Locke

Heard back from Rubber Republic and they have heavily implied that they want to meet me face to face after reading my briefs. While it's not quite a confirmed job, it is certainly a very good step forward! Very eager to meet up with them and discuss what could lie ahead.

Before that fateful email, I got a chance to watch Locke, the Tom Hardy film which is exclusively filmed inside a car. Effectively, the movie is a road trip and you are riding shotgun with Hardy, and only him, the entire way through. On paper that may sound boring, but in reality it was a lot more gripping and involving than many other dramas that I've seen this year. The journey is kept interesting through a series of phonecalls Hardy makes while driving, and the film periodically dips into each contact every ten minutes or so so we experience a developing series of conversations between the characters. These are basically 'scenes' in a more conventional sense so even with a single character, single location premise, it still has excellent pacing that is match by an incredible performance from Hardy (it kinda had to be for the film to succeed.) While I won't divulge any details of the plot, I can say, without question, that you will be sucked into the world of the film within the first ten minutes, and then you'll be along for the ride; warts and all.