The Surface (2015)
Evan, an orphaned 22-year-old who grew up in the foster care system, buys a vintage 8mm camera in a yard sale from an elderly man, ends up with reels of the man's old home movies, and begins to live vicariously through these home movies.
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Redundant and unnecessary.
hyped garbage
Highly Overrated But Still Good
There are moments that feel comical, some horrific, and some downright inspiring but the tonal shifts hardly matter as the end results come to a film that's perfect for this time.
Chris and Evan have been together a few years an now things are coming to an end at which point Evan buys a movie camera at a yard sale and becomes interested in old family movies because he was an orphan and grew up in foster homes and doesn't have a family and wishes he did. I don't know what Chris does except criticize Even, but maybe that's what his role was suppose to be. There is a lot of wasted time here. Lovely shots of trees and flowers and a day at the beach and Claire de Lune so this could have taken about 45 minutes in all. So now Evan shacks up with the son (Chris) of the garage sale guy who is 44 since Evan is 22, making the son twice his age. They hump a few times but Evan gets bored because he can't find himself. Early 20's angst is so unlifting. Oh well, soon Evan is bored with Chris and takes off on his own and then stops by the beach , Chris follows him but then just stands there looking and apparently leaves and Chis fades into fade out standing on the beach with voice over telling us he will probably never find himself, which is probably for the best because when he does he probably won't like it. Trite, typical (obligatory fag-hags and a flamer). This film is unoriginal and ordinary. Sorry, the only time it moved me was when I would check the thing on the bottom of the screen to see when it would be over.