Based on the 2004 short film of the same name, Supermarket Sleepless won the 78th Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film at the 78th Academy Awards in 2006, as well as a number of other international film festival awards. The short film version mainly tells how the night shift staff of the supermarket use their own way to pass the 8 hours. It is full of all kinds of fantasies, funny passages of typical British cold humor, and some sexual and nudist elements.
Movie posters
The surprising quietness of this movie, combined with the narration of the protagonist, can easily bring you in the middle of the night or on a rainy day.
However, quiet does not mean bland, on the contrary, the plot of the movie is very attractive to every audience, which is mixed with light comedy plot, and the subtle emotional narrative line makes you feel that you will not be bored while anqing.
The melancholy male protagonist after the loss of love
The film begins in a slow motion, which frames a roaring girl with a closed lip, her eyes wide with anger... The high-pitched female voices of the opera are accompanied by this silent slow motion. Then there was the boy's expression of trying to justify something, then a water cup and a table lamp that smashed into the camera. Without needing too much language, without needing too much explanation, we all know that the male protagonist Ben is in love. This is a very typical love story beginning (the hero always loses love at the beginning), but the atypical picture style and musical style make this typical beginning very unusual. From the very beginning, the film flaunts the spirit of being a stand-alone film, even if it is still just a clichéd love story.
Ben after the loss of love
The most prominent part of the film is the performance of those supporting characters, whether it is Ben's new girlfriend who does not like to talk, Ben's childhood friend with excess hormones, the two weird boys in the supermarket who are full of strange ideas, or the stripper who spent 200 yuan, and even the supermarket manager, each of them has a good performance story, making this film a very good comedy after removing the love story.
Fun partners working together
The ending is also the happy ending that we are willing to accept, and the male protagonist Ben walks out of the days of lost love, no longer suffering and insomnia day and night. At Ben's own exhibition, he and Sharon eventually became a family.
Happy ending
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