As I watch through Oscar movies for this year, it is painfully obvious how many I missed from previous years. With that in mind, I watched last year’s winner for best live-action short. This was a well-made short with a serviceable science fiction story, sort of a modern version of Twilight Zone. As realization begins to dawn on the main character and panic sets in, the mood is decidedly upsetting, even if the paranoia was a little rushed. The video call between the main character and her partner was an exercise in tension, and I was urging one or the other to say something that would explain it all away. The ending sequence atop the parking garage was assembled particularly well. Not so much in the way the events transpired, which were mostly as expected, but rather how it was presented. I was so engrossed with how it was going to resolve that I gasped out loud when the credits started to crawl across the screen.
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