REVIEW: Peter Nichols | C
Introduction
If you are a regular guy, with a regular life and your personal life is wrapped around the regular things we all meet every day, then you will find New York’d relevant. But, then every made person had been a regular person at some point, so we can say the story behind New York’d will resonate with a fairly medium audience.
Review
The idea of a day going terribly wrong is not a new concept. It works everywhere, and it is independent of time and culture. In fact Edward A. Murphy had proposed such a law. Murphy’s Law states that “things will go wrong in any given situation, if you give them a chance,” or more commonly, “whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.”
This was Sean’s experience on the weekend he woke up to funny noises, from his computer, a delivery boy’s reluctance to complete his delivery and the saving grace of his beautiful neighbour and the date with Amanda that he eventually screwed up, and he happened to return right back to where we took off, a locked door.
Rather than being a sequence of unfortunate events, spirally out of control. I do think Sean triggered his great day to move in the wrong direction. I think the short was well shot, it can be much shorter though, and a few off performances will place New York’d in a grade of C. How, the story is based on a universal concept, the dramatic structure was clearly stated, the premise vivid, and the score did create a story world that would draw you in slowly, gently, and fine editing and producing.
Conclusion
New York’d is a universal concept told simply. It is funny entertaining, that pulls cute laughs from the mishaps of one man’s great day, gone very wrong. It might create some after viewing experience feelings with people who have had such experience.
I would not go as far to call Sean a loser thought, after all it is just one day in his life.
