SPOILERS
F-F-P begins by showing us various groups of people on the last day of the year. A card tells us that all conversation is improvised, so that explains much of the weirdness we are about to encounter. One dude picks up his brother when he is released from jail. Employees of a fish store bicker about where to go after work. We also keep seeing some woman who has a dead body on the floor, and she drags it around the apartment, dressing and undressing it. Would have been interesting to find out what happened, but it's not to be. The lighting is quite dark, probably to set the mood of the film. The downside is that the viewer has a hard time seeing anyone's facial expression when they react to people or events around them. Not a lot of plot here.. .kind of a free-form see where it goes. This seems to be a composite film. Three people, Bush, Kline, Mann, directed their own segments (?), which are joined up the final scene. This ends with the New Year's Eve party, and that's the last 40 minutes of the film. It's more experimental art than a coherent story. One has to sit back and watch it as it happens. I had seen Conal Byrne (Ben) in "The Reconstruction of William Zero", which had a tighter storyline. According to IMDb, he and Dan Bush have collaborated on numerous projects. Sex and violence. Not for the faint of heart. Also not for those who need a solid, scripted story. Awkwardness as all these drunks meet for the first time. You feel the misunderstandings and miscommunication as (buzzed) party-goers try to talk to one another. Pretty much a day in the life of all these people.
F-F-P begins by showing us various groups of people on the last day of the year. A card tells us that all conversation is improvised, so that explains much of the weirdness we are about to encounter. One dude picks up his brother when he is released from jail. Employees of a fish store bicker about where to go after work. We also keep seeing some woman who has a dead body on the floor, and she drags it around the apartment, dressing and undressing it. Would have been interesting to find out what happened, but it's not to be. The lighting is quite dark, probably to set the mood of the film. The downside is that the viewer has a hard time seeing anyone's facial expression when they react to people or events around them. Not a lot of plot here.. .kind of a free-form see where it goes. This seems to be a composite film. Three people, Bush, Kline, Mann, directed their own segments (?), which are joined up the final scene. This ends with the New Year's Eve party, and that's the last 40 minutes of the film. It's more experimental art than a coherent story. One has to sit back and watch it as it happens. I had seen Conal Byrne (Ben) in "The Reconstruction of William Zero", which had a tighter storyline. According to IMDb, he and Dan Bush have collaborated on numerous projects. Sex and violence. Not for the faint of heart. Also not for those who need a solid, scripted story. Awkwardness as all these drunks meet for the first time. You feel the misunderstandings and miscommunication as (buzzed) party-goers try to talk to one another. Pretty much a day in the life of all these people.
