In general, the idea behind this movie is REALLY good--it could have been a fantastic movie with only one major change.
The story involves five undereducated friends who have few hopes other than menial work for the rest of their young lives. One of them has a plan that they should all pool their money and buy a truck to start their own business. Then, with the profits they can buy more trucks and then avoid a life of menial jobs. However, they are mostly flawed individuals and despite an excellent plan to get them out of their precarious economic situation, their own psychological and emotional problems tend to sabotage their efforts. This is by far the best aspect of the film as you see them one-by-one destroy themselves until only two remain and they are able to eventually get the truck. But, even though all looks great, the fundamental problems they still have come back to haunt them--almost like they feel they MUST screw up because that is what they have convinced themselves is their destiny.
This is all very powerful, but I really had hoped the movie would have ended on a more positive note. However, this is NOT my complaint about the film. No, the biggest problem was the "hip" style of film making that they chose to employ. Horrible camera-work by drunk chimpanzees probably would have been better--with lots of jerky and cheap camera shots. This just looked amateurish--not "artsy" and really distracted from the overall effort.
If the movie were ever remade, fixing the camera problems and perhaps ironing out the story a little to make the characters a bit more realistic would really improve the effort. As it was, it still is enjoyable and worth seeing--just not great.
The story involves five undereducated friends who have few hopes other than menial work for the rest of their young lives. One of them has a plan that they should all pool their money and buy a truck to start their own business. Then, with the profits they can buy more trucks and then avoid a life of menial jobs. However, they are mostly flawed individuals and despite an excellent plan to get them out of their precarious economic situation, their own psychological and emotional problems tend to sabotage their efforts. This is by far the best aspect of the film as you see them one-by-one destroy themselves until only two remain and they are able to eventually get the truck. But, even though all looks great, the fundamental problems they still have come back to haunt them--almost like they feel they MUST screw up because that is what they have convinced themselves is their destiny.
This is all very powerful, but I really had hoped the movie would have ended on a more positive note. However, this is NOT my complaint about the film. No, the biggest problem was the "hip" style of film making that they chose to employ. Horrible camera-work by drunk chimpanzees probably would have been better--with lots of jerky and cheap camera shots. This just looked amateurish--not "artsy" and really distracted from the overall effort.
If the movie were ever remade, fixing the camera problems and perhaps ironing out the story a little to make the characters a bit more realistic would really improve the effort. As it was, it still is enjoyable and worth seeing--just not great.