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As humans, we sometimes crave to be like those on the Hollywood silver screen. Something better, more exciting, glamorous, and more important. There are filmmakers who attempt to take the ordinary life and portray it as being important or even aesthetic on the big screen, but many attempts are made in vein, as the storyline commonly glorifies the characters too much. Very few successfully transform a human story into the type of film that purely portrays just that. Humanism. Punch Drunk Love makes it ok to be normal. Instead of glorifying the human spirit, Anderson, in a way, picks on our shortfalls and emphasizes them, so we can see the good in them. Punch Drunk Love tells the story of Barry Eagan, (played with soul-soaked presence by Adam Sandler) a toilet-brush salesman with a slight anger management and crying problem, which seems to have arisen from the way in which his seven sisters treat him. Taunting him verbally as a child seems to have had an effect on him, as you witness him tearing up a restaurant bathroom, smashing his sister’s glass doors and buying copious amounts of pudding to aid in gaining frequent flyer miles and taking advantage of a loophole in the company’s marketing terms. Rather intelligent actuall