beautiful!!

a sort of morality tale for the post-modern age with all the shortcomings of humanity in full display..

a tale of a down-on-his-luck man at the end of his rope fighting to hold on to his sanity, yet only managing to dig a deeper hole for himself with every single failed attempt to cover his tracks, and ultimately ending up in a downward spiral which almost cost him his life..

every step of the protagonist's anguished nightmare is portrayed with such a sublimely deft touch of honesty, that the whole thing seem uncomfortably realistic..

spoilers (these are some of the most touching scenes in my humble opinion):

1. saving a man in his automobile in the very midst of trying to commit suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning..

2. being invited to go out to meet a couple of chicks at a local honky-tonk, because why not? 'look at us, man'.. <---laughter and tears right there..

3. our protagonist being asked for a $15,000 loan right out of the blue and then being stiffed with the check of his buddy's night of boozing and dancing..

4. catching his newfound so-called 'buddy' in the very act of robbing him in his own home and then being subjected to a painfully unconvincing attempt at denial by said 'buddy'.. a scene tragic, comical and just plain ridiculously sublime all at once..

5. the 'oh fawk' expression of disbelief on our protagonist's face when the cabin owner's little girl catches him in the shed behind the cabin as he then attempts to calm her down and assure her that he means her no harm by talking to her in english, only to discover that she only speaks french.. ah the cruel and sadly comical fate of a desperate man!

6. coming face to face with the owner of the cabin he's just broken into, robbed and fled from and 'pretending' the boots he's wearing somehow belong to him and not to the owner of the cabin he's just taken them from.. one of the most awkwardly hilarious scenes I have ever seen..

7. our protagonist's futile attempt to dispose of a dead body in the middle of a frozen lake with a couple of bystanders watching him at close range trying to crack the layer of ice to sink the evidence, thus forcing the couple into a hasty retreat with the implication of: 'oh *beep* honey, run.. we didn't se a thing, man'.. sheer genius right there in that scene!



it wasn't the fall from her 16th-floor penthouse that killed her, it was the landing