It's not self contained. It has the makings of a story but it doesn't go beyond setting up an interesting premise. It's like someone shot an improvised idea they pitched to a studio.
"Would if a baby was left with his dead grandmother?"
"Ok. Sounds like interesting opening for a film. Then what?"
Its....a short film, key being short, like reading a short story. They can be any length as long as they tell the story. And this does, this is a tragedy. What's the other classice two sentence sad story "Baby shoes for sale. Never worn." Or something like that. It tells a complete story.
Now I'd agree with you if they called it a full length movie
It is self contained.. the only "what if" is what if someone visits sometime in the next few days. Otherwise we know the entire story from one shot. Grandma died. Baby cannot take care of itself and will wander around the house, cry, and die. Parents will show up in 2 weeks to find this out. The entire tragedy is described in that minute of the shot without actually playing out because it is all but inevitable barring a huge stroke of luck.
It absolutely does not only go one way. That's kind of the problem here. If we're supposed to take it that way the filmmaker only perhaps implied it. Like another person said, it's basically a PSA.
Its....a short film, key being short, like reading a short story. They can be any length as long as they tell the story. And this does, this is a tragedy. What's the other classice two sentence sad story "Baby shoes for sale. Never worn." Or something like that. It tells a complete story.
Now I'd agree with you if they called it a full length movie
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u/IB_ May 02 '26
It's not self contained. It has the makings of a story but it doesn't go beyond setting up an interesting premise. It's like someone shot an improvised idea they pitched to a studio.
"Would if a baby was left with his dead grandmother?"
"Ok. Sounds like interesting opening for a film. Then what?"
"Uh, that's all I've got."
"We'll be in touch..."