Clive Owen and the kid actor who played his son both did a very good jobs in this tiny little film. Although it was shot in Canada, but it showed that the two countries in North America both suffered greatly for their majority poverty of their people, the run-down urban neighborhood, the poor relations between husbands and wives, the horrible and dreary lives of their kids after their marriages dissolved; even they could still barely maintain their matrimony lives, the poverty they are facing is predictably unavoidable.
The writer/director obviously didn't know too much of pawning his belongings to any pawnshop in Canada or in the United States. A box of overly used old tools without even one power tool could be pawned for $400.00?! IN YOUR WET DREAM! That box of old carpentry tools might only worth $20.00 in the eyes of any pawn shop owner or operator. If it could be pawned over $50.00, then the pawnshop must also be a charity organization!
This film also told us how drinking like drugs could ruin your life, your relationship to anyone including your marriage. But the most alarming message of this film is the undeniable fact of how dirt, filthy poor these people in both countries are, how the social infra-structure of both countries are in a desolate situation and most of them were already in ruin. These poor majority could only use religion to fool themselves with limited wishful thinking. They never know that it is both of their government and their elected politicians ruined their countries and their lives, and God has nothing to do with any of it. Of course, if the so-called imaginary entity really existed.
The writer/director obviously didn't know too much of pawning his belongings to any pawnshop in Canada or in the United States. A box of overly used old tools without even one power tool could be pawned for $400.00?! IN YOUR WET DREAM! That box of old carpentry tools might only worth $20.00 in the eyes of any pawn shop owner or operator. If it could be pawned over $50.00, then the pawnshop must also be a charity organization!
This film also told us how drinking like drugs could ruin your life, your relationship to anyone including your marriage. But the most alarming message of this film is the undeniable fact of how dirt, filthy poor these people in both countries are, how the social infra-structure of both countries are in a desolate situation and most of them were already in ruin. These poor majority could only use religion to fool themselves with limited wishful thinking. They never know that it is both of their government and their elected politicians ruined their countries and their lives, and God has nothing to do with any of it. Of course, if the so-called imaginary entity really existed.