Simple Mind (2012; Indie Short Subject) - The mind is a terrible thing. Hmm...seems like something is missing from that line. In reality the mind is a complex thing. Desires, disappointments, loves and losses, these are just some of the things which make up the fabric of our separate realities. And calling our everyday experience a reality is not simply concrete, as reality is a matter of perception, as real to one person as it is false to another. Simple is not the mind, but complex and twisted is the reality created, simply of mind.
In therapy, Bob deluges his therapist with stories of his sinister deeds. In this session though, it might not be the therapist who needs to learn about Bob... but Bob, himself.
Simple Mind is an indie short subject of just a little over 7 minutes starring Timothy J. Cox as Bob, a man in therapy with his therapist being played by Kristi McCarson. Cox brings out his sinister side in acting playing Bob, and to his credit in such a short film he explores many sides of the same character from wicked to tragic in a complex performance that elicits from the viewer feelings from disgust to sympathy. McCarson is an ideal sounding board for Cox's performance as hers is to maintain a degree of neutrality and subtly playing off of the main character's story he is telling. And I'll leave it at that without giving anything away.
Of course any film is made up of the necessary ingredients of its script and its production. In both cases these ingredients in this are excellent. Phil Newsom scripted and directed this with Paul Nameck doing the camera work. A lingering camera can be a dreaded thing in the wrong hands, but these are obviously the right hands as Newsom and Nameck exercise a tendency to let the camera and focus wander, in a creative way which increases tension and pulls in the viewer. A particularly good use of music, with a soundtrack by Keith Campbell and additional music by Jeremy Gonzalez, drives the tension even further by injecting sinister strains into otherwise auspiciously melodic soundtrack.
The performances, direction, camera work, and music combine to create a taut thriller with a wicked twist that in only just over 7 minutes offers much more than its seemingly limited time would suggest.
I give it 5 Daggers
In therapy, Bob deluges his therapist with stories of his sinister deeds. In this session though, it might not be the therapist who needs to learn about Bob... but Bob, himself.
Simple Mind is an indie short subject of just a little over 7 minutes starring Timothy J. Cox as Bob, a man in therapy with his therapist being played by Kristi McCarson. Cox brings out his sinister side in acting playing Bob, and to his credit in such a short film he explores many sides of the same character from wicked to tragic in a complex performance that elicits from the viewer feelings from disgust to sympathy. McCarson is an ideal sounding board for Cox's performance as hers is to maintain a degree of neutrality and subtly playing off of the main character's story he is telling. And I'll leave it at that without giving anything away.
Of course any film is made up of the necessary ingredients of its script and its production. In both cases these ingredients in this are excellent. Phil Newsom scripted and directed this with Paul Nameck doing the camera work. A lingering camera can be a dreaded thing in the wrong hands, but these are obviously the right hands as Newsom and Nameck exercise a tendency to let the camera and focus wander, in a creative way which increases tension and pulls in the viewer. A particularly good use of music, with a soundtrack by Keith Campbell and additional music by Jeremy Gonzalez, drives the tension even further by injecting sinister strains into otherwise auspiciously melodic soundtrack.
The performances, direction, camera work, and music combine to create a taut thriller with a wicked twist that in only just over 7 minutes offers much more than its seemingly limited time would suggest.
I give it 5 Daggers
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