Two Distant Strangers | Short Film Review
I'm trying not to give my thoughts away in my intro, but to be honest I wasn't sure when to upload this because I don't really want to talk about it, in the current climate or otherwise. But I saw it, I wrote some notes, and it won an Oscar. So I thought that I might as well share my thoughts before everyone forgets about it. This is the story of a black man who gets stuck in a time-loop that involves a confrontation with a white police officer that results in his death. If my intro wasn't that clear, I didn't like this short film. In fact, if it had been a feature-length film, I would never have watched it. But because it was only half an hour, I thought I could probably handle it. Now what I will say is that I enjoyed this take on the time-loop premise. I've reviewed a few time-loop movies recently, and it's a concept I like when it's done in an original way, and this was original. I also really liked the protagonist, Carter James, played by Joey Ba...