I had the TV on while transferring video (that I'd shot for a music video I'm making) to my hard drive. The TV was on and the channel happened to be Film 4, the 2016 movie Brakes had just started. I've been waiting over a month to shoot some stuff with a model for my video and this we actually did yesterday. Finally then ... I get to put everything on the hard drive and begin my work. The odd thing is that instead of turning the TV off I got instantly hooked on this movie. I watched it for a while thinking "I'll turn it off in a minute" and ended up switching my PC and camera off instead. I felt really sorry for the Australian woman when she cried, especially after you saw how the guy kind of insisted that she get in touch in the future. And shouldn't Roland Gift be doing more film work? The idea to play "part 2" first was sound. Having seen the inevitable split you then got to see the innocence or manipulation that usually goes on when people are affecting their behaviour to get a date. The person who wanted to end it was, in some cases the more enthusiastic of the two to initiate it. Normally World War 3 wouldn't interfere with my (wannabe) music career so I felt compelled to say how much I enjoyed this gem. Julian Barrett played one of my fave characters ever, the jaded Dan Ashcroft from 2004's Nathan Barley and his segment in this film was pretty disturbing because I've seen someone behave like that for real. I didn't find this to be a comedy (no matter how dark) and my only criticism might be that some of the "hand-held" was too fluid, I thought I'd give the director some of my advice ... LOL. The director here was the talented writer and actress - playing the ice rink attendant (I think). Top film, ill defo watch again and probably buy it for keeps if available on DVD. It's one of those films that I suspect you see a new angle that you missed last time. Also great use of the word "brakes" as opposed to the more apt "breaks". 10 out of 10.
