This film truly and accurately captured how horrifically stultifying, hopeless and drab real life can be. Thirty minutes into it, I was toying with the idea of suicide, but not because I felt the film was "horrible". Outstanding acting, a genuinely accurate portrayal of life at it's most prosaic, though not what I'd call "entertaining". No, it was because of how strikingly the despair of the main character was communicated to me. It was difficult to sit through. I got up to do other things many times and, if there'd been anything else remotely interesting on VOD which I hadn't yet seen, I would've watched something else. But I made it through and it hurt. Not a sharp pain, just the dull, throbbing anguish of a life bereft of excitement or hope.
Review of Six Figures
