Having recently lost her husband, a young mother is trying to protect her children from poverty and her little town’s underworld.
Goddamn poverty! Goddamn misery! Goddamn drugs! Regardless of which triggers which and in what order, the defining opening shot is somehow immediately understood by the shots that follow it. Or is it?
Writer/director of Road Games (2015), Abner Pastoll, directs a gritty Irish thriller with a realistic plague, a surrealist villain, and a down-to-earth heroine who has to put up with both while protecting her children. And what a heroine’s journey that is…
Pastoll creates a dark yet healthy environment for the audience yet healthy for the actors to showcase their chemistry and shine in front of the camera. Sarah Bolger, Edward Hogg, and Andrew Simpson lead the way, but the rest of the cast follows and supports them as they should to create this thrilling crime/drama. I greatly respect the whole crew that managed to bring this low-budget indie film to life.
Now… I cannot not comment on the dildo… probably the weirdest use(s) I’ve seen outside comedy. Firstly, it is unintentionally funny. Or dramatically funny – is there such a thing? Stealing your kids’ batteries from their toys to put them in your vibrator because you are a recently widowed young mum with urges isn’t funny… just funnily portrayed. Come on, I mean, I am sure they knew the mixed reactions the scene would stimulate. On the other hand, stabbing someone’s eye with the same vibrator you satisfy yourself to save yourself from rape is nothing but ironic (but relieving nonetheless).
Despite your feelings towards it, at least you’ll witness a security system that uses VHS, and you’ll learn what a metaphor is…
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