Distraction

2013
10m

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A young writer. A prostitute. An old desert motel. All stories need an ending. 'Distraction' is a short film noir that focuses on the fragile psyche of a writer who's sole desire is to finis... Read allA young writer. A prostitute. An old desert motel. All stories need an ending. 'Distraction' is a short film noir that focuses on the fragile psyche of a writer who's sole desire is to finish his screenplay while learning that the beginning is always easier to write than the end.A young writer. A prostitute. An old desert motel. All stories need an ending. 'Distraction' is a short film noir that focuses on the fragile psyche of a writer who's sole desire is to finish his screenplay while learning that the beginning is always easier to write than the end.

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6.8/10

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6/10

The Technical Merits Compensate For The Story

A mental screenwriter is chastised by his producer and told to work on the ending of his screenplay . Suffering writers block he decides to hire a prostitute to distract him from the pressures of work

Much of the function of a short film is to put everyone in the production in the shop window . Sometimes some people in the production are closer to the glass than other production members . With DISTRACTION the two production members at the front of the queue are editor Kirk Smith and cinematographer Kurt Stevens . It is a very well shot and edited short film , nothing brilliant but more than adequate . The story itself is something I wasn't entirely taken with and contains a bit of illogical unexplained moments that seem merely to exist to set up the inciting incident . Not a bad short film but hardly memorable apart from the editing and photography