You youngsters/cool kids might not remember it, but there used to be this sweet cartoon called
Ducktales. It had all the hallmarks of animated greatness: action, adventure, incompetent villains, identical triplets, Scottish fowl - you name it. There was this one particular episode that consumed my imagination as a kid. A device was invented that froze time and allowed its users to move about freely while the rest of the world was standing still (technically, they were moving at regular pace, but anyway...). Huey, Dewey and Lewey used it to win a baseball game, which as a nine year old boy, seemed like the best possible use of such a device.
I now know better.
Cashback surprised me. I had never heard of the movie til I was doing a little research for my
t-shirt giveaway. I was searching for classic nude scenes to alter when I came across
this list. Long (and pathetic) story short, I decided to add this flick to my Netflix queue based solely on salacious reasons. But that's not why I'm recommending you check it out. Well, not the only reason anyway...
The story is charmingly simple. Ben, a young art student, gets dumped and as a result, has lost the ability to sleep. He decided to trade his idle time for the overnight shift at a grocery store. Turns out, perhaps unsurprisingly, that the graveyard shift is full of some odd characters. But our main man Ben? Well, he might be the oddest.
In the section of the movie I loved the most (well, outside the glorious nudity), Ben details the lengths that each employee goes to to make the the time fly by. Each person's trick is increasingly bizarre, but as someone currently
getting paid to watch others work I devoured these bits. Anyway, young Ben has come up with the best trick of all. He has discovered that, for him, time goes fastest when it is frozen. Yes, rather unbelievable (yet portrayed convincingly) Ben can
freeze time.
