Justin Timberlake - yesterday's hero of marsh dreams, curly blonde from Boyz-Band, who grew up in a big musician and actor (smaller scale, but nevertheless), it turned 40,000, for many, a symbolic life line and a sign anniversary, he celebrates a new role. In the film "Palmer" Fischer Stevens, published on the Apple TV + video service, the artist plays a former athlete, a former prisoner and the future hero of a small provincial city.
Eddie Palmer (Justin Timberlake) comes home to Grandma (Jun Skuib) after 12 years spent behind bars. For what exactly, it will be turned out in the course of the action, but for now the hero is trying to return to ordinary life. In the town, everyone remembers his star of American football, but judged as a criminal - even the cleaner to school with difficulty. The only one who takes the Palmer unconditionally - but even a granny, who replaced him once parents, no, no, and the grandson will be suspected of something illegal - this is a guy Sam (Ryder Allen), the son of a neighbor-prostitutes Shelley (Juno Temple), which Loves to play dolls, watch cartoons about the princesses and stick on the ride backpack. And Palmer meets the boy the same, fiercely defending Togo from the attacks of classmates and their narrow-minded parents - their former classmates. One day, Sam's mother disappears without a trace, the grandmother Palmer dies, and it turns out that these two in addition to each other there is no one.
Despite the introductory - to take at least an American conservative single-storey outback as a place of action, a history of the Hero of Timberlake and the boy Sam, whom Bullyat for the hairpins in his hair, - "Palmer" looks as not as possible. The general melodramatic mood permeates even the most sharp moments and smoothes the corners, so the picture never gets to high tragic notes. And in this sense it looks a little fairy tale. The main characters with stretch can be called outcasts, and the path to joint happiness they pass, in fact, with minimal losses.
From Sam, to the statement that the boys do not play in the dolls, proudly declaring that he is "a boy who plays in the dolls," insults and the stumps literally bounce. Incredible inner strength The child of the future, whose uncomfortable confidence in his own right and naive, but therefore a clear and firm position about its own inalienable right to self-identification did not lay or family unrelated phobias, nor different kind of old-fashioned plant phobias around him. Lucky with neighbors - first, Vivian showed the wonders of tolerance, and then Palmer turned out to be, even if not immediately, but an amazingly understanding ex-Zec. Not quite realistic, but she and a fairy tale, in the final of which the heroes of all the masters merge in the all-friendly ecstasy of adoption.
Of course, the history of Sam mirror the line of Palmer, forced to re-prove its right to exist in his native community. Early orided, in one stupid randomness lost career, on the other - 12 years of life, Eddie wonderful did not in the way (the fairy tale). On the one hand, he is walking the proof of the effective work of the penitentiary system, although with the crime perfect it is not all unambiguously, and the resentmentable scoundrel and the gangster and then it was impossible to be called. On the other hand, the guy, whose desire to restore justice is bordered by aggression and whose long-standing resentments are poured into flashes of rage. They, however, simultaneously make it extremely tolerant, thereby elevated over the crowd of cowardly childhood friends who missed the lessons of life like sand through their fingers.
By the number of emotions expressed by the Hero of Timberlake in the "Palmeral" compete with the memorandum of Characters Evgeny Tsyganov, but behind this indifference, as well as the external irregularity of his overseas colleagues, there is some inner energy. In the case of Timberlake, this film by authors the opportunity does not play the gap of aorta becomes an additional stroke to the portrait of the hero and, perhaps, allows the actor to disguise the lack of craftsmanship and dramatic talent.
Sam and Palmer teach each other to resist provincial toxicity. The main weapon here, of course, love. The boy clings to at first the intake coldness and indifference of Eddie as for the straw and instantly sees a figure in him who never existed in his life of his father. Palmer first reluctantly obeyed the circumstances, then, from the best motives, trying to explain to the child something about the generally accepted gender norms, then mutilate his offenders, and everything in order to just become a dad - that is, to love unconditionally, not paying attention to anyone And nothing. There is no deep philosophical conclusions, the film does not offer, so in the hero of Justin Timberlaeka there is nothing extraordinary - just he is a man, at least in the afternoon, you will not ourselves, and this is our common trouble. Good man. Behind the beard and glance of the conviction of the criminal (tries how can) not hide the gentle soul of the pop star - no, no, and tears come true, and the hand stretches to the ukulele.
Palmer is available on the Apple TV + C platform on January 29.