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  Review by Jim E. Brown ★★★★½

  Sign Man is a film by Luc Hollywood that I viewed on the YouTube website. While I typically watch DVDs, it was refreshing to watch a film online. I must say that the fact that it was on YouTube detracted from its legitimacy, but I was pleasantly surprised that it was in fact, a real movie.

  I have little capacity for humour, as I lead a very difficult and painful life. I believe the director's intention was to be funny. I am physiologically incapable of smiling or laughing, so I did not laugh or smile while watching this film. But there were brief, fleeting moments of humour that I intuited.

  I abhor black and white films, and this was shot…

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  Review by jacob pincus

  this is terrific!

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  Review by graveshiftpress ★★★★★

  This film holds a special place in my heart being directly influenced by events which actually occurred between friends at a very chaotic time of our lives. When thinking about art, and film, I think that from a viewers perspective, you almost live through or watch vicariously the events of someone else's perspective, and at best, are able to project your own experiences or emotions onto the work. It's not very often you get to see a film which itself is a projection of those experiences or emotions. I don't know what this film could mean from an external perspective, all I know is what it does mean as far as a documentation of growing up in Southern California and the friends that were made and some of what life felt like back then, which was, wholly absurd. Absolutely something I treasure and will remember forever.
  Ffo: LSD, THC, pizza and general apathy.

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  Review by Octavian Kaul

  Utterly eerie. Like wearing soaked jeans.

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  Review by Zillman ★★★★

  What a fun world and story the filmmakers were able to create on such a minimal/shoestring budget. It’s little indie films like this that inspire me to keep doing what I’m doing and to not give up; which ironically is one of the themes of Sign Man.

  Great stuff all around.

  
  Edit: Thought about it some more and I wanted to add that I had just seen Spider-Man: No Way Home the other day, a movie with a ~$200 million budget. Sign Man obviously had immensely less of a budget, but it still entertained me much, much more. I’m sure that says more about my taste rather than the quality of the two films, but I think it should also say something about the future of independent filmmaking.