2 reviews
- eric_dwight
- Feb 13, 2005
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As a fan of the real stuff, a title like the one this movie has attracts a lo. Watching the trailer, one can imagine some things and create illusions when not even knowing what will be seen. Personally, I believe the filmmakers carried with a great responsibility to develop a story with that title; so I went to see if they could do it right.
From the beginning the environment is warm, with simple images and a soundtrack that stayed with me long after the film. It was then when I was taken to a restaurant, where all the employees where being informed the same would be sold and that the weeks of work remaining where few. It's a strong scene, considering the messenger being verbally attacked by the employees during the meeting, some questioning an empty future after fifteen years of work.
Some will receive the news later on, some won't even find out; because that's how it is. Anyway, it was disappointing that the film based itself on one determined situation with defined characters. I didn't expect that, because I can find it with more complexity in another movie, while in this one the ending confuses its meaning between the pleasant and the awkward.
At least the actors try to be some of what the movie wanted to show in their characters "everyday people". They get inside the deep of the ordinary, so we can see an inspired Reg Cathey as a street salesman. In probably the best moment of the film, his characters walks along the street and is bothered by some kids: "Bump", they call him. There he recognizes one of them, and says to him: "How's your mother doing?". The kid, with his friends that just criticized the man's shoes by his side, lowers his head down: "She's OK". Then the man walks away, saying: "Send her my regrets", after the best example the movie gives of the people we see everyday.
The rest of the cast, mostly not known or inexperienced actors, do their job correctly in Jim McKay's little world. What I can't understand is, still, the racism towards black people and their fights with white people. The end credits divide in squares of two colors: black and white. I hope there's no subliminal or hidden message in them and I hope HBO continues to do these movies.
From the beginning the environment is warm, with simple images and a soundtrack that stayed with me long after the film. It was then when I was taken to a restaurant, where all the employees where being informed the same would be sold and that the weeks of work remaining where few. It's a strong scene, considering the messenger being verbally attacked by the employees during the meeting, some questioning an empty future after fifteen years of work.
Some will receive the news later on, some won't even find out; because that's how it is. Anyway, it was disappointing that the film based itself on one determined situation with defined characters. I didn't expect that, because I can find it with more complexity in another movie, while in this one the ending confuses its meaning between the pleasant and the awkward.
At least the actors try to be some of what the movie wanted to show in their characters "everyday people". They get inside the deep of the ordinary, so we can see an inspired Reg Cathey as a street salesman. In probably the best moment of the film, his characters walks along the street and is bothered by some kids: "Bump", they call him. There he recognizes one of them, and says to him: "How's your mother doing?". The kid, with his friends that just criticized the man's shoes by his side, lowers his head down: "She's OK". Then the man walks away, saying: "Send her my regrets", after the best example the movie gives of the people we see everyday.
The rest of the cast, mostly not known or inexperienced actors, do their job correctly in Jim McKay's little world. What I can't understand is, still, the racism towards black people and their fights with white people. The end credits divide in squares of two colors: black and white. I hope there's no subliminal or hidden message in them and I hope HBO continues to do these movies.
- jpschapira
- Jul 17, 2005
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