In many ways Jade Carmen's short film PIGGY BANK reminded me of SHALLOW GRAVE or A SIMPLE PLAN for much of the running time . Claire and Karl move into a new house little realising that a couple of bank robbers have left their stash underneath the floor boards . For the premise to work you have to suspend disbelief . I mean why didn't the robbers drive to Essex or Surry where there's enough rural woodland to dig a hole and hide the money till the heat is off ? Probably because if they did that there wouldn't be a story . I guess also to make the story work you have to forgive the unlikely duo of robbers , I mean if they're violent crooks how come they seem to be so forgiving to Claire and Karl ?
PIGGY BANK works mainly because there's a fairly clever twist at the end and it's this what makes this short memorable . I have to be honest though and say it probably doesn't deserve the average rating of 9.3 since both the not too dissimilar SHALLOW GRAVE and A SIMPLE PLAN were better stories but I guess because they were feature length the stories had more space for development so comparisons are unfair
PIGGY BANK works mainly because there's a fairly clever twist at the end and it's this what makes this short memorable . I have to be honest though and say it probably doesn't deserve the average rating of 9.3 since both the not too dissimilar SHALLOW GRAVE and A SIMPLE PLAN were better stories but I guess because they were feature length the stories had more space for development so comparisons are unfair