2.20

This particular short film interested me because it contains a lot of action and has a unusual storyline.

The man who was just sitting down about to eat his food was given 'old' glasses from a woman who had come over to him with a trolley. As soon as she put the glasses down on the table, she walked away which shows a lack of communication indicating that it was quite a serious moment. When he puts the glasses on, a whole bunch of numbers start appearing whenever a human being is visible. You then realize that this is actually showing a date of when something is going to happen. He carried on walking and then seen his reflection in a car window and it said 'WARNING' and showed he only had a few seconds left till whatever was going to happen. He then turns around and sees the woman again across the road who is looking straight back at him with a serious look. As the camera zooms into her eye, you see the man just about to get hit by a bus in the reflection of her eye.

I think that this is a good film because even though it is only two minutes and twenty seconds long, it shows a lot of different emotions. There is a lot of confusion throughout most of the film but as the end starts nearing, it all starts to make sense. The film gets you thinking about whether or not the man may have survived if the woman did not give him the glasses as he would not be walking around but eating instead. However, could she have been representing someone and therefore he would have died anyway?

There are certain parts of this film which my group may consider putting into our opening sequence for example the reflection in her eye showing the death rather than actually showing someone dying because this has more effect. Also, showing a random woman coming up to someone in the street and giving them something creates an uncomfortable atmosphere attracting the viewer even more because they would want to know what would happen as the film goes on.