Glorious
After a painful break-up, Wes (Ryan Kwanten) hits the road as well as the bottle. Finding a remote rest area, Wes tries to get the only candy bar from an antiquated vending machine but is thwarted. A strange woman observes him and helps him retrieve the errant candy, offering him some strange advice - to clear out his back seat so he can sleep horizontally. The intoxicated Wes heeds her advice and gathers all the stuff by a fire pit, where he burns it. Satisfied, he heads into the rest area and promptly gets sick in one of two stalls.
Thinking he is alone, as there were no other cars in the lot, Wes is startled to hear a voice (J.K. Simmons)
coming from the other stall. Wes isn't exactly in the mood for conversation, but the voice is persistent and even sympathetic. All Wes wants to do is get his girl back, not trade life stories with a strange in a men's room. Thinking there is something off about this strange man in the stall, Wes tries to leave but finds himself locked in. The voice introduces himself as Ghat, and he has something important to tell Wes. He says Wes being there is no accident, and they have important business that needs to be taken care of together. In fact, the fate of the world hangs in the balance.
This film is most definitely unusual and very Lovecraftian in nature and does take place entirely inside a bathroom. And yet it manages to keep you guessing about what is really going on, who or what is Ghat, and how is Wes going to get out of this place intact? Is that even possible? And what's going on with that glory hole? You might remember Ryan Kwanten from True Blood - he played Sookie's crazy brother Jason Stackhouse. And everyone knows and loves J.K. Simmons. Even though we never see him, just hearing his recognizable voice is enough to picture him. Wes has to deal with his own demons, both literally and figuratively, and the outcome is never certain until the very end. It's a short film but I think it's definitely worth watching. I'll rate this film between 3.5 and 4 Stars, mostly because of J.K.Simmons.
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