Review of "WALLY" by Robinson Devor
director of "Police Beat", Official Selection Sundance 2005, nominated for a 2006 Indie Spirit Award and 2005 Gotham Award

"Wally" follows the painful and moving journey of a terrified, mentally challenged man who must watch his own sense of security and family roots being torn up before his very eyes. It's the kind of documentary that drugs you with its inexorable drive towards a tragic ending, while somehow making you desperately root for a positive outcome that may never arrive.

Director Fink frames Wally's gradual abandonment by his own family members as something almost too harrowing to take, but he gives the audience breathing room to reflect on the bigger issues Wally himself thinks through - concepts of heaven and death, friendship and sex, and the meaning of what a home really is. This is no easy feat, and it matters. In the end, Wally becomes a tragic symbol for all that we've lost as our country moves deeper into its sunset. The frightened innocent is shown neither loyalty nor decency, and hypocrisy and greed walk out of the gate and never look back. Who knew the end of paradise would be such a purely financial matter?"

Rob Devor
Director/Writer of Police Beat