
Rodrigo_Amaro
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While I didn't find this advertising/short all that funny, it was the educational value plus the social and political comparisons I could make with my own country, that made me look at this piece with a more relevant view.
It's a campaign ad urging 18-year-olds to get register to vote in the future elections and elect their state representatives and the President of the United States. And it's also a shoutout to the Jewish community hence the title "Mitzvote" (a mixing between Bar/Bat Mitzvah - a tradition when boys and girls enter adulthood, with the word vote).
The parents of Hannah (Joshua Malina and Lisa Edelstein), her grand-parents, and friends of the family sent to the girl a series of video messages urging her to make this important decision as her new age comes along. They talk about the reasons for voting, sharing stories about the past (the grand-parents are quite fun) and the importance about registering to vote.
The interesting takes I get from here and my inner comparisons about the voting experience (I'm from Brazil), is how effective, humored and thoughtful this ad truly was. In a place where you're not obliged to vote and life goes on with or without the registration, it's a very valid manner to appeal to young voters in making a difference in the political game, their community and the whole country.
The format of the commercial, the way it communicated plenty of things without being excessive or didatic, and it had a nice sense of humor through it all, was really appealing to me. That's the kind of ad that'd be interesting to see whenever there's those serious and boring ads during elections period about the rules for getting a voter register card (16-17 year-olds are optional in here, and after 18 it's a requirement for all citizens, and without the title you basically don't have much of a life: can't get a passport, can't get a position on public services, neither can get a registered job). There are other strict rulings that follows us until the age of 70.
Without the comparison, it'd be a project lost in some vacuum and that only would get memorable due to the known Hollywood faces. With a wider cultural aspect, it gets more interesting to see and discuss, especially on topics about the right to vote, and how newer generations takes things for granted. And they shouldn't. 6/10.
It's a campaign ad urging 18-year-olds to get register to vote in the future elections and elect their state representatives and the President of the United States. And it's also a shoutout to the Jewish community hence the title "Mitzvote" (a mixing between Bar/Bat Mitzvah - a tradition when boys and girls enter adulthood, with the word vote).
The parents of Hannah (Joshua Malina and Lisa Edelstein), her grand-parents, and friends of the family sent to the girl a series of video messages urging her to make this important decision as her new age comes along. They talk about the reasons for voting, sharing stories about the past (the grand-parents are quite fun) and the importance about registering to vote.
The interesting takes I get from here and my inner comparisons about the voting experience (I'm from Brazil), is how effective, humored and thoughtful this ad truly was. In a place where you're not obliged to vote and life goes on with or without the registration, it's a very valid manner to appeal to young voters in making a difference in the political game, their community and the whole country.
The format of the commercial, the way it communicated plenty of things without being excessive or didatic, and it had a nice sense of humor through it all, was really appealing to me. That's the kind of ad that'd be interesting to see whenever there's those serious and boring ads during elections period about the rules for getting a voter register card (16-17 year-olds are optional in here, and after 18 it's a requirement for all citizens, and without the title you basically don't have much of a life: can't get a passport, can't get a position on public services, neither can get a registered job). There are other strict rulings that follows us until the age of 70.
Without the comparison, it'd be a project lost in some vacuum and that only would get memorable due to the known Hollywood faces. With a wider cultural aspect, it gets more interesting to see and discuss, especially on topics about the right to vote, and how newer generations takes things for granted. And they shouldn't. 6/10.
The moderate interesting device used to charm/conquer viewers comes from the idea of pretending that the story presented was something that actually happened and in the early 1960's.
Milosz Firla plays a talented skier (the character also has his full name, but on researches I couldn't find anything about the "real man") who's deeply depressed and worried about his future as a sportist after suffering a terrible injury, which could prevent him from competing in a close event. He drinks heavily, cries a lot and the only great company beside him it's his beloved and caring cat.
Yet, Milosz tries to use his skiis one more time, a sort of cathartic moment where he can either be a hopeful person or quit everything once and for all, with a more tragic finale.
