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It's a clever little low-budget no-violence drama.
The cast is basically unknowns, but it's different how the film shows just how bad everyday life can be, without obscuring it all in gunsmoke.
The audience follows Nick, the manager of a limousine service, on a night especially filled with personal and professional problems. Faced with the difficulty of trying to supervise people he can't see and has difficulty communicating with, he basically feels his life starting to unravel.
I don't think it won any awards or 'critical acclaim', despite being a very serious film.... and ironically covering much of the fanfare of a premiere, but just because a film doesn't get lots of marketing and hype and such doesn't mean that it doesn't have some merit. I suppose if there's one thing you can learn from it, is not to under-estimate the difficulties of 'routine' grunge work....
The office is grimy working-class at best, and it is as austere as a prison, but ultimately the saddest thing is that Nick, when faced with the alternative problems of his personal life, doesn't even want to leave.
(8/10)
It's a clever little low-budget no-violence drama.
The cast is basically unknowns, but it's different how the film shows just how bad everyday life can be, without obscuring it all in gunsmoke.
The audience follows Nick, the manager of a limousine service, on a night especially filled with personal and professional problems. Faced with the difficulty of trying to supervise people he can't see and has difficulty communicating with, he basically feels his life starting to unravel.
I don't think it won any awards or 'critical acclaim', despite being a very serious film.... and ironically covering much of the fanfare of a premiere, but just because a film doesn't get lots of marketing and hype and such doesn't mean that it doesn't have some merit. I suppose if there's one thing you can learn from it, is not to under-estimate the difficulties of 'routine' grunge work....
The office is grimy working-class at best, and it is as austere as a prison, but ultimately the saddest thing is that Nick, when faced with the alternative problems of his personal life, doesn't even want to leave.
(8/10)