Very Cool!!!

Boring

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

I've seen this movie because I saw another of the director, The room, and how I loved it, because I thought that why not repeat, but unfortunately, they do not always do good jobs. It's disappointing because it does not count at all. Why it takes a long time to start. Why is lost in planes that say nothing. There are sequences that you do not know what they are for because you already know what you want to tell them. And the end does not add anything.The actors are very well, yes, it's true, they do it very well. The problem is that they do not have much narrative arc.He has a very independent film photograph, that is, he does not have a photograph. It is not used to count anything. It's white and that's it.The address, I do not understand how someone who makes this movie can then make another one so good. In this he does not know what bores. He does not know that he is not going anywhere. He does not know how to put the camera in a place that is not general or close-up.It happens to many directors, who make a great movie in their career and neither the previous nor the following are worth anything. Hopefully that is not the case and have great movies to come.

Pat Shortt's performance makes this movie critically acclaimed the best Irish film ever made.The story follows Josie (Shortt) a good natured man with learning disabilities which are clearly shown in the movie when he is unable to stand up for himself nor can he interact with the fellow members of the town no more than a mere salut. Josie works in a garage of little interest to the owner Mr. Gallagher (John Keogh) as his wish is to sell the site when an offer arises. Josie employs a young teenager David (Conor Ryan) to help on weekends and soon he befriends with the boy.As Josie befriends David he treats him as an adult. He also befriends a horse which he sees as the same as himself as both the man and the horse are trapped with no way out. He soon becomes the town pariah on a mistake he makes due to his mental disability.This movie is a heartwarming slow-paced sad but enjoyable movie as Shortt shows great acting as Jodie however an over statement to say the least as being the best Irish movie ever made as it is a great performance by all actors but a dense storyline lets down 'Garage'.

Melancholy.In the film Garage, directed by Leonard Abrahamson, we see a good example of the melancholy of a man who is alone, appreciated by many people, but this people do not go a step further in their relationship with him.We can see in Josie's life (Pat Shortt) the happiness of the person that is not literate and does not know anything about real life, and thinks that everything is OK and that everybody takes care of him, as a childish thought about the society, but some events are going to change his mind.This sense of melancholy is given also, apart from the performance of Shortt, by the type of shots appearing in the film, mainly by extremely long shots, covering as much images as possible, even if there are people inside the frame. This type of shots give us the feeling of loneliness that Josie feels, although he does not realize of it, and transfer us the loneliness of the Irish countryside, sad, rainy and plain. We can see that the camera is just a witness of what is happening, it is not a watcher of the action, as an example there are not counter shots or over-the-shoulder shots, everything is just like a photography, where the director wants to have as much visual information as possible. The lack of conversation is solved by this use of the camera, and the absence of a real action is not the important characteristic of this film, but something that aims us to think about the film, not just to see it.Darío Metola Rodríguez.

Neil Garvey, elsewhere on these comments, summarises all the cinematic points perfectly.But if anyone thought Pat Shortt was limited to Killinascully style comedy (which is excellent), think again. Playing the part, slightly better than marginally functional, he displays all the characteristics which evoke sympathy in some people and disdain in others. Strangely none of the negative traits which really ostracise. So we can all, for the most part, be on his side. It's powerful acting, though; I never saw anything to lift me back from the film itself.Somebody mentioned lighting as a problem. Well, the inside of garages can be dark so no problem there, and some of the riverside scenes were magical. Water skimmers with full reflection of their undersides - well done or what?.Others mentioned blow-ins and non-villagers are altering the outcomes. Couldn't see it.But it's bleak, and the reason for his unravelment is the one young person who seemed to appreciate or understand his (necessarily) simplistic view of life, which is particularly cruel.Elsewhere on the message boards I see someone wondering was there a metaphor in the conclusion.I can only think that he wondered what the other side could be like.See, I told you it didn't cheer me up!