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Paul Murphy and Simon Best turn an Indie film that they tried to make six years ago into
a comedic documentary of sorts. At least, that is the best that I can tell from what I
viewed from this low-budget flick. At times, I was not sure if it was a mockumentary
or if it was a documentary within a film itself. Well, I guess that does not matter much
because I was not really impressed with it. When I watch a film and am a little bit
confused I tend not to enjoy the film, and this was the case.
The “film” starts out with our director showing a clip from a film that they made on a
camcorder (it’s not even digital!) and it’s atrocious. It was a windy day and one can
tell because the noise that the mic is picking up throughout the filming is deafening at
times. It must have been filmed by total amateurs. The film/documentary then cuts to
present day with Paul Murphy as he has a camera crew tagging along as he goes to
inquire about a car for sale that just so happens to be sold by Australian director
Richard Franklin (Psycho 2, Hotel Sorrento) who just so happens to have writer Peter
Fitzpatrick (Hotel Sorrento, Brilliant Lies) over as his company. At this point, I still am
not sure what is reality and what is acting in this film/documentary.
Alas, the confusion is sort of somewhat explained as the film progresses. Apparently,
Paul is rounding up all of this old crew that worked on the original film with him to
re-make it from the old script. There are some funny scenes, if only mildly, and the
characters are very likeable. I particularly liked listening to the rants and ideas that
each one has in regards to the film, especially the co-director, Simon Best, who has
been working at a video store since the original film was started and left undone. I
imagine a lot of ‘would-be directors’ ended up having a mediocre career renting out
movies to casual fans and film geeks alike.
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Just a trailer.. Though its not officially released on DVD.
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The cast is rounded out by Ben Spaull as Ben, Matthew Brick as Graham, Matthew
Careri as Matt, and Wally DeBacker as Wally/Gotye. Wally, or Gotye as he likes to be
known as nowadays is allegedly a popular musician but I am not 100% positive if this is
reality or just has been scripted for the film. One particular scene that had me grinning
was when Graham (Matthew Brick) is rehearsing lines of dialogue with his mother
(Kerry Murphy) at the kitchen table and she is reading the lines and there is excessive
cursing and profanity to which Graham reads back his lines to her as if nothing is weird
in this whole exchange. Knowing how my mother is with my dirty mouth, I would have
had to rehearse my lines solo.
I guess that I just didn’t get nor appreciate the humour in this film because I was too
busy trying to figure out if this was a comedy, documentary, or both. If it was both, it
was fairly interesting and had some decent acting. It reminded me of the Christopher
Guest films, such as Best in Show and This Is Spinal Tap, but just not nearly as well-
done. The idea for the film is decent one, yet fairly common enough, but the satire
and humour in the film/documentary was not enough in either direction to leave the
viewer sure as to what type of film this is and what the directors’ intentions were
exactly. Maybe it is just me and I am not reading this movie right, but if it is just me I
am sure there are others out there that may be experiencing exactly what I am writing
about. Either way, comedy or documentary, it was an effort well-attempted.
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