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Cult Review
Senior Film Conservator
Honestly, it’s more like a slideshow of bad literacy and even worse logic. If you like vintage oddities and hearing people’s terrible spelling read out loud, you’ll have a blast. If you’re looking for a plot, or anything resembling a coherent structure, skip this immediately.
It’s just a collection of letters. People being profoundly, confusingly stupid in their correspondence to big companies. Some of these make the characters in The Big Show look like absolute geniuses.
There is this one bit about a request for a refund that goes on for way too long. The person writing it clearly had no idea how a business works, or perhaps how the English language works. It’s funny for thirty seconds, and then it’s just painful.
Juliet Jowell clearly had a lot of time on her hands. You can almost see her sorting through stacks of paper in some dusty office, laughing at the sheer volume of idiocy. Some of these letters are so bad you start to wonder if they’re fake. They feel like the 1920s version of a troll post.
The pacing is non-existent. It’s a list. It’s a list of people being wrong. Sometimes that’s enough.
It doesn't reach the level of pure absurdity found in Feline Follies, but it’s got a weird, dry charm. It’s the kind of thing you’d watch at 2 AM when you’ve lost all sense of time. 📎
I found myself wondering if these people ever realized they were being mocked. Probably not. They were too busy writing letters about how their new washing machine doesn't make toast or something equally ridiculous.
It isn't high art. It isn't even really a film in the traditional sense. It’s just a look at the mail. And somehow, that feels enough for today.