Volker Schlondorff’s decent and fine screen adaptation of one of greatest American tragedy by Arthur
Miller. Exploring & questioning the
multiple themes of mythical American dream and capitalist materialism along
with the conflict of parental expectations; all three remain an issue of
American National psyche & literature from long. The role of Willy Loman
from long remained a litmus test of acting; both on stage and screen. From Lee
J Cobb to Philip Seymour Hoffman attempted it. And here Dustin Hoffman nailed
it so brilliantly as the failing patriarch, proving his powerful acting talent compared
to his other two much popular and much lauded contemporaries. It deservingly
won him Golden Globe that year. John
Malkovich as his son Biff Loman gave one of his promising act in the early
phase of his career. Schlondorff successfully managed to pull the interwoven
hallucinatory past obsessions of Willy with the main course of drama.
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