Saturday, February 22, 2025

Short Film Review: Somewhere Like This

Wong Fu Productions sure can tell a story.  The last song especially always makes me cry.  (https://youtu.be/IOu0DuxFAT0?si=jYkeOqSehYHshd8n)

This beautifully structured, short haiku of a film reminds me a bit of “Sleepless in Seattle” with the waltzing around the main point, brief moments of affection and tender glances.  So artfully done, not overly sentimental or self-aggrandizing, but perfectly sweet.  Poetic and beautiful, nostalgic and gentle

Anyone fondly remembering their first crush will see themselves in our main characters, and I beautifully fill in the details of early dates that Ted and Wesley have left out, quite a rhetorical technique in itself

It’s all about the feeling the story leaves us with.

5.9 / 6 stars

https://youtu.be/83BxayyVcbA?si=IyeO-lAkL2cfNHig

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