A sensation! Ordinary people watch movies about ordinary people on TV! Finally! The European film is not about freaks, but about almost "real" people - a reservation caused by the remoteness of the film. 40 years ago – a time almost legendary, covered with nobility and heroism.
So, we're watching a TV movie — that's not why all the workshops are doing very well. No, all professionals and therefore the required level of quality is maintained - it is a pity that it is initially low. So I want a full-fledged development of a plot about people, ordinary people, their usual fears and ordinary dramas and tragedies. That’s what’s at the heart of the story: the beginning of “I’ve had enough!” and the happy ending of “Nothing to Lose.” But in European terms, it is more tolerant, or perhaps closer to the truth.
These were praises, now about shortcomings: the plot does not show the premises of the “happy end” at all, and if in “Nothing to Lose” it was formed from single factors, whose reliability can be described binaryally – yes / no, there was / was – then here the factors are more “psychologically social”, and therefore do not lend themselves to binary justification – a number of actions / relationships are necessary for reliability. This is not the case, so the ending looks crumpled and alien to the body of the narrative.
Shortly before this picture, I watched “The Beast” by Michael Pearcy and there, against the background of the already familiar freakishness of the characters of European cinema (for a long time I thought that the British film community had passed this cup, and no), I thought – after all, life makes animals of us everywhere and all the time – why there are no films about the cleavage of the spring of an ordinary person – why fall to the freaks? And then there's a peer-reviewed film, quite satisfying the wishes, if ...
If there was a bigger budget or more time to work out takes, maybe a director of some Michael Pierce - but only kept from the extremes of creativity by someone like a TV producer - then finally it would be a real film about real people, with the expression "I've had enough!", the emotionality of "The Beast", with a chain of incentive-explaining "hooks" as in "The Beast" but with the absence of hyperbolization in the actions of GG and strongly psychological extremes.
The film is not necessary to watch, I am waiting for this plot to develop into a film of the sample of a talented “reflection of life”. The same is not talented and almost "display".
5 out of 10