The first order of business is to correct the Episode description, which SHOULD read, "12 year-old classmates Kima and Lil find themselves at odds with each other on a day that will change their lives forever.". (You had ONE JOB Lilith!!! LOL)
That correction having been made, I must say that, even WITHOUT performing the double duty of giving us a teaser of the back story for the upcoming eponymous series debuting on 01/23/2020, which, those who have been hotly anticipating it instantly recognized, especially with the (spelling it out for you) last shot of the "emergency broadcast" display they were staring at....
....this, IMO, was one of the better, if not the BEST "Short Trek" episodes this series.
Thought provoking, especially with (as LHG noted) its eschewing of verbosity in favor of letting the viewer glean the story simply from the visuals. Doubly, given recent events between differing cultures IRL here on our own little rock, I was struck by the prescience of this trek in dramatizing how one individual, acting out against another, can result in a "tit for tat" retaliation until someone steps in, or something traumatic occurs, hopefully, to make both realize the error of the path they have chosen. May we only be so fortunate in our own age.
Maybe, just maybe, instead of SPREADING and INFECTING others with with what is actually our own discontent, anger and hate, we can take a step back and decide that if we too "can be heroes, just for one day", then, possibly, that cycle can be broken in OUR time, and not just in a Utopian vision of the future
Review by Paladin5150BlockedParent2020-01-10T16:29:57Z— updated 2020-01-11T20:37:55Z
The first order of business is to correct the Episode description, which SHOULD read, "12 year-old classmates Kima and Lil find themselves at odds with each other on a day that will change their lives forever.". (You had ONE JOB Lilith!!! LOL)
That correction having been made, I must say that, even WITHOUT performing the double duty of giving us a teaser of the back story for the upcoming eponymous series debuting on 01/23/2020, which, those who have been hotly anticipating it instantly recognized, especially with the (spelling it out for you) last shot of the "emergency broadcast" display they were staring at....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=FySrgrKJguE&feature=emb_logo
....this, IMO, was one of the better, if not the BEST "Short Trek" episodes this series.
Thought provoking, especially with (as LHG noted) its eschewing of verbosity in favor of letting the viewer glean the story simply from the visuals. Doubly, given recent events between differing cultures IRL here on our own little rock, I was struck by the prescience of this trek in dramatizing how one individual, acting out against another, can result in a "tit for tat" retaliation until someone steps in, or something traumatic occurs, hopefully, to make both realize the error of the path they have chosen. May we only be so fortunate in our own age.
Maybe, just maybe, instead of SPREADING and INFECTING others with with what is actually our own discontent, anger and hate, we can take a step back and decide that if we too "can be heroes, just for one day", then, possibly, that cycle can be broken in OUR time, and not just in a Utopian vision of the future