The film can't quite make up its mind about Franco's
Holy Fool character, either; we're meant to laugh at his naïveté and his malapropisms at one moment, then we find out he's a resident in a group home so we can admire his can - do attitude, and later it's revealed that he has made valuable and intelligent contributions to the sales report even though he never indicates in conversation that he understands anything about the deal.
Not exact matches
Affleck's
character is the movie's moral center, a
holy fool who wouldn't, and probably couldn't, hurt a flea.
The eponymous
character, Ned (Paul Rudd), is not so much the hero of the piece as the
Holy Fool, a hippie... Read More»
Enduring Love flirts with homophobia, dances with a European intolerance for
holy fools (and foolish holiness — see again: The Idiot), and in the end resolves itself with some brilliant Brad Anderson - like panoramas of its
characters dwarfed not by a sheltering sky, but by a crushing, claustrophobic one.