Initially, I only saw a film in which a father is grieving for his daughter and is unable to move forward with his life.
#COLLATERAL BEAUTY MOVIESHARE MOVIE#
Is it a movie worth seeing? Yes, for sure. Is this an epic, earth-shattering film? No. The official trailer for “Collateral Beauty” (courtesy New Line Cinema). At its heart, “Collateral Beauty” is a film about family as seen through the eyes of love, death and time. It is this interconnectedness that pulls the audience into the film as one discovers this is not just a movie about a man and a business dealing with death and loss.
Death (Helen Mirren) soon realizes that Simon is facing death himself by a recurrence of cancer, and newly-divorced Simon cannot hide his fear that he has lost his daughter’s love, something readily apparent to Love (Keira Knightly). Time (Jacob Latimore) learns that Claire wants desperately to be a mother but fears that time has passed her by. This is how we come to see that each partner is harboring a deep secret one that is, oddly enough, tied to the issue being portrayed by the actor with whom they are working. In order to get to know how best to “haunt” Inlet, each of the three actors spend time with one of the three business partners. The partners will use the film to force him to give up his controlling shares in the company. The three actors will confront Inlet while secretly being filmed, so as to catch him on camera looking mentally unbalanced. Needing to close a lucrative deal that will save them and their agency, and knowing that Howard may not support it, Inlet’s partners come up with an almost Machiavellian plan to hire three actors to portray Death, Love and Time.
The business partners obtain the three letters and realize that this is just what they need to prove that their partner and friend has gone mad. The letters are addressed to Death, Love and Time, respectively. While on the surface this appears to be a sad story, it takes an intriguing turn when the private detective discovers three letters written and posted by Inlet. Trying to salvage a now-suffering business and also wanting to reach out to their friend, Howard’s business partners Claire (Kate Winslet), Whit (Edward Norton) and Simon (Michael Peña) take the drastic step of hiring a private detective to follow Howard in the hope of obtaining evidence that can be used to force him to turn over his controlling stock in the agency. But Inlet cannot move past the pain of his loss and cannot or will not acknowledge what happened to his daughter. This concept is the phrase “collateral beauty.” As she describes it, collateral beauty is recognizing the possibilities of meaning and beauty that are all around us even in the midst of death and pain. It is during one of their conversations that she shares a concept that helped get her through her grief. Over time, he begins conversing with the group’s director (Naomie Harris) who also lost a child, a six-year old daughter, to cancer. He finds himself periodically sitting in on their meetings only to leave if asked to share about his experience.
He retreats so far into his grief that he does not eat or sleep, does not communicate with his business partners and friends, sits alone in a dark apartment, and cycles recklessly through the city day in and day out.ĭuring one of his daily cycling rides, Howard appears to stumble on a support group for parents who have lost a child. Over the year following her death, he only comes to the office to create massive and intricate domino-like designs that he proceeds to topple once the masterpiece is complete. Unable to deal with her death, Inlet, once the creative force behind a successful New York advertising agency, withdraws completely from life. This is the experience of Howard Inlet (Will Smith) in the new film “ Collateral Beauty.” Howard’s whole life has been turned upside down with the death of his six-year old daughter. This is made all the more devastating when the child is very young and has just begun to spread his or her wings. The death of a child is probably the most devastating experience a parent can go through.
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