Movie Review

Flex (2010)

Starring Glenn Myrick, Curtis Roberts, Dwayne Simmons, and Nugget the Dog.

Directed by Kevin Layman

Those of you who work in an office environment will easily identify with the cubicled world of Flex, and exciting and riveting short film from maverick director Kevin Layman. Layman brilliantly portrays his three characters, and their narrow world inside a small, stuffy room, where walls keep each worker 'walled off' from each other.

The stiff and robotic Curtis Roberts. How he switches hats from scene to scene. A visual reminder that hats are important to society as a reminder of the fleeting futility of life.

Roberts makes us realize that we are not alone.

Myrick and his cold pens. Who among us can say that we have never suffered this indignity? And in a time when pens are becoming passé, due to our ever-increasing reliance on technology, the pen represents a symbol of the past, of a better time.

Myrick's gloved hands remind us of our fleeting past.

The Balloon Man. Sheer brilliance. The single most awesome character in film history. He's riveting. He's captivating. He's Tom Cruise, Marlon Brando, and "Weird Al" Yankovic all in one. His silence is a silence that echoes through us all. A one-word utterance: No. He is not finished with the balloon. He needs that balloon.

We all need that balloon.

Flex is a visual tour-de-force of how we are slipping through life, forgetting about the simple things, be they pens, balloons, or your own kaleidoscopic existence.

You MUST see this movie.

September 2009. Wow.

No need to say anything else really.

Been a LONG time since anyone posted here.

That has to change.