Can sweetness override weirdness in this story of the desire to be connected?
Thanks to this highly technological world we live in, there is always something to do, something to watch or someone to meet. There are countless dating apps where all one must do is swipe right to possibly meet their perfect match. In this seven minute short film It’s A Date, by Zachary Zezima, we find two people on that very journey. While Zezima admits his short film is somewhat based on a true story from a friend of his, he takes the moments deeper using creative license to make the story fuller.
The first few seconds of the film happen in a way that makes the audience think it will have a greater impact than it does. The male character (Tim Brown) is driving in his car on the way to meet the female character (Angela Stempel) but he gets held up. By the time he makes it to his date the female is already there and waiting. They make small talk for a few minutes and you really start getting the feel and tone of the piece. The scenes are a delight to watch. Not only for their neon color pallets, but because of what is illustrated while they are
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Whether watching this film with the dialogue or not, a viewer can put together the story line. The style and movements are just as unsure as our characters. The way the pictures flick and progress really builds the overall tension in the film. Voice actors Stempel and Brown perfect first date jitters in their performances. Think back on the last first date you went on. What did you talk about? Did you fake laugh to make the other person feel comfortable? As you watch the short tell me you couldn’t feel the nerves practically bouncing off them. The way the conversation jumps from topic to topic seems fluid, but we all know dead air on a first date is a bad omen. The timing of the dialogue with the action of the animation further set you in the story being
The use of the color in the settings, make the film very unique in a very good way. For example all of the houses are colorful. The buildings and houses are very well placed throughout the film. The bright colors and well placed houses make the scenes and the overall movie unique. The bright colors make the movie memorable, because bright colors stand out more than other duller colors. Another example of the films features that make the movie memorable are the characters. The characters in this film wear very flashy clothing, which shows the audience that the characters have
The film takes a more elliptical, almost a poetical approach to the characters’ lives it shows on screen than the audience might have anticipated from a film of this sort. The whole aim for the editing of this film was to make the audience see the protagonists’ life from his point of view – they wanted the audience to be inside his head, seeing what he’s seeing, hearing what he’s hearing, etc.
During Gus Khazeni’s presentation of his new dating app, “LuvLuv’, to the circlers he makes the argument that dating is inherently more successful when a person knows everything about his partner, their likes, dislikes, allergies, etc, so that the user won’t make an “ass” of himself and will be able to “find love and produce grandchildren” (Eggers 121). The idea of the app is to equip a user with so much information about his partner so that he will make all the right decisions, thus the the date will be perfect and his partner will see him as “sensitive, intuitive, decisive,” and perfect (Eggers 120). Francis and Mae become the guinea pigs for the app during the presentation, and prove the app to work properly as it quickly and efficiently
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Overall I found the movie to be quite interesting and exciting at times but a bit slow in others. The story itself was very clear to me and didn’t cause any confusion. It had a good flow also, just as you were on the verge of falling into boredom with a scene they switched it up on you to keep you
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