Review of Haiku Tunnel (2001) by Gregory W — 12 Aug 2010

I watched this on pay tv last night. If you've ever worked for a temp agency, esp. a clerical service, you'll have to call up your co-sufferers and watch this movie together. You'll be falling out of your chair laughing at the same scenarios you've encountered in your employment.

Well, maybe not all of them. But still, its cute and very much right on, but skillfully lifted to a slightly symbolic level. Oh, and if you haven't worked for a temp agency, watch it anyway. It's funny and smart comedy.

In a similar vein as the movie, After Midnight, in which the main character, Paul, tries to get home from his job in the city, but is detained time after time again, in increasingly scary and exhausting ways, until it's time to go into work again.

The kind of a movie that feeds on our common, silly nightmares in which a simple task never seems to get done.