| RATING: | 80% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
Strange film about White culture that suggests Whites have no true friends that they can actually trust - especially when it comes to money. The characters here are so completely locked-up in the prison of their self-involvement that audience identification becomes problematic. The characters are insufficiently-differentiated; being little more than aspects of the same character. While true of White relationships, as a whole, it creates a bland dramatic premiss. The loneliness of the characters is unexamined as if this White norm were, in fact, normal.
However, the humor saves the day here along with the largely-successful attempt to get inside the character’s heads via slick editing an point-of-view shooting.
The plotting is correctly surprising. The problem is that no solution to the character’s plight is ever presented. And no other culture is ever presented as a necessary dramatic comparator. The writer is in the strange position of damning his own culture while knowing that he, like his characters, is permanently trapped.
Nevertheless, the actors perform their roles well; enabling us to understand that this is a tragedy that will result in no good for all because the characters want something-for-nothing; being too lazy to work for anything other than what others give them - or that they can steal. It is hardly surprising that Whites are shallow and superficial when work such as this is possible.
Like other films of this type, the audience is drawn-in by the thought of what they would do if they came into money suddenly and unexpectedly - as in a lottery win.
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