Their Dizzy Finish

Their Dizzy Finish spirals into a riotous tapestry of mechanical absurdism as Percy and Ferdie, two tinkerers with a penchant for chaos, construct a Ford automobile from an improbable heap of tin cans. The film’s narrative pivots on a collision that shatters both their invention and their aspirations, dissolving the car back into its metallic components in a silent, cinematic wink at impermanence. Sidney Smith and Harry McCoy, as the duo, embody a slapstick synergy that oscillates between ingenuity and folly, their performances a masterclass in physical comedy. The film’s charm lies in its whimsical embrace of fragility—machines as ephemeral as dreams—while its structure balances on the razor’s edge of farcical disaster and existential futility. A surreal ode to the 1920s’ fascination with mechanization, it mirrors the era’s jittery optimism and lurking anxieties.