For anyone's first movie, this is a good attempt. Unfortunately, it falls short of movie goer's expectations.
The lines are at times delivered well at other times they are completely flat and break the momentum. The filming is often too slow paced and has too many brooding pans of the characters. Little details are missed - the school where Sam works never has anybody walking by on the outside shots (in fact gives the impression of being deserted) and we only ever see two kids on the inside shots.
Spoiler: The plot is also underdeveloped. What is presented as a relationship movie suddenly turns eerie in the middle with the ex showing up. Other characters try to carry subplots but these never develop nor do they support the main story.
Conclusion: Not worth watching for pleasure, but a good movie to analyze if you want to produce an independent film. To get some idea of what the writer/director was trying to get across in the movie read some of the 10/10 comments posted by "people not associated with the film".
The lines are at times delivered well at other times they are completely flat and break the momentum. The filming is often too slow paced and has too many brooding pans of the characters. Little details are missed - the school where Sam works never has anybody walking by on the outside shots (in fact gives the impression of being deserted) and we only ever see two kids on the inside shots.
Spoiler: The plot is also underdeveloped. What is presented as a relationship movie suddenly turns eerie in the middle with the ex showing up. Other characters try to carry subplots but these never develop nor do they support the main story.
Conclusion: Not worth watching for pleasure, but a good movie to analyze if you want to produce an independent film. To get some idea of what the writer/director was trying to get across in the movie read some of the 10/10 comments posted by "people not associated with the film".