“Demolition” – but not destroyed [MOVIE REVIEW]
Jake Gyllenhaal as “Davis” in Demolition. Photo by Anne Marie Fox. © 2016 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved “Demolition,” written by Bryan Sipe and directed by Jean Marc Vallée, is saved from destruction by an outstanding cast led by an incomparable Jake Gyllenhaal. Davis, a successful investment banker working for his father-in-law Phil, has his world turned upside down in the split second it took for a car accident to disappear his wife Julia. One moment teasingly nagging him about a leak in the refrigerator and the next, nothingness. Alone in the hospital corridor, blood on his shoes and collar, Davis distractedly puts coins in a vending machine for a package of M&M Peanuts and is overtaken by frustration and perplexity when the package becomes jammed in the machine. Numb to his tragedy, he instead focuses on the loss of his candy. It is his obsession with the mechanically defective vending machine that leads him to write a letter of complaint, one letter cascading into an avalanche of correspondence to an anonymous recipient, letters recounting the annoyances of his now wifeless life. Davis returns to work almost immediately, much to the shock and…
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