This was an adorable story of a man validating parking tickets while brightening ordinary people's days. The reason? He just likes to make people smile. While at first this film is delightfully predictable, with all the expected puns, jokes, and sweet moments of joy, there emerges a creativity that I could not help but admire. This short film had loads of potential to end beautifully and leave viewers smiling with contentment. But it didn't fulfill what I had hoped. Instead of ending where I believe it should have (the man achieves fame and becomes loved by all, and there is world peace and unconditional love among all), the film takes a downward spiral by giving the main character a love interest. Still, though, I forgave this unseemly need for romance, as it still contained the chance to be cute, and it still fit with the rest of the film. However, unfortunately the film goes rapidly downhill as it turns away from the original plot line, and the main character becomes depressed, only to quickly wrap things up with a hasty and undeveloped happy ending (it was her mom?! Now where in the world did that come from??) It saddened me that such a wonderful little film was slightly marred by such a quick wrap-up, seeing as with a little more time and thought, the ending could have fit in perfectly with the rest of the film.
Review of Validation
Validation
(2007)
Potential, Excitement, General Cuteness... wait, what happened?
12 September 2011
Warning: Spoilers