AD Jameson podsjeća nas na ovaj kinotečni film o muškoj nezrelosti/nevjeri. Metafizičko pitanje je: ako ljudi ionako nikad ne postaju "zreli" (zaglavljuju na razini cca 15-godišnjaka), tko zapravo gubi - oni sami (koji su ionako nezreli pa se ne računa), evolucija kozmosa ili Europsko prvenstvo u nogometu? U svakom slučaju - roboti pobjeđuju.
"The Heartbreak Kid was May’s second film, her followup to 1971′s A New Leaf (already featured on FF). I don’t know much about how well it did at the time. Shepherd had of course just scored a great success with her debut, Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show (1971). Grodin’s career was picking up steam: he had just finished working with May’s former partner Mike Nichols on Catch-22 (1970); this was his first leading role. Critics liked it. I myself didn’t see it until a few years ago, because like most of May’s films, it’s often been difficult to find on video in the US. Now it’s up at YouTube, so the world’s getting better again.
I do know that, back in the day, people compared this film a lot to The Graduate; May seems to have encouraged that. (Among other things, Grodin was Nichols’s first choice for Benjamin Braddock.) And I like The Graduate fine (especially its last few minutes), but The Heartbreak Kid is clearly the better film. It’s one of the sharpest, funniest indictments of male immaturity—and how it can manifest itself through infidelity—that I have ever seen. No wonder eternal man-children like Ben Stiller and the Farrellys fucked it up."- AD Jameson
The Heartbreak Kid (1972)
Directed by Elaine May
Written by Neil Simon and Bruce Jay Friedman
Starring Cybill Shepherd and Charles Grodin
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