You’ve Never Seen Adam Sandler Act This Well
As a diamond dealer in the new film <em>Uncut Gems</em>, the actor defies his image and gives his best performance yet.
begins in the bowels of an Ethiopian diamond mine, a hellish, unforgiving environment where miners’ fingers have literally been worked to the bone. The camera lingers on those wounds, and the cries of the injured men, before zooming in on the ugly oblong treasure they’ve unearthed: a gnarled rock studded with black opals that dazzles on closer look. As the camera closes in, the sparkly image morphs into the depths of the mine and then into an actual human bowel—the experience: horrifying, transfixing, and ultimately, to use Tony Kushner’s immortal phrasing, .
