Review of Casual Day (2007) by Daniel O — 26 Jul 2009

The best of Casual Day is, sadly, how well we can relate to the characters. It's a sarcastic way to identify all the cynical roles of a big business company: the natural-born complainer who finally gets punished by the egocentric boss, the woman who, no matter what, will always be "the whore" to the eyes of some men, the old dog president who asks for an impossible commitment, while his daughter's fiancee tries to release the pressure of working for his father-in-law as the other partners look at him with anger, the one who's willing to work hard but will never get promoted because she's not good to someone's eyes, the supervisor who tries to get involved in your personal life because he thinks it affects the company.

.. the movie has some brilliant movies but fails in the end because the characters are not well-developed (some are, actually, abandoned in the middle of it with no explanation). In the end you have the feeling this could've been a masterpiece with better development of the different storylines.

Still, it's interesting to see but it might drive you mad.