‘Punch Drunk Love’…how to describe it?! This was quirky. The storyline was easily relatable.
A young man, Barry Egan, can’t get his romantic life together. One of the first scenes sees him desperately chatting on a phone sex line which leads him into all sorts of strife.
The main obstacles are his suffocating family that includes seven controlling sisters, and the anger that often goes out of control because he can’t get out of his situation.
His life changes when an attractive, eccentric woman, a friend of one of his sisters, befriends him.
‘Punch Drunk Love’ worked well with its quirkiness, good performances, unusual camera angles and abrasive directorial touch. In its way it was a classic narrative, depicting a troubled man rise above his circumstances, and his new woman hanging in there with him.