I Heard You Buy Souls

I enjoy B movies. Too bad this wasn't that. Calling it a Z movie would STILL be too good for this waste of digital bandwidth. And that is the problem.... in today's digital age, any kid with a cellphone can record something and self publish it, calling it a "movie."

We start out with a "reporter" interviewing a "celebrity rapper" out in front of what looks like a museum. There is a literal red carpet haphazardly laid on the stairs, only going halfway up, wrinkles and all. Despite this "rapper" being a supposed "international star" known "throughout the country, around the world and even here" (the reporter actually says that) this one "reporter" (whose name is Jamey Beautiful... seriously) is the ONLY reporter there to interview him. Not only that, but there is not a single other living soul within range of the camera. For an "international superstar." Uh huh... sure. You would think that the directors could have at least gotten their friends and family to act as adoring fans... add SOME semblance of reality to this.

Then there is the completely professional sound engineering. Not. From one shot to the next, the background noise changes drastically. The audio levels are all over the scale. The whole thing sounds like it was recorded with a cheap 1980's electret microphone.

After the "interview" scene, there is a scene filmed in the dark (why not) with zero lighting and zero dialog. No clue WHAT was going on with that.

All of this is in the first five minutes of this film school dropout's class project. And that was WAY more than I could take. We didn't bother watching any more of this.... this... "movie."

Do yourself a favor and go watch paint dry. Or maybe watch some grass grow. I PROMISE you that you will get more out of THAT than you will by wasting your time, money and brain cells on this.

This looks like some art school project. It starts with a very poor script and goes downhill from there. There is a possibility that at least a few of the actors may eventually become satisfactory. Who knows what the distant future holds?

The camera work is an excellent example of everything you should not do, starting with the appalling excessively close-up shots. Poor framing, to the extent that peoples faces are only half in the shot don't help either. These sorts of issues make it extremely difficult to watch.

I'm assuming this is the first attempt by the director. Please, stay in school and continue with your lessons. Maybe there is something else you'll be good at.

All I see is hate for this film, and I get their criticism, but I also think they're missing out.

It's a low-budget, indie film made in Cleveland. The actors are green, the whole enterprise is small, they had a budget of $30,000.

Where "I Heard You Buy Souls" shines is in the script, which is honestly, rare these days. And that coupled with actually likeable characters which are also lacking these days, and some fun sound engineering and visuals kept me watching to the end.

I found it easy to relate to those struggling to get ahead, only to get stepped over all their lives, in a society that does not care.

The movie begs the question, why would God put Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and include both trees, the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, unless he wanted them to eat from them?

The idea that he gave them the choice to obey or not is ridiculous, because God also gave them the spirit to choose, and with choice always comes the desire to grow, to learn, to know more, and the moment you tell someone not to do something, they will want to do it, like kids with cigarettes and drinking. We are wired to find out for ourselves, not to remain ignorant... and that too, God must havve coded into us. Meaning, God wanted them to eat from it and disobey. In a sense, Adam and Eve were not kicked out of the garden, but freed from it, like a starter zone in an online MMORPG.

And in some ways, our planet itself is a starter zone in an MMO.

So, the movie brought up some interesting ideas, and told them in a new way, which is rare... so for that, I think the movie is better than the current IMDb rating of 2.5, but not many will look deeper to appreciate it and it shows.

Daniel Christopher McCurry as Fallon was one of the breakout actors here, showing potential, incidentally, he was also the writer and director, but I also rather enjoyed the acting of some others as well.

I would say check it out.