs hooked up to his remote, so that they all go on when he hits the button.He talks to himself, calling himself the “top dog, big dog, bad dog” in order to get into the blinkered frame of mind that makes him who he is.He stops having hot sex when his alarm clock rings.Sadly, this bold tactic remains unemployed. An interesting strategy might have been to substitute an entirely other actor to indicate this, sort of like how there were two Darrins on Bewitched. ![]() Unfortunately, Nelson’s supposed to change by the end of the movie. This, you might well propose, should make Keanu the perfect actor to play him. Nelson, although successful in worldly terms, is a man bereft of a soul, a guy not in touch with his emotional self, a fellow with no inner life. I have a theory that involves a certain ebon, horned demigod, but that’s just a hunch. Question: Why would comparatively big stars like Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron appear in a remake of a thirty year old Sandy Dennis movie? Now that I’ve actually seen the film, my answer is: I have no bleedin’ idea.
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