By Robert Scucci
| Published 4 days ago

There is not a single character to whom I tell more than the person John de Jon Favreau in 2003 The big vacuum for a very specific reason. He does everything possible, potentially risking his life, to deliver a mysterious suitcase that he is not allowed to open to what is supposed to be a very dangerous man, for the meager sum of $ 28,000. The reason why I felt seen by John Person is that he could have asked for all money, but he just wants to reimburse his credit card debt so that he can make a new start in his prosecution of an acting career.

I think that many people relate to John Person because most of us in a similar financial situation would consider $ 28,000 as an amount of life, but are not so greedy that we would ask for a million dollars if we could simply eliminate the rest of our student and car payments and continue our lives. In other words, The big vacuum Moves in a fairly incredible territory, but the initial offer that makes things move seems so plausible that the film remains anchored despite its desire to occupy such a strange valley (otherwise known as Baker, California).

Your classic story “Bag Man”

Separate thrillers like The man bag and Slapstick error comedies like 8 heads in a bag of traffic jams,, The big vacuum Does not necessarily have a sinister configuration, and it does not seem to be in play. We are first presented to John Person, an actor in difficulty of Los Angeles who lives in Squalor after having sold all his furniture, because he has no stable income to make his rent, that he is chronically late in payment. Everything changes to John when his eccentric neighbor, Neely (Bud Cort), makes an offer that he cannot refuse: he must deliver a blue suitcase to Baker, California, to a man named Cowboy, for the exact amount of money he needs to become without debt.

Master negotiator, John is able to obtain $ 100 in expenses in the form of a route The big vacuumas well as his back rent paid so that he can have a new start on his return.

Arriving in Baker, John meets a certain number of colorful characters, such as the manager of Motel Elron (Jon Gries), who goes beyond his welcome and offers the most pathetic room service that you have ever seen, Stella (Daryl Hannah), the local bartender, his daughter, Ruthie (Rachael Leigh Cook), and his abusive boy, Randy (Adam Beach) Happy to have the world that even has a threat to Randy because he is kindly and kindly by anyone who has the potential to compromise his relationship.

Nowhere to find, unfortunately, Cowboy (Sean Bean), who, according to all reports, is a violent psychopath and brandishing firearms that disappears as quickly as he arrives, scary the shit of the inhabitants each time.

The investigation

John’s trip to Baker The big vacuum Should by all means without conflict, but Ruthie takes a taste for his land-to-earth personality, and she also recognizes him from the small role he had on television years ago. It is not going well with Randy, who is so unsure that he attaches him to a dumping ground after learning how they spent the previous night drinking together even if their meeting was completely innocent and platonic.

Meanwhile, agent Banks (Grammer Kelsey), approaches John at the bar, because he has reason to believe that he is a person interested in dozens of disappearances in the Baker region, as well as the death of Neely, who was found beheaded in Los Angeles.

Trying to empty his name, deliver the suitcase to cowboy still usable, not killed by Randy, while falling in love with Ruthie in the process, John’s situation The big vacuum becomes more strange in the minute because we do not really see openly supernatural occurrences at this stage. But everything on Baker, California seems disabledwhich is explained through a certain number of conspiracy theories as told by Dan (Brent Briscoe), one of the inhabitants who is still in the restaurant who has reasons to believe that the disappearances and the presence of the cowboy can be explained by stranger activity in the region despite the fact that it has no final evidence.

A deliciously strange series of meetings

The big vacuum is one of those films that will make you guess because nothing makes sense until everything clicks in his third act. Normally, I am not a fan of films that happened, then it happened, then it happened “, the kind of structure, but it works so well in this case because of the sympathy of each character (except Randy, it’s an idiot). Never knowing how to fully know what is at stake because we don’t know what’s in the cowboy suitcase, The big vacuum wins his performance through his character development, as well as natural chemistry on the screen between Jon Favreau And Rachael Leigh Cook.

I am never afraid to wear his inherent quirk on his sleeve, The big vacuum is the strangest story that you will see streaming Because he never fully reveals the nature of Jon Person’s mission until he finally arrives at his open conclusion, always leaving you unanswered questions.

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