The whole film is a man in his car making phone calls. Actually, that's not entirely true, there is an exciting bit where he opens a big project binder to go through the list of road closings necessary to allow for C6 (not C5) concrete to be delivered for the biggest concrete pour in Europe (outside of the Military and Nuclear industries). Most of the time he doesn't appear to be wearing his seat-belt, and sometimes (while driving at 90) he is reading from the binder while driving. It is a miracle no-one is killed.
The drama reaches a climax when we are unsure if the stop/go road closure on vale road will actually get a council permit in time for the duty officer at the police station to be informed, and in the meantime it is clear that the shuttering for one of the pour pumps is not to standard and must be fixed by an emergency crew of polish builders.
In the meantime he is also dealing with what seems to be a more minor project, the birth of his bastard child outside of his marriage, although he doesn't have a folder for that one.
In the end we don't really know if the concrete pour works out, or anything else. We are left hanging for the outcome of a plot concerning characters we don't really care about at all.
Perhaps all will be settled in a sequel - "Locke 2 - The drive home"?
The drama reaches a climax when we are unsure if the stop/go road closure on vale road will actually get a council permit in time for the duty officer at the police station to be informed, and in the meantime it is clear that the shuttering for one of the pour pumps is not to standard and must be fixed by an emergency crew of polish builders.
In the meantime he is also dealing with what seems to be a more minor project, the birth of his bastard child outside of his marriage, although he doesn't have a folder for that one.
In the end we don't really know if the concrete pour works out, or anything else. We are left hanging for the outcome of a plot concerning characters we don't really care about at all.
Perhaps all will be settled in a sequel - "Locke 2 - The drive home"?
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