Back at Tribeca 2014, a quirky Irish short film featuring a man obsessed with winning the scratch off lottery made our best of the festival list. Daniel called it, “somewhere between Clerks and the dark comedies of Martin McDonagh,” and there’s really no better description than that. Obviously the gas station setting is a big cultural cue for those of us who fell in love with Kevin Smith’s black and white, existentially angsty indie, but instead of crass set ups and attitudes, Scratch features a dry comedy laced into an absurd story. The two leads are still lovable slackers with romantic issues, but now they’re facing a shotgun that might be fake, a lottery ticket that might be a winner and a robber that they probably know. Small towns make bandit masks meaningless. All of it flows with a nice sitcom sensibility that allows something that might normally be played for trauma with a shrug...
- 2/10/2015
- by Scott Beggs
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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