There's a 400 Blows-quoting dash across the beach, a The Graduate style leap into the pool, the aforementioned Cort-do, and… allusions to Rushmore (itself indebted to Salinger, checking off the Catcher in the Rye box)."Īnd that works for Sam Adams, for example, writing in Time Out New York, "The balancing act between self-awareness and sentiment is a dangerous one, yet Ayoade never puts a foot wrong. Acutely aware of the long tradition of films about disaffected young men coming to terms with themselves, Ayoade doesn't duck the precedent: instead, like Oliver…, he nods to seemingly every single precursor. Fortunately, Submarine, Richard Ayoade's feature debut, is aware of Oliver's self-justifying nature and the ways it could warp him….
"The trouble with Oliver is that he knows he's clever, which could justify anything: surreptitiously monitoring his parents' sex life, taunting an overweight girl to make local cutie Jordana ( Yasmin Paige) notice him as a real livewire, or trying to trash the house of downhill neighbor Graham Purvis ( Paddy Considine) who may be having an affair with mom ( Sally Hawkins).
"With his Bud Cort haircut and morbid sensibility, Oliver Tate ( Craig Roberts) is too smart for Swansea, Wales, an industrial city mired in some seriously mid-80s Thatcherite doldrums," begins Vadim Rizov at GreenCine Daily.
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