Will, Save Me


This film is completely underrated.

It's a film similar to Will Keenan and Patrick Hasson's Waiting, as well as Adrien Brody's Restaurant and the classic film Breaking Away, which are all about young adults who are stuck and know they're stuck, with little or no chance of breaking free.

Death By Pizza (Delivered) is about an intelligent, free-thinking, artistic young adult who is stuck and waiting, bitter at the world's hypocrisy and bitter at his own lack of direction and desire. He meets his nemesis, another intelligent young adult who's so bitter, he's chosen the path of crime. Both end up helping each other to free themselves of their bitterness, which enables them to get unstuck.

For these young adults, getting unstuck, or, breaking free, can mean both forging ahead into life, and plunging downward into death.

Will's life is filled with the trademarks of a young "stuck" adult: a soul-sucking, sweaty, under-paying job, crude customers, an ex-girlfriend who left him because he was unmotivated, a partial college education with no degree, a house filled with self-made art, and of course the new "friend" whose...ungodly choices...help you to save yourself.

I'm going to rip the subtitles and post some quotes soon. There's some moments of great dialogue in this film.



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The first time I saw this movie it was on USA & I think I've loved it ever since. The ending, I admit was a bit cliche, but it worked. The dialogue is great, I mean, how many movies, now, do you see a killer use someone else, practically a stranger as sort of his muse in the sense that he was acting out his "lyrics".

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I first saw this movie in USA too! It was originally titled Death By Pizza, and at the time, I gleefully & ruefully thought, "Death By Popcorn!" because I was slaving away in a movie theatre.

I never forgot about this film, because of that cliché ending, and because I actually experienced something similar to what happened in the film. I was surrounded by people just like that, and I was Will.

Anyway, it's not very often you find a low-low-low-budget film that strikes that reality chord. Usually low-low-low-budget films are...exaggerated.

Rest In Peace, David Strictland. I'm sure this film meant a lot to you, a lot of you is in it, and I'm sorry no one around you tried to save you. But in your death, David, you've saved others.

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