SNAPSHOT
Trainwreck is directed by Judd Apatow from a script he co-wrote with comedian Amy Schumer. The film follows a complete basket case (Schumer) trying to rebuild her life with her new boyfriend (Bill Hader) best friend and parent in tow. The cast also includes Brie Larson, Mike Birbigla, Colin Quinn, Ezra Miller, Tilda Swinton, Vanessa Bayer, John Cena and LeBron James. (synopsis via First Showing)
Who doesn’t want love true love?
The tingling sense in the pit of your stomach that you have met someone special, that this person standing before could the oft-thought mythical The One – it’s easy to believe sometimes that coming across the Yeti or Loch Monster on your daily commute might be more likely that finding the man or woman of your dreams – is something mused upon by poets, pursued by starry-eyes teens and longingly wished for by people who have reached a point where meals for one just don’t cut it anymore.
Well Amy, a journalist at a leading men’s magazine for one, who has taken to heart her dad’s post-divorce mantra that “monogamy isn’t realistic” and spends her days surfing an emotionally-disengaged wave from one guy to another, convinced that therein lies the happiness she seeks.
She casually but sweetly derides her sister’s decision to get married – “Oh I like Tom’s sweater. Does he teaching computing in a church basement? … Do you dress him like that so no one else wants to have sex with him? That’s cool” – and responds to guys wanting to see her again with fairly blunt reassurances that they won’t ever see each other again.
It’s not exactly Bride Beautiful and Amy is perfectly happy with that.
Aaron: “Do you follow sports?”
Amy: “I love them.”
Aaron: “Who’s your favorite team?”
Amy: “The Orlando … Blooms.”
Or is she?
Into the picture rides interviewee Aaron (Bill Hader), a well-adjusted, emotionally well-balanced sports doctor, who just happens to be friends with LeBron James – who it should be said acts up a storm, displaying some seriously funny acting chops, something affirmed by director Judd Apatow to Hollywood Reporter – who, as in the way of rom-com things, totally upsets Amy’s emotional apple cart (the reaction of her work BFF to Aaron acting like a normal person seeking a relationship is priceless).
It may sound like all the well-used tropes we have come to expect from the romantic comedy genre but it looks like Amy Schumer, who wrote the screenplay, has injected some fresh vitality into the concept, not to mention some killer oneliners, which anyone who’s ever seen her show Inside Amy Schumer on Comedy Central will be hilariously familiar with.
And Bill Hader as a romantic leading man?
Just what the doctor (sorry but I had to go there), or Cupid, or both, ordered.
I appreciate that Judd Apatow may be an acquired taste for some but Trainwreck looks to be in the vein of one of his trademark films which, raunchy though they may be, always retain a strong, often sentimental seam of touching humanity throughout.
Not to mention lots and lots of laughs.
Ain’t true love grand? In this case, it just might be.
Trainwreck opens on 17 July 2015 in USA and on 23 July in Australia.
And here’s the red band trailer …