This debut feature is ripped straight from the low-budget filmmaker handbook, but it’s heartfelt, well-acted and utterly relevant.
is ripped straight from the low-budget first-time filmmaker’s handbook: one location , a small cast , and a tight script. But what it lacks in scale it more than makes up for in heart and craft.
The film opens with Jade coming home to a scene whose horrors, we immediately grasp, are all too familiar. Her drug-addict brother Max is on the rampage, banging on the front door of the family home, drawing distressed neighbours out to demand “this has to stop”. Meanwhile, the siblings’ mother Bev is sitting in the kitchen, eating her dinner and watching telly, ignoring the noise and blithely pretending nothing is going on.
His answer was radical. “I could kidnap him. Take him out to the desert, throw away the car keys and resolve this once and for all.”Thankfully, that was purely an act of imagination. But it was also the starting point forJade does kidnap her brother, luring him to the home of their late grandparents on the pretext that she needs help getting it ready for sale. She’s placed a takeaway drink cup in the console between them in the car, knowing he’ll take it. It’s drugged, of course.
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