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Synopsis
We still had our car and most of my foot.
Ahh, revenge. From not validating my morning 10-trip tram ticket, to putting the cat out at night, most of the small actions of my day are motivated by revenge. That or getting free stuff. But unless you're morally simplistic or a ninja, acts of revenge usually don't satisfy you in the way you might expect, and that's the story of Stanley and Dean.
Left crippled by an accident with a giant clock, Stanley vows violent revenge on the man whose incompetence left him wheelchair-bound. Hitting the highways with his inept brother Dean, the two seek answers and recompense on the road. And what they find is karma complicates.
Developed for mobile platform via Flash, Hugh Sullivan discusses his vision and process of this dark comedy:
"Visually, I wanted a very clean, uncluttered look, something that could easily be read on a mobile. I wanted the characters to really pop out from relatively muted backgrounds, and thus dressed them in primary colours (Stanley is always in blue, Dean in red-ish). For the more subdued, reflective moments, I looked towards the beautifully melancholic work of Chris Ware and Edward Hopper (Portable adds: for anyone who hasn't seen Chris Ware's graphic novel 'Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth, get it, it's beyond brilliant).
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User Review
Like the characters,
style, pace, sound track
- didn't quite get it but
synopsis helps. It
worries me I needed the
synopsis though.