A Technical Triumph

First up, I don't care one bit for this movie, the plot is a little muddled, and I don't care for alot of the characters.

However,

I don't know when I have seen such technical craft and quality on an unbelievable $20k budget. Yes I get that alot of people obviously did not get paid, but it gives you an idea of how when creativity and skill are leveraged to the maximum, you can get amazing results.

I have NEVER seen a 16mm (blown up to 35mm) look so clear and clean. Yes there is some grain, and no, I did not see it in a movie theater. But this is shot extremely well. The sound has just enough "city presence" to work without sounding overdone, typical of low-budget productions. Indoor sound is clean with no echos--and I know sound, doing voice-overs for years. The irish-themed music might be a little redundant, but it works.

Whether you like the story and plotting or not, this is so heads above a 16mm TV movie, or something on Lifetime, or anything else.

However you want to look at, it shows you how much money is wasted in Hollywood for production. Even if, say, 30 main people were involved with a project like this, and you paid them an average of $10k, and you had to pay for a few locations, you still would not have cracked the half a million mark for production. What the heck is made for 1/2 a million?

So many stories that could be told using this format!