Ambition (1991/II)

Regisseur:

Hal Hartley

Drehbuchautor:

Hal Hartley (writer)

Genre:

Komödie | Drama | Kurzfilm

Plot:

This short film was packaged on video with Hartley's featurette "Surviving Desire." It follows a day...

Plot Keywords:

Independent Film

Nutzerkommentare:

Average

Besetzung

George Feaster
Hannah Sullivan		(as Patricia Sullivan)
Rick Groel
James Michael McCauley
David Troup
Chris Buck
Margaret Mendelson
Julie Kessler		(as Julie Sukman)
Lasker
Bill Sage
Larry Meistrich
Michael McGarry
Casey Finch
Adam Bresnick
Elizabeth Feaster

Länge:

UK:9 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Altersfreigabe:

UK:PG

Firma:

Alive from Off Center

Dialogzitate:

Voice-over: Dwell on uncomplicated beauty: The landscape, the sun on your face. Nothing touches you. Keep the image of your death cheerfully before you at all times. Gain perspective. Seek to clarify and comfort, not to obscure or mystify. Your aspirations are pointless; your ambitions come to nothing.

Average

I like Hal Hartley's stuff and this short film definitely has his signature on it but something's lacking. Basically it's a day in the life of this guy whom the whole world is literally against. Walking to work he must fight for survival against every passerby including one wielding an automatic weapon. Hartley plays with form; shots repeat themselves one after another and one scene has an actor mouthing but not actually saying his angry side of a conversation. Unfortunately there's no real meat to sink your teeth into with this film. It's very similar in style and theme to Hal Hartley's Theory Of Achievement which was made around the same time and is a much better short film.