Saturday evening Hania and I drove over to Savor Cinema to watch the five short action films that have been nominated this year for an Academy Award.
The first was about a little boy – heard through the telephone, talking with his mother in Spain – who has been abandoned by his father on a beach in France that is empty save for a man who starts coming after him.
The second was about two older boys in Quebec who are playing in a cement yard until one of them gets sucked into the cement and disappears.
The third was about an elderly woman living alone in Quebec who regrets, to her lesbian caretaker, not having followed through on her youthful love for a woman.
The fourth was a dramatized reenactment of the police interrogation in Liverpool in 1993 of the two 10-year-old boys who abducted and murdered a two-year-old boy.
The last one was about a white man who brutally beats up an African-American man at a gas station and then, a few days later, gets kidnapped by the man’s friends, drugged, and tattooed – body and head – in black. Staggering home, he is mistaken for an intruder and shot in the back by the son he has taught marksmanship to.
Saturday night at the movies.
