Now, that doesn't mean that the movie was bad or crappy, far from it. Initially I had expected more of a laugh-out-loud comedy from this movie, but found myself not laughing once throughout the entire movie. At best the delivery conjures up the feeling of beauty but this is only a feeling and at worst it actually feels cold and with an air of misogyny. Cashback is no doubt a film that impresses in the delivery and Ellis deserves credit for that but there is no effective heart here, no emotion for the audience to get caught up in. The rest of the cast are reasonably good as they deliver well enough in regards comedy or whatever is asked of them. Fox is better as she has more of a real person about her but she cannot make the relationship with Ben convincing. He fits the still and deliberate presentation style but his character comes over as slightly cold and the audience don't warm to him. Biggerstaff's performance is part of the beauty but also part of the problem. But none of this can overcome the problem that the material doesn't hold the same level of emotion and beauty as his presentation of it suggests it should. His direction is really very good in terms of framing shots, freezing images and using music well to create an effective atmosphere.
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It is a real shame as well because technically Ellis has delivered a film that feels full of beauty. The concept I get and I'm not a prude but the nudity does make it feel like it is really objectifying women in a way that "appreciating" them clothed would not have done as badly.
I'm not sure why Ellis felt this would work again perhaps because he had awards showered on his short so it was never raised as an issue. The male/female relationship are mainly based on how hot the female looks and Ben himself appears to have a detached air of fascination with nudity that nothing approaching "love" can get through. This helps the film but doesn't save it because its main failing here is that I was emotionally caught up in the film partly because the characters are written with a lot of real emotion in them. The expansion delivers more of the same comic moments that are amusing but scales back a little on the nudity. From the short film (which I will not worry here) the film expands the relationship between Ben and Sharon as well as his ability to freeze time. This didn't bother me one bit because I was not too impressed by the short film of the same name and had wanted to see what could be done with it on a bigger canvas. I watched Cashback as a short film a short film that essentially then made up the first 25 minutes or so of this feature. His knack is to freeze time dead in its tracks and embrace the freedom this gives him. Some cut off all contact with clocks, some mess around and try and have fun but for Ben it is different. As with all his colleagues the mind-numbing work makes time go even slower than it normally would and each of them deals with it different ways. Ben is an art student who takes a job working nights in his local Sainsbury's to kill time after a particularly painful breakup.
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