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delmonte21 — 12 years ago(August 27, 2013 09:13 AM)

I love this character, the only one in the film not caught up in the undertow of their emotional life.
I think he validates the melodrama around him so well, by being such an idiot, so unengaged with himself, and so we're reminded all the more of the realism of the others' torment, that it's not just acting out, but real.
In some ways I suspect he represents the very heart of the film, in fact.
Just a thought. Any others?

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I liked him.
Too bad he kept on getting ignored.

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He reprises his role as desperate barfly in When A Man Loves A Woman, trying to pick up Meg Ryan.

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The movie is so serious, it needs a bit of comic relief which the barfly supplies.
Attn All Units!

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