Original article about it in french _http://www.lefigaro.fr/cinema/2015/03/30/03002-20150330ARTFIG00378--sundays-l-intrigant-court-metrage-qui-a-seduit-hollywood.php
VIDEO - With only 51,000 dollars, the young director Mischa Rozema has succeeded: his short film is so impressive that Warner decided to buy the rights to make a film.
Staggering. Sundays is one of those controlled short films, including the original material is so rich that deserves a long-term adaptation.
The images are so strong that they speak for themselves. Satellite sinking crash on earth as meteorites. A child fascinated by the sight seeing this fire morbidly artifice, while a Boeing crashed behind him in a cloud of smoke ...
The plot, cryptic, sets the scenery of a world on the brink of implosion, where an anonymous official loses confidence gradually confidence in the functioning of society. As a hero of Kafka, his work, his identity, access to happiness and above all access to love its bearings fall one after the other. Follows a reconsideration existential question, a quest for meaning amidst humanity disintegrates. "The reality is not what it claims to be," wrote Philip K. Dick, this wild philosopher, author of the famous Ubik and Blade Runner.
The criticism of the (false) consience of our identity, one that defines our own reality, and takes a fundamental role in this strange film, as evidenced by the quote from Daniel C. Dennett introduction of (contemporary philosopher known for his criticism the legacy of Cartesian duality, note): "What you can imagine depends on what you know."
In short, this dystopian tale that oscillates between the paranoid world of Orwell's 1984, and the iconic Calderon of Barqua quote: "Life is a dream. And dreams are only dreams, "is above all a film nugget 14 minutes of dazzling visual beauty, rather unusual for this kind of format.
Scenes that borrow Matrix
Directed by Mischa Rozema and produced by Jairo Alvarado, rendering out so many records that Warner decided to buy the rights. Visually, many effects are worthy of the biggest blockbusters: Urban scenes of destruction that has nothing to envy the Avengers, cosmic visions as Interstellar can offer us, and hélicopètes fortified architecture straight out of District 9. In short, the court did not suggest that he shows.
Sundays has many inspirations, rich and varied, he quotes-for-all, with tributes plan. We find almost identical one of the last shots of Fight Club, where the narrator realizes the duplication of his personality and the plan of his alter-ego Tyler Durden. Several scenes borrow from the imagination of Matrix (the main character looks also strangely Neo): that of -douloureux- awakening of consciousness, and that duplication of Agent Smith.
In many ways, Sundays is a very promising short film, and makes you want to see more. Let's just hope this intriguing short film in the form of appetizers is up to the expectations surrounding it.
