Monday, September 3, 2012
Exam (2010)
Eight
adults sit at desks in a small, gray, cube-like room and for 80 minutes must battle with wits and then more physicals means for a job at a mysterious bio-tech
company in “Exam.” Very independent and consistently smart, “Exam” was co-written
and directed by Brit Stuart Hazeldine and feels like an
off-off-Broadway play as the film never leaves its one room. An unnamed man (Colin Salmon) lays out the task: “There
is only one question,” and the recruits must figure out what it is. The last
man or woman standing gets the job. It’s not just any job, either, as the firm likely
has a cure for a virus that has rocked England to its knees. Among the recruits
–- all named for their ethnicity or hair color -– is narcissistic White (Luke Mably),
devoted Christian Black (Chuk Iwuji), ex-Special Forces loon Brown (Jimi
Mistry), and head-shrinker Dark (Adar Beck). Reaching the One Question pull up
dozens: Who among the eight is a plant, has the virus, or is desperate enough to
kill? Taunt and exciting, “Exam” ingeniously turns Gen-Y yuppies into biblical savages,
fighting for the favor not of God, but a CEO perhaps as powerful. Or wholly not.
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