Patton Oswalt Knew ‘I Love My Dad’ Could Have Been ‘a Fiasco’
thewrap.comtop prize at the SXSW Film Festival, where Oswalt got the chance to simply watch “people crawl out of their skin.” The film is undoubtedly polarizing, putting audiences in the awkward position of knowing what Oswalt’s character is doing is manipulative, creepy and wrong, all while making us root for Morosini’s fake romance as seen through a charming rom-com lens.
That decision though was of course intentional by Morosini, who wrote, directed and stars in the movie and did so all based on his own story of his real life dad actually catfishing him.
Morosini took pains within the staging and the editing processes to make sure that Oswalt’s scenes lined up with the fantasy scenes involving Morosini’s fake girlfriend (Claudia Sulewski), to the point that if Oswalt was crossing his arms, Sulewski’s physical mannerisms and placement in the room would be similar. “I wanted to challenge the viewer.
I think we’re trained because of all the rom-coms we’ve seen to be rooting for that primary relationship. And I wanted the audience to find themselves both catfisher and cat fished,” Morosini told TheWrap.
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