This one reads like a tease, or a lie of some sort. The subject declares that she hates, this sends the rest of the sonnet into despair from which the subject sees she needs to recover the poet so she adds "not you". It is a simple enough affair although after a few reads I was not sure what aspect of it I would focus on to try and make a short film of it – particularly as I saw on the listing that the film was located at the famous spot where Woody Allen used in Manhattan – a shot that even those who have not seen the film probably know. So to say there is a certain amount of cinematic pressure on the film is correct.
The film actually manages to be quite comic and sweet, even if it doesn't totally work as such. The interpretation of the sonnet is that the young woman is upset about something that throws her into a mood with everything; the man tries to break her out of such a mood because obviously he loves her and doesn't want her angry at him and, eventually, we get success as the woman clarifies that she is not angry with the man ("not you"). It has a certain charm to it that fits the comparative simplicity of the sonnet (if not the language perhaps) and in particular I liked how it set the delivery of "not you" at the end. I wasn't sure about the black & white, the cartoonesque fade in and out, and the detail of the delivery, but it does work as a whole even if it perhaps is a touch straightforward.
The film actually manages to be quite comic and sweet, even if it doesn't totally work as such. The interpretation of the sonnet is that the young woman is upset about something that throws her into a mood with everything; the man tries to break her out of such a mood because obviously he loves her and doesn't want her angry at him and, eventually, we get success as the woman clarifies that she is not angry with the man ("not you"). It has a certain charm to it that fits the comparative simplicity of the sonnet (if not the language perhaps) and in particular I liked how it set the delivery of "not you" at the end. I wasn't sure about the black & white, the cartoonesque fade in and out, and the detail of the delivery, but it does work as a whole even if it perhaps is a touch straightforward.