source: Gasman

A little girl Lynne and her little brother is dressing up. They are going to a party. Their father takes them to where the party is going to be held. On their way, they meet a woman and a girl and a boy and these two children are also taken to the party. Four kids get along with each other. But at that party, that girl was sitting on Lynne's fathers knees. Lynne gets angry about her and hits her. Her father only scolds at Lynne. The party was over and they were on their way home. Lynne was having a question in her mind. Who were they and why did that girl in intimate terms with Lynne's father? I watched this film but I still don't understand some points. What I understand is that the father is keeping a secret. To know what it is, you should see this film many times.

Someday in a winter season, a girl and her brother go to a Christmas party with their father. She wears very cute dress and coat. She looks like so happy, but her gay feeling does not last for a long time. This movie is only about 14 minutes, but this makes me creepy. At first, I thought this movie is bright and makes me smile. I thought this movie draw a special day of a happy family. However, this image was changed soon… This is very dark story... The story is dark, but the situation is a happy Christmas party. This contrasting situation is fresh to me and it is a beautiful part of this movie. The main character, Lynne, is so great. She expresses the pure heart of children well. Another character, Lynne's brother, is also great. He does not tell a lot, but his facial expression and behavior tell me about his feelings. This movie is easy to understand.

The film is color film; however, the film screen is dark as black and white film. For two minutes thirty seconds since the beginning of the scene, faces of any characters not are screened. This shooting technique can say that interesting. While character's faces are not screened, at the first scene is that one adult person polishes men's black shoes. In the next scene is screened that someone mischief to put the sugar on the minicar. Then, the scene that a child who is running. After that, the young girl takes on the closes. She get dressed dress to mother. The first scene which appears someone's face, the young girl's face is screened. The audience knows that is before the landscape family go out. The family has a father, mother, elder brother and young sister. The father and children go to outside. Then, they meet another family; mother and elder brother and young sister. The father keeps another set of children. Then, those five people go to the Christmas party venues. The father and mother and another woman's likely to be adult circumstances; however, young children don't know the circumstances. This film is to predict the atmosphere of some secrets and some troubles to the audience in the whole volume.

In this movie, a father has two families.You will see that it is very difficult for human relationships.At the Christmas party, a girl meets another mother's girl. The girl slaps the other on the head in front of the general public. I do not understand the scene.First,if I had a half sister, I would get along very well with her.And That is because their father is the same.Second, I would feel ashamed of slapping in front of a lot of strange people.But, the scene is very different.Actually, I did not experience the situation. So, I may feel so.However, I simply can not understand about this situation. Therefore, I believe that the human relationships are so complex for me.

I was amazed by Ramsay's thorough understanding of children and their feelings. This film, a touching portrayal of a father-daughter relationship, is by far the best I have seen. Poetical depiction of the seemingly endless railways are reminiscent of the long and hard life. One has to accept the people you love as they are and realize that they may be loved by others. One needs to be able to share the beloved. Final scene is the best. The girl forgives her rival. It is interesting how the girl starts to hate her rival. I wonder how important was the fact that they look alike. I think I want to start shooting movies as well.

It's grim up north the old saying goes; Gasman by Lynne Ramsey won't change that stereotype but it does illustrate the talent of this director. This short film shares similarities with the both work of Mike Leigh and social realist 'kitchen sink' films of the sixties, in showing a slice of life story from the lower classes. Read; bleak setting and diegetic sound. Set in an undisclosed Scottish city at Christmas, the story concerns a day in the life of lower class father (James Ramsey), daughter Lynne (Lynne Ramsey Jr) and son Steven (Martin Anderson) as they walk the tracks. En route, they mysteriously pick up more children from a woman (Jackie Quinn), Lisa (Lisa Taylor) and Robert (Robert McEwan). Gasman is a powerful piece, due in no small part to the performance by Lynne Ramsey Jr. It is a powerful portrait of a working class young girl and the confusion she faces. When pretending to be Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz, you really believe that 'There's no place like home.' The supporting cast are also suitably bedraggled for their characters to be believable. There are some fine visual flourishes in this short piece; the close shots of people getting ready for their day out give the film a very intimate feel, as if you are really looking into their family life. There is appropriate use of light and dark contrast, in particular as they are in wide shot walking up the tracks. Also, the working club Christmas party is visual delight, with child POV shots, slow motion and chopped up editing. At times the Scottish dialect is quite hard to follow with the sound quality being quite raw. My main issue with the film would be that Gasman doesn't have anything original to say. Gasman is suitably bleak according to genre convention but its essential message being that it's challenging growing up in a lower class environment has been a mainstay of social realist cinema since before Kes. Still grim it would seem.

A girl and her older brother are going to the Christmas party with their father. On the way, they meet one family, mother and two children, younger sister and older brother. Father seems to know them well. Father take with children to the Christmas party. This movie is very simple one. One family goes to the Christmas party, and they go back to home. However, the existence of another family make difficult it. It looks like a mirror. There are two brothers and sisters. They looks similar, but the are one of the contrast, I think. Also, in this movie, there is lack of explanations. Almost of all characters don't say anything well. We understand the story from a girl's face and action. Actually the contents of this movie is so easy. However the difficult of human relationship and child's growth make it more interesting. We imagine it more deeply because they don't use many logline. My heart was moved.

The girl called Lynne goes to the Christmas party with her brother and father. They meet another family along the way; one girl, one boy and their mother. Then, at the party, Lynne finds her father's secret. This short film is very dark. The mood of this film was well created so I could understand Lynne's feeling and how truth is sad easily. I like that dark mood, but the story telling strategy makes this film boring. I think the story is very simple, but in this film, that was driven too slowly. This is a 15min short film but 15min is too long for the story. I think some scenes should not take much time because slow progression makes audiences bored. Moreover, this film ends suddenly and I was unsatisfied. Because of the ending is not twisted, I did not notice that is the last scene so I thought "Is that the ending?" I need more twisted and unpredictable ending to satisfy me. I do not mean I hate dark films and stories and as I wrote, I love this film's dry and cold mood, but I think the strategy and the ending completely deteriorate this film. I may not understand the true meaning of the story, but that will not satisfy me enough.

When I watched this shot film first, I didn't understand the meaning of the story. However, I tried to understand and I watched the film carefully again. Second time, I could understand. A little girl who name is Lynne is main character. One day, she and her brother dress up with her mother. Because they go to the Christmas party with her father. On the way to the party, they meet a woman, a girl and a boy. Children become friends soon. In the party, children look fun. However, Lynne finds the girl sits Lynne's father. Lynne feels jealous. After the party, the four children separate and go home. This scene is very important for this film. This scene means Lynne's father has two family. It is little serious story in the real world. i was surprised when I understood the meaning of the scene.