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Garage

  • 06-01-2009 3:38pm
    #1
    Nick_oliveri
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    Anyone see "Garage" with Pat Shortt last night on Film4? Its by the same writer/director as "Adam and Paul" and its just as, if not more memorable.
    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0878674/

    Shortt plays a man living on his own with learning disabilities. While he is incredibly kind hearted, everything seems to get the better of him.

    Very hard film to watch, very awkward the whole way through and Tom Hickey plays a great small part in it that will break your heart. Shortt pulls off the part very well even down to the way he walks, smiles and avoids conflict.

    A must see TBH.


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  • #2
    Basq
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    Very impressive performance by Shortt.. he should do drama more often and get away from that Killinaskully muck.

    The film left me feeling a bit cold and depressed - suppose it was meant to.

    It's a powerful film, and it is a must see alright.


  • #3
    ziedth
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    I don't mean togo against the flow but I thought it was a pile of cock, Now granted I have a pure hate for Pat Short prob didn't help but I will say I thought he was fairly impressive given his fairly limited range as a comedian.

    IMO its just trying to hard, I'm not a fan of these type of movies so TBF i'm not their target audience.


  • #4
    i71jskz5xu42pb
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    Great film, Shortt was excellent and the film nailed a certain type of Irish country town pretty well.

    Tom Hickey I don't even remember being in it? Remind me, it's driving me spare.


  • #5
    Pigman II
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    Haven't seen it yet. Gonna wait for the American remake "Car Hold" (starring Billy Bob Thornton).


  • #6
    johnny_ultimate
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    ziedth wrote: »
    I don't mean togo against the flow but I thought it was a pile of cock, Now granted I have a pure hate for Pat Short prob didn't help but I will say I thought he was fairly impressive given his fairly limited range as a comedian.

    IMO its just trying to hard, I'm not a fan of these type of movies so TBF i'm not their target audience.

    I have pretty much the same opinion as you here. Fair play to Shortt - he does give a good performance. But the film itself just didn't appeal to me. Again, not the target audience - I have a thing against films set in rural Ireland as I just can't relate to them at all (I blame an Irish Cinema class I had in college). But here, I just felt the film took a long time to get across what was in essence a very simplistic message about the main character not belonging in society. There were good moments of dark comedy at times, but the themes of rural isolation just didn't engage or resonate with me all that much. A well made film, and credit where credit is due, but I found Adam & Paul to be more effective.


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  • #7
    pixelburp
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    No, I also hated it & thought it a needlessly bitter attack against the idea of the small rural Irish community. Shortt plays the character very well & certainly anyone from the country would recognise him in their own town, but the whole exercise smacked of either a Dublin person's idea of the isolated rural community, or some bitter ex-resident who left to pursue his script writing career & is looking back at the time when he was the pretentious pariah.

    I am a rural person, from Monaghan in fact so I know all about those piddly little parishes with just a petrol pump & shop to its name (hell I come from one technically), but the way the film presented this community as a turgid grey lump inhabited by depressed ghouls was just plain nasty.

    I would go so far as to suggest that this film is in many ways a product of the Celtic Tiger syndrome & its associated attitude; it seems to be declaring "ho ho, look how horrible life is outside of our nice suburbia, what a glorious peepshow it is for us".


  • #8
    i71jskz5xu42pb
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    pixelburp wrote: »
    No, I also hated it & thought it a needlessly bitter attack against the idea .....

    Sure it played to the more depressing side of small country life but I don't think it's objective was to so say that's all there is to country life. I don't think the characters portrayed or the tedium of their lives is inaccurate - I too come from a small town and know these people, I'm sure you do too.
    That's not to say there is not a different, much better side to country life. But it's a bit much to expect one film to be able to span all aspects. Adam & Paul for example (another great film) focused on one aspect of city life - I don't think anybody would walk away thinking that that summed up city life in its entirety. Was it also a product of Celtic Tiger syndrome?


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