Jamie Foxx is Retarded…well Skitzo in The Soloist

Seriously, when I think back to In Living Color, I can vividly remember how silly and lovable Jamie Foxx’s characters always were. Even when he had his own show, The Jaime Foxx Show, I was like “this guy is funny and great entertainment.” NEVER in a million years would I have assumed he would turn out to be the phenomenal actor that he has become. And in his latest release, The Soloist, he proves yet again his force in the industry. Absolutely amazing. The Soloist follows the true life story of Nathaniel Ayres, a brilliant cello player who suffers from schizophrenia and winds up becoming homeless on the streets of L.A. Its based off the book of the same name written by Steven Lopez who is played by Robert Downey Jr and is the second lead of the film. Steven Lopez is a columnist for the L.A. Times who finds Ayres playing violin in the park and is captured by the sound this man can make with only two strings. Upon talking with him, he finds out that Nathaniel had studied at the Julliard Academy and was forced to drop out due to his battle with his disease. Confident that there’s a great story behind this mysterious musician, he decides to include him in his daily column and sure enough, L.A. was intrigued. Day after day, Lopez finds himself getting more and more wrapped up in Nathaniel’s life and soon becomes much more than the writer of his story. Wonderfully acted by the pair, it received mixed reviews from most critics, most complaining more about the direction than the acting.  However, I thought the director did a great job presenting some of the feelings that must be going on in a schizophrenic mind but I guess one wouldn’t know until they’ve had it. He incorporated a scene that was nothing more than music transformed into splashing colors and I thought it was incredible. Also, he did well to show the shit fest that is the L.A. homeless community and how fucked up things really are in Los Angeles. My girlfriend is a case manager for seriously mentally ill patients and she said it was spot on for how the system works for them. A lot of key characters were actually patients as far as we could tell, unless they were some ridiculous actors. We even had an appearance from two True Blood members, Lafayette and Vampire Eddy, also known as Nelsan Ellis and Steven Root, respectively. Absolutely beautiful film do not pass this up, unless you don’t like dramas i guess. Annndd hhhhheeeeeeerrrreee’s the trailer!

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