Fear and Loathing in Los Angeles: Under the Silver Lake
Under the Silver Lake is a movie which certainly wastes no time letting you know that this is Andrew Garfield’s horny, paranoid, wild ride. The first moments of Garfield’s character Sam are of him casually and then more formally creeping on women. Sam is a vaguely defined out-of-work creative hopeful living in LA, and the main plot, such as it is, revolves around him trying to find a woman named Sarah that he almost had sex with and then didn’t. But really Under the Silver Lake is about the problem of being a guy who can only understand himself through the things he likes, and Sarah, and the several other women he almost has sex with and then doesn’t that crop up, and even the one that he does, are all just more of those things. Garfield’s performance is commendable here, as the movie would be nothing without him. He gives so much range and humor to this gross creep that makes him fun to watch, and this gross creep is in so far over his head that it’s still wi...