The short film offers romance and a potential love story in the most unexpected ways. The manner it adopts for the execution of its story is unexpected, unpredictable and perhaps even the stuff of (albeit borderline twisted) dreams. The colours are intense and the visuals overflowing with a passion you might find difficult to pin down a particular character or event in the film. A reticent delivery man carries takeaways to doorsteps of unusual customers who refuse to pay him his due. He lets this bitterness find a voice in the fortune cookie messages he writes for them. Amidst all the humour and eccentricities of this narrative, this becomes a surprisingly humane touch to the character as well as the film. From ones of kindness and comfort, to those of absolute dismissal and anger, the messages cover the full spectrum. One night, however, a woman with a bloodied bandage over an eye and a story of an experience as disorienting as her appearance, finds her way to the restaurant the protagonist works at. The whole film has been moving towards this, and when it finally arrives, it is that one promised moment of comfort in this surreal narrative of dark colours, seedy characters and intriguing images.

King Wah (I Think I Love You) | Short Film of the Day

There is something especially entertaining about a story which refuses to stick to the confines of a single genre. Would it be a romance, thriller, fantasy? Or would it be a fling with comedy or perhaps even surrealism? The narrative adroitly raises all of these doubts without becoming overbearing. In the process, it further introduces us to a quirky, endearing protagonist in Susan who has arrived in a park for a rendezvous fixed over dating platforms.

 Though awkward at the start (subtly put), the meeting soon turns out to be a lovely bike-ride in an idyllic landscape of greenery, rocks and streams. During the course of the narrative we also learn of the protagonist's interest in not just witchcraft and the occult, but also quilting, her current field of study. 

 The plot is notable in the manner in which it swiftly and smoothly switches the tone and the mood with the revelation of a single piece of information, immensely shocking and terrifying when presented to the viewer. Additionally, the short film comes across as a concise, engaging and interesting product of storytelling and filmmaking. It is a welcome prospect to be able to experience it as a longer project sometime in the future.

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