Me, You and Everyone We Know

I recently watched this film, which I'd seen on Film 2006 earlier in the year and thought it might be quite an interesting indie film to see, and was delighted to see it's already playing on sky. Basically here's the plot summary from IMDB:

'Me and You and Everyone We Know' is a poetic and penetrating observation of how people struggle to connect with one another in an isolating and contemporary world. Christine Jesperson is a lonely artist and "Eldercab" driver who uses her fantastical artistic visions to draw her aspirations and objects of desire closer to her. Richard Swersey (John Hawkes), a newly single shoe salesman and father of two boys, is prepared for amazing things to happen. But when he meets the captivating Christine, he panics. Life is not so oblique for Richard's seven-year-old Robby, who is having a risqué Internet romance with a stranger, and his fourteen-year-old brother Peter who becomes the guinea pig for neighborhood girls -- practicing for their future of romance and marriage.

I know it sounds really odd, and I can imagine not too many people would enjoy this film, but I found it interesting in terms of capturing a bit of real life and looking into the lives of random people who somehow become connected through the film. I think the most disturbing bit of the film is in the first 5 minutes when the father (Richard) decides to set his hand on fire using lighter fluid in front of his kids as a party trick! He remembers his own uncle doing it to him, except with alcohol which burns away.