I rented a DVD of shorts called "Insanity" and Blue City was the best of the short pieces on the disk. As you can see from the summary, it's about a suicidal man, 2 car thieves and a boy with a basketball. Essentially, the characters keep running into each other over the course of the story and the results are unexpected.
This 12.5 minute film works since it keeps the audience engaged by showing the emotions and motivations of the characters without dialog. It's fun to see the interactions of the characters since the interactions are unexpected, yet humorous and pleasing.
It's probably not a film that will change your life, but it at least makes the audience think and feel. The look is appropriate and it's certainly a very good film for the budget (probably a student film). None of the actors deliver dialog, but they do a good job expressing the emotions and motivations of the characters. The casting is good, and nothing sticks out as being cheap, inappropriate, or particularly pretentious as happens in some student films.
I give this short an 8/10. I hope the people behind this film have created some other things since they have talent that should be used.
This 12.5 minute film works since it keeps the audience engaged by showing the emotions and motivations of the characters without dialog. It's fun to see the interactions of the characters since the interactions are unexpected, yet humorous and pleasing.
It's probably not a film that will change your life, but it at least makes the audience think and feel. The look is appropriate and it's certainly a very good film for the budget (probably a student film). None of the actors deliver dialog, but they do a good job expressing the emotions and motivations of the characters. The casting is good, and nothing sticks out as being cheap, inappropriate, or particularly pretentious as happens in some student films.
I give this short an 8/10. I hope the people behind this film have created some other things since they have talent that should be used.