1.41: one evening on the #14 bus by Christina Anderson: Double edged sword that avoids being a bit obvious thanks to the energy from Armand

Pascale Armand

Christina Anderson

Hal Hartley

One Evening on the #14 Bus

Everyone has phones and tablets and pretty much everyone does some form of social networking or online living, while at the same time everyone hates others for being into their computers and phones when they want something; this applies to most individuals both ways. Personally I am a bit snooty towards those on Facebook, liking pictures of other people&apos;s dinners and such, but then at the same time am more often than not stuck in my laptop or watching some moving image on some size of illuminated rectangle. This short film brings this up and just about manages to do it without being overly obvious and pat.

A woman asks to borrow a phone because of an emergency but nobody on the bus will give it to her, starting her off on the irony of everyone being more into their devices and connecting to remote people, than they are about connecting to the real person right here in front of them. It is a fair point but an overly familiar one for the most part; the conclusion perhaps is a way of leading around to the double- edged sword, which is that the same technology that divides, can also be useful – but more so that it is more than possible to have disconnections between people when we are face to face anyway, so it is not necessarily that the phone or device really messes it up too much.

This bit of writing helps it, but it is also the performance from Armand that makes it more than just the words. She is filmed in tight close up, and I liked that this did not bother her at all, and that she managed to convey the feelings of a person trying to get hold of her sister – even when it became something else, her performance held this base position, which grounded the material. The delivery is edited, but as with the previous few times, it is not really a problem and doesn&apos;t affect the delivery.

Everyone has phones and tablets and pretty much everyone does some form of social networking or online living, while at the same time everyone hates others for being into their computers and phones when they want something; this applies to most individuals both ways. Personally I am a bit snooty towards those on Facebook, liking pictures of other people's dinners and such, but then at the same time am more often than not stuck in my laptop or watching some moving image on some size of illuminated rectangle. This short film brings this up and just about manages to do it without being overly obvious and pat.

A woman asks to borrow a phone because of an emergency but nobody on the bus will give it to her, starting her off on the irony of everyone being more into their devices and connecting to remote people, than they are about connecting to the real person right here in front of them. It is a fair point but an overly familiar one for the most part; the conclusion perhaps is a way of leading around to the double- edged sword, which is that the same technology that divides, can also be useful – but more so that it is more than possible to have disconnections between people when we are face to face anyway, so it is not necessarily that the phone or device really messes it up too much.

This bit of writing helps it, but it is also the performance from Armand that makes it more than just the words. She is filmed in tight close up, and I liked that this did not bother her at all, and that she managed to convey the feelings of a person trying to get hold of her sister – even when it became something else, her performance held this base position, which grounded the material. The delivery is edited, but as with the previous few times, it is not really a problem and doesn't affect the delivery.

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