September 9, 2008: Three Blind Mice
It’s very strange to go into a movie theatre at 9am and see it full of people. Sure, more of them have coffee than popcorn, but it’s still weird. But, such is life for those at film festivals.
Three Blind Mice is an Australian film about three Navy soldiers on shore leave together, and their adventures one night in port. One of the three has a fiancee who is being introduced to his friends for the first time. One of them has been building resentment towards the others due to their involvement in an embarrassing incident at sea not long ago. They meet up and go their separate ways, meet new people, and move all around the city, all in one night.
I don’t suppose there’s much more of the plot which is memorable, nor necessary to remember. This is a film about three friends and how the complications of the world lead to ups and downs among them, but there’s still that bond of friendship. The dialogue seems real, the situations are not seriously stretched from what might happen in reality, and connections and emotions are the order of the day.
This is the kind of movie which might get distribution for a few weeks in major centres, then sit as a lone copy on a video store’s shelf, and be rented here and there and enjoyed by those who happen across it. Does it rise above the crowd? If you see it, yes. Compared with lots of slick Hollywood product, yes. Compared with the classics of human drama? Maybe not, but this film knows what it wants to do and does it well.
The writer/director/lead actor was available for Q&A after the film, and was very well-spoken. Questions from the audience were good as well; this might have been due to the skewed demographic which gets up early in the morning to watch a movie.
Recommended.
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