Rama’s SCREEN

It’s been one helluva a weekend. The Dark Knight rules the box office record EVER! And IMAX theaters everywhere are banking money due to sold out tickets. It’s a great weekend to be Christopher Nolan. Meanwhile, I’m checking out Bulletfilm.com for the coolest short films, and I bump into yet another one.

SAND BANK
Written and Directed by: DAN THORENS

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Review:

I like this particular one. It’s a romantic comedy that most chicks would find it irritating because it rings true. Relationships are complicated, we all know that. Anyone says easy obviously came from another universe that’s not Milky Way. Actor Dan Asher and Actress Katherine Hinchey excellently portray an exaggerated epitome of former lovers engaging in a century old traditional habit of… arguing.

By the way, the car is stranded on the side of the street. A street with cars passing by. You would think that they’d get out and try to find help. And where are their cellphones? Maybe the director wants to rule that variable out or maybe this is set in the 80s.

We will never know exactly why opposites attract or why fools fall in love. It’s a cosmic mystery, I suppose. I can speak from firsthand experience that there is something oddly amusing about arguing with someone you’re comfortable arguing with. I’m confusing you, I know.
Let me put it this way, the man in the short film is frustrated with not being able to come up with an original idea for his next script, the girl wants to help but he rebuffs it and she thinks he’s judging her. Typical
Always quickly to assume things… and us guys are guilty too for thinking we’d be inadequate if we receive inputs from girls. What are we, in junior high?!
For some weird reason we like to instigate arguments because to a certain extent, conflicts keep us sane.

There are hints as to what might motivate their conversation. It’s obvious why these two aren’t together anymore. I can only assume that she’s been trying to move on and see other people but she always finds herself back in his presence. Whereas for him, as inconsiderate as he is, he’s one of those guys who knows how to cheer a girl up (evident in that tape recorder act) but has difficulty being there for her emotionally. And yet, once again, they can’t live.. with or without each other.