I love this short film. As I’ve seen it float around online, I’ve seen folks say “Watch this! It’s such a great short film about domestic violence!” (which obviously it is), and I’ve seen folks say “Really, this is a short film about abortion! It’s great and powerful; watch it now!” And it’s that, too. And I can imagine someone saying “This is a great film about Patriarchy! Feminism! Rape Culture! The legal system! Psychology! Psychiatry! Our Prozac Nation!”
All of that can be argued. It’s all those things.
But that isn’t why I love it.
I love this because it is a great short film–a great short story–about a human making a wrenching decision. And it is about the protagonist’s will to power. And, as Cortazar instructs it must, it wins by KO.
So, watch this now. Please.
REDACTION on Vimeo
REDACTION from Tim Sanger on Vimeo.
FYI: The quote I used as this post’s title comes from a pal of mine, Sarah Zettel; she says some very concise and sharp things about women in SF as both readers and characters here: