Score: 2
"You could really be making something good."
date: December 3, 2008
This review is meant both for this movie and what I've seen of your work in general. You tend to pursue a subject matter or storyline that is of a more serious nature, relating to brutal deaths, childhood beatings, the horrible side of people, etc., but frequently try to turn it into a joke. I usually start off liking your flashes, like this one, getting drawn into the emotion of the flash and getting connected to the characters, but then you just completely ruin it by trying to make it humorous. While i could possibly see that being purposeful, like in this one, which turned just disgustingly depressing the instant the man fell, it really just screws with your audience in an unpleasant way. it makes most of your flashes much more difficult to enjoy. on the other hand, flashes like coffee break and ugly duck are BRILLIANT and sick and twisted in a very directed way. they start that way and they end that way, satisfying the viewer with exactly what they were expecting, yet shocking them all the same.
So please stick with those disturbing storylines, and just leave the attempted humor out of it. Youll go a lot farther, i promise you.
