solace in cinema : A vast wasteland of movies

I'd never even heard of this film until I read a review on Twitch a couple of days ago. The Twitch boys live in Canada so they get to go to TIFF, the Toronto International Film Festival. 'Cashback' a UK production is one of the many films that has premiered there.

When art student Ben Willis is dumped by his girlfriend Suzy, he develops insomnia. To pass the long hours of the night, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket. There he meets a colorful cast of characters, all of whom have their own `art' in dealing with the boredom of an eight-hour-shift. Ben's art is that he imagines himself stopping time. This way, he can appreciate the artistic beauty of the frozen world and the people inside it - especially Sharon, the quiet checkout girl, who perhaps holds the answer to solving the problem of Ben's insomnia.

The feature film is apparently very close to the director Sean Ellis's original short of the same name, and after a bit of digging I found it online. If you've ever worked a laborious retail outlet job, you'll identify and feel the pain the characters are experiencing.

Watch the short online here (NSFW)

Read the review of the feature length version here 

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