(Flash Review)
This man, while over-analyzing his life, does a very elaborate and demented thing, he fakes his own disappearance. A man who has two twin high school girls and married out of his league....or so he believes. This last point claws at his inner self. One day on his way home from his normal job and normal life (upper middle class) he doesn't come home and doesn't answer his phone when his wife calls. He hides upstairs in the loft over his garage and watches his family through the window for a night and then two. When will he come down? What will his family do? Will he resolve his inner turmoil? This was a weird movie. As a character study, it poetically went through his emotional state and why he made this decision. While nicely told and acted by Cranston, it became a little redundant and could have used more dashes of drama. An odd and somber story with an ending that one can argue cheats the viewer.
This man, while over-analyzing his life, does a very elaborate and demented thing, he fakes his own disappearance. A man who has two twin high school girls and married out of his league....or so he believes. This last point claws at his inner self. One day on his way home from his normal job and normal life (upper middle class) he doesn't come home and doesn't answer his phone when his wife calls. He hides upstairs in the loft over his garage and watches his family through the window for a night and then two. When will he come down? What will his family do? Will he resolve his inner turmoil? This was a weird movie. As a character study, it poetically went through his emotional state and why he made this decision. While nicely told and acted by Cranston, it became a little redundant and could have used more dashes of drama. An odd and somber story with an ending that one can argue cheats the viewer.