There’s a karmic power at work in Uncut Gems, starring Adam Sandler as a shady diamond dealer
’s startling whirligig of a character study. And the movie knows it. Why else would a chaoticfilm about the New York diamond district open in the Welo opal mines of Ethiopia, zeroing in on the distraught face and open wounds of an injured black miner? Not that there isn’t precedent for this sort of thing: see films like, with their flattering liberal awareness and ostensibly political style.
Howard’s own guts, meanwhile, are a repository for the haplessly self-destructive impulses that push him every which way but toward reason or satisfaction.will end the way it began—serving up another flesh-bound tour of Howard’s body that again migrates toward something vast, cosmic, unknown. By then, though, the substance of these connections, to say nothing of their terrifying implications, will be clear. And the immutable havoc wreaked couldn’t feel more grim.
A Sandler/Safdie collaboration should frankly have felt inevitable, but for the fact that Sandler hasn’t frequently leant his celebrity to independent fare. It couldn’t have worked out better, in this case. I’m a longtime fan of Sandler, and of his schtick; I know his grab-bag of gestures and jokes as well as any other living actor’s. And yet I wasn’t prepared for, which pushes his comic persona far toward the malicious insecurities that have long given Sandler his fire.
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