This film is a quick 13 minute short story of intergalactic hide and seek, with freshly evolved humans as the variables, and the object of the game is for we as humans to either find or disprove life on other planets.
It's an interesting idea, given the shortness of it, and the delivery is put through an easy pace as well.
Unfortunately for me, I wasn't sure about one thing at the end of the film. For me I had to ask myself, "ok, we are interplanetary chess pieces," but what is the ultimate goal? Who gets the awards?
I felt as if the film took me to the last mile of the race and then ran out of steam.
There is no reason to give out spoilers, except that there are "players" injecting themselves very subtly over a 500 year period into our best and brightest with brilliant ideas and suggestions with just enough push to steer us ever so slowly.
Still, overall brilliantly done, excellently lensed and interesting plot otherwise.
Maybe the idea of the incomplete ending is for any viewer out there to help in the game the aliens are playing. Maybe this film is part of the game...?
It's an interesting idea, given the shortness of it, and the delivery is put through an easy pace as well.
Unfortunately for me, I wasn't sure about one thing at the end of the film. For me I had to ask myself, "ok, we are interplanetary chess pieces," but what is the ultimate goal? Who gets the awards?
I felt as if the film took me to the last mile of the race and then ran out of steam.
There is no reason to give out spoilers, except that there are "players" injecting themselves very subtly over a 500 year period into our best and brightest with brilliant ideas and suggestions with just enough push to steer us ever so slowly.
Still, overall brilliantly done, excellently lensed and interesting plot otherwise.
Maybe the idea of the incomplete ending is for any viewer out there to help in the game the aliens are playing. Maybe this film is part of the game...?
