Joel, a young man, works in an a desolate theater, with celebrity obsessed co-workers and a power hungry boss. All he wants is to catch one glimpse of 'Un Hombre Solo'; a Spanish War film they are screening at the theater, but the ...See moreJoel, a young man, works in an a desolate theater, with celebrity obsessed co-workers and a power hungry boss. All he wants is to catch one glimpse of 'Un Hombre Solo'; a Spanish War film they are screening at the theater, but the monotonous tasks of a minimum wage worker prevent him from this modest aspiration. In turns Bunuelian in nature, Joel, after suffering frustrations of working under a strange and tyrannical boss, breaks the projector and is thrust into a world that inhabits his fears and fantasies (1950s pin ups girls bathed in red light, floating monsters, disembodied helicopters and more), and ultimately ends up as the leading character in a recreation of Eugene Delacroix's 'Liberty Leading the People'. In the end, Joel ends up back in the theater, performing monotonous tasks, but his revolution (of the mind), has only just begun. It is a genre bending film, with laughs, suspense, and style, commenting on escapism in it's various forms, and proposing imagination as the means of a small revolution. Written by
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