[WATCHED: August 26, 2010] Everything’s Gone Green
I’m including this film because it was written by Douglas Coupland (and he’s one of those writers that I read a lot).
Everything’s Gone Green is a story of suburban life in Vancouver. As the film opens the main character gets dumped by his girlfriend and loses his job. And he hasn’t won the lottery (this sequence with his family is hilarious). However, calling the BC Win line (is this what you do when you win the lottery?) gets him a job at the BC lottery. [This entire job and company absolutely fascinated me. It was an excellent location for a film].
From there the movie settled into Douglas Coupland territory: scenes from Vancouver, working in a cubicle, scenes from Vancouver, unattainable love, scenes from Vancouver, the Asian community of BC, and more scenes from Vancouver.
We had recently watched the TV series of JPod (based on his book). Steph Song from JPod is in this film (and it’s nice to see her with a different type of character). But what’s surprising (or maybe it’s not?) is how much of this film he recycled into JPod (or actually, they seem to be written concurrently, so I’m not sure which came first). (more…)
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