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PAYDAY MAKES DEBUT IN TRINIDAD & TOBAGO

PAYDAY MAKES ITS DEBUT AT T&T FILM FESTIVAL  The eighth T&T Film Festival runs until October 1. Guardian columnist, BC Pires, has been writing about film from an informed lay perspective since March 1988. He served on the first T&T Film Festival jury in 2009 and wrote the Jury’s Report. BC will pick a Film of the Day for every day of the festival.  Today’s choice is: Payday (Selwyn Browne/ 2013/ Barbados/ Comedy/ 97 mins/ Rank Bajan dialect English with English subtitles/ PG-13) 8pm MovieTowne Tobago. One of the standout films of this year’s festival, and a contender for strongest Caribbean film ever made, Payday is entirely Bajan, down to its perceived weaknesses.  The film’s strengths begin with a rock-solid script, by the very young Shakirah Bourne, deft direction from Selwyne Browne and nearly as sturdy performances from the two male leads.  The pacing, too, is as good as it gets: even in the middle reels, where there is an extended, quite pointless, quite Bajan, ganja-induced contemplation, set to a mindless soca rhythm bed, of a flying centipede, the film does not lag for a moment.  The weaknesses of the film, such as they are—for they are really additional strengths in disguise—are the extreme cruelty of some of the comedy and the harshly dismissive treatment, through caricature, of people central to daily Barbadian life, such as the postman and the paro (the Bajan equivalent of the cocaine spranger.)  In Barbados, cinema audiences laugh loudest and longest at the feeding, on a piece of sugarcane, of canine excrement to a paro, and the wholly gratuitous puncturing of the postman’s motorcyle tyre because “he only ever brings bills”.  The film then, very strongly portrays what are really weaknesses in Bajan neo-slave society itself: the preference for physical, slapstick comedy over any other form, including punning (which, in Barbados, cane be treated as wit); everyday cruelty to the weakest members of society, compounded by derisive laughter at the person subjugated and ridiculed for the amusement of the rest; and a national outlook that would never be in danger of being described as sophisticated or intellectual.

  http://guardian.co.tt/entertainment/2013-09-25/strongest-caribbean-film-ever-made