![]() As with all of Breen’s work-with the possible exception of I Am Here…. It may be Lynchian, but repeated viewings reveal an interconnectedness of scenes and events not immediately apparent at first glance. Ouch!Īfter this, the film takes a distinctly subjective turn which, upon first viewing, may give the viewer the impression that the narrative is just a series of random events, and yet, in actuality, Fateful Findings displays a clarity and confidence of handling thus far unequalled in Breen’s oeuvre. The passenger of the Rolls Royce, who looks in body like Lara Croft in stripper heels (we never see her face) slinks out and attempts to retrieve the cube from where Dylan dropped it, but is warded off by ghostly “Wooooooo!” noises and stock plugin smoke effects, allowing Dylan to weakly retain his lucky charm. She then takes up a whole page of her diary to write “It’s a magical day!” before, as Dylan’s voice-over tells us, they go their separate ways and never see each other again, waving goodbye as Leah and her family drive away in a 2010s model 4×4, down a suburban street lined with cars that couldn’t be any older than 2006, despite the fact that this whole sequence should take place in, say, the 70s.Ĭut to the present, where Dylan, emerging from the offices of his therapist, and engrossed in a phone conversation with his wife Emily (Klara Landrat) drops his phone whilst crossing the street and, as he bends down to retrieve it, is violently struck down by a Rolls Royce “It was the Rolls Royce that hit him! I saw it! I’m a witness!” cries one Australian-accented onlooker, despite the fact that Dylan’s body his lying directly in front of said vehicle, the radiator grill of which is decorated with his blood. ![]() Dylan retains the cube, Leah takes some of the beads, though not all, inexplicably claiming that leaving the box empty would be bad luck. It’s a Magical Day!Īfter a brief prologue in which we’re introduced to a large, mysterious book housed in a secure storage facility, we’re treated to a flashback of Dylan’s childhood where, along with his friend Leah, he discovers a magic mushroom in the woods, which marks the spot of a buried treasure, namely, a small black cube and some beads. But this new found fame had one drawback whilst everyone was laughing, no one was evaluating.įollowing a-near fatal car accident, novelist and computer scientist, Dylan (Breen) begins hacking into government secrets whilst having to deal with his drug addicted wife, the advances of his neighbours’ amorous teenage daughter, his own clinical depression, his best friend’s alcoholism and mysterious “suicide,” along with various shadowy figures who seem determined to stop him, all the while aided by a supernatural crystal he acquired as a child when out exploring the woods with his long lost love, who chance has deposited back into his life. ![]() It was the film that internet commentators like Your Movie Sucks first took up as the latest thing in ‘So-Bad-They’re-Good’ cinema and led audiences and cinephiles to discover his body of work, resulting in an explosion in his popularity. ❉ Jonathan Sisson looks at the film which saw Breen’s cult popularity explode.įateful Findings (2013) was the film that really garnered Neil Breen mainstream attention.
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