This film is a frightening, upsetting, and incredibly overwhelming piece of filmmaking. The content alone would merit that description, but in order to make sure anyone watching gets everything out of this that is necessary to truly understand the magnitude of what is going on, they have presented this in a stripped-down way that forces you to watch things without any filters, and take it all in exactly as everyone present did.
Yes, there are captions that provide context, but…
Music is one of the greatest ways children can learn how to work together and learn to become confident about something, and I don’t know if I have ever seen it showcased on film in such an effective manner before. Too often people view confidence as something people either have or don’t have, but it needs to be taught and learned, and here it is, on full display, what it takes to work hard, learn from someone, get support when…
For the first five minutes of this film, I was locked in. It was funny, and charming, and seemed like it was prepared to take me down a path of amusement and absurdity that the Academy Award-nominated short films rarely traverse. Could this simple premise be carried out to something with a satisfying conclusion?
Unfortunately not. There are a lot of interesting ideas in this film, but it’s way too much for a twenty-odd minute venture. Absurdist comedy, questions of…
It’s a tense, urgent, and timely little film. When you get to the end, you feel like there should be more, but that’s most likely on purpose - the choices made seem both nonsensical and completely logical given the situation presented to us, and we don’t see what happens afterwards (although history tells us exactly what happened). It’s frustrating to watch unfold, and but even more poignant is our protagonist’s face as the train gets rolling again, beginning to process…
