Short Film Nominee July 3, 2024
By Robert Szanto with 6.8
thriller · Short Films · english
The film raises pertinent issues that have always been of extreme importance when it comes to the human condition and the fate of humanity, but more so in contemporary times when each horror of every atrocity committed is available for consumption on our myriad screens. The narratorial approach to the same thematic concerns is interesting and experimental.
A man records a video essay about two films, ‘The Zone of Interest’ and ‘The Nasty Girl’, and utilizes it to comment on the ideas of kindness, cruelty, and mankind’s implicit and complicit behavioral patterns when it comes to them. It asserts that the distractions of modern society further enable the nurturing of cold indifference and damaging distancing from empathy and sympathy.
As this film within a film unfolds, the protagonist himself attempts to escape a terrible fate of mortal peril that constantly makes its presence felt. The final result remains especially notable in the creative as well as the visual approaches it adopts to share all of this, developing alongside a dedicated, impassioned performance.
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