Bleak film which fails to live up to its comic intentions, says Chris Aitken.
It all begun so well - the first few minutes were an enjoyable fare, only problem was it wasn't actually part of the film but an advert for Skillset. The feature film director Viv Fongenie suggests the audience might find the real film quite dark but funny at the same time. This film is not dark. Dark is interesting. This film is probably better described as bleak. Bleak is rarely interesting - she lied.
The nuts and bolts of the story are these - Ollie Kepler, a bloke in his mid-thirties who has a passion for astronomy, loses his fiancé when she dies suddenly. As you'd expect, he doesn’t take this well. Unfortunately, despite the efforts of his two friends, this spirals until he has a breakdown, that involves an obsession with painting his flat purple, talking to cheese and eating muesli. He eventually ends up in a mental institute. He gets a bit better, but never fully recovers. This is pretty much it.
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