Oh, I forgot to tell you, didn't I? Ben has become so introspective and intensely contemplative about time that he can freeze it and experience a single moment for as long as he wants. When he forces his employees to play a soccer (okay, 'football') match against another store, the simple fact that they are incredibly incompetent and lose their asses off is kinda funny, but it's not all that funny-it ain't the football sequence from MASH.Р вЂќР’В«ut when Brian suffers a nose-breaking, neck-spraining ball to the face, it gives Ben a good excuse to freeze time and go wandering around amidst the motionless tableaux of waxworks-like people, pondering the philosophical complexities of timelessness. These characters are amusing enough to allow the script to get as sappy as it wants to and still have something to goose us awake now and then.Р вЂќР’В«en's boss, Jenkins (Stuart Goodwin), adds to the funny with his self-important buffoonery. To top it all off, Ben even has a best friend named Sean (Shaun Evans) who is the standard sex-obsessed Don Juan who freely dispenses faulty relationship advice which more often than not results in drinks being hurled in his face. These guys have scooter races up and down the aisles when the boss isn't looking, lurk on the high shelves and taunt passersby from behind large packages of toilet paper, hurl merchandise at each other, and stick salamis out of their flies-anything to help get them through those interminable eight hours of their shifts. The raucous comedy omelets-sorry, elements-which shoehorn themselves into all this dreamy romantic stuff are provided by Ben's coworkers, internet bicycle-daredevil Barry (Michael Dixon) and nerdy would-be ladies' man Matt (Michael Lambourne). Sure, they'll have to cutely get to know each other first, tentatively grow closer, and then have a falling out after which Sharon never wants to see him again, but the certainty that they'll get together again right in time for the fade-out is as vital an ingredient in the recipe for this kind of movie as eggs are to omelets. (It may sound like I'm giving too much away, but really-this ain't THE SIXTH SENSE.) Ben meets and becomes enamored with a nice checkout girl named Sharon (Emilia Fox), and we breathe a sigh of relief knowing that they'll end up together and Ben will finally be over what's-er-name once and for all. The plot thickens as our butts inch inexorably toward the edges of our seats. Travis Bickle drove a cab-Ben cleans up on aisle four. He does this mainly because extreme Suzy-related angst has made it impossible for him to sleep, and he needs to do something to pass that extra eight hours of waking time that have been tacked onto each day. Suzy heaves a lamp at him and jumps into bed with another guy, driving Ben into an ever-darkening abyss of poignant emotional turmoil with the realization that Suzy's absence has rent a gaping wound filled with ever-aching despair into the very fabric of his agonized soul.Р вЂќР вЂЎor awhile there, you sorta wish Ben would just grab a straight razor and put himself out of your misery, but he hangs in there long enough to make the life-altering decision to get a job working the night shift in a grocery store. Telling this out of the blue to the girl you love doesn't make much sense, but I suppose that, instinctively, Ben must have realized he'd just become the main character in a bittersweet slapstick romantic comedy-drama and needed to do something to jump-start the plot.

But he's lost and lonely because he just broke up with his girlfriend, Suzy (Michelle Ryan), after sadly telling her he didn't think he could make her happy. (NOTE: This review was first posted at in 2006.)Р вЂќР’В¬ASHBACK (2006) is a strange combination of two things: a raucous comedy, and a sensitive journey through the romantic fantasy world of an emotionally-wounded young emo.Р вЂќР вЂћrt college student Ben Willis (Sean Biggerstaff) is so introspective, artistic, and sensitive, in fact, that girls who gush over guys like that should be huddled around him with spoons, scarfing him down like a giant banana split.

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