Please Give(2010)- User Reviews

Please Give

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I gave $8. Senior discount. Support the Greenwich Village film artsts!

Enjoyable is not the correct word. No joy. Appreciation. Yes.

Real people? Almost. I don't know any real people, so I wouldn't know.

Originally, the film theme may have been "feelin' guilty" which became more appropreately, "please give". Some people are always worse off then you are. No consolation.

A married couple and their daughter and gramma live in a village apartment and run a used furniture store. They buy old furniture from the deceased. She gives money to the homeless. Two sisters also live there with their mother. The two sisters are medical assistants--a dermatologist and a mammogramologist.

The mood is subtly sad and plaintive. Why? Bad skin? Old people dying? The attitude is one of pity, acceptance, and resignation.

No. I didn't en"joy" the movie. I think about it though. I have some gripes. People ARE what they do for a living? Pitiful. Work is horrible. Jobs are low paying, boring, hard, or dishonest. Jobs turns people into pathetic monsters. Don't ask people what they "do"? Ask them what they LIKE to do. People ARE NOT what they do for a living.

Do people have to work in heaven? Let's pray not. Everything is free and imaginary. In heaven you do what you LIKE to do. I heaven you do not do what you don't like to do in order to get money to pay living expenses.

Perhaps I am REACTING to this movie. Adding what isn't there. The ideas are subtle.

Please Give is an interesting low budget art movie with something to say rather than something to sell, and not for the big theatre chain hooligans. I appreciate art movies. Art is personal rather than commercial.