Wow. If more movies could be this intruiging and this brilliantly directed the first five minutes in. We get the sense that were thrown right in the action, with the camera twisting and turning and going around corners to make it seem shady, slick, seedy and chaotic, just like one would expect a gambling town to be. We immediately meet two sets of people, and their characters are immediately portrayed as they relate to other people. We meet a naive yet cunning scumbag conman who ran away with his wifes sisters and we see him take a package out of a phone booth. We immediately see that the package was meant for someone else, but he knew how to be at the right place at the right time. He emotionally uses and abuses his wife and verbally assaults her when he doesn't get his way, even though she is letting him and his wife spend the night at her place and The other couple we meet is an old woman that lays around in bed and demands a lot of an old "submissive" man, but it is later hinted at in conversation that.
By a strange turn of events the two couples become intertwined, and the movie becomes a juxtaposition of the old and the new.
Then it becomes an even crazier set of plot twists and turns. I especially loved this movie and it kept surprising me as it became more and more absurd with every minute. No bullshit soppy moralizing, just a lot of crazy things suddenly happening to two normal people in modern day Atlantic city, a woman from Moose Jaw Saskatchewan down and out on her luck and an old who gets bitched around by his missus and through a crazy turn of events runs into some money, then love, then trouble, and finally he gets delusional when he feels like a bad ass for killling two hoodlums, something he was never able to do in Atlantic Cities bootlegging glory days.
9/10
By a strange turn of events the two couples become intertwined, and the movie becomes a juxtaposition of the old and the new.
Then it becomes an even crazier set of plot twists and turns. I especially loved this movie and it kept surprising me as it became more and more absurd with every minute. No bullshit soppy moralizing, just a lot of crazy things suddenly happening to two normal people in modern day Atlantic city, a woman from Moose Jaw Saskatchewan down and out on her luck and an old who gets bitched around by his missus and through a crazy turn of events runs into some money, then love, then trouble, and finally he gets delusional when he feels like a bad ass for killling two hoodlums, something he was never able to do in Atlantic Cities bootlegging glory days.
9/10
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