Depict Film Reviews

Depict Film Reviews

Rubber Guillotine:

This surrealist micro film follows the story of an angsty teenager who crushes her parents’ dreams of her becoming a lawyer to donate her skeleton to make gelatine. She is shown, in the intro, stealing clothes from what looks like a laundrette, this shows that she is possibly acting rebellious or has gone off-the-rails and has turned to stealing clothes. The fact that she is depicted as only having one eye further adds to the mystery surrounding her character (although, we possibly find at the end what happened to her eye as it is shown encased in Jelly. This could possibly show that her wish to be turned into gelatine had been granted).

The scenes are interpretive as you have to read between the lines a bit to understand what she is going on about, as most of the scenes reproduce what she is saying (for example, when she says that she “Just wants to be chilling in your freezer” the scene cuts to her going into the freezer).

Family Dinner:

Filmed entirely as one, continuous camera shot, this short comedy depicts a normal family dinner involving 3 generations of children, parents and grandparents all having their own conversations. The camera is moving 360 degrees following the different conversations had by the members of the family, including what the hell an E-Reader is and the meaning of the word Gay. The scene is abruptly ended when the little brother tells the parents that the sister was secretly dating someone.

Its comedy feel mixed with real-life situations and dinner table conversations brings a sense of reality to it. The monologue makes it slightly relatable as the discussions had were very applicable or stereotypes to family members that we would know.

The Fish and I:

When a blind man accidentally smashes his fish bowl on the kitchen floor, he takes extreme measures to find his pet. After searching for his friend, he resorts to drastic measures by finding a plug-hole in the kitchen floor and blocking it with his shirt, then proceeding to fill the kitchen floor up with water from the tap, therefore flooding the room so that the fish doesn’t die. After sitting in the water concerned that his pet may not have made it through, the goldfish swims under the blind man’s hand for comfort. Shot entirely in black and white, this heart-warming story shows the extent that someone would go to to find his companion, even if it is just a goldfish.