The Mass of Men

This is a short movie. This movie is one of the dark story I have ever seen. The main character is a man who seeks a job. He goes to public employment security office. When he takes with a person who works at this public employment security office, the person was killed by a person who attacks her with a nail gun. After that, he decides to take an action. Hence, I strongly feel that I can't recommend this movie to a person who is not good at watching dark movie.

In this short film, a man who is unemployed visits a job center to get his expenses back. However, his advisor doesn't accept it because he is late by three minutes. Moreover, she is very intimidating, so he has to sign a form...

A key characteristic of this film is the structure. The conclusion of this film is shown in the beginning, and the film then explains how it happened. Not only this structure but also how to describe the conclusion is awesome. Actually there is only a hint but no final resolution at first. Therefore, we can get another resolution at the end. I was excited.

Also, there is a contrast such as the very friendly advisor and the intimidating advisor, three minutes late is no problem at first and the lazy act at the end. These points make this film clear and catchy.

You can experience something different from the usual watching this film.

When an everyday error, something that anyone could get wrong, means that a man's dole payments are to be delayed in the face of weeks of dire poverty, the office-worker at the dole office treats the man with unwarranted bureaucratic malice. It is as if she has been ordered to do so. Indeed, a recent leak has revealed that dole offices in the UK are given targets for unsympathetic referrals:- in effect, as this film so powerfully shows, the State is setting out to be hostile to the poor to deny them their rightful benefits.

Against such a background, the main character is stunned when a series of rapid events that are so terrible and shocking unfold before his eyes, but he remains just astute enough to save his situation.

This protagonist's acting, and the film, has been praised by no less than Bernardo Bertolucci and Lord Puttnam, and anyone who enjoys a very fine short, or is interested in the reality facing many people in hardship should see this little gem.

The man who is unemployed is late by three minutes for the appointment at the job centre. A woman advisor there for the job-seekers asks him to sign for the money withheld for two weeks otherwise he won't get the money for four weeks. The man gets angry for her attitude but the woman blames him for his laziness.

This film shows the strict standard of the welfare service in Britain. Even though the man was late, it was only three minutes and the woman didn't know that he was late at the beginning. However, the man couldn't get the money he wanted.

The most impressive point of this film is the structure. The film begins from the video captured by the CCTV and it is exactly the same scene as the ending. The author intentionally puts the last scene at the very start so that the viewer could understand the meaning of the first scene in the end.

I think you should watch this film two times with everything understood in the second time.

This is a very dark story. At the beggining, the camera angle of this short film is interesting. I realize that this film is shot from CCTB. After that scene, one man is hunting job but for some reasons he late 3 minutes. The main idea of this film is the silent majority of society. In the society, society does not reflect the real voice of citizens. Some part of this film is too scealy. Some people would feel uncomfortable by watching this. However, this film really shows the reality of the social problem. This is true that many people feel stress by hunting jobs. Using film is a good way to show the social problem to people.