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Connell’s animated thriller is less about
ranting and more about getting to a point that will soon be approached.
For the first fifteen minutes I was sure “Saul Goodman” would basically
be going nowhere, with the director delivering a “surprise” ending that
was far from surprising, but I underestimated it. I admit, “Saul
Goodman” is a very good film. Connell’s animated thriller is a
complicated and utterly intelligent bit of Manchurian proportions that
should be given a larger scale of story and production if Connell is
ever able to. Don’t let the fact that it’s animated draw you away from
the film, because “Saul Goodman” is a rather complex thriller about two
men who, by circumstance, clash one night.
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After missing a late night
train, the two sit at a bench awaiting the next arrival and
find them selves drowned in conversations and anecdotes
about topics that seemingly go nowhere. The older man, a
retired political consultant, brings about the topic of a
news report he’s watching with his inadvertent cohort, and
suddenly the heavy dialogue begins.
Connell never sells his film
short, and seems to want to get all he can from the story. |
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“Saul
Goodman” is an utterly verbose film that requires the audiences
attention, and with competent animation, takes us into a film that
begins as a fateful meeting of two strangers and drops us into a
puzzle that’s much more intricate than we can imagine.
In what seems oddly pointless, the two
discuss a color that was discovered, and then veers into topics
about the presidential candidates escapades with slutty pop stars,
and the conspiracy theories begin to fly as the young man cynically
debunks his stories with good old fashioned physics and math to rule
off his crack pot assumptions. As the plot thickens, and the old man
delves deeper into his anecdotes, he realizes something, thus
Connell introduces the plot twist, and “Saul Goodman” finishes off
as a wonderful political thriller that deserves to be seen.
I underestimated Connell’s film. Don’t be
like me. “Saul Goodman” is an intelligent, wonderfully written, and very
well animated political thriller that takes devices of the neo-noir
genre, and paints them in Manchurian shades.
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