Lift

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Audience Member 'Lift' is set at the turn of the millennium and follows the story of Larry, a pizza delivery operative, who is drawn into the world of PMT (pre-Millennial Tension) and ETH UFOlogy and becomes convinced that UFOs are going to arrive on New Years Day 2000 CE at a black post box in the town of Rachel, Nevada. His journey is undertaken variably by car, on foot, on motorbike and by hitching lifts. The film has (perhaps deliberately) student-film-like, budget-free B-movie production values which goes for the sound quality as well as the visuals. Its style is that of a folk tale - Larry the almost perpetually silent central character, is merely a link between a series of messages conveyed by the characters he meets one after the other in the desert. The desert folk he meets - the reasons for their being in the middle of a sandy nowhere in the blistering heat remaining largely inexplicable - each take the form of an eccentric representative of a subculture. Initially beginning with his goth fling who wants to make love to aliens, there follows a couple who are pursuing "voluntary extinction" of the human race, the gun-toting conspiracy theorist who trots out a breathless jumble of theories about the New World Order, the peyote dealer dressed up as Santa to name but a few. The blank-faced protagonist passes them all by, their ideas he appears to consider unimportant or crazy, despite his own belief that he must be at the designated spot on time to meet with the flying saucers. There is one character he meets in the story that he begins to relate to a little and opens up to; she's the only one he cares enough about to eventually attempt to convert, and when she doesn't believe him he rejects her as quickly as he has done his job and all the others he's met. Its only at the end of the film, when he's standing at the post box on New Year's Eve waiting for dawn, where not even the people who created the theory have turned up, that he actually begins to think. Yes it's a crummily-filmed B-movie, but yes I'm giving it 5 stars because of my own personal enjoyment of it, and the fact that in various circles I've actually met many of the same type of characters represented in the film. It's a film about selfishness really, how important one's beliefs are and how important belief is in in the context of relations with other people you share your life with. Further reading (non-fiction!) on some of the various theories spouted by the characters encountered (including the various cults that have really waited for the flying saucers to come) can be found in Kevin McClure's "Fortean Times" Book of the Millennium and at www.end-times.bravehost.com Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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