"Weighting" is an award-nominated little movie from 2013, so over 5 years old and the directors are Dustin Bowser and Brie Larson. Yep the Oscar winner a couple years before her biggest triumph. She was still in her early 20s when this was made. The film runs for slightly over 4 minutes and that already includes almost one minute of credits, so it is very short indeed. While Larson was good as always, I am not really sold by the film. I won't go much into detail about the plot we got here, but let me say that for me it wasn't enough and it is really a deal-breaker in both the positive and negative sense what you think about this plot as a whole. For me it is rather on the negative side, even if it is definitely not a deal breaker by any means. So I give it a thumbs-down all in all and I would say that only big larson fans should check this out as I also like her quite a bit, but that wasn't enough unfortunately. Her male counterpart is rather forgettable here and I hoped maybe the final scene between the two outside could perhaps save, but eventually it did not. A mediocre outcome. Watch something else instead.
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A nice comment which is technically well done
bob the moo15 December 2013
This short film can take a minute to really grasp, which is a problem because it is very short and moves very quickly for the duration of the film. Essentially a couple are breaking up; she is leaving him whereas he wants her to just wait and talk about it first. The simple situation is that she isn't sure what she wants but is impatient to get to it and thus needs to move and fast, whereas he is slower and more sedate perhaps, and would like her to stop and think – which only serves to remind her as to why she needs to go.
It is a comment I think on modern relationships but it is done in a slick and clever way. The conversation happens so quickly with the landscape changing all the time, the woman quick to take things and move on and this manifests itself in them and the camera moving quickly around the house, with lots happening all the way. It is technically very well done and, although it was clearly not done in one take, it has the appearance that it was, which I liked. The comment is a slight one but I liked how it is taken and made into this rather clever little short – it is not an earth shattering point or comment, but I liked how it came out in the form it did here.
It is a comment I think on modern relationships but it is done in a slick and clever way. The conversation happens so quickly with the landscape changing all the time, the woman quick to take things and move on and this manifests itself in them and the camera moving quickly around the house, with lots happening all the way. It is technically very well done and, although it was clearly not done in one take, it has the appearance that it was, which I liked. The comment is a slight one but I liked how it is taken and made into this rather clever little short – it is not an earth shattering point or comment, but I liked how it came out in the form it did here.
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