Punch Drunk Love Question

Mad Mike

Just watched "Punch Drunk Love" with the missus. Can't exactly reccommend it. It is weird to the point of being nasty at the beginning but just when you are about to accept that and get into it the film turns saccharine sweet at the end.

A question is bugging me and I even fast forwarded through the DVD to try and figure it out. Anyway my question is:



SPOILER AHEAD FOR ANYONE CONSIDERING SEEING THE MOVIE































How the hell did he fiigure out who the mattress man was and where he lived?

I guess that the fact that I have to ask means I missed the whole point of the movie but I just want to know.

Pigman II

I haven't seen the film since it it was in the cinema so forgive me if my memory isn't 100% but I think the following gave him the info :

(1) The phone sex chick told Adam Sandler that the charges he ran up with her would appear on his credit card bill as 'The Mattress Man Shop' (or whatever the shop was called)

(2) Later on when he gets jumped on by the young punks on the street he's glimpses a 'Utah' plate on their truck just before he passes out.

Hense (1) + (2) = 'a Mattress Man Shop in Utah' and a possible Location of the guy on the phone who was ripping him off ie Philip Seymour Hoffman

krattapopov

i think your spot on pigman.

saw it in america during the summer, really liked it

Mad Mike

That makes sense pigman. Well spotted if you picked that up in the cinema. We had the DVD and I still didn't get it.

I have to say I didn't like it much Krattapopov. Personally if feel that if you are going to make a movie with weird not particularly likeable leads then you need to go all out weird like Blue Velvet. This movie was really just a simple love story after all and I never really warmed to it.

UnrealQueen

Did you say something about using a spoiler there?

koneko

I liked it. It's a bit unusual and doesn't follow the usual bullshit storylines and cliches of other films, it doesn't need to adhere to the same "rules" to still be enjoyable. Having said that it's not for everyone. Loved PT Anderson's other films aswell (Magnolia, Boogie Nights).

ObeyGiant

As someone who has giggled drunkenly to many an Adam Sandler film, I'm really baffled by the way that people will dismiss stuff like "The Waterboy", whilst heaping lavish praise onto Punch Drunk Love.

A summary of Happy Gilmore/The Waterboy:
Socially inept, possibly mentally handicapped guy with explosive anger problem falls in love, convoluted storyline gets in the way, boy gets girl, lives happily ever after.

A summary of Punch Drunk Love:
Socially inept, possibly ment... hey, wait a second.

Don't get me wrong, I liked Punch Drunk Love (as much as I liked.. say.. Happy Gilmore), but just can't fathom why it's been so well-received by the glitterati, being as it follows the exact same template as every other Adam Sandler movie.