The Station Agent

As I was watching The Station Agent, I was thinking that anyone with talent could have made this movie.  It doesn't contain any special effects, explosions, or car chases, and the filiming was done in places that anyone could access.  There isn't much of a plot, and there really isn't any ending.  Yet I thoroughly enjoyed it.

What does happen is that a guy named Finbar, or Fin, who happens to be 4'5" tall, moves out of the city and into an abandoned train depot that his friend left him in his will.  Fin wants to get away from people, but very near his train depot is a hotdog and coffee truck run by a guy named Joe, who talks all the time and tries very hard to engage Fin.

Fin resists at first, but in time he begins to appreciate the contact, and he also crosses paths with a few other locals:  an artist still mourning the loss of her son, a schoolgirl who lives close, and a young lady who works in the library.

And really, that's it, and then the movie ends.  We see Fin go from shunning all attention to appreciating a few friends, and not much more.  But it's a good story scene by scene, and it kept me engaged all the way through.  It's surprising what someone with talent and a camera can do.

And if you see this movie, you should stick through the credits to hear the theremin playing the last song, if you like that sort of thing.