The Station Agent

This was simply an excellent movie with a well told story and excellent acting.

Fantastic film. You can tell a lot about a person's taste in film based on what they think about a movie like this. This is why I watch indie movies.

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This turned out to be a well done movie.

It isn’t entirely devoid of 2000s Sundance indie cliches (particularly in the way it uses music), but this is overall a beautiful, profound and understated mediation on loneliness and isolation. The great location work masks the weaker filmmaking to an effective degree, but I still wish there was a better director at the helm here. The visuals have that bland early 00s feel to them, and some of the editing is clunky. Still, the material has real soul and subtlety to it, the three main performances are excellent and emotionally it his in all the right places. Recommended to people who like meditative films that aren’t afraid of silences.

6.5/10

This feels like a low-budget Wes Anderson film. Lots of awkward silences and strange character interactions, paired with a plot that's content to just stroll along in no specific direction, picking and choosing new angles like dandelions growing up between the cracks in the sidewalk. At times it can be a very good look at what brings people together and what splits them apart, but at others it’s run-of-the-mill buddy movie with three very different leading parts. The plot takes a turn for the serious in the final act that kind of sours the mojo it had working earlier on, then coasts to a nondescript anti-ending that’s basically a black screen dropped in the middle of a generic scene. Has its moments.