Strawberry Jam

Could not fault the logic in the strawberry jam monologue. Right on!

A shipping container in the middle of nowhere creates a high level of tension for a couple of prisoners, one who begins the film in a mask whilst the other spouts dialogue whilst bound and restrained.

I liked the subversion of character expectation here, as "Thomas" in the clown mask was the serious type desperate for freedom, whilst our more sinister player with the maniacal life was given the more vanilla visual appearance.

Mood building was well done as well, with the stillness of the middle of nowhere springing to life with banging against the walls and strange visual motifs quickly coming to the fore. I also liked that you had a go at world building, with 'The Swap' not really being explained in any great detail, but referred to in a way that made you feel it had great importance.

Now for monologues, the titular jam piece of dialogue was well done, but boy oh boy I fucking hated the cold mean spirited description of murder that was espoused. And then to end like...that. Yeah guys, that's not the way. I'm not saying be uplifting by any stretch, you can be mean spirited and dark, but you need to earn it for your payoff to have any gravitas because otherwise I come away from the film feeling "fuck that was bleak, what was the point?". And sadly that was the case at the end, undoing a lot of great work such as your expertly staged edit.

Story: 2//5
Technical: 3/5
Elements: 3/5
Overall: 2/5