2015 short science fiction, dir. Luke Gilford, Pamela Anderson, Dree
Hemingway: IMDb.
An ageing fitness instructor is dissatisfied with her life, in
particular feeling disconnected from the world, and looks for a way to
fix it.
Well, yeah, Pamela Anderson is the gimmick here. On the one hand
she was only 48 years old when this was made, and has always been
Hollywood-pretty; on the other hand she's been Hollywood-enhanced and
lived pretty hard, so she looks older than surface cues like the
number of wrinkles round her eyes would indicate. Given this is is
very much a visual production, that was a good choice. Less so is the
decision for the camera to spend so much time traversing over her
underwear-clad body: yeah, yeah, she's not happy about the way she
looks, many women aren't, we get it.
But what about the plot? Sadly, that sags as much as the protagonist
thinks her skin does: it's all setup and emotional string-pulling,
with the actual science fiction gimmick deployed in the last few
seconds… and no time left to show our protagonist's reaction to it.
So, er, what was the point of that, then? This is not a story; it's an
establishing sequence to tell us who our heroine is and what her life
is like Before. After isn't mentioned.
Ah well. It's an amusing diversion and some of the camerawork and shot
composition is truly excellent (cinematography by Isaac Bauman, who's
only worked on shorts and a little TV, but I'll keep a look out for
his name in future). The music's decent too.
Available on youtube
though I think it's now age-restricted.
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