Despite the missuse of an English term (Leap of Faith would be correct), it does follow the idea of holding on to something, believing that the worst of adversities can be transcended with a towering effort that can only ignite from within. It's a great message to be shared, and writer/director Mateusz Graczewski heavily depends on his main star and the cabin by the mountain lonely scenario rather than providing lines or excessive explanatory moments. It's all silent, peaceful but also very downer.
Fine short, very watchable. Not sure why the need of "faking" a real story, it'd be believable and empathetic in anyway, as it's the kind of scenario that sometimes happens with sportists/athletes and common folks too. 6/10.
Milosz Firla plays a talented skier (the character also has his full name, but on researches I couldn't find anything about the "real man") who's deeply depressed and worried about his future as a sportist after suffering a terrible injury, which could prevent him from competing in a close event. He drinks heavily, cries a lot and the only great company beside him it's his beloved and caring cat.
Yet, Milosz tries to use his skiis one more time, a sort of cathartic moment where he can either be a hopeful person or quit everything once and for all, with a more tragic finale.
Despite the missuse of an English term (Leap of Faith would be correct), it does follow the idea of holding on to something, believing that the worst of adversities can be transcended with a towering effort that can only ignite from within. It's a great message to be shared, and writer/director Mateusz Graczewski heavily depends on his main star and the cabin by the mountain lonely scenario rather than providing lines or excessive explanatory moments. It's all silent, peaceful but also very downer.
Fine short, very watchable. Not sure why the need of "faking" a real story, it'd be believable and empathetic in anyway, as it's the kind of scenario that sometimes happens with sportists/athletes and common folks too. 6/10.
A wildly funny short film starring Joshua Malina ("The West Wing" fame) as a nerd-looking, charismatic poster boy of "Ditched", a revolutionary
dating app that connect recently divorced people in finding a match and building new relationships.
In this commercial parody, the actor presents successful yet crazed stories about many men and women who found something in common by using the app, a series of unbelievable and hilarious scenarios where love doesn't seem to get in the first place, as those folks were all traumatized by the end of their marriage, they lost confidence in another human being, so basically what's left are sharing the burden, the pain or maybe connect with what's obsessing their minds (like the guy who cries as he eats chocolate; or the lady who complains about the kissing scene from "The Notebook" - "no one makes out in the rain!").
Despite the absurdity of it all, there's plenty of relevance in this humored critique on fantastic apps and how users experience good and bad things, especially dating and hooking apps and their ideas of using algorhythms, profile particularities and peculiarities in order to form a match, then comes the exchange of contacts, personal or not, and even so it can go wrong or far from one's ideals. And to those characters featured in the film, it's a more complicated issue going back in the game after long relationships, the positive parts of it all and also the traumas or negative stuff that stays behind. "Ditched" finds the right part in showing the humanity and the weirdness that inhabits us all, and it rewards with big laughs all the way through. 8/10.
In this commercial parody, the actor presents successful yet crazed stories about many men and women who found something in common by using the app, a series of unbelievable and hilarious scenarios where love doesn't seem to get in the first place, as those folks were all traumatized by the end of their marriage, they lost confidence in another human being, so basically what's left are sharing the burden, the pain or maybe connect with what's obsessing their minds (like the guy who cries as he eats chocolate; or the lady who complains about the kissing scene from "The Notebook" - "no one makes out in the rain!").
Despite the absurdity of it all, there's plenty of relevance in this humored critique on fantastic apps and how users experience good and bad things, especially dating and hooking apps and their ideas of using algorhythms, profile particularities and peculiarities in order to form a match, then comes the exchange of contacts, personal or not, and even so it can go wrong or far from one's ideals. And to those characters featured in the film, it's a more complicated issue going back in the game after long relationships, the positive parts of it all and also the traumas or negative stuff that stays behind. "Ditched" finds the right part in showing the humanity and the weirdness that inhabits us all, and it rewards with big laughs all the way through. 8/10.