Another short film recently added to Disney Plus was "A Glimpse", a 10-minute love story that encapsulates years of a relationship into both it's first few moments and perhaps it's entirety.
Jess (Rachel Shenton) enters a busy coffee shop and asks Alex (Chris Overton) if he wouldn't mind her using his spare seat and plug socket to charge her mobile phone for a few minutes, ahead of an important call. They begin to chat and their chemistry leads to Alex asking Jess out for a drink. Mixed in with those conversations from the first moments of the relationship, we see snippets of what is (or perhaps could be) the next few years of their lives. Dating, meeting each other parents and moving in together - before Alex's apathy towards work drives them apart.
There is actual a fair bit of room for debate as to what we're seeing. You could take it as read that we are seeing exactly what will happen in their relationship, leading to the separation at the end. I think I preferred my reading, which was that what we actually seeing was Alex's expectations for how the relationship would go, knowing that their career drives might eventually being too much to overcome, but with the positive ending being that he chooses to try anyway. That sometimes, a relationship that is probably not going to work is, in and of itself, still a positive experience.
The performances are good. Real life couple, and Oscar winners themselves, Rachel Shenton and Chris Overton play the couple - though neither are the creative forces for this short. I'm not sure it's particularly revolutionary, in what it has to say but it was a bittersweet experience, nicely told.
