Talk about doing a lot with a little. This uncomfortably plausible short is set in a near-future dystopia, where the protagonist is erroneously arrested by drone in an automated process. As in Kafka's The Trial, we never discover the nature of the charges.
This bleak satire is packed with all-too-accurate barbs pointed at the US prison industrial complex, from exploitative prison labor employment to inmates being charged for access to decent food. The dark humor hits spot on.
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Wanted to like it more than I did. Lots of elements felt like they’d been done better before: for gratuitously long 2-person fight seen, see They Live; for dumb TV criticism, see Idiocracy; for art world satire, see The Square or Velvet Buzzsaw, etc. I love seeing female leads in a revenge / feud film, and having two women engaged in non-sexualized hand-to-hand combat was refreshing. Funny in parts, cringy & uncomfortable in others. The deliberately unrealistic coincidences feel lazy rather than amusing.
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