This movie can be best described as the spawn of "The Man Who Was Thursday", "Fight Club", "Peter Pan", "The Lord of the Flies", "Dogville" and "Young Guns". Beyond that there is really nothing else to say. It is a very twisted character study on a group of pacifist "losers" in a small town that share a love for firearms. They believe it is important to share their love of weapons and their detest of their use with the community and so a club is form, and call themselves "The Dandies".
I can't say I loved this movie, but I was pleasantly intrigued, and the movie did very well for being such a low-budget picture. The movie feels like a novel, in the writing and in the way it is presented. The scenes play out rather nicely, lead by the lead's narration/letters to his gun. Yes, to his gun. Everyone in "The Dandies" essentially marries his or her gun and gives it a name. Their bond with their weapon is what they hold dearest. This is made especially clear in the films climatic and unexpectedly tragic ending.
A character study is the central idea to the movie, but there are many, many other things to be said and heard in this movie.
Note: You can only imagine my glee when I found that the entire movie's soundtrack is composed from songs by my favorite band "The Zombies".
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