Glitch in the Grid 2011 123movies

Watch: Glitch in the Grid 2011 123movies, Full Movie Online – Jay Masonek is feeling down and out. Although he is a talented artist, Jay has seldom left his small town in Northern California. One day Jay’s cousins Jeff and Eric visit from LA. They offer Jay the opportunity to come live with them for a period of time in Hollywood. Hoping to cheer him up, the brothers show Jay the city and take him to film castings, even though it’s during the economic recession and jobs are scarce. Jay soon begins to feel the oppression of what he describes as “the grid”, turning to excessive partying to fill the void. Through unprecedented animated sequences, real life becomes the landscape for Jay’s inner life, as his thoughts, emotions and longing for spiritual renewal are captured. Eventually, Jay returns to his small town, while Eric and Jeff pursue relationships in New York and England. Alone once again, Jay almost loses hope when a powerful moment shakes him to his core and he faces the most important decision of his life..
Plot: Three artists struggling against the grid of society find spiritual renewal.
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Ratings:

	7.3/10 Votes: 75
	63% | RottenTomatoes
	N/A | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 3 Popularity: 0.6 | TMDB

Reviews:

Under appreciated Experimental Narrative Art Film
This film really flew under the radar which is too bad because if pretty great. Jay Masonek an alienated artist from the social and economic superstructure, or the grid as he calls it. Hoping a change of scenery will help get him out of his funk, Masonek’s cousins Jeff and Eric invite him to crash in their Hollywood apartment. Of course, once he has moved in, they start to wish they had never suggested it, particularly Eric. Yet, when he is not skateboarding or scanning Craig’s List for scammer casting notices, Masonek pursues a genuine quest for divine guidance.

As director, animator, editor, and half a dozen other things including co-star, Eric Leiser creates visually striking interludes rendered with a combination of stop-motion animation and time- lapse photography. Symbolically evocative, they often communicate the film’s themes more dramatically than the mumblecorish live action scenes. While Leiser can create a distinctive fast talking lizard, his characters are not strongly delineated. The manner in which Masonek and his cousins discuss their personal relationships with God is impressively frank and free of irony. Leiser is an enormously talented filmmaker, who simply needs to tighten-up his screen writing or take on a collaborator.

Something of a rant but I’ll try to keep it focused
(The following contains spoilers) Full disclosure, I am a friend of the Leisers. That said, I think everyone who’s unfairly reviewed this film/trolled this page should include a similar disclaimer at the beginning of their reviews, i.e., “Full Disclosure, I can’t deal with the Jesus stuff, so I’m willing to trash this film as ‘humorless’ and ‘self absorbed’ when those adjectives really apply to me.” Yes I’m referring to the screed disguised as film criticism published in the October 19th New York Times.

Thus, the following isn’t so much a review as a dissection of the aforementioned “review,” and the way that its snide self-aggrandizement embodies the charges it levels against “Glitch in the Grid.” Mr. Brunick slams Eric and Jeff as “humorless disciples of high art and the higher power of Jesus’ love,” implying that a) the movie itself is devoid of humor, and b) that the Leiser brothers glorify their efforts to bring about spiritual transformation in their cousin’s life. Had Mr. Brunick paid attention to the film, he would have noticed that the Leiser brothers are prone to undercut their own self representation, by way of self deprecating humor: note the scene in which Jeff earnestly asks Jay about his religious history, to which Jay replies by thoughtfully dissecting his past while scratching his pits for a good minute or so. Or note the very scene that introduces the two, which cuts between solemn musings about the commercialized studio system and fraternal squabbling about punctuality. Surely Brunick caught the deflation of rhetorical grandiosity that occurs there? Or one might note that this alleged spiritual vanity project does not end in conversion – it ends in stasis, indeterminacy, a plateau in a journey none of the three leads completely understand. Jay doesn’t see the light so much as glimpse it in brief moments – and even then, he seems to find salvation in ministering to trees, not being ministered to by, well, ministers.

Perhaps the problem is that Brunick was expecting a film that the Leiser brothers never purported to deliver. Hence, his grumpy charge that the film includes “self-pitying references to the weak job market,” even though “the evidence of real hardship is thin: peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!” But is Glitch in the Grid intended to be a gritty look at the fallout of the recession – an Upton Sinclair-esque portrait of our time and its vicissitudes? Or does it have in mind something more playful? Brunick seems to expect a realist film that includes momentary stop motion interludes, when in fact this is a stop-motion psychomachia: a drama of the soul, in direct lineage with medieval morality plays in which Virtues and Vices were personified. Here, the stop motion figures do the work of dramatizing the internal psycho-spiritual struggles in which the leads are enmeshed. Depictions of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches don’t sufficiently dramatize the hardship of the recession, but they aren’t intended to: they’re texture, secondary details that provide counterpoint to the fantastic journey inward, just as mundane objects and situations do in a thousand fantasy films and novels.

To be sure, the main characters don’t evince an “arc” in any conventional sense of the word: Jay starts a new life in the forest, but seems only marginally happier, while Jeff’s marriage doesn’t feel like the culmination of a drastic personality change so much as a beautiful-but-ordinary event, one that doesn’t necessarily make his character any “better” or “more virtuous.” But this is both a result of its affiliations both with psychomachia and with mumblecore: psychomachia downplays fluctuations in character, because it’s concerned with absolutes; mumblecore’s intensely focused naturalism, meanwhile, interrogates the necessity of conventional character arcs (not to mention the “evidence of real hardship” that Brunick requires). Indeed, because of this hybrid generic inheritance, “Glitch in the Grid” is probably the first psychomachia in which the battle for the soul ends in a stalemate. There’s a quiet depiction of an Easter play, and Jeff muses that Jesus “broke the grid of society,” but he’s talking to himself at that point, not to Jay: there’s a world of difference between that internal monologue and the speechifying of The Ten Commandments (or, hell, all of Edward Zwick’s movies).

“God would have planned it a little better,” Brunick writes – but did he really want to see a miraculous plan of salvation unfold on screen? Even God is bored with that.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 22 min (82 min) (USA)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Animation, Drama
Director Eric Leiser
Writer Eric Leiser
Actors Jay Masonek, Jeffrey Leiser, Eric Leiser
Country United States, United Kingdom
Awards 2 wins
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 1.78 : 1
Camera Canon EOS 5D (Canon Lenses), Sony PMW-EX3
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format N/A
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format N/A