Nice tone with good content – just not enough of it

Vera Chok

Adrian Gillott

A Different Way

This short seems like the third in the films that started with Better Together? and is essentially a man and a woman talking to camera in separate headshots edited together. The previous two films had a light tone to them as each character discussed relationships in some form, although in A Different Way, we get more shots of the two messing around within the same frame and some posed shots of the two just static together. This aspect of this short I didn&apos;t care because I thought the other material in the film is much more preferable.

In this short the topic remains on relationships but there is a nicely comic clash between the two aspects. While the woman muses on what life is, about the forward momentum and other thoughts, the man talks about having children and, in particular, a random event of him sharing a bed with a pregnant woman who snored. The intense specific focus of the man&apos;s story sits very pleasingly with the more thoughtful content from the woman – giving the viewer two different sections that have a similar feel but very different approaches behind them. It is nicely edited so that they do not clash awkwardly even if they are quite different.

The downside is that there is less material here and more breaking the 4th wall, so I guess this is not really the end of a trilogy but more a matter of what material was left to use. It is still a warm little short and in a way, as simple and basic as they are, I did quite enjoy their tone, their simplicity and the way I could easily have listened to Gillett and Chok deliver to-camera for longer. Would welcome them doing more of these little shorts, albeit more in the mould of &quot;Alone is Nothing&quot; which is probably the strongest of the three.

This short seems like the third in the films that started with Better Together? and is essentially a man and a woman talking to camera in separate headshots edited together. The previous two films had a light tone to them as each character discussed relationships in some form, although in A Different Way, we get more shots of the two messing around within the same frame and some posed shots of the two just static together. This aspect of this short I didn't care because I thought the other material in the film is much more preferable.

In this short the topic remains on relationships but there is a nicely comic clash between the two aspects. While the woman muses on what life is, about the forward momentum and other thoughts, the man talks about having children and, in particular, a random event of him sharing a bed with a pregnant woman who snored. The intense specific focus of the man's story sits very pleasingly with the more thoughtful content from the woman – giving the viewer two different sections that have a similar feel but very different approaches behind them. It is nicely edited so that they do not clash awkwardly even if they are quite different.

The downside is that there is less material here and more breaking the 4th wall, so I guess this is not really the end of a trilogy but more a matter of what material was left to use. It is still a warm little short and in a way, as simple and basic as they are, I did quite enjoy their tone, their simplicity and the way I could easily have listened to Gillett and Chok deliver to-camera for longer. Would welcome them doing more of these little shorts, albeit more in the mould of "Alone is Nothing" which is probably the strongest of the three.

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