| The Awakening is probably my Least favorite of Nacho Cerda's Aftermath Trilogy. It was a ten minute short shot on 16mm showing a teenager in high school getting a test back that he has failed falling asleep and from there on he sees the rest of the class is frozen. He proceeds to get up and look at his grade and that's when stuff gets weirder. The film is not as well done as the other movies in the trilogy. While for Nacho Cerda's first film, it's well done I guess. The editing is pretty good, but the framing is just horrible. The main guy is leaning over, part of him is cut off, he's to the far left of the screen, we see a few other classmates in the background, and I'm sitting there not knowing where the fuck I'm supposed to look. I'm not going to let this get on my nerves, I mean once again, it's his first film and it didn't distract me too much. The movie ends with him not being able to get out of the classroom, turning around and seeing himself dead on the floor with classmates performing CPR on him. It's a strange little short film, well edited, interesting, and brought quite a few thoughts to my head. Overall it's a 6/10. |
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