Irishfilmfanatic From the team that brought us the wonderful "Adam and Paul" comes the slower and less comedic story of Josey, (Pat Shortt) a simple minded Garage worker in a changing rural town. The plot is not a 'high concept' one, and unfolds slowly with lot's of attention to character. However, it is never boring and has such a spellbinding atmosphere that one feels in the hand's of artists. The script is a sparse and economic masterclass in storytelling and the direction is of unforced confidence. The acting is flawless and the visuals again unfussy but beautiful. This all ties up to a very interesting end which will have you thinking for a long time to come.

Pascal Zinken (LazySod) Josie works in a garage in a small town. He mans the gas pumps, sells the oils and the magazines to the travelers. Only, the town is so small and the road is so little traveled that he hardly has anything to do. Josie has also lived in this town all his life and has worked in this same garage for almost just as long. When his boss asks him to take on the weekends as well he is up for the task - and when his boss offers to send a kid as a helping hand he accepts that kid too. All in all, Josie is a very easy guy that takes the world for what it is. Too bad the world does not fully understand that.Although somewhat predictable this film is a rather interesting one. The way the actors play out their roles make up for a glimpse of the grim reality people like Josie live in. All he wants is do good, all he gets is evil. The message is clear from the very start of the film but never starts to bore too much. This is purely due to the way the different characters get together and depict the pretty little village the film plays in - the message fits the persons and the town perfectly. When the ending comes it is dark and dreary, but fitting and only logical.9 out of 10 good people making bad choices

beautyangel08 Garage is an Irish film directed by Lenny Abrahamson who tell us the story of Jossie, a forty-year old worker in a petrol station who will show us his day by day working there. This character is so curious due to the ingenuity and natural way of behave with everyone around him. He also does not distinguish anyone by his age, he speaks equally is "friends" in the pub or the boy who begins to work with him soon after. This character tries his luck looking for love too, but this try do not work.We could define him as a curious, simple and lonely man. Curious because of his own peculiarity, his typical way of view the things, and nobody understands him. Simple because he talks about the most evident and common things, but to him are very important, because he has no other ways of entertaining, rather than to maintain a conversation with other people about the most superfluous things of their lives. We have an example at the very beginning of the film, when he talks about his experience working on the petrol station with a truck driver who has stooped his route to fill the petrol tank as if there was not anything better in the life, as something exciting and that keeps him busy all the day, when the reality is completely the opposite. And lonely, because although he is surrounded by people, he feels alone, abandoned, because nobody understands him, the way he lives, the way he asks, also the way he moves...we could talk about a man rejected by the society, because he is keeping stuck, and on the deep of his thoughts he knows it, he recognizes this idea that Ireland is growing, is changing from the rural civilization to an industrial one.The film shows us the cruel reality- although our main character will not affirm this assumption- of a man who does not adapt himself to the change his city is suffering. My point of view supporting Josie's behaviour is that he feels happy and fulfilled with his life, because he has selected this life, as he will make us know during the story, and in my opinion all of us we should have a little bit of Josie's way of life and Josie's way of see the life. He does not need much to feel happy with the things and with himself. He does not aspire to have a wonderful house or a wonderful life or a wonderful job. He lives with only the necessary things, he works in the petrol station because he LOVES his job, and he only aspires to have a girlfriend/wife who only loves him, and appreciates him just as he is. Other characters during the plot of the film seems to have more than him but they lacks also personality to reach the happiness Josie feels with very little. I think the public will feel identify more with these kind of characters than Josie at all, and all of us we should put a little of Josie in our lives, because we will appreciate more the things we get without being ambitious, without aspire to more and more, just given value this little things that makes us happy, as Josie does.Verónica Molina Mínguez

Fogo Josie has been assigned the roles in life of pumping petrol and being the village idiot. He qualifies for the former role by being loyal to his boss, diligent about his work tasks, and friendly to the customers. He qualifies for the latter role because of some sort of mild mental disability that makes him slow to process ideas and not too good at standing up for himself. In fact he's not that stupid - one gets the impression that he was a slow child whom people got into the habit of talking down to, but that he understands more than other people acknowledge or that he even acknowledges himself.People like Josie are litmus tests for distinguishing bullies from people who are fundamentally decent. The bullies, both teenagers and adults, treat him as if he doesn't even understand the cruel remarks they direct towards him. The people of conscience don't mock him because they know he can't respond in kind, and they recognise that he is capable of being hurt. However their kindness can only go so far: they can't engage with Josie as equals, they can't talk to him about relationships or children or careers, and the weather and the news of the town provide only a minute or two of conversational material.Even more uncomfortable to watch than his treatment by the bullies is the use people make of him as a confidant of last resort. They unburden their hearts to him in the assumption that he has nothing better to do than listen to them, and expecting from him the kind of unconditional sympathy one would get from a pet dog. There is no reciprocation, nobody asks him how he is getting on, so Josie's unhappiness remains unarticulated beneath the conventional cheeriness that he presents to the world and the world expects of him. The action of this slow moving film can be said to be driven by the intrusions of the wider world into a rural community. Josie's livelihood is threatened by economic development, and his role as the village idiot is threatened, if that's an appropriate word, by the dilution of the community with "blow ins". Being a village idiot is a cruel and marginal existence for Josie, but it does mean that when he takes a wrong turn, people have a ready explanation for his actions, and can be quite tactful and kind in nudging him back in the right direction. When the village fills up with more and more people who haven't known Josie since birth, his behaviour is in danger of being interpreted in a different way.