Hard Labor

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Audience Member A terrific, thoughtful and creepy film. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Mike M Rustles up some nicely creepy, insinuating bits of business - a motion-controlled Santa Claus animatronic that goes off at quiet moments, a giant hairball crawling with maggots, the fact the couple's tracksuited, retro-haircutted child looks to have been styled after the lad from "The Shining" - but a lot of scenes appear rather more keen to stress the banality or hardship of the daily grind, or the hollowness of a lifestyle as a facilitator for consumption, than they are to push the narrative on. The ending, at least, is a resonant primal scream in the face of a system that feeds us bananas and treats us like monkeys, but for the most part, "Hard Labour" scarcely realises it's the world's first haunted supermarket movie - if I were anywhere near Hollywood, I'd remake the hell out of it stat, with the suggested title "Clean-Up on Aisle Three". Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 10/31/11 Full Review Audience Member I cannot say it isnt well-made but it is a tad baffling. There is a metaphor here where the horror element meets the domestic drama of a married couple struggling in the present economic climate - even in Brazil. But it is sadly lost on me. The horror element kinda came and went without much development - if so what's the point of that? Or did I miss something? So while I dont hate the film, I was most certainly disappointed. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Unusual, interesting Brazilian film about the current labour market, told through three very different characters in the same household. The crumbling wall of Helena's store and the reason for it create an element of suspense, which struck me as unnecessary at first, but actually adds an interesting layer to the storytelling. The symbolism is a bit too much, however, and the characterizations too flat. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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