Movie Review – Cashback

When Mr. BB require us to write a movie review, I have considered a lot of different choices, like ‘The Day After Tomorrow’, Spiderman, and much more older films which were my favourite movie. However, I still decided to do a review on a recent movie, just to make it more interesting and easier to attract other people’s attention. The reason I chose to do a review on the movie ‘Cashback’ is because it’s the first artistic movie that I like. I personally think that it’s very meaningful. Although it’s rated as an ‘18sx’ film and many people has prejudiced towards it for containing nudity scenes, but the main interesting scope of the movie is the meaningfulness. This film is directed by Sean Ellis and Sean Biggerstaff plays the main character in the film, which is Ben. The movie started with Ben as an art college student in London who just broke up with his girlfriend. After the break up, Ben started wondering about what is love when he found out that her girlfriend was already together with someone else and even slept with that guy. The story started with a question by Ben : ‘What is love anyway?’ The break up made Ben suffer from insomnia for several continuous nights. This extra eight hours which was supposed to be used as sleeping time made Ben to decide to work in a supermarket, exchanging time for money, which is why the movie is named ‘Cashback’. Ben had the power to stop time. Every night in the supermarket, he will stop the time and draws a naked poster of all the customers in the supermarket by removing their clothing. He liked the idea of nakedness of women body ever since he was small where his parents rented a room to a Swedish girl and he saw that naked girl walked pass him to her room. He thought : ‘It was one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. So, as an art student who likes to draw, plus his fondness towards nakedness, he will draw a naked poster for every female customer and keeps them. When he is done and wants to resume the time, what he has to do is just simply crack his fingers. The story progresses as his working days in the supermarkets keep going on with funny things happening. Here is a link to one of the funniest scene in the movie, just in case if you all are interested : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9EPJqbJj2s . Then, he fell in love with the girl working as a cashier in the same supermarket, Sharon. The story ends when both of them are finally together after some misunderstandings, and in my humble opinion, I thought the story ended perfectly. The ending was when Ben froze the time, dragged Sharon out to the stagnant snow( it was snowing ) and having a background voice : “Once upon a time I wanted to know what love was, now I just have to say that it is wrapped in the beauty and hidden away in the seconds of your life. If you don’t stop for a minute, you might miss it!” The connection between the question of Ben in the starting of the story and the answer in the ending of the story was exactly the reason I think the movie is very meaningful. I enjoyed it, if you guys are interested, I strongly recommend it to you and hope you will like it too.