3/16/01 (2004) User Reviews

Great moving short documentary

[EdManten · 8/10 · 10 February 2005]

This was a great movie that took a story that should have been depressing and made it inspiring. I saw it at our festival in Charlotte and the filmmakers weren't there. They said they were students from Wilmington. This was much better than any film I was going to expect from students.

The story is about this guy who works at a pizza place and gets beaten and left for dead for no reason. It happens on March 16, 2001. The near death experience affected the guy so much he gets the date tattooed on his arm. Instead of being hateful towards his attacker and being angry about the whole thing,this guy seems to be pretty friendly to the man who attacked him(who is now in jail). He uses the event as something that changes his outlook on life. The movie was sensitively made and was very moving for such a short film. I'd love to see this made into a full length film or maybe an hour segment for TV.

This is one that will definitely stay with me for a while.

Poor choice of subject.

[morbidnate · 1/10 · 23 January 2005]

I viewed this film at a film festival in North Carolina called Cucalorus. It was lumped together with most of the student films accepted to the festival, which sort of added to my sentiments below.

This film is about the robbery of a pizza place in Wilmington North Carolina. Although the experience was absolutely horrifying to the individual it is about, when watching it the viewer feels that the act was trivial and unimportant.

Although the film was made with good intentions, it exploits the event and the actual man who was beaten to near death. The film makers show promise by creating drama in places drama should not exist. All I have to say is try again folks.