While the film starts the opening theme of P.T. Anderson's Punch Drunk Love can be heard. At this moment I ask myself: Will this be yet another public broadcaster short TV-film glued together with music from well known films? It turns out to be so. Dutch film producers who make a film for TV can use basically any music they like, as standard licenses are paid for by the public broadcaster. This means there is no limit to what music can be used at all, and one could argue that this mechanism steals a large number of potential jobs from Dutch film composers.
The plot doesn't have much depth. A mother takes her two kids to a theme park, secretly desiring to be with the guy in the cartoon character suit walking around and taking pictures with kids visiting the theme park. While the mother is bored, another piece of music ripped from a film, Yumeji's theme from In the Mood for Love and the same titled Japanese film Yumeji plays. It feels out of place with the bored passive aggressive mother. When the mother decides she wants to take the guy in the suit home, an uplifting track from Forrest Gump plays, making the musical accompaniment to the storytelling incoherent and somewhat bizarre. It seems this film suffers from needing the recognition of a well written piece of music to get across the storytelling at all. As a lover of film music, this film was a pain to watch.
The plot doesn't have much depth. A mother takes her two kids to a theme park, secretly desiring to be with the guy in the cartoon character suit walking around and taking pictures with kids visiting the theme park. While the mother is bored, another piece of music ripped from a film, Yumeji's theme from In the Mood for Love and the same titled Japanese film Yumeji plays. It feels out of place with the bored passive aggressive mother. When the mother decides she wants to take the guy in the suit home, an uplifting track from Forrest Gump plays, making the musical accompaniment to the storytelling incoherent and somewhat bizarre. It seems this film suffers from needing the recognition of a well written piece of music to get across the storytelling at all. As a lover of film music, this film was a pain to watch.
