If this sounds like a felony, it is made even worse by the fact that the director plays this violation as if Ben were making some deep artistic statement. At any rate, during the time stops at the store he goes around and undresses the female customers so that he can draw their naked bodies. It is never made clear exactly why he is able to stop time or if it is all in his mind. Women in this movie are, for the most part, just receptacles.Īnyway, while working at the store, Ben makes a discovery that – are you ready for this? – he can stop time. Also there’s a nice girl Sharon (Emilia Fox), the only girl in the movie that isn’t focused on as a sex object or a screaming bitch. But, no they’re too endearing to the manager for that. Did we want to know that when he was a kid, his mother caught he and his best friend with erections and assumed they were gay? Did we want to know that he paid a neighbor girl $50 to lift her skirt to see her nethers? This is what he talks about.ĭeep in despair and suffering from insomnia, Ben takes a night job at a grocery store where he works with a bunch of obnoxious goofs who perform pranks and stunts that could and should get them fired.
He takes us back through the early years of his sexual awakening, mostly to things that we really don’t want to know. We hear his theories on art, on women and on relationships, which leave a lot to be desired. We don’t even get to hear what she’s saying over Ben’s narration.īen talks all the time. He talks to us through narration throughout the movie and our only glimpse of their problems can be seen in comes a tongue-lashing that she gives him in slow motion. The movie’s hero is Ben Willis (Sean Biggerstaff), a teenager who has just been dumped by his girlfriend Suzy (Michelle Ryan) for reasons we never understand.
It comes off like the kinds of things a 13 year-old would draw in his notebook when his parents aren’t looking. This is a movie that tries to be a sex comedy, a love story and bittersweet love letter to the female form. I can only hope that it is many more moons before I see its like again – maybe an eclipse just for good measure. Cashback is one of most cynical, sexist and insulting movies that I’ve seen in many moons.
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