Message

‘Message’ is an entertaining, insightful look in the world of modern love, relationships, and how technology dictates them. Despite the themes and subjects it has set out to deal with, the film’s tone remains effervescent and fun, defined most adroitly by humor. Much of this entertainment and laughs are derived at the cost of the protagonist, and eventually a woman, with whom his path crosses under the most unlikely circumstances.

Are we too busy swiping left and right on dating apps to truly notice the presence of love when it arrives knocking at our doorstep? The question becomes the starting point of the narrative where the agents of love are tired of the deep infestation of smartphones in our lives, and thus, have decided to take matters into their hands a little too…forcefully, to say the least.

The protagonist is too preoccupied capturing and documenting life on his phone to actually notice and live it. One day when he loses his phone following a mugging and is forced to look up after frantically chasing his assailants in vain, has he possibly run into the promise of something romantic? The film conjures the idea, and some more, while keeping itself completely devoid of dialogue, and marked by visual development only. Eventually, it indeed presents an answer about the fate of this potential love story, and an inadvertent comment about the most consuming relationship of our lives, those with our phones.