Melissa suffers from amnesia. When she slowly regains her memory, the world isn't what it supposed to be.Melissa suffers from amnesia. When she slowly regains her memory, the world isn't what it supposed to be.Melissa suffers from amnesia. When she slowly regains her memory, the world isn't what it supposed to be.
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Feels quite familiar, but technically it amazes you!
Very occasionally I review short films, since I got an opportunity to see this, I have my reasons to write one for it. This is a Swedish sci-fi-thriller from who seems has a lot of experience in making short films. He's definitely a multi-talented, especially from the technical area who edits, handles the camera, writes, produces and ultimately dons in the director's hat. So I liked this film, but not entirely and what those I enjoyed and those I didn't can be read in the below paragraphs.
You know, short films are for the beginners. I too had worked for a couple of them since I'm an animator and interested in filmmaking. Without the proper source like tools and decent actors, especially without a maximum push from post-production, it would go straight to the garbage. Because nobody watches the short films, if it is not for fun, it takes just one good joke to impress the viewers. That's why lots of short films are comedy, especially animation. And those who watch non-fun genre short films, they expect cleverness in them like twist and turns. So it is a tough job to make a film that liked by everyone, but this filmmaker did his best.
The film was about a young woman who wakes up in the woods without a memory of where she's and how she got there. Followed by consulting with an expert, a stranger offers to help to clear her doubts and what comes is the peak of the film where everything she wanted to know and you would be revealed.
The first thing anybody who watched it would say the photography was amazing. I loved it, especially the angles. I think they have used drones for a couple of shots. The locations were beautiful too in its limited outdoor adventure. Overall, technically the film sounds great. Obviously, in a short film it is always a minimal cast and so did this one. But they all were good, especially the one who played the character Melissa. Anyway, nobody gets the chance to give their full potential in this kind of short run.
Let's talk about the story, which I find quite familiar. I think it was a decent up until the last scene, especially the twist which is what we see in all the films when the writers ran out of the fresh idea and who uses this one. Of course you would predict it earlier itself, but due to overall film was short, it would create a doubt what you just saw. I can't blame anybody for it, because the film lacks development, neither story nor its characters, and you will be a fool to expect that in a short film where the majority of the film trying to conclude the tale since the first minute.
Like I said in my many reviews, every filmmaker and stars want to jump into a sci-fi franchise. That's the current filmmaking trend, because of the CGI revolution. This one was a simple story, involving no graphics, but a sci-fi that has the alien connection. The overall effort must be appreciated. I haven't seen the other films of this filmmaker, but he has the ability to pull the feature films at top level. What he needs is a fine screenplay and the actors and obvious the supportive production house. Other than that I have faith in his technical skills, so let's hope he makes one in the near future and I'll come back here to write a review.
7/10
You know, short films are for the beginners. I too had worked for a couple of them since I'm an animator and interested in filmmaking. Without the proper source like tools and decent actors, especially without a maximum push from post-production, it would go straight to the garbage. Because nobody watches the short films, if it is not for fun, it takes just one good joke to impress the viewers. That's why lots of short films are comedy, especially animation. And those who watch non-fun genre short films, they expect cleverness in them like twist and turns. So it is a tough job to make a film that liked by everyone, but this filmmaker did his best.
The film was about a young woman who wakes up in the woods without a memory of where she's and how she got there. Followed by consulting with an expert, a stranger offers to help to clear her doubts and what comes is the peak of the film where everything she wanted to know and you would be revealed.
The first thing anybody who watched it would say the photography was amazing. I loved it, especially the angles. I think they have used drones for a couple of shots. The locations were beautiful too in its limited outdoor adventure. Overall, technically the film sounds great. Obviously, in a short film it is always a minimal cast and so did this one. But they all were good, especially the one who played the character Melissa. Anyway, nobody gets the chance to give their full potential in this kind of short run.
Let's talk about the story, which I find quite familiar. I think it was a decent up until the last scene, especially the twist which is what we see in all the films when the writers ran out of the fresh idea and who uses this one. Of course you would predict it earlier itself, but due to overall film was short, it would create a doubt what you just saw. I can't blame anybody for it, because the film lacks development, neither story nor its characters, and you will be a fool to expect that in a short film where the majority of the film trying to conclude the tale since the first minute.
Like I said in my many reviews, every filmmaker and stars want to jump into a sci-fi franchise. That's the current filmmaking trend, because of the CGI revolution. This one was a simple story, involving no graphics, but a sci-fi that has the alien connection. The overall effort must be appreciated. I haven't seen the other films of this filmmaker, but he has the ability to pull the feature films at top level. What he needs is a fine screenplay and the actors and obvious the supportive production house. Other than that I have faith in his technical skills, so let's hope he makes one in the near future and I'll come back here to write a review.
7/10
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- Aug 23, 2016
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- Linderöd, Skåne County, Sweden(on location)
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- Runtime15 minutes
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