Gasman

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.

I've never been a fan of short films for their 'art-school' and 'experimental' qualities. Simply being a product of those two is not enough. They are almost always too personal, too opaque, and too much obviously serving as 'stepping-stones'.

I was therefore happy to see Lynne Ramsay's short films as the chrysalis for her superb feature films. I was also impressed to learn that she won the Cannes short-film prize, *twice*. And now I can see what others saw in her, for _Gasman_ is the best short film I have ever seen.

Available on the Criterion DVD with _Small Deaths_ and the less good _Kill the Day_, _Gasman_ is a fully-fledged, visionary film that translates directly into the skill and grace of _Ratcatcher_.

_Gasman_ moves directly from the first piece of _Short Deaths_, with the distant father and Lynne Ramsay Jr. again taking centre screen. But _Gasman_ comes to a kind a fruition--a full story with many of the same themes and techniques of _Ratcatcher_: closely observed yet elliptical human behaviour, housing projects, slum-beauty, children's natures, a jumbled impressionistic world caught in partial body closeups and shots from behind people.

The film 'tells' nothing, but the story is dead clear and builds slowly to an emotional pitch that is almost unbearable.

This is a film of jaw-dropping beauty. Sounds trite, but that's how I feel. When the Da and two kids walk on the tracks, the camera is set to a partially closed iris which intensifies the available light and colour in an otherworldly sheen--one that is gone when they return on the same tracks at night, in disappointment. Beauty in service of story is the key.

This *is* the best short film I have ever seen.

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 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.

Many families have some kinds of secrets which are usually hidden by parents,and the important problem is that how parents explain their secrets to their children.If these secrets are not well explained to children,children cannot have complete trust in their parents.In that movie,Lynne must have not only envied another girl but also doubted her father.I wonder why the father could not explain to his daughter about another daughter.Maybe it's because he did not want to hurt his daughter's feeling by telling the truth.It's a shocking fact,but his father should have told her daughter the truth so as not to lose his daughter's trust.Relationships of mutual trust between parents and children are more important than any other things.