(The complicated cause and effect relationship that bounces between these two facets of his personality is one of the many consistent delights throughout Brooks’ filmography.) It’s a delicious premise that perfectly showcases and torments the type of character Brooks always plays, someone who is both extremely self-aware and extremely self-defeating.
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Brooks stars as Daniel Miller, an advertising executive who has a fatal car crash and learns what really happens when you die: you undergo a trial where both a prosecution and a defense play clips from your life in an effort to determine whether or not you’ve learned enough to move on to the next phase.
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Some Brooks partisans might argue on behalf of the more acidic and self-flagellating Modern Romance or the more influential Real Life (and if you caught me on certain days I could probably be convinced that Mother is as great a movie as anyone has ever made), but Defending Your Life is the director’s most philosophically dense, emotionally satisfying, and conceptually ambitious comedy, an inquiry into the meaning of existence as serious as Tree of Life or 2001 but with more laughs per minute than Duck Soup. The best film by America’s greatest comic filmmaker arrives on Blu-ray this week in the form of Criterion’s release of Albert Brooks’ Defending Your Life. Albert brooks, Criterion Collection, Defending Your Life, Mel Brooks, Spaceballs, The Producers
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