Sample People (2000)
9/10
film students take note : WHAT NOT TO DO
11 May 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Incredible that such a film was made with such talented actors (all twelve of them) and such a terrible script. The story can best be called juvenile - feels like the first attempt of an eighteen year old with no experience and big self delusions. The script completely falls apart in the last ten minutes, reducing itself to inappropriate clichés such as guns and overdoses (what is she exactly overdosing on? - seems more like epilepsy). Why did a bunch of experienced actors agree to participate? Perhaps it was money? But who would be stupid enough to finance this? The film is further compromised by being filmed in Adelaide and thereby loses all "scene credibility" (Dogs in Space holds up better). The shots of Sydney are transparently introduced at various intervals.

There are one or two interesting scenes that ring true. Otherwise this movie feels like a telemovie. And why are the colours so enhanced and blurry? What did this achieve? PS: I gave this 9/10 because i'm horribly biased (towards Australian counter culture films however abysmal).
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