A simple social “kitchen” drama, shot for pennies (or at least pretending to be) about the everyday everyday life of modern “kids” from East London. The film is about ultimate realism. The camera seems to be watching people for routine activities: here they drink in the kitchen, talking about all sorts of nonsense, here they hang out at a party, here they work in the workshop. And it seems that nothing special happens, just like in life or in Chekhov’s sketches. However, something is changing gradually.
The viewer gets used to the semi-documentary manner and inconvenient angles, and scene after scene, we are drawn into what is happening with our heads, merging with the characters and imbuing them with their empty, at first glance, life. This would not have happened if not for the stunningly realistic performance of actors, primarily Aiden Gillen and Kate Ashfield. Dialogues are built luxuriously: they have everything - and humor, and indecision of the first acquaintance, perfectly played awkward and baffling situations.
The slogan of the film is “About Life and Love”. I'd add, about growing up. Thirty-year-old “teenagers”, ochlamons and scoundrels are already living an independent life, earning quite well, but they can not grow up, decide, find their place in life. The protagonist Frank (Aidan Gillen), a freelance artist, at first does not even notice this, but a meeting with the same restless thirty-year-old “girl” Ruby (Kate Ashfield), whom he seems to be falling in love with for the first time in his life (perhaps not very much, as much as he is capable of—and there is a life truth to that too), seems to open his eyes as he sees his own reflection in Ruby’s uncertainty. Frank knows it's time to change, but he doesn't know how. This makes him very vulnerable, leading to conflict with himself.
The name of the picture comes from the image of the aircraft entering the landing. "When I see the plane going down, I think it's about to go down," Frank says. “I’m thinking about the people who are going on vacation,” Ruby says. This may be the essence of the picture: Kate wants change, Frank fears it, but realizes it’s inevitable because the plane can’t stay in flight forever. And the eternal teenager will have to become a man.
7 out of 10