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Casey Afleck as axis. Story of a family. Sense of life as illusion. Twoo brothers, some words, a car accident. Drogs and a delicate love story. A child team and a game. A factory and strange relative. Few hope drops. Slice of small common America, it is lesson about values, expectation and ways. About things and their essence, causes and social terminals. Everything as world of old story. A film about nothing, as many others. But, in same time, a definition of limits and real aspect of travel to yourself. Casey Afleck is great in a genre of gray character who makes action heavy. A film for recognize the crumbs of light in the dark of soul.

If you're a Buscemi fan, this is some good stuff! Our anti-hero Jim wanders from one calamity to the next, contemplating suicide and generally living the loser existence despite every chance he gets to break out of it.Jim is the prototype slacker; he doesn't want to do much, and what he does do never turns out very well. His girlfriend does her best to break him out of it, crisis events in his life should draw him out of it, but nothing works.Liv Tyler actually gets a chance to act in this film, and is excellent as Jim's bubbly, optimistic and pragmatic girlfriend. Her girl-next-door part is one of the best in the movie, not only because you sympathize with her efforts to hump Jim into a better mood.Good stuff, watch it if you get the chance.

...a few bright moments to break up the grey times.It's a fair representation of what so much of the midwest is about: a bit about futility, about a lifeless life, yet still containing a few bright moments. And having hope.The digital film present a dull grey-red tone to the proceedings...not engaging to the eye but it seemed to fit the mood. The characters, while not sympathetic, were nicely developed. The events, even those seemingly "large" ones, do not develop the magnitude that might be expected. But that's how life usually works.This is a much better view than the low marks indicate, but it's not great film-making either. It is a good Indie movie, and one that encourages a look at Buscemi's future projects.