The Parking Lot Movie
The Parking Lot Movie
| 06 August 2010 (USA)
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The Parking Lot Movie is a documentary about a singular parking lot in Charlottesville, Virginia. The film follows a select group of parking lot attendants and their strange rite of passage.

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Afouotos

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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Rio Hayward

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

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Verity Robins

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

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Jonah Abbott

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

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chanandchen

I enjoyed this documentary. The movie is bang on. My friend works at a Toronto parking lot. It's a battle with humanity every day. You really see the 'ugly' come out in people (and by people I'm referring to customers) that you wouldn't see in any other line of work. We're talking stupid people who don't know how to drive, how to park, who refuse or are reluctant to pay, who can't park between the lines, who forget to return by a certain hour to pick up their keys and the list goes on and on. Not to mention, the demeaning and often time hostile behavior parking attendants put up with because some people are just self absorbed, self entitled jerks who have been raised by wolves. If you want to know the 'who' of who someone really is...sit back and watch how they behave in a parking lot and how they interact with the attendant. People should be ashamed of their dumb ass selves. Best social experiment ever. Well done, fellas! Sadly, you captured the real life sh*t show perfectly.LOL @ 'Don't forget to take your medication tomorrow'!

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preston-western

I am hoping that I missed something by not watching the entire film. I can only hear people refer to themselves as 'over-educated' and not 'under-employed' so many times. These people are no more well read than half of our prison population, and I don't mean that as an insult; prisoners have a lot of time to read. Although these characters are somewhat appealing at first, they lose that appeal when they mock the 'privileged' client whom they believe they are exploiting. Spoiler alert! Not for the viewers, but for the characters. The owner is a savvy salesman who recognized your dissidence and arrogance combined with your resume populated with a lack of practical knowledge. He then gave you and your cohorts a place to hang-out and 'stick it to the man' for minimum wage.

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Sean Lamberger

The underlying point that this feature-length documentary really drives home seems to be that, so long as your boss and coworkers are really cool, just about any gig can be your dream job. I kept hoping we'd see more of the attendants' interactions with angry, rude or ignorant customers, just to observe the new and interesting ways the staff would find to insult them, but the non-confrontational moments were entertaining enough to pick up the slack. A fun look at an interesting group of geeky, identifiable characters who care more about the liberties granted to their lifestyle than about getting rich with a high-stress job.

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radioheadrcm

The Parking Lot Movie covers a group of intellectual social misfits that love the comfort of working in an environment that they can shape to their will, but hate dealing with the society that comes and goes through their business. Watching their interactions with the college surroundings is classic. On one side, you have parking lot employee with a PhD in anthropology, passionately working for minimum wage, and on the other is a drunk sorority girl driving a luxury SUV (assumed to be paid for by her parents), and she's trying to skip out on her four dollar parking fee. Although the entire film essentially takes place in a parking lot, it manages to create quite a bit of social commentary, and really works as a fun and thought provoking film.I picture The Parking Lot Movie working as a brilliant double bill with The Social Network. If one shows how intelligent outcasts can outclass society by working hard and becoming a powerful billionaire in just six years, the other shows how other intelligent outcasts can be just as happy removing themselves from the equation entirely, shielding themselves in apathy, and outclassing society in an entirely different way. The difference is really just between a Type A and B personalities. As the parking lot owner says: "I really like to hire Type B personalities." Overall, the content the film ends up being much more engaging than you'd expect. The parking lot itself almost seems like a last bastion of creativity and normalcy in an invading world of mindless consumption. The employees really make it out to be an amusing struggle, and you can't help but root for them. Personally, I can't remember ever feeling closer to a group of people on film, and I'm already recommending this to like-minded thinkers.

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