Friday, 8 April 2011

Question 4

A Chatroulette Love Story

Still Life Review


A review I did for the short film Still Life by Jon knautz.

A Chatroulette Synopsis

Our film “A chatroulette Love Story” is about a boy who spends the majority of his time in his house, online trying to escape from a world unfamiliar to him. When one day on returning from the toilet there is a girl awaiting him on other side of the chat window on Internet sensation “Chatroulette”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatroulette

He is instantly attracted to the girl and tries his hardest to make himself seem impressionable to the girl, in his attempts to do so he makes a fool of him self. After many hours of conversation the girl tells the boy that she has to go because she has to be up early to go to Redcar. To the boys delight he realises that he might get another chance to interact with the girl, as Redcar is his hometown.

The next morning the boy gets up and attempts to clean him self by getting a shave and plucking some unwanted hairs. He dresses up and puts on a bow tie grabs a present and heads for the door.

After getting the bus into town he begins his long wait for the girl, after a few hours of waiting he finally admits defeat and heads for the bus to go home. When he gets on the bus he realises that the girl he had just waited hours to bump into had arrived by now it was to late to leave the bus so he waited until he got to the next stop and at a steady pace headed back into town.

When he finally arrives back in town he starts to cross the road to where he had seen the girl whilst putting on his boy tie, which he had removed after suffering some abuse from a local member of the youth when he is struck, by a vehicle. At this point the screen fades to black and then dissolves back to picture with a shot of the boy in bed who sits up wrapped up in bandages and the film ends with the boy smiling facing toward the camera.