Really fond of the simplicity and apparently obvious means you employ to draw us into what soon turns into a huge (and yet at every stage relatable) mess, and that you favour emotional dynamics in a genre where most now destroy them for chest-thumping action.
That you also manage to hit so many key points where we almost always oversimplify our moral views, and thus miss meaning and subtlety along the way, makes the whole, already highly entertaining, genuinely (and usefully) thought-provoking also.
It’s based on a true story of my uncle whose nickname was “Landlines” because he stole a truck full of landline phones when he was in the mob in the 80s. I changed it to “Smartphones” to modernize it, but the story is the same.
Lovely work – thank you for sharing it!
Really fond of the simplicity and apparently obvious means you employ to draw us into what soon turns into a huge (and yet at every stage relatable) mess, and that you favour emotional dynamics in a genre where most now destroy them for chest-thumping action.
That you also manage to hit so many key points where we almost always oversimplify our moral views, and thus miss meaning and subtlety along the way, makes the whole, already highly entertaining, genuinely (and usefully) thought-provoking also.
Cheers, Mark – a small stealthy triumph!
Thank you Paul
Smartphones is the best new mafioso nickname in decades well done
It’s based on a true story of my uncle whose nickname was “Landlines” because he stole a truck full of landline phones when he was in the mob in the 80s. I changed it to “Smartphones” to modernize it, but the story is the same.
This can’t be true because nobody referred to them as “landlines” in the 80s. We just called them “phones.”
Now if it was your uncle “Touchtones,” on the other hand….
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