Another very bad film. The directors only made a few short films before dumping this on the sidewalk. And that's all it is, a lousy shortfilm injected with water like they do with (chicken) meat these days. Plofkip in dutch, directly translated, means exploded chicken. A ploffilm..., a balloonfilm?
The length, still only 87 minutes and still way to long, says all. No inspiration.
There are a few things worse than short film makers getting subsidised for the sake of keeping the unwilling to work stocked with enough money for not featuring on the unemployed charts.
Like actors bringing their children on stage. Check. It's a bad habit for politicians, and it's worse for actors. (The person playing the 14 year old is the daughter of the person playing her mother.)
Or musicians letting their kids sing along on a record. Check. The music could have been made by a kid, it's cringe stuff. What is this, the kelly family on dope?
And then the story. Hey daughter, wear this flimsy tissue so you'ld look like a prostitute. Hey viewers, look at my daughter doing things she clearly isn't ready for. And why not use some alcohol and pills, very good for young brains? No mother would drag a kid into the nightlife unless victim of addiction herself and severely of track. No school would let a mother visit a kid during school hours for an idle chat. And why would she, a DJ only works at night, plenty of time for social activities after school. Annoying, boring, empty.
The father is played by a rapper who calls himself 'pregnant Guy' (Guy being his name in Dutch)? A walking tattoo parlor, does yoga?
No, acting is not a good occupation for him either, because the innocent viewers are tortured with results like these. Can somebody call president Trump to close down this filmstudio?
If you want to see Veerle Baetens in a very good movie, try 'The Broken circle breakdown'(2012). Avoid this failure.
Yes there are unhinged families. No need to turn every farfetched variant into a unhinged film.
This is a shamefull waste of gouvernment money. Taxpayers can do something better with that money themselves. Such as going to see a nice movie instead of this one. I don't want to waste my time on a hobby project that can't even get the music right. I have an idea for fifty sequels otherwise.
Mummy works for the garbage collectors and has the bright idea to bring her kid along to the job.
Mummy works in a factory, mummy takes her kid to the Dakar rally, to a funeral company, to a construction site, to her work in the military?
To the filmstudio, check! Or even to the office, the other parents can bring their children too and they can play together. Why didn't anyone think of this before? Why did we invent schools in the first place?
What are these directors, yes not one but two of them, trying to say here, DJ's are bad parents? When you work in the nightlife you better get sterilised? Because it's not a decent job or something?
I can imagine the jury deciding to give the grant to this one. Ooh its about a poooor kid and her evil musician mummy... Oh your badness.
One moment the DJ mother looks down at the dancefloor, and there is her daughter dancing looking drugged. An accompanied kid might get in, just maybe, but alone? No way, clubs have a doorman, age restrictions... Nonsence!
