Sebastain (George Babluani) is a 22 year old builder working on an alcoholic gangster's house. When the alcoholic drops dead he decides to take up the opportunity of riches by following a set of instructions he finds in the house intended for the dead man. This leads him to a dark and disturbing world where human life is highly expendable.
The film form(i.e editing, cinematography mise etc) was excellent and the use of black and white film gave it an eerie quality. However, the story was completely over the top and highly unbelievable (unlike the scene in Deer Hunter which this has ripped the idea from) therefore I was totally unable to suspend my disbelief whilst watching it.
Surely there are'nt people in 'real life' who would sacrifice their reputations, their lives, their freedom and standing in society to attend such grotesque betting events as punters. Moreover, would they really have felt safe standing in a room full of men with partially loaded guns which could be turned on them at any time? In addition, surely Sebastian would not have been so cool, calm and collected in this situation, I am sure the majority of people would have point blank (excuse the pun) refused to take part, vomited, screamed, shouted and done anything to avoid doing that even if it meant a nasty punishment. Also, why did the main rival to Sebastian really think that he was invincible when the odds were so stacked against him. There are no special skills you can acquire which will provide you with longevity and thus riches, its a game of chance and all they can do is pull the trigger and hope for the best.
To conclude, nice techniques, film was shot well etc , but the story was ridiculously unrealistic and in the end predictable.
The film form(i.e editing, cinematography mise etc) was excellent and the use of black and white film gave it an eerie quality. However, the story was completely over the top and highly unbelievable (unlike the scene in Deer Hunter which this has ripped the idea from) therefore I was totally unable to suspend my disbelief whilst watching it.
Surely there are'nt people in 'real life' who would sacrifice their reputations, their lives, their freedom and standing in society to attend such grotesque betting events as punters. Moreover, would they really have felt safe standing in a room full of men with partially loaded guns which could be turned on them at any time? In addition, surely Sebastian would not have been so cool, calm and collected in this situation, I am sure the majority of people would have point blank (excuse the pun) refused to take part, vomited, screamed, shouted and done anything to avoid doing that even if it meant a nasty punishment. Also, why did the main rival to Sebastian really think that he was invincible when the odds were so stacked against him. There are no special skills you can acquire which will provide you with longevity and thus riches, its a game of chance and all they can do is pull the trigger and hope for the best.
To conclude, nice techniques, film was shot well etc , but the story was ridiculously unrealistic and in the end predictable.