Raul Faust "Flashbacks of a Fool" is a film that I wanted to see for a long time, but I only found it last week, in a second-hand moviestore. The story is very original, and everything that happens throughout this story isn't possible to be seen coming-- at least for me. There's a good character development, and it's indeed interesting to see how was the relationship between Joe Scot and Boots when they were teenagers. In my opinion, there's a lot of homoerotism in the scenes involving their youth-- which is quite common for young men, anyways. However, what makes this film even more interesting is the quality of the direction. Baillie Walsh proves to be really talented; nothing is too rushed, or quickly showed. There's affectivity in every scene he has built, and the cast is also professional to deliver what he wants to. Even the bodily fights are able to show realism, although it's not an action or adventure movie, which proves how careful is the director of this. I'm just not giving it a better rating because the ending could have been better written, but I'm sincerely praising the guys involved in this project for such a good job.

poddylobo Going back to my Music GCSE, I'd describe the structure of this film as having a simple ternary form - A-B-A' - standing aptly in this case for Adult-Boy-Adult'.The limitations of this 'song form' are plenty and frustrating for a viewer looking for a story - what happens between A and B, or more significantly, between B and A? Are we just looking here at a story of guilt? Are we supposed to draw a link between what happens in B as a way of explaining Joe's (CRAIG) behaviour in A? I'm not sure we're able to make such assumptions.So instead I could only take each of the film's three sections as self-standing, but that doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy the film as a whole.Indeed, a film that resists a coherent narrative and prevents identification with its characters is perfectly suitable structurally for such themes of guilt and escape.That is what makes this film moving. Not for the on-screen emotion, but for what is left out, unseen and lost in the hyphens of the film's structure.

jaeger-871-337383 I was zapping into this movie about 5 minutes in when it was aired on BBC. At first I wouldn't have expected anything good from a movie with Daniel Craig, but I was more than pleasantly surprised by this story, when it took a turn.First surprise was the scene that triggers main Character Joe Scot's nervous breakdown, when his agent basically fires him (a brilliant performance from a perfectly vicious Mark Strong). Second surprise is a very extended Flashback, which turns out to cover the majority of the story. The young adulthood drama in this Flashback is full of teenage love and dreams and utter drama. But it's done so well, it's a sheer pleasure to follow. Harry Eden is very convincing as a young Craig, and Felicity Jones as the young Ruth is just spraying her youth and confidence all over the screen. Olivia Williams excels as a warm and caring mother, so does the rest of the cast cover their parts in a more than convincing manner. I very much enjoyed this movie. It's a Flashback that might actually take you back to your own teenage dreams some 20 years ago, too.

spartacrust I must admit I really did'not expect this to turn out to be such a little gem. I was locked into it from the first 10 minutes or so. But it's a great pity the screenwriter did'not fill in a few more bits of the main characters life. I could have sat there for another 40 minutes at least. Daniel Craig has come a long way since playing the Geordie bouncer and hit-man in 'Our friends in the North' a part which he played so convincingly at the time, I did'not think he'd ever be able to move on. Typecasting is so rife in TV. Realistically Sad in parts, and not the screeching OTT theatricals that you usually get from the Media.