The film "Death of a Salesman" is a movie about the way people try to live in the past instead of the future. This is brought about within the character Willy and the delusions of the past that he relives day in and day out. Willy fails to live the majority of his life in the present. Just as this movie fails to provide an interesting story and characters that are likeable.
The setting of this story is New York City around the 1950's, and is seen through the eyes of the third person, the movie watcher. The film consists of a series of scenes in which Willy, the father to Biff and Harold, interacts with others while trying to keep his job as a salesman. While the whole time he keeps reliving the past in a series of daydreams that seem to last for long periods of time. The movie moves forward after Willy comes home and starts rambling on with his wife. After this he goes into one of many daydreams where he is reliving the good times in the past. His sons are in town and Willy is bothered with his eldest son Biff, who can't hold a job because he is a kleptomaniac, because he thinks that Biff keeps leaving his jobs because he is trying to spite him. The movie moves on after one too many flashbacks and Willy loses his job. His nei
In the film "Death of a Salesman" there is a severe lack of comedic relief. This could probably be the deciding factor in my judging this movie to be bad. The movie moves on and on about Willy and his crazy delusions and the sons that can never fully please him. And the comedic relief throughout this time period is almost nonexistent. The movie moves forward in the dramatic scenes with Willy and his delusions in public and private. While this is nice there is no break in the drama and thus causing me to become bored with the movie. While all of this is happening the movie is starting to become annoying, and it's not in the Monty Python kind of funny annoying. The film keeps showing Willy talking to himself in public while having his daydreams and how nobody tells him that he is hallucinating. This happens too many times. This could have been avoided if Biff had some courage to tell his father that he was muttering to himself and running around like a crazy person. Because this happens many times without resolution the film began to annoy me. When a movie becomes annoying people don't want to go and see it. Basically the film just replays Willy's flashbacks in a variety of scenes and doesn't really get anything accomplished except annoying yours truly. The other thing that influenced me to rate this movie as a bad one was the lack of relation to the characters. When a movie is put out that people can't seriously relate to they probably won't go and see it because it will be boring. The char
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