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Title: CASHBACK
Director: Sean Ellis
Year: 2006
Reviewed: August 03, 2009
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Four Course Meal-Highest Rating |
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Now here we have a goddamn movie. Cashback is brilliant, and for what it's worth, gets a FOUR COURSE MEAL review.
This movie is hard to describe; too funny to be a drama, too serious to be a comedy. And yet that ambiguity works perfectly. It is sexy and funny and beautiful. It is hilarious and poignant and poetic, and the cinematography is astounding… some of the best I have seen in years. This is one of those rare films that you literally stumble upon; quite literally while being indecisive at a "Red Box". You will be grateful you had.
P.S. There are many people who might find this movie to be offensive. The muse of the main character, who happens to be an artist, is the female form, and this is filmed and appreciated in a completely unadulterated and adoring manner. Those that find this movie sexist or objectifying of women, are the same people who would argue that "Good Fella's" glorifies being a gangster, or "Platoon" trumpets the virtues of war, or "Romper Stomper" celebrates racisim; all of which I would kindly observe do nothing of the kind.
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