Thursday, October 23, 2014

"The Phone Call"


 
"Watch: Short Film 'The Phone Call' with Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent Will Absolutely Wreck You (In a Good Way)"

7 comments:

The Dude said...

It won't stream here and I can't pause it long enough for it to buffer.

It has Ebola.

chickelit said...

I had trouble streaming it too. It's not ebowla, but something that Flowmax can help.

The Dude said...

Did I mention the concept bowl I dreamed up - on the left, a handle in the shape of an "E". On the right, an "A".

I must have mentioned that. CA used the word rebus the other day and that got me going.

Rebus the bebop to the rebar in bowl town.

Chip Ahoy said...

The guy says the deed is done but the woman does not trace the call.

For this is a traceless society.

Chip Ahoy said...

I like the way they showed the guy die. You see what he sees, his heaven.

I also like the way that Russell Crow dies in the Gladiator, like three times. He's laying in the dirt dying when the ground falls away by an inch or so to indicate him floating while leaves and debris blow past beneath him, then shows his vision of Elysian fields and his young son run to greet him with his beautiful young wife in the background, just like this here film the sad suicide guy is shown reunited with his loved ones, but never showing himself.

The film failed to devastate me absolutely or dubiously but it was kind of sad, and yet uplifting, you live your quiet life reading thick books, have quiet life and death conversations as a job, do what you can to help, fail at saving, then have dinner with your awkward main squeeze.

Bloody wow.

I just now learned something.

This is big, Man, this is BIG!

Ew, ew, ew, my head hurts. That was a lot all at once.

I just now discovered how to find cached pages that have fallen to the memory hole. If they are cached. And now I can recover my lost and unbacked up Maximus animated gif that disappeared with my paid web site, download it, and upload it again to better hosts.

OMG. Here's cached dying Maximus that I lost and found and recovered.

If I did dying Maximus now it'd be better.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

If you pause at the beginning and let the whole movie queue up and then push play again you will see it w/o loosing the connection.

There is one commercial interruption though.

XRay said...

That was very well done in my opinion. And yes, as Chip says, heaven as a continuation of life, I guess without the bad parts.