The Exam
Recently a lot have been said about film industry in the UK, different people claim that its world influence have decreased, others support the idea that the traditional British genre of Criminal and Psychological Thrillers are still undisputed. Personally I support the second opinion and I got certain in my belief after seeing “The Exam”-a thriller that caught my attention and truely surprised me with its simple, at first sight, plot and at the same time complicated and fascinating scenario.
The director, Stuart Hazeldine, was born in Surrey and this is where he fisrt started directing organising film shootings in the college he studied. The in question that he made brought him a BAFTA nomination for directing -a sign that this work was a masterpeice of his and personally I consider it to be one.
The plot of the movie is centred around several candidates for the ’perfect job’-people so bright and capable that hardly is someone else to oppose them in their sphere of expertise. They appear in front of a mysterious man to hold an exam -the last step they have to take to reach this wanted job. Without any expressed explanations, the exam leader leaves the group and all these men and women stuck in the examination room will have to find the way to cope with the task …each one of them has the chance to be the future employee of a mysterious and powerful organisation. The cost, however, seems to be too high.
With young actors starring in the movie (such as Collin Salmon, Jimmy Mistry and Luke Mably), the work of Hazeldine promises a remarkable film experience. Undoubtedly these young actors perform at their best, making the movie look like a completely real and possible story exploring the borders and the strength of the human mind, you don’t even question the strange method of recruitment. Although one of my mates pointed out that the whole process would have been made a lot easier with the use of hr recruitment software, which in itself was a very British thing…
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