Friday, March 28, 2014

"Cargo" Short film

The movie opens with a man coming to from what was most likely a dizzy spell he is inside of a car, and he sees a silhouette of a woman, who was most likely (at one point), his wife. But she has turned into a zombie when he looks closer and tries to attack him. He manages to escape and he tries to get something out of the backseat but he fails and runs away, presumably to find something to break the window with. the screen fades to black for a minute displaying "Cargo" as the title. Cut to a man holding a crying baby in his arms and looking at a wound on his arm, he grabs a permanent marker and writes on his arm "3 Hours" probably before the infection sets in. and he starts walking with his daughter on his back, to find shelter for her, we then see him collapse on the ground and see him try to fight off the infection, but eventually his walking slows and, what once could have been words, come to a growling, pained moaning way of speech (as most Zombies tend to have). We see the father/daughter combo then joined by three other survivors who kill the "walker" dad before he even has a chance to get the child to safety. We see a college age girl gather the infant in her arms, as if sensing the struggle of the father to stay as lucid as he possibly could for his daughter, the "movie" ends as the woman walks away with the crying baby in her arms.

It was very interesting to see that short film play out with no dialogue, it takes a lot of skill to be able to do that as a director in a movie. I thought it was very well done indeed. It did succeed in giving me the creeps for awhile there.

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