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Strong and Moving!

The acting in this movie is really good.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Josie works in a garage in a small town. He mans the gas pumps, sells the oils and the magazines to the travelers. Only, the town is so small and the road is so little traveled that he hardly has anything to do. Josie has also lived in this town all his life and has worked in this same garage for almost just as long. When his boss asks him to take on the weekends as well he is up for the task - and when his boss offers to send a kid as a helping hand he accepts that kid too. All in all, Josie is a very easy guy that takes the world for what it is. Too bad the world does not fully understand that.Although somewhat predictable this film is a rather interesting one. The way the actors play out their roles make up for a glimpse of the grim reality people like Josie live in. All he wants is do good, all he gets is evil. The message is clear from the very start of the film but never starts to bore too much. This is purely due to the way the different characters get together and depict the pretty little village the film plays in - the message fits the persons and the town perfectly. When the ending comes it is dark and dreary, but fitting and only logical.9 out of 10 good people making bad choices

Garage is an Irish film directed by Lenny Abrahamson who tell us the story of Jossie, a forty-year old worker in a petrol station who will show us his day by day working there. This character is so curious due to the ingenuity and natural way of behave with everyone around him. He also does not distinguish anyone by his age, he speaks equally is "friends" in the pub or the boy who begins to work with him soon after. This character tries his luck looking for love too, but this try do not work.We could define him as a curious, simple and lonely man. Curious because of his own peculiarity, his typical way of view the things, and nobody understands him. Simple because he talks about the most evident and common things, but to him are very important, because he has no other ways of entertaining, rather than to maintain a conversation with other people about the most superfluous things of their lives. We have an example at the very beginning of the film, when he talks about his experience working on the petrol station with a truck driver who has stooped his route to fill the petrol tank as if there was not anything better in the life, as something exciting and that keeps him busy all the day, when the reality is completely the opposite. And lonely, because although he is surrounded by people, he feels alone, abandoned, because nobody understands him, the way he lives, the way he asks, also the way he moves...we could talk about a man rejected by the society, because he is keeping stuck, and on the deep of his thoughts he knows it, he recognizes this idea that Ireland is growing, is changing from the rural civilization to an industrial one.The film shows us the cruel reality- although our main character will not affirm this assumption- of a man who does not adapt himself to the change his city is suffering. My point of view supporting Josie's behaviour is that he feels happy and fulfilled with his life, because he has selected this life, as he will make us know during the story, and in my opinion all of us we should have a little bit of Josie's way of life and Josie's way of see the life. He does not need much to feel happy with the things and with himself. He does not aspire to have a wonderful house or a wonderful life or a wonderful job. He lives with only the necessary things, he works in the petrol station because he LOVES his job, and he only aspires to have a girlfriend/wife who only loves him, and appreciates him just as he is. Other characters during the plot of the film seems to have more than him but they lacks also personality to reach the happiness Josie feels with very little. I think the public will feel identify more with these kind of characters than Josie at all, and all of us we should put a little of Josie in our lives, because we will appreciate more the things we get without being ambitious, without aspire to more and more, just given value this little things that makes us happy, as Josie does.Verónica Molina Mínguez

Josie's innocence in Garage Garage is an interesting film which is marked by its symbolism and the typical Irish environment. Although Garage is a current film, it has many basic features of this type of melancholic film. Many melancholic elements of the film are personified on the protagonist, Josie. This character, in contrast, develops a different and decadent progression along the film. Josie is a charming and happy man who works in a gas station and he is the typical person who does not aspire to a great life, only a monotonous and superficial life. But when he meets a young boy, Josie experiments other pessimistic part of his life. This progression is a mixture between Josie's optimistic and superficial life and the pessimistic and, also, natural events of the life in which Josie is involved.On the one hand, Josie's progression as an adult is clarified along the film but, from my point of view, the lack of music in the film marks calm and monotony.On the other hand, in the middle of the film the music appears and this is the clue for the audience that the story, in this point of the film, is going to change. This change is the difficult progression in Josie's life, when the events are developing in a fluent way. In this sense, Josie begins to discover many unusual things in his life. For this reason, the actual Josie's personality is discovered and his innocence is clear in this point of the film. In my opinion, the innocence of this character is the essence of the film but, the point in which the pure Josie's innocence begins to harm the society, Josie is condemned.Apart from this, when the spectators watch this film, they are assimilating a terrible feeling of sadness and melancholy in relation to Josie's story, and especially, because of his pure innocence condemned by a corrupted society of this Irish village. The great turning of the story when the music appears in the film shows the second and decadent part of Josie's life and, from my point of view, many symbols appear along the film but actually, the audience realize of the symbols of the film, almost at the end of it, which are being used as a leitmotiv in the film and this is the most important clue of the film in order to understand the real and innocent Josie's life like the animals in the film. Animals, in this case, are a great symbol of basic instincts, innocence, isolation… and in my opinion, Josie and the animals suffer a parallel life.

I 'grew up' in the late 70's and 80's and i now have children of my own. Yet the influences I experienced growing up, then which seemed so innocent, are now fatal!. This is an amazing film which i believe most will recognise. Both from the outsiders sentimental view of the main character, to an affinity with the 'victim' to an annoyance of the 'catalyst'. Everyone likes to share their new found experiences and understanding with those they consider friends, except it seems, you can become too old to share. However, when the sharing and empathy don't meet with the standards of modern society, then the price has to be paid. This film also includes examples of our own frailties, those we might recognise, those we disagree with, but also those we, in the quietest moment of our souls, empathise with, would not dispute!The acting of Pat Shortt is truly stunning! The other actors, though they had their characters to play, to perfection....all were exemplary in determining another character - Pat Shortt's! His performance was brilliantly uplifted by everyone else involved in this film.I will not be recommending this film...i will be demanding that anyone who loves life and film must see it