Dummy

I had never heard before of this movie, so I didn't expect a lot from it, but I liked it a lot! Adrien Brody plays Steven, who at first we must admit presents himself as a real loser. Not just because he lives with his parents at almost the age of 30, his sister lives there too, poor soul always put down by her mother. Steven leaves his office job to pursue his dream, to become a ventriloquist.... yeah, a ventriloquist. Really. Don't misanderstand me, I have nothing against ventriloquists, I like the good ones, it's just that it's one of those things where you're either good and funny, or you're creepy. To find a new job he goes to a unemployment counselor, saying he's looking for a job as a ventriloquist. His counselor Lorena (Vera Farmiga) actually finds him one !
Steven has  a friend, Fangora (Milla Jovovich); it's not clear if he has any other friends or just her, but they are friends since forever, apparently, and spend a lot of time together. Fangora guesses that Steven likes Lorena, and her interventions and advices almost ruin every chance he has :lol: but she means good, and I thought it was very nasty and unfair of him when he told her off, saying she always ruins everything ! She's a great one! She always meant good, and if we want to say it all, he didn't have to do anything she suggested, but he did. Not just the paint-on-door thing, but also the music cd. She gave him a cd of classical music to use on his date, not knowing what was actually in it. He knew it was a marches cd, and still he put it on during his date, and I thought: Fangora is not here, you don't have to put the cd on and listen to it entirely!!!!!
Anyway, great Fangora doesn't get angry at what he told her, instead she manages to put things right for him!
Steven's sister Heidi is a wedding planner who finds herself in trouble where she's left without the entertainment act and can't find a band who plays Klezmer music... but she fills the first role by asking her brother to work at the wedding, and the second when Fangora tells her her band can do it! Fangora has no money and no work, so she lies to Heidi to get this job, but she's a wonderful creature and takes it really seriously :-) She starts listening to klezmer music to learn what it is about, she learns yiddish to understand it and pronounce it right. She makes lots of practice with her band, again and again to try get it right! She takes it very seriously!!
Lorena's ex-boyfriend Michael was a bit psycopath, so she goes slowly now, she's a bit scared, and it turns out her psycho is the same as Heidi's psycho :lol:
I loved the end when Fangora is listening to Michael's rant and likes him :lol: they might become a good couple, actually :-D
I liked this movie, it was strange and slow, but also nice :-) I liked the two women mostly :-) Fangora was adorably nuts, and Lorena was pretty and sweet.
Heidi should run out of that house, for her sanity!