I think I have mentioned before how the thing student filmmakers love most is angst. The filmmakers behind Little Brother, this week’s film is no different.
I feel compelled to start this off post off nicely… you know… before I completely make fun of it. SpencerStarnes, you do some nice things, the shots look pretty, the cutting isn’t ridiculous and I like your scenic shots, you do good things with depth of focus.
Okay. Enough of that lovey dovey stuff.
To begin: “We gotta wait for the sun to be right at the 45 degree angle, you know this.” That statement along makes me smile.
And then just bam! Clumsy Mitchell, dropping the camera and ruining ALL of his brother’s shots. What a clutz. Why didn’t he just place the camera on the ground? But more importantly, why did he bring only one roll, as he oh so dramatically walks off the screen shouting “that was my only roll.”
I would tell him to relax about it however this character clearly does not want to do any such thing (he does also not want to talk in a normal voice and uses what I will call “husky man” voice) and explicitly states so as he bangs the table with his hand. Oh, poor, dreamy Mitchell, under the oppressive thumb of his brother who apparently does not realize that he has pushed his only friend away… to Rhode Island. Maybe he should’ve been less an asshole, but had that been the case, this whole angst ridden movie would never have existed.
And how does it end? Like any good student film should, with cliched shots. Darrel (thank you credits for the name) searching his soul as he watches fuzz on the television instead of actually putting on a program and his brother smoking and staring into the distance. Oh the deep, soulful expression. More so, ohhhh the cliched images used in student filmmaking.
The tag line claims this is a film that “details distancing of two brothers and photographers as they struggle through their creative and professional differences.” This is my tag line “a short film that details the lives of two brothers that are apparently in an emotionally abusive relationship and don’t actually take that any real photographs.”
This student film might not be filled with side wipes and cross dissolves but the emotion that it fills me with (amusement, mainly) has won it a place among the blog. I hope you enjoy this more serious but no less amusing student film, like I did.
Someone found the sub-par video I made for my first semester of Junior Cinema, and wrote a review. My life is now complete. Seriously though, this blog is completely student film reviews and some of them are really funny.
Thanks, works4food, you made my day.
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