{"id":623379,"date":"2024-06-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-i-used-to-be-funny-review-a-complex-canadian-seriocomedy\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T21:00:00","slug":"watch-i-used-to-be-funny-review-a-complex-canadian-seriocomedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-i-used-to-be-funny-review-a-complex-canadian-seriocomedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;I Used to Be Funny&#8217; Review: A Complex Canadian Seriocomedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a413abe33f01\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a413abe33f01\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-i-used-to-be-funny-review-a-complex-canadian-seriocomedy\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98I_Used_to_Be_Funny_Review_A_Complex_Canadian_Seriocomedy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;I Used to Be Funny&#8217; Review: A Complex Canadian Seriocomedy&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-i-used-to-be-funny-review-a-complex-canadian-seriocomedy\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98I_Used_to_Be_Funny_Review_A_Complex_Canadian_Seriocomedy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;I Used to Be Funny&#8217; Review: A Complex Canadian Seriocomedy&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98I_Used_to_Be_Funny_Review_A_Complex_Canadian_Seriocomedy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;I Used to Be Funny&#8217; Review: A Complex Canadian Seriocomedy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98I_Used_to_Be_Funny_Review_A_Complex_Canadian_Seriocomedy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;I Used to Be Funny&#8217; Review: A Complex Canadian Seriocomedy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    For many viewers, the scenes hardest to take in viral streaming cringefest \u201cBaby Reindeer\u201d weren\u2019t the ones of overt stalking or abuse, but those depicting the DOA stand-up comedy of Richard Gadd\u2019s alter ego \u2014 moments whose flop-sweating public failure seemed to stretch into tortuous infinity. Canadian feature \u201cI Used to Be Funny\u201d likewise hinges on a paralyzing intersection between stand-up, anxiety and depression. Mercifully, however, here it\u2019s not the protagonist\u2019s stage act that is the cause of massive self-doubt. Instead, it\u2019s a host of external problems that conspire to make her incapable of performing \u2026as well as eating, sleeping and leaving her apartment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Ally Pankiw\u2019s big-screen debut recalls such prior indie features as \u201cThe Big Sick,\u201d \u201cSleepwalk With Me\u201d and \u201cObvious Child\u201d in successfully using a comedy milieu to place a leavening frame around some very serious issues. In this case, an aspiring co<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>n played by Rachel Sennott of \u201cShiva Baby\u201d and \u201cBodies Bodies Bodies\u201d takes a mental-health plunge in the wake of multiple traumatizing events. Not all are even her own experiences, and some we don\u2019t suss out until late in the director\u2019s trickily structured screenplay.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    That convoluted storytelling tack at times threatens to muffle \u201cFunny\u2019s\u201d potent narrative agenda. Yet in the end, this ambitious, imperfect drama does pull off a complex thematic mix, encompassing issues from grief to sexual assault, with a generous helping of humor to lend its darkness some light. Utopia is releasing theatrically in New York on June 7, Los Angeles on June 14, and to digital on June 18.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Samantha Cowell aka Sam (Sennott) is, indeed, funny, and we glean from a club audience\u2019s cheers before her entrance that she is getting a following as a result. She has an adoring boyfriend in Noah (Ennis Esmer), and shares a flat with Paige (Sabrina Jalees) and Philip (Caleb Hearon), two fellow aspirants on the comedy scene. The gigs they\u2019re getting don\u2019t do much to pay the rent, so Sam acquires a job as an au pair, something she\u2019s done in the past.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It\u2019s a tricky situation, as 12-year-old Brooke (Olga Petsa) is dealing with a terminally ill mother. Father Cameron (Jason Jones) is an emotionally remote, rather humorless cop whose response to this domestic turmoil is simply burying himself in work. He obviously wants hired help to do the parental managing at this critical time so he won\u2019t have to. Fortunately, the two young women hit it off, Brooke allowing Sam some nominal authority while mostly treating her as a big-sister bestie.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    But all of this is in the past; the present is a disaster zone in which most of the characters are estranged. Brooke is now a rebellious, motherless 14-year-old reported as missing, though she did surface long enough to throw a rock through our heroine\u2019s front-door window. Sam can barely get out of bed, her stasis so severe that supportive housemates congratulate her on taking a shower. She\u2019s abandoned Noah, her nascent career, any work or social life. The cause for this despair \u2014 not to mention the furious rift with her former charge \u2014 takes a while to arrive at in a fragmentary progress whose leaps back and forth in time build intrigue, but also stir a degree of viewer frustration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    It all begins to clarify in the film\u2019s last half hour through courtroom scenes where Sam is the plaintiff in a criminal prosecution \u2014 though the defense uses online comedy-act clips to tarnish her credibility. Pankiw spares us anything graphic in the eventual flashback to a line-crossing incident. Left somewhat ambiguous, it\u2019s powerfully discomfiting nonetheless. After that, subsequent present-day sequences orchestrating a more upbeat fadeout for the main characters feel a bit rushed, but well-earned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Those later revelations and developments redeem a midsection where the film\u2019s cut-up chronology stops being its own reward, coming off more as an irksome avoidance of key intel. Finally, however, \u201cI Used to Be Funny\u201d does pull together diverse tonal and thematic strands to impressive effect. Particularly admirable is the way Pankiw embeds the stage-ready sn<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y patter between Sam and her friends (it also helps her bond with Brooke) so organically into the story that by the time our heroine utters the title phrase, we fully grok how wrenching a realization that is for her.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    A born channel for dyspeptic Gen Z humor, Sennott (who co-wrote last year\u2019s high school comedy \u201cBottoms\u201d) is ideally cast as a character whose brash, self-deprecating flippancy can turn into chronic self-loathing. Petsa is also expert as a bright but increasingly troubled teen (albeit a bit unconvincing as an initial pre-teen). The major supporting actors bring appealing warmth and wit, while Jones provides enough shading to Cameron that a somewhat underdeveloped role provokes unease without turning into cardboard villainy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    After a decade of music videos, shorts and TV episodes, Pankiw brings considerable assurance to her first feature. She takes care to assemble well-thought-out design elements that lift this enterprise a cut above average in visual terms amongst medium-budgeted comedies. The only modest minus is a soundtrack overdependent on rather bland pop songs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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