With an ingenious blend of realism and imagination, five pounds is an inventive short film oozing with truthfulness. This charming low-budget British drama offers a much more modest alternative to an over flamboyant unconvincing film. A film which was directed, written and edited by Samuel Horn, takes us on a larger than life journey around the town of Ipswich. Previously directing the unfolding drama of ‘The Lost Man’, whereby a cross dresser aids the internet to capture his victims, Samuel Horn once again creates a lifelike production through the most innovative eyes.
This down to earth film explores the saying of how one thing can affect another. Samuel horn uses an intelligent dual narrative structure to craft this film from average to inspiring. Gloria turner and Craig Clarke find themselves making decisions which will change another pair’s life forever. When Craig Clarke finds himself waiting for a bus and happily spots that five pound on the ground, little does he know he has started a sequence of events, which can only be described as fate. Why else would William Dreyfus end up in the toilet? Why else would kirsty cawdell coincidently decide to go to the cashpoint? It is a cunning climax to an one original build up.
Renowned for his woeful decision making in his previous films, Craig Clarke’s outstanding role in this makes it appear like the role was written for him and him only. Additionally without Gloria’s inspiring acting this film could have looked like a cheesy off shoot from a child’s program. Then appears the two most elegant and heart warming actors in William Dreyfus and Kirsty Cawdell. From there point of arrival your muscles starts to tense and heartbeat starts to pump faster, as you know it is going to be something special. It is no longer a mysterious unorganised piece of thriller footage, but an aesthetically pleasing piece of genius. And boy they didn’t fail to please.
In this triumphant film Samuel horn truly explores the nature of connectivity, where everything you do can be affecting the people around you. And you may not even though you’re doing it, but somewhere, somehow, you could be changing another person’s life forever. Just like in the film, whether your effectively changing there lives for the good or the bad is unknown till the very end of time. A must see drama bound to open your eyes to are interlinked world. On the other hand you could have a strong case in saying it is like a bunch of confused school kids lost in a strange part of town, but the actors outstandingly counteract this. You could have a strong argument if you felt there was no continuity or flow in the movie, but the director quite evidently meant this. You could say there are too many floors in this film to even consider it to be a great, but that would just be foolish and ironically immature!!!
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