One of the things I love about some films is that they don't spell everything out for the audience, leaving room for personal experience to paint a picture. "Everything Will Be Fine in the End" certainly isn't a paint-by-numbers effort, as it effortlessly swerves from absurdist comedy to existential angst to the brutality of the banal, while offering up moments of what could be either enlightenment or self-delusion (possibly both). It's a powerful film, made more so by the fact that, for better or worse, I pretty much know real-life examples of all these characters. The casting is pretty spot on, with actors who very much inhabit their characters on a sometimes disturbing level. Of note is also the score, by director/writer Joe Bartone. This is definitely one that deserves a much wider audience, and I'm looking forward to Bartone's next effort.
