A new Australian film has reduced audiences to tears with its traumatic storyline. The director of The Nothing Men, which looks into brutal workplace bullying at a factory, said that he wanted to open people's eyes to how bleak the world can be. Mark Fitzpatrick told Aap: "I'm the most peaceful guy in the world, but I want to show you how not to treat people. People have become far more inhumane since I wrote this film. It's deliberately shocking - for better or for worse. "People say it's crass and depicting inhumanity, and I've been told that the characters in the film don't exist, but I tell you I've seen them. I've seen those kind of people gang up and I've seen workshop brutality and discrimination. Workplaces are far worse to work (more)...
- 8/12/2010
- by By Rebecca Davies
- Digital Spy
It's been a while since I saw an early cut of this film -- at the Dungog Film Festival in 2008 -- and The Nothing Men is finally recut and shined up to screen in Australian cinemas in August.
Best described as a cross between the working class world of Mike Leigh and the brooding, claustrophobic man's world of David Mamet, The Nothing Men is the debut feature of Mark Fitzpatrick.
Here's the synposis:
As a hardened crew of factory workers struggle to see out the last two weeks before their redundancy windfalls, panic runs through the ranks with the arrival of a mysterious man sent to join them. Suddenly fearful that their drinking and gambling will be exposed by the head-office "spy" and rob them of their money, top dog Jack (Colin Friels) and the men descend into a compelling world of antagonism and brutality.
The intrigue and anxious second-guessing...
Best described as a cross between the working class world of Mike Leigh and the brooding, claustrophobic man's world of David Mamet, The Nothing Men is the debut feature of Mark Fitzpatrick.
Here's the synposis:
As a hardened crew of factory workers struggle to see out the last two weeks before their redundancy windfalls, panic runs through the ranks with the arrival of a mysterious man sent to join them. Suddenly fearful that their drinking and gambling will be exposed by the head-office "spy" and rob them of their money, top dog Jack (Colin Friels) and the men descend into a compelling world of antagonism and brutality.
The intrigue and anxious second-guessing...
- 7/16/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Well now, the last time I had this sort of reaction to a film - the last time I saw this sort of raw emotion in such a mundane setting - was back in my college days. I had just come out of David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross with a friend and when she turned to me and said, despite not a single punch having been thrown in the film, that she thought that was the most violent thing she had ever seen I simply had to agree. Like Mamet’s film, Mark Fitzpatrick’s The Nothing Men is a very small picture - a virtual chamber drama if the trailer and stills on the website are any indication - set in a very unglamorous location - a factory on the verge of shut down - when a sudden change to the rules of the game throws everybody into a frenzy.
- 2/15/2009
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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