Choke

Choke Review

Michael Maxwell

 

 

Choke was a movie that certainly did entertain, but it didn’t almost know itself how it was going to do that. It seemed too much a comedy stapled onto … well something else. It seemed misguided; it should have stuck to the one original idea/concept. Instead it appeared that it was almost written as they were going along.

 

It’s a film that doesn’t know quite what it was trying to be or to prove what points.  I did find myself thinking…just why? Why was that scene or piece of dialog needed? It didn’t add anything to the film, space filler?

 

Although saying all that yes it did entertain, it did make me laugh a lot. Which is hard for films to do. I like how original the idea was, a sex obsessed guy searching for who he was. But with out knowing it himself.

He uses sex as a drug to numb out life, so he doesn’t have to face life in a way. Maybe in a way saying that we are all looking for someway to look at life and ourselves in perfect clarity. To make life more simple than it is.