I watched this with two friends, one of them was chewing on the corner of their coat, and sort of whimpering even, as the story got into the tense scenes. We all really got into it - and then an "oh my god" at the end! Really liked the cast - started to feel for them. The professor dude had that combination of really good looking but also very creepy when he started to exert his authority. The girl who was getting the shocks looked like she was really begging for it to stop and be over, which the girl being instructed and ordered to continue with the experiment - well you felt for her - she wanted to stop, the professor wouldn't let her out. Most unsettling part was that it's based on real events. Cinematography looked very slick - stylish.
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Bloody great work
KymJackson4 October 2005
This short film is interesting, exciting and suspenseful. If you like films that are a statement on human nature, the illusion of authority, and a persons ability to justify their actions when the decision isn't theirs, you should definitely see this movie.
It has the depth that many short films lack, yet manages to hold your interest and engage you in the characters within moments of them being on screen.
The film looks great - it is proof that shooting on film instead of digital is always worth the extra effort and expense.
I saw this film after it was accepted into a short film festival, and have no doubt that this will not be the last time it screens and that it will win awards.
Kym
It has the depth that many short films lack, yet manages to hold your interest and engage you in the characters within moments of them being on screen.
The film looks great - it is proof that shooting on film instead of digital is always worth the extra effort and expense.
I saw this film after it was accepted into a short film festival, and have no doubt that this will not be the last time it screens and that it will win awards.
Kym
A brilliant journey in to the dark side of the mind
Ardath_Rekha5 October 2005
Warning: Spoilers
I saw this at the Frankly Film Fest, where it made its big-screen debut, and it blew me away. I'm already a huge fan of Rhiana Griffith (the star of the piece), but I think I'd have BECOME one on the strength of this film, if I hadn't already been. Griffith plays Clare Newell, a young woman who's trying to supplement her meager collegiate income by participating in a psychological study. All she really knows about it, she tells one of the other volunteers (Chris Galletti), is that it has something to do with memory. From the start, though, things go wrong... and keep getting worse. The first hint of trouble surfaces when Professor Farley (Don Halbert), the study's director, emerges with another of the volunteers (Olivia Solomons)... who looks rattled and out of sorts. But Clare starts to get the sense that something's VERY wrong indeed when she meets her partner in the study, Holly (Kristy Wright). From there, Clare's swiftly plunged into an ever-darkening ordeal that she might not have the strength to escape unscathed.
Based upon an actual, real-life psychological study that was both fascinating and controversial, Wrong Answer takes a new look at it by delving into the mind of one of its subjects. Psychology students around the world are familiar with the study, and many have even watched films of its real-life participants, laughing and groaning and asking "why did they DO these things?" This is the answer, at least for some of them: many, like Clare, found themselves trapped in a situation where the authority they'd always trusted and obeyed suddenly turned on them and told them to do dark and terrible things, and they didn't know HOW to resist.
Writer/director J.D. Cohen does a brilliant job conveying the disorienting and frightening world that Clare has been -- and any of us might be -- plunged into, handling the material sensitively and realistically. The cast is wonderful. Halbert is chilling as the study director who may hold Clare's future in his hands, Wright is brilliant as Clare's vulnerable lab partner, and Griffith's nuanced powerful performance, as she struggles in the grip of a situation spiraling dangerously out of control, is mind-blowing. She's an actress who is MADE for the big screen, and hopefully will be there again soon -- Wrong Answer is, in fact, a prologue to a feature film currently in preproduction. With its sweeping win at the Frankly Film Fest, taking home three top honors including Best Of Fest, hopefully we won't have long to wait.
Based upon an actual, real-life psychological study that was both fascinating and controversial, Wrong Answer takes a new look at it by delving into the mind of one of its subjects. Psychology students around the world are familiar with the study, and many have even watched films of its real-life participants, laughing and groaning and asking "why did they DO these things?" This is the answer, at least for some of them: many, like Clare, found themselves trapped in a situation where the authority they'd always trusted and obeyed suddenly turned on them and told them to do dark and terrible things, and they didn't know HOW to resist.
Writer/director J.D. Cohen does a brilliant job conveying the disorienting and frightening world that Clare has been -- and any of us might be -- plunged into, handling the material sensitively and realistically. The cast is wonderful. Halbert is chilling as the study director who may hold Clare's future in his hands, Wright is brilliant as Clare's vulnerable lab partner, and Griffith's nuanced powerful performance, as she struggles in the grip of a situation spiraling dangerously out of control, is mind-blowing. She's an actress who is MADE for the big screen, and hopefully will be there again soon -- Wrong Answer is, in fact, a prologue to a feature film currently in preproduction. With its sweeping win at the Frankly Film Fest, taking home three top honors including Best Of Fest, hopefully we won't have long to wait.
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