September 13, 2006
Tits, Ass, and Full Frontal. It's _art_ NOT porn!
Tuesday, September 12 2:00 PM PARAMOUNT 4
A short done as a side project to fill some time between movie shoots becomes more popular than either of the movies so they make it into a movie. No, really!
An aspiring artist breaks up with his girlfriend and becomes terribly afflicted with insommnia. For me, any movie with insommnia as a major plot device is a fantastic movie. This is just the first 10 minutes, though. From here the story really starts to roll. He gets a night shift job (since he has too much time and not enough money he's trading his time for money, he's getting "cashback") and meets the wacky night shift crew at the local Sainsbury's. Hilarity ensues! Once you've had enough of their hijinks and antics (it takes almost half an hour before you want to see anything else) the main story gets rolling again as he finds a new romantic interest and the courtship begins.
Along the way, the movie is literally paved with beautiful women in various states of undress. He's an artist, remember? That's what he likes to draw. So we see a lot of it. All his subjects are totally unmoving and in the midst of mundane tasks, so the sexuality of it is at a remarkable minimum and, like our hero, you can contemplate the pure beauty of what you're seeing. See the world through the eyes of an artist, and you almost feel like you are the artist. An impressive effect, truly.
The end of the movie has a fantastic scene with non-falling snow that I'll never forget and always wonder how they managed it. It looks too good to be CGI, but I can't imagine how else they would have done it...
The director said that he wanted to stay far away from "the matrix effect" since it was being ripped off even in Cheerios commercials, and that he managed his effect by picking up a can of Freeze-spray(tm) at Sainsbury's.
Definitely looking forward to more from this director. An impressive first feature film!