No. 37 (2021) LAPSIS. MAY 15th.

 

Film No. 37 (2021)  May 15th.  11:00 AM  Cinema 5 LUNA,  Leederville. 

"The best cablers are the ones who aren't afraid to challenge their status quo" (The automated voice-over drumming company mottos into the psyches of their employees).

LAPSIS is not to be taken literally, but it's to be taken seriously, even with it's dry, tongue in cheek delivery.

This film is a comment on where our business community has led us (western world). How did we get here and why did we fall for the corporate smoke screen? The key to this low-key, science fiction powder keg of a film is the subtle technique Noah Hutton (DEEP TIME) uses to make his point. It's clever and makes me wonder; if more documentary film makers turned their hands to fiction would more magic happen?

Meet Ray (Dean Imerial), he wants to provide the health care his ailing brother needs in a system where only the wealthy thrive. Ray begins his quest to make extra dollars by accepting a job with a veracious telecommunications giant laying cable by the most primitive means possible, towing a spool through wilderness. Absurd I know, but LAPSIS is not to be taken at face value. It's to be taken seriously, because once Anna (Madeline Wise) appears in Dean's "wheelhouse" as the voice of reason Dean himself begins to question his predicament.

LAPSIS requires a second viewing if you leave the cinema impressed but replaying scene after scene in your head trying to reconcile the concluding sequences. I need to view it again.  Ray is an innocent everyday man who is being taken for a ride without his knowledge. There are characters we meet along the way who aren't who we (or for that matter Ray) think they are. I need to meet them again so that I can unravel more strands of the puzzle that is LAPSIS.  10GUMS.