Junk Mail . Tucson Weekly . 07-06-98

Junk Mail

DIRECTED BY: Pål Sletaune

REVIEWED: 07-06-98

The postman subgenre is back yet again with this Norwegian film about a voyeuristic mail carrier named Roy. The protagonist's life is a simple one structured by a daily routine of committing mail-related felonies, such as hoarding junk mail and reading other people's letters, until he becomes obsessed with a Frosted Flakes fetishist named Line. Line seems like a quiet, perfectly objectifiable woman until Roy discovers, after sneaking into her apartment to eat soggy leftovers of the aforementioned sugared cereal, that her felony of choice is robbery. This is okay by Peeping Roy, though, because he gets to prove he has the strength of Tony the Tiger by saving her from a suicide attempt and from her temperamental cohort Georg. The film's blues and grays create an appropriately dull backdrop for its protagonist; and the cramped spaces and off-balance minor characters contribute to an understanding of his mental state. Though the story seems aimless at times, it does provide one possible answer to what your mail carrier is smiling about.

--Polly Higgins

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