Wonderful character development!

Please don't spend money on this.

Boring

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

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.

A beautifully shot, well acted film. Slightly familiar and a bit sappy at moments, this is the story of a borderline retarded middle aged man who runs a gas station in a small town in Ireland, and his complex relationship with a teen-ager who comes to work with him. (very general spoiler below)Well made and well intended, with a dark ending, it somehow never quite transcends from good to great. But it's still very worth a look. Along with his 'Adam & Paul' Leonard Abrahamson is clearly an interesting and special film-making voice.

Believe me this is the most slow paced, void of dialog, boring independent-ish film I've ever seen. It makes Sling Blade look like an action flick. I was watching it to fight off insomnia one late night. Unfortunately it didn't work because after sticking with it to the end I was blown away by how the depiction of desolate rural Ireland life actually drove the story and gave deep meaning to the unbelievable end.So don't get discouraged and grab that remote because you're so bored with this movie you just can't watch another minute because the deadpan, eventless story line really does say something about our society and modern life in a way that creeps up on you and slaps you in the face and makes you think.

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.