Gasman

This story is sort of a sad story, but its content is so deep. A girl in the movie faces a family problem. Her father cheats on his wife and has another daughter and son with a secret lover. It is just too complicated for the girl to know what is going on. Needless to say, she comes to hate them. In the movie, you know everything and why she is upset also how this girl understands her circumstances. Additionally, you should check how cameras work in the movie. Mostly, it's dark. There are few lights so that you might think it's a little bit too dark. For me, it is. The content is also dark, but more than that, it's hard to see facial expression because of darkness. However, it is amazing how it expresses that girl grows up. This is not just a dark story, it shows the growing strong girl.

Lynne, 8-9 year - old girl goes to a Christmas party with her father and brother. At the party, she notices that another girl treats his father as if he is her real father and get jealous and learns something surprising then. Although the story turns out to be not that complicated, I love this movie because it has a nice structure. While I am watching this film, it leaves many questions to my mind, for example, "Why mother does not go to the party?" "Why are there only father and their children in that party?" or "Why the girl is so familiar to Lynne's father even though she is supposed that they are stranger?" and all those questions are answered at the end of the film. I thought that this structure makes the movie interesting and the audience satisfied.

Gasman is a proper short film - little plot, none of it told explicitly, but a larger story going on around the camera. Like most of Lynne Ramsey's stuff (Ratcatcher being the best and most enjoyable example, because it isn't a short)it feels like and probably is 1970s/80s East-end Glasgow, the struggling classes and a fairly grim outlook, but you see the little sparks of interest in real lives, and being a small story told very much from a child's point of view, it's much more hopeful, interesting and happy than it could have been. The characters, so few, and so little seen in the short still have immense believability and completeness. Most people will find this dull, but if you're the kind of person who knows how to get hold of a copy, you're probably the type of person who'd enjoy it. Arty, but not impenetrable, simple but thought-provoking.

This film deals with a matter in a family. There are some words during the movie, but it is difficult for me to understand the detail situation of the family. You can see four children, Father and Mother in the short. It is a Christmas season, but it is not a happy one for the family.

There is appropriate use of light and dark contrast when they are walking up the tracks. I feel sorrowful because the season of winter is added to the scene.

Some people will think this film is a dull one and I got mixed feelings. I do not watch it many times. However, this 15 minute short is a masterpiece. You should watch it.

One of the most difficult problems to solve is the people relationships.

The father has two families, which means the four little children have blood relations. However, maybe of course, they do not know that.

In the Christmas party the main character girl is coming to feel uncomfortable about the other girl who is her half sister indeed. In the last scene, when they are coming back home, the order of the people especially the girls mentions the very touchy feelings of them. The girl is so confused but does not know the truth. This is a very interesting film and is questioning us about what to do with such a problem.