A good movie

Pretty often when people notice that I’m so crazy about movies, they ask why I never tried to work in the film industry. I actually did try, about 7 years ago. Indeed, I spent a year at the NFTA (Nederlandse Film en Televisie Academy, I think they have changed the name since then and nowadays it is called the NFA) following a training as production-assistant. It was definitely a great experience and if I didn’t try this, I would probably have spent the rest of the life wondering what would have happened if it did give it a shot. Still, even though it was really pretty neat to learn all the tricks of the game, I realized it wasn’t meant for me. Indeed, making a movie is a group effort, you have to constantly compromise with a whole bunch of people and since I’m a seriously lacking in social skills, I didn't try to further continue this career. The fact that I really didn’t connect with the other students didn’t help either. Still, during this training, I worked on 3 movies and this movie was the one which had the most potential to be really awesome. Indeed, on paper, it sounded great, some kind of dark and pathetic comedy reminiscent of the Coen brothers. Unfortunately, the end-result was just decent and only mildly funny. I mean, I did like the whole thing but it could and should have been much better than this. Still, to conclude, even though it never really reached its full potential, I still think it is a pretty good flick and it is definitely worth a look.


7/10