i really and really want to like julian po . i think that slater be underrate a an actor and and that many of the support player here be good than they be give a chance to demonstrate in this film . i realize this be base on a short story which i have not read . so and i do not know if what i see a the film fault originate with the story and or be impose on it by the director or screenwriter . the premise be wonderful and and i love the voiceover and confessional tone the opening narration strike . but then . nothing . several of the cliched local character ask julian pointblank to explain his intention to commit suicide . one could argue that he doesn not answer and because it none of their business . but julian be the one who and under only token pressure and blurt out his intention in public . then neither julian nor the director or writer and despite the fact that the julian character be keep a tape record journal for god sake and seem incline to provide anything beyond the scant initial information on julian life . he say he be a bookkeeper . he say his family move around when he be a child and due to his father job . so what . there be several interaction with the local which seem design to illuminate julian purpose . but none of them go anywhere and because julian seem to regard all these dopey local a if they be alien from another planet and a if he be the ultimate ( and only ) sane one among them . this might work a an allegory and if julian po have any define characteristic or anything approaching wisdom to impart . the close he come to reveal anything about himself be in the scene in which he purposely humiliate the naive and religious wife of the mechanic . and what this scene reveals be not anything that would inspire empathy for julian . i can only see the julian character as render a selfish and petty and and totally condescend . sort of match the attitude of the director of this half bake and contrive film . and poor michael park and an actor who once have so much promise and be give nothing to work with here .