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The suggestive and sexually artistic portrayal of the female form appearing at Ventnor Library, within the confines of a DVD film does at first seem not too unusual.
As a British made film that seems at first to start so surprisingly well, ‘Cashback’ can be at times rather puzzling.
It is well made and yet the characters within it seem to be totally forgetful and yet the idea of portraying insomnia as an opportunity to pause or hold time and see people not moving or in motion does suggest that the film will be interesting enough.
Loses focus of the story
However, a film that works quite well for a while, sadly throws in a rather pointless obviousness to appeal to a viewer with football and so distracts enough away from the main focus of the story, then returns to reveal a surprisingly moving side towards the second half of the film.
Director Sean Ellis does show that he understands the subject and does use ideas that although borrowed from other films and movies do work well. Sadly, if even thoughtful occasionally, the film over all seems to miss, but does show that the idea of the holding and freezing of life is rather pointless anyway.
Lacks depth
Without doubt, it would be easy to be critical of a film that has at least tried to explain what is obvious to anyone who sees beauty in the female form artistically or sexually.
Yet ‘Cashback’ is well made and filmed well enough, what it seems to want to actually say directly, it merely jokes about and eventually anything close to depth is lost, as opening though on such a poetic and quite excellent start perhaps the first three minutes achieved enough.
