Hazel starts out as a familiar teenage escapade. A group of youths climb a fence to get into a neighbors pool at night time, plunging into the water after being assured from Hazel that she babysits for the family who lives here and they're all out of town. After a little splashing around, some of the teens begin to climb back out of the water and begin a search of the neighbors poolside bar for some liquor to steal.
It's the realm of a typical slasher film, and we know something is going to crash this little party, but we don't really know what. What it turns out to be is definitely not what we have prepared ourselves for. Hazel is now sitting on the grass with one of the guys, and the two are looking up at the stars. Suddenly Hazel speaks an enigmatic bit of dialog that begins with a familiar refrain which we'll be hearing again: "They'll always say I'm crazy. But want to know what's crazy? Living day in and day out being oblivious to the tiