Narco (France, 2004)

The title refers to the problem of the protagonist: narcolepsy: sudden and repeated attacks of sleep. Another comedy. I can’t find any really deep thoughts in it, but it sure was fun. The guy who keeps falling asleep sees action like sequences in his dreams. But he keeps losing his job, because his condition attacks him on the job any time. He decides to draw his dreams in graphic novel format. But nobody supports him. His wife and buddy think he is crazy. His psychologist however is interested in his drawings. He is a failed artist without any talent. He hires two ice skaters (clonelike twins) to kill the sleeper boy so he could steal his art and sell it as his own. But instead of killing him they just manage to put him in a coma through a car “accident.” While he is in coma his wife and buddy sleeps together and pass the boy’s artwork to the psychologist. Suddenly he wakes up from the coma and by the end of the movie puts everything in place. The key to the movie is the often repeated sentence: “You are a star for those who love you.” I guess you could call that the essence, but it was so comic and inadequate in the context that it sounded like a mockery of a credo.

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