The
Sweet Hand of the White Rose
Director:
Davide Melini
2010
Short/Horror
I always
have some difficulty writing reviews of short films. They don’t work in the
same way as proper features and they usually tell the story in a very fast
manor. It’s in the nature of them of course. To tell the story in just a few
minutes instead of an hour and a half is a totally different thing. You need to
be very precise with what you’re telling and there is no time for character development.
At least very little time!
I think
that writer/director Davide Melini
does a fine job here. It’s very clear that the story follows to different individuals
and that their paths will cross somewhere. It’s also very clear that the
crossing won’t be a pleasant one… The moral of it all is that life is precious
and that you should be careful about what you do on the roads. Yes, the story
concerns a car accident! I can’t really figure out what the opening sequence
has to do with anything though?
But it’s
also a horror story! Or at least it has elements of it. The second part of it
is very gothic and kind of scary. There’s a lot of inspiration from Asian ghost
horror movies even if the themes is nowhere near as confusing as the Asian
ghost stories can be. And I must confess that I got kind of fooled by it too. I
thought I had it all figured out but I was wrong! I like being wrong! That
means that the filmmakers have made a good job with the twists. There’s no
point of having twists in a movie if you can smell them a mile away is there?
I liked
this and I feel it’s a pretty damn important issue! Don’t drink and drive and
don’t text and drive either! It can only end with disaster. This might be an
eye opener to some!
7/10
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