What a gem!


I just stumbled upon this looking for stuff to watch on Amazon Prime streaming. I'd never heard of it before. At first I was a bit put off by the fact that it was full screen, that it looked like I was watching an old VHS, and that it seemed low-budget at first, but it quickly won me over and I wound up loving it.

There are so many clever, unique ideas in this that I can't believe no one ever stole for other films--at least not any films that I'm aware of or that I recall.

Cool soundtrack from Simon Jeffes and Penguin Cafe Orchestra, too, although I wish there had been a bit more music in it.

And speaking of stealing things, how about the "telephone tone" ostinato for the "mobile trash bin" scene? Spacehog stole that for their 1995 hit, "In the Meantime": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDkhl-CgETg

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