July 21, 2004
Slasher
Tivo has been giving me great opportunities for movie watching. It's great.
A couple of weeks ago, I saw Ebert and Roeper review Slasher, a production by Jonathan Landis, surprisingly enough. It was on IFC the next day, so I couldn't resist Tivo-ing it.
Slasher is about a car salesman. He slashes prices. Get it? But he's not just any care salesman - he is hired out to go to auto centers across the country and help them sell cars in a slasher sale.
This guy is such an interesting character. He has a loving wife and kids, and he truly loves them and wants to be their provider. But then you see another side of him when he's out selling cars. He's got a gruff voice, gets loud when drunk, and is a relatively difficult person to get along with. We follow him to a slasher sale, watching him set up (even with a DJ), and watching him in action, in a tux.
The interesting thing is the surroundings of the places he travels to. What can he do, when he's ready to sell cars, but everyone in the area has poor credit or no money, and all of them are at the sale because they heard that they were giving away $88 cars (there were only 2)?
Anyway, interesting idea for a movie. I enjoyed it for the most part.
Posted by wendytime at July 21, 2004 12:10 PM | TrackBack