By: Kyle

Kyle — Fri, 07 Jun 2019 19:54:16 +0000

I think the clock is only supposed to have one of the LEDs lit at a time for either AM or PM. She knew something was wrong when she saw both lit at the same time. One LED stayed lit when she unplugged the radio so indicating the clock was messed with.

By: Chris T.

Chris T. — Tue, 14 Aug 2018 23:43:45 +0000

I also didn’t quite get what the babysitter was doing with the Radio Shack alarm clock. She fiddled with it, then she clicked a button in the back which removed the actual time display, and left just a single red diode glowing. What did she do, and did she know what she was doing? Is this some kind of subtle ‘HAL’ reference? I like that it was a Radio Shack radio… how I miss the brick and mortar Radio Shacks. It was my home away from home in the 80’s.

By: Chris T

Chris T — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 23:41:38 +0000

Quasi-spoilers below. Watched it. Very good of course! But like most all who’ve watched it and commented on it, I feel a tad more cheated, less satisfied —> specifically within the convention of a short film. It feels kinda like a film school project. Professor’s Instructions: Pick and film a few scenes from a motion picture, get some good actors to really nail it, film it fantastically, really make those few scenes shine! Whoever does best job, gets an A+++. And so, yeah, Damon Russell and Shawn Christensen would get the A+++ for sure (if that were the assignment)! I do get this feeling that they did NOT craft this short to be de-crypted (in other words, I don’t think they included any kind of plot-TRUTH, which might be deeply hidden in the subtext layers). I just don’t think it’s there. Rather, I think they knew they were having some fun, and they made an exciting, amazing ‘segment’, for the sake of the segment itself. But to me, as a short, it feels incomplete. If you can get an interview and ask the tough questions to the filmmakers, I hope to be proven wrong! As for my own decode, the first thing that came to my mind as I watched it was the tv show THE AMERICANS. Seemed to fit that kind of template. We’ve got a couple (young kid in tow), and they speak everything from French, to Russian (inferred), to Croatian. The wife has an accent, but didn’t quite catch what it was. At one point, I swear the husband slipped into an accent for a word or two (must re-check that). I think the babysitter was an orchestrated ‘comrade’ of sorts, an agent good at working the house, and then finally giving them a “breach” alert text. I think the film is all about the deceptive nature of our quaint Norman Rockwell neighborhoods (I used to live in a cul de sac myself, it was sooooo enclosed, self-contained, like a lost place) — if only one dares to penetrate that external facade. Damon and Shawn – you know what to do. Make this into a full length movie!

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