CashBack (2007)
Cashback is the name of two films directed by Sean Ellis: a 2004 short film and a 2006 feature film. Both were produced by Lene Bausager, starring Sean Biggerstaff, Michelle Ryan and Emilia Fox. Ugly Duckling films produced the movie.
After a painful break up with his first girlfriend Suzy, Ben, an aspiring artist, develops insomnia. To take his mind off his problem he spends his nights working at a local supermarket, where he meets colorful characters. He falls in love with his colleague Sharon.
He lets his imagination run wild. In particular, he imagines that he can stop time for others, so that he can walk around in a world that is "frozen" like in pause mode of a film. He imagines female clients standing frozen in the supermarket, so that he can undress and draw them.
We see in flashback, with Ben's voice-over explaining how he always has been impressed by the beauty of the female body, how he, as a young boy, could see a Swedish boarder naked while she was going to and coming from the shower; being Swedish she did not believe this situation required modesty. Also we see little Ben's friend Sean Higgins showing Ben his parents' adult magazines. Furthermore we see Sean paying a girl for showing him her genitals.
Sharon is Ben's date when they go to the birthday party of their boss. Ben meets Suzy who wants to continue their relationship. Ben refuses, but Sharon gets a negative impression seeing Ben with Suzy for a moment, and gets angry.
As a practical joke colleagues Barry and Matt phone him, one of them pretending to be an art gallery owner who is interested in his drawings, and an appointment is made. It turns out well: the gallery owner, seeing Ben's work, is interested, and an exhibition follows. Sharon also visits it and is impressed not only by Ben's success, but also by the many paintings portraying her; ceasing from being angry.
英國喜劇小品 由新銳導演Sean Ellis所拍攝的第一部長片 其實故事原案來自於他04年的同名短片 當年這個短片有入圍奧斯卡 評價相當不錯
倫敦的一個美大學生Ben 在當地超商上夜間班 漫漫長夜，他與他的同事要如何打發時間？這時Ben開始了他無疆界的幻想樂園….
導演把短片給拉長 新加了一些設定 Ben因為失戀患了失眠症 怎麼樣都睡不著，為了打發時間只好去超市上大夜
男主角有將時間暫停的(想像?)能力 每次他只有手指一click，就可以將時間暫停 任由他揮灑身邊人事物，成為他美的感官素材
而這些動態的瞬間靜止，成了這部片攝影技術上比較高超的部份男主角的畫展，也因此取名為”A Frozen Second” 最後結尾一場大雪紛飛瞬間靜止的畫面 就真的美到不像話～ 幾乎一朵朵雪花結晶都清晰可見
男主角是哈利波特裡魁地奇的隊長Sean Biggerstaff
* Sean Biggerstaff as Ben Willis, an art student
* Emilia Fox as Sharon Pintey, Ben's colleague and eventual girlfriend
* Shaun Evans as Sean Higgins, Ben's friend
* Michelle Ryan as Suzy, Ben's ex-girlfriend
* Stuart Goodwin as Jenkins, his boss
* Michael Dixon as Barry Brickman
* Michael Lambourne as Matt Stephens
* Keeley Hazell as Naked Girl
IMDB rating: 7.4/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460740/
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