Flickerfest (General)

There were two films during our flickerfest sessions that I enjoyed most. The first was “An Act of Love”, directed by Lucy Knox. The film is only eleven minutes in duration and doesn’t have a very thorough plot, give any explanations at all, but has a strong underlying message. The films shows how a intimate connection between two young identical teens is tested. Growing up, twins May and June did absolutely everything together, dressing the same and even sharing a personality it seemed. As the film progressed, it is clear that May wants to continue doing anything and everything with her sister while June shows signs of trying to break away and create her own identity. It starts when she goes to skate with a boy at the rolling alley. May gets frustrated by this and pushes her down out of anger. Later on in the film, June cuts her hair short to distinguish herself from her sister. I found that even though there is such little screenplay and very little description, it speaks a lot of challenges identical twins face at a young age. Having grown up with a couple friends that are identical twins, people often make jokes about the fact they have twins and are “the exact same” and as they grew older, they became frustrated with those jokes and did similar things to distinguish themselves as individuals. 

The other film I enjoyed even more was the fifteen minute short film “Ritual” written and directed by Robert Linsley. This was a suspenseful film about a young girl of an extremely religious family who goes missing. It showed how traditional religious families were structured but it was to an extreme. The father for example would punish himself for mistakes he made, and did the same for the rest of the family. He slashed his son for reading the Bible while in bed saying “is that how you would be sitting while speaking to god”. Additionally, when an officer came to ask questions about the missing daughter, he would not allow his wife to speak for herself and cut off the officer from questions, kicking him out of the house. On the way back to the hotel, Scott and I discussed what we though could be the potential solutions to the unanswered questions at the end of the film. He came up with a good theory that since the son was treated so harshly, he had a very deep temper inside him and he killed his sister, the first officer who is said to had gone missing in the film, and then the last officer. I think that is a very plausible reason and I would love to speak with and learn the writers actual facts behind the film

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