Zellweger top lines as the fish out of water, volunteering in her high-profile Miami based conglomerate to head north to makeover a tiny food plant, cut its workforce by half and retool for an automated new product launch. Well-timed to a winter release (the film's heartwarming Xmas scene occurs early in the story as an intended anticlimax preceding the plot complications to come), this modern fable set in a small town in frozen Minnesota is well-photographed on atmospheric Manitoba locations. Would I recommend Factory Town? You bet! I can’t think of a more interesting, thought provoking and adventurous story that I’ve read all year.Though its payoff scenes are as predictable as could be, this entertaining romantic comedy is an effective vehicle sure to please Renee Zelweger fans.
And, Russell’s epiphany by the end of the story will certainly shock most of his readers as well as leave them heartbroken. Readers might be confused by the plotting, but there is no denying the empathy we feel toward Russell as he searches for the young girl and the horror he feels when everyone in the town turns against him. There is a tie that binds everything together and it starts to become apparent by the last chapters of the novel.įactory Town is a roller coaster of emotion. Without giving away what makes it work, I can say that the reader must be patient and pay attention to the scenes as much as they are able to. And, all of this occurs in just in the first portion of the novel.ĭespite this jumble of weirdness, as I said, it all works. Russell is constantly assaulted, has cash thrown at him, is surrounded with sordid sex, and worst of all he is constantly stymied in his quest for Alana. Russell goes into the town and finds a mixture of old friends, cannibalistic citizens, a thieving nun, a whore, his wife, and even a small child who runs around in a cape and brandishes a fake sword. Mostly everyone in town works at the factory but it is not clear what it produces. The Cowboy has written a Book of Edict’s that everyone must follow, and the prime edict is that all children must be murdered so the town can cease to exist. His search brings him to Factory Town where a man named, The Cowboy controls the town. All Carver has is a digital printout of what the girl may look like and an overwhelming desire to save her from a certain death. On the surface, Factory Town is about a man named Russell Carver who is searching for a young girl he’s never met named, Alana. Scenes blend into each other with all the subtlety of a car accident, and many of them appear to have little to do with each other. It’s tough to describe the plot in Factory Town because it’s so surreal.
I would go so far as to call Factory Town brilliant.
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The narrative reads like a movie penned by David Lynch and directed by Stanley Kubrick.īut the wildest thing about Factory Town is that it all works. And you know what else in wild in Factory Town? The story has no cohesive plot. Sentences just run along dialog bumping into or bracketing narration without attribution. Even in dialog, you may ask? Nope, not even in dialog. For starters, like his previous novel, Corrosion, the author has never met a set of quotation marks he liked.
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