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Everything's Gone Green

" Last night I jumped off Lions Gate Bridge 

and I drowned
but in the morning I came back to life

and I crawled onto the shore
and back to the office
and started my job
again and again and again....... "

Ryan Arlen is having a bad day. 

Very bad. 

One of those exceptional, million to one bummers that simultaneously screws with every aspect of your life in horrible and imaginative ways....   

The downfall of Ryan Arlen is gloriously entertaining. It might seem cruel to enjoy watching a good persons life dissolve in pitiful, cringe-worthy circumstances. But, the way I see it, is that cruelty is OK so long as it's happening to someone else. So in this instance, it's wholly acceptable.

Anyway,

Everything’s Gone Green focuses on this depressed and befuddled anti-hero, as he (oddly) calmly negotiates a steeplechase of extremely weird, troublesome circumstances and attempts to reconstruct his life after things unravel so hilariously. The whole movie has a kind of careless feel, a strange nihilistic undertone runs throughout. Everything feels slightly understated, partly because of the afflicted circumstance of the central character but mainly (I discovered) because the film is drenched with the essence of writer Douglas Coupland. 

After watching one scene in particular, where Ryan chastises his new boss for organising an office cruise. I was so taken with the script that I went out and bought Couplands Generation X. He's a good writer, and it's his combination of bleakness and dead pan wit that makes the movie what it is. 

And what it is is good. 

If you like offbeat independent films, check this one out.