a perspective on paul giamatti


who is paul giamatti? 
a brilliant actor born in 1967. 

why paul giamatti? 
one of my favourite actors and has almost created a certain coeherence from role to role in certain movies that i will be mentioning bellow. these roles that i will present bellow all fit almost in the same person and it is a character that i love and recommend in any of these movies. 





sideways (2004) by alexander payne
sideways is the first movie i saw from paul giamatti and is about two middle aged guys miles (paul giamatti) and jack (thomas haden church) which go on a trip around vineyards looking for a good time between old friends. miles is a frustrated character that is facing a disappointment regarding is whole life while jack is a cocky actor which had 5 minutos of fame years ago and is about to marry, although in this trip he just wants to have fun with some girl before the wedding. 
 the plot is not interesting in my opinion it is all around what i just wrote, but the interesting thing is paul giamatti's character frustration, the desperate writer in crisis with a pessimist point of view in everything. this is what i love in paul giamatti: in my opinion, he is the best actor playing frustrated and grumpy. 

RATING: 3/5


barney's version (2010) by richard j. lewis

the latest movie i saw from paul, is about barney and his lust and love throughout his life. it can seem a superficial cliche story, but it definitly is not. in this movie, paul plays barney, a jew guy whose been a wild young man, who moved on and face reality and become a man, but always following this love calls. this character will do anything for love but it ends on perspective, of how much of it was love, trauma or even selfishness. this is a movie that goes through different types of love a person can feel, but with a honest perspective, which is refreshing but also a paul giamatti feeling into it. but everything is taken lightly, specially with the participation of dustin hoffman, as the father and the jew cop, through this label it allows humour to flow on jew stereotypes turned into jokes but from the jewish perspective. 
i really loved the movie, it was light, captivating and had some roughness and true to what love is, without being dramatic and without being lame, just honest. 

RATING: 4/5


cold souls (2009) by sophie barthes 
well, this one is my favourite from paul giamatti but also one of my favourites. the idea of the movie revolves around the  possibility of taking your soul and put inside a jar and although is not the same it kind of reminds me of the "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind". in the case, paul giamatti plays an actor called paul which tries this service and it turns out that without soul he feels totally empty, without any type of emotion, just blank. considering this, he returns and discovers that he can rent someone else's soul, so he tries for two weeks a russian poet's soul, which helps him improve his acting technique. but not everything works in his advantage, because with this soul he's constantly depressed which leads him to ask for his soul back. but his soul has been transferred to russia. from here it starts a whole sick funny situation with paul giamatti in the middle. it is kind of crazy, but overall it is an amazing movie. 

RATING: 4.5/5

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