"Landed on your profile"

[yui]

One of the Tribeca Film Festival five short film finalist; the link is to amazon.com:

Richter's Agenda

Never, never, never getting a webcam!

 

[minsue]

Sheesh! What a happy lil flick!

 

[Guest]

OK. THAT was creepy as hell.

I think I know that guy.

 

[minsue]

OK. THAT was creepy as hell.

I think I know that guy.

You do. I am that guy.




Shit! Did I say that out loud?

 

[Guest]

You do. I am that guy.




Shit! Did I say that out loud?

Can I get you a drink?

 

[minsue]

Can I get you a drink?

Trollop

 

[Guest]

Trollop

You know it.

See you at the Trollop Meeting later this evening?

 

[minsue]

You know it.

See you at the Trollop Meeting later this evening?

Of course! It's my turn to bring the brownies, right?

 

[Guest]

Of course! It's my turn to bring the brownies, right?

I love brownies.

 

[yui]

Sheesh! What a happy lil flick!

Yes, happy. *shivers*

In a Ted Bundy kind of happy way.

OK. THAT was creepy as hell.

I think I know that guy.

Eep! Un-know him! Un-know him!

 

[cantdog]

Richter signifies judge. The word is German.

Notice how the acts of seeming magic Richter performs leave him seeming invincible. If you can IM someone without them having enabled 'the 'net' then you are suddenly a demigod or demon, and all resistance is futile. Odd, that.

 

[yui]

Richter signifies judge. The word is German.

Notice how the acts of seeming magic Richter performs leave him seeming invincible. If you can IM someone without them having enabled 'the 'net' then you are suddenly a demigod or demon, and all resistance is futile. Odd, that.

I didn't know that about Richter, Cant. Thanks for the insight. Electronic anomalies wig me out anyway, so the computer stuff was very disturbing. I knew what was going to happen, but to see it played out that way …. Eep!

 

[cantdog]

Worth thinking about, analytically, if you plan to write suspense or horror.

 

[AppleBiter]

Gave me the creeps, that's for sure.

 

[Huckleman2000]

Richter signifies judge. The word is German.

Notice how the acts of seeming magic Richter performs leave him seeming invincible. If you can IM someone without them having enabled 'the 'net' then you are suddenly a demigod or demon, and all resistance is futile. Odd, that.

Also interesting that the webcam reverts to a self-reflexive viewpoint, where the screen is a direct feed of the webcam to its subject, before the "judge" attacks. As if the judgement is of the impersonal, online persona and the physical violation is the metaphor.

I'd say the filmmaker has some issues with women he's "met" on Match.com.

Not justifying it, mind you. I'm just saying....

 

[Ferawyn]

Pfff. This reminds me of a show a few years back on dutch television where a guy claimed if you hook up a webcam and modem to your computer, he could look into your house, even when your computer was turned off.

His proof consisted of some shots from (at the time) well known permanent webcam locations in amsterdam, run by the university.

The suspense was nice. Too bad they had to do it in the usual hollywood style of ignoring little things like how computers work, or physics for that matter.

 

[MercyMia]

Creepy. Even with its flaws.

 

[Sweetpeeee]

*unplugs webcam*

Woah that was creepy!!! i liked it

 

[woodnymph_O]

spooked out now lol , thanks

 

[Svenskaflicka]

Am I the only one who thought it was annoying as hell and kept wondering why the girl didn't just throw a blanket over the camera/screen or tell the asshole to sign off and go back to fucking his dead mother?