Short Film Nominee July 2, 2020
The Ballad of Captain Vengeance
By Benji Wragg with 6.2
thriller · Short Films · english
The film is about a woman's complete absorption in the superhero universe, leading her to aspire to possess the same superpowers as the characters she reads about in her graphic novels or watches on television. What begins as a fun hobby to indulge in with a friend soon takes the form of an obsession of humungous magnitude, setting in motion irreversible events.
The narrative has vision and the intention to engage with the intricacies of the human mind. It also wants to converse with desires that might one day achieve a size that forces them out of all conceivable boundaries of rationality. However, the execution shows a want of fine-tuning.
Overall, the film aspires to be an entertaining, involving and intriguing story that weaves in elements of psychology, violence, crime and a woman's attempts to stop at nothing to realise the wishes she has decided to fulfil, irrespective of the consequences.
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