like many short films from this genre, the only important thing is the final state. not the script - who seems almost always be just a sketch-, not the performances - young actors, symbolic dialogues, few looks and the need of viewer to imagine something credible for him as content of missing scenes -. two boys. a secret passion. a night on beach who seems change everything. and the truth. a sensitive guy and the realist friend. nothing original, only remember of similar movies and scenes and stories. but this could be a strange virtue. because the film preserves the aura of the state of soul who, like a song, is the axis for viewer interest. and it is a reasonable good detail.
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The usual struggles
Horst_In_Translation28 July 2016
Warning: Spoilers
"Wastelands" is a Dutch 13-minute live action short film from 2013, so this one is fairly new still. The writer and director is Marco van Bergen and here he tells us the story of a lonely teenager who develops a crush on a cool guy and thinks the two may actually become a couple. But is this really going to happen? Watch for yourself. Or don't. Because this film has some of the usual struggles that many gay-themed short films have these days. The script is not even the biggest problem here and it#s really not good either. But the actors are even worse and I cannot see a bright future for them in the industry unless they really improve. Good thing is that you don't need subtitles as the dialogues in Dutch are almost non-existent in this short film. But so is the quality. Thumbs down from me. Not recommended.
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