I've always been apprehensive about giving perfect scores to short films (it'll happen one day, I'm sure... they're just harder to judge, because I don't tend to watch as many), but funnily enough, A Girl, She Is 100% feels close to being worth a score of 100%. It delivers the same kind of compelling take on the highs and lows surrounding love, chance meetings, fate, the concept of soulmates, and the cruel passage of time that the Before Trilogy took three movies to do; here, it's done in about 10 minutes.
It's stylishly put together, too, with a distinct visual style and some neat touches throughout, to the point where the one scene that feels out of place, in hindsight, is the part where the main character talks with his friends in what looks like a diner for a minute or so. That felt strangely uninspired, I guess, compared to everything else, but I wasn't ready for how amazing the rest of this would be.
Truly sad at the end of it all, even though much of it is very engaging and seemed to be riding the line between bitter and sweet. I feel more bitterness in the end, but then it just doesn't really end... it's not the end necessarily, and hope's not entirely lost. Two unlucky characters feature prominently in A Girl, She Is 100%, but people in real life may be more lucky (or not even get the chance these two had).
I don't know... this did so much for such a short film. I'm seriously impressed by how well-presented it was, the stuff it explores, and for how much of an emotional rollercoaster it ended up being within such a short runtime.
It's stylishly put together, too, with a distinct visual style and some neat touches throughout, to the point where the one scene that feels out of place, in hindsight, is the part where the main character talks with his friends in what looks like a diner for a minute or so. That felt strangely uninspired, I guess, compared to everything else, but I wasn't ready for how amazing the rest of this would be.
Truly sad at the end of it all, even though much of it is very engaging and seemed to be riding the line between bitter and sweet. I feel more bitterness in the end, but then it just doesn't really end... it's not the end necessarily, and hope's not entirely lost. Two unlucky characters feature prominently in A Girl, She Is 100%, but people in real life may be more lucky (or not even get the chance these two had).
I don't know... this did so much for such a short film. I'm seriously impressed by how well-presented it was, the stuff it explores, and for how much of an emotional rollercoaster it ended up being within such a short runtime.
