Everything Strange and New

This is a low-budget, dialogue-driven movie. That being said, it's a 100-times better than the movie 'Noah'. This film is about the trying and reflective times of a blue-collar carpenter and his family and friends in urban Oakland. The focus is on the boring tedium of the lead character's manual labor job, his wife, and her loss of income and relative importance, and their two children and how they/he has not achieved the things he wanted out of life. There are some quite unusual experiences that happen along the way. Drugs, lots of alcohol consumption and even a gay 'experience'. All-in-all, this movie represents what seems like a 1st-time film makers foray into making a movie. Non-recognizable performers with no frills type acting. I wish more movies were like this, and I wish there were fewer films were like the big-noise-big-special-effects Hollywood blowout. This movie is easy to watch and overall, an enjoyable film. I got a lot more out of this movie than the basic 'epic' genre film.