TONIGHT!: Off With The Deadlines Head!

I find myself right now emulating the main character in this movie, who also is a writer and experiencing the most prolific horror known to existence; life, trying to figure out where to begin.

I have no idea what to say about this movie other than its absolute authentic glimpse of the frustrations and judgment on content creation and its overall effect on society. The idiotic reservations about how a subject unrelated to them would affect someone that they don’t know and how it should be eradicated because of the damage that it has yet to do. Stop me if any of this sounds familiar.

I could have guessed that Canada would be going through a wild stage coming off the haze of the 1970s like the United States. Their birth of visual artists who told immersive stories in a reality that could only be described as “just the beginning”, delivers a film so honest in the world of screenwriting that it surprised me.

I am not shy to say that I have an anger issue. An issue that has been harmonious until recent life events called for this issue to be addressed before I became a destroyer. Shame was a card I had in my possession, but it is now lost in the evergrowing pile of past and present regrets that I’ve collected through the years. All this time I thought, was to become a writer that all you had to have was a story you’d like to tell. Not write stories that keep your nightmares away.

The film follows a struggling screenwriter whose personal life falls apart amidst him having to reach an urgent deadline for a movie. The way this film jumped around was sometimes confusing because they weren’t precisely subconscious illusions but recollections and tellings of his past, present, and future works. His overall unhappiness was electric and made him a hard person for other characters to get along with.

The best display overall was the main character and his family. I felt a wide array of emotions from them all; I also encompass the harsher ones from time to time while writing. Since I do this as a hobby, which I would hope to do for a living, I certainly took this film as a public service announcement about what frame of mind is suitable for content creation.

The amount of verbal, physical, psychological abuse, denial, and apathy was astounding and masterly performed by everyone involved. Child actors do not get enough credit. The dynamic between everyone could not have been any better to deliver a never-before-seen performance of the sacrifices writers make and the effect it has on the ones closest to them.

If you love movies as much as I do and want to play pretend and be in a screenwriter’s shoes, Deadline will knock you off your feet.

Available to stream on Tubi