The Mass of Men

When I watched this short film for the first time, I wanted to avoid watching it, because the last scene was so grotesque for me. However, I found a brilliant point of this movie at the same time. It's visual telling. Without telling aloud, I could understand core characters' minds and the killer's working class. At the beginning, I sympathized with the man who tried to apply for welfare, because the female office worker treated him roughly. However, at the last, I changed my mind; I sympathized her because of the male killer, and I could not bear the same feeling to the male applicant, because he took some selfish action after the killer appeared. Moreover, trough this film, I could catch what problem gave pain to British people and what kind of them struggled from it, of course, this film told me it with visual materials. To tell the truth, I don't want to watch this film, because it shows an aspect of human being; it is selfish. I don't have a tolerance for the grotesque human characteristic, so I can't stand to watch it. However, some good points is included, so I recommend you to watch it at least one time.

This is a short movie. This movie is one of the dark story I have ever seen. The main character is a man who seeks a job. He goes to public employment security office. When he takes with a person who works at this public employment security office, the person was killed by a person who attacks her with a nail gun. After that, he decides to take an action. Hence, I strongly feel that I can't recommend this movie to a person who is not good at watching dark movie.

I was thrilled and scared of the story from the beginning to the end. This film shows us serious problem of employment and the reality of the time in U.K. The first scene is the video of security camera, which has a big role for this film. A man who is unemployed goes to a job center, but he can't receive the help because he didn't show up on time. When I found the connection between the first scene and this film in the middle of this film, I was scared of it from halfway. I think this title expresses that a lot of men are at a loss of employment at that time and have same frustration and complaints about the system. The mass of discontent drives them carazy. In this film, I felt bitter and strong anger and hatred toward the society.

The man who is unemployed is late by three minutes for the appointment at the job centre. A woman advisor there for the job-seekers asks him to sign for the money withheld for two weeks otherwise he won't get the money for four weeks. The man gets angry for her attitude but the woman blames him for his laziness.

This film shows the strict standard of the welfare service in Britain. Even though the man was late, it was only three minutes and the woman didn't know that he was late at the beginning. However, the man couldn't get the money he wanted.

The most impressive point of this film is the structure. The film begins from the video captured by the CCTV and it is exactly the same scene as the ending. The author intentionally puts the last scene at the very start so that the viewer could understand the meaning of the first scene in the end.

I think you should watch this film two times with everything understood in the second time.

This is a short film whose protagonist is a man looking for a job. This film starts with a security camera footage, which is effective on making active question for an audience. And this is effective on the later part. The story is mainly constructed by a dialogue between office worker and unemployment man at Hello. And last part is mainly aggressive man's action. I love this film because this expresses human society as it is. I think that this is a film which shows it from various directions what people usually can't say but think inwardly. At first, I am very uncomfortable due to office lady's bad saying. But after watching aggressive man's action, I think his aggression is too much. Everyone doesn't completely right and vice. At the end, I'm not getting clear feeling. However, this is also like human society.... if you are interested, you should watch it!