WILD HORSE
Garage tells us the story about Josie, an odd employee in a gas station. The plot of the film takes place in a small village from Ireland where the life goes by calm. Leonard Abrahamson shows us the stereotypes that we can find in any rural village in the middle of nowhere. Everybody knows everybody. A pub, grocery store, gas station and railways tracks will be the places where the characters will play their role. Loneliness, boredom and rudeness go with the character's feelings who yearn running away. They seem to be trapped and with few possibilities to start again in another land. Desperation will be a fact to take into account. In this context, Josie works without anxiety and lives his own world apparently happy. A horse will be almost his closest friend. Nobody understands him or even better nobody wants to understand him. An apparently insignificant event with a truck driver will change the course of the film and lead Josie to take an unexpected decision. Garage points out loneliness and the lack of understanding as the main features of the film in which the silent makes you feel that life pass slowly. The green settings and the cloudy weather surround the film increasing that feeling of loneliness and changing the characters's behavior. The film is a tragedy with comical elements which help the audience to consider Josie as pleasant character.
RAÚL PÉREZ GARCÍA CINE ANGLOAMERICANO 2009
Garage tells us the story about Josie, an odd employee in a gas station. The plot of the film takes place in a small village from Ireland where the life goes by calm. Leonard Abrahamson shows us the stereotypes that we can find in any rural village in the middle of nowhere. Everybody knows everybody. A pub, grocery store, gas station and railways tracks will be the places where the characters will play their role. Loneliness, boredom and rudeness go with the character's feelings who yearn running away. They seem to be trapped and with few possibilities to start again in another land. Desperation will be a fact to take into account. In this context, Josie works without anxiety and lives his own world apparently happy. A horse will be almost his closest friend. Nobody understands him or even better nobody wants to understand him. An apparently insignificant event with a truck driver will change the course of the film and lead Josie to take an unexpected decision. Garage points out loneliness and the lack of understanding as the main features of the film in which the silent makes you feel that life pass slowly. The green settings and the cloudy weather surround the film increasing that feeling of loneliness and changing the characters's behavior. The film is a tragedy with comical elements which help the audience to consider Josie as pleasant character.
RAÚL PÉREZ GARCÍA CINE ANGLOAMERICANO 2009