This was the "weakest" of the five nominees for the Live-Action Short category bestowed by AMPAS, which means it was only very good in a field of excellent shorts. Because I want to discuss the short in a little detail, there will be spoilers:
The basic premise is that people who work on the clock at a supermarket during the late shift all have different ways to make the time seem to go by more quickly, ranging from just not looking at the clock through simply goofing off to the most extreme, which is pretending that you've cause time and all movement but your own to come to a full stop. Along the way, we meet a female checkout clerk, the overbearing and absolutely tedious supervisor who keeps trying to impress her (in vain), two arrested development cases, who are 22 going on 12 and the narrator, who is the one who makes time pass by acting like he's stopped it cold. Oh yeah-he also likes to sketch the female shoppers (at least the prettier ones) in the nude.
His narration is generally entertaining and often funny. It's an entertaining short which may actually make a better feature, as it feels a tad constrained by its brevity. All in all, a good short and well worth watching.
This short is available on a compilation DVD containing eight of ten nominees for the two Academy Awards Shorts categories (two of the Animated Short nominees aren't included) and it's a very good DVD indeed. Recommended.
The basic premise is that people who work on the clock at a supermarket during the late shift all have different ways to make the time seem to go by more quickly, ranging from just not looking at the clock through simply goofing off to the most extreme, which is pretending that you've cause time and all movement but your own to come to a full stop. Along the way, we meet a female checkout clerk, the overbearing and absolutely tedious supervisor who keeps trying to impress her (in vain), two arrested development cases, who are 22 going on 12 and the narrator, who is the one who makes time pass by acting like he's stopped it cold. Oh yeah-he also likes to sketch the female shoppers (at least the prettier ones) in the nude.
His narration is generally entertaining and often funny. It's an entertaining short which may actually make a better feature, as it feels a tad constrained by its brevity. All in all, a good short and well worth watching.
This short is available on a compilation DVD containing eight of ten nominees for the two Academy Awards Shorts categories (two of the Animated Short nominees aren't included) and it's a very good DVD indeed. Recommended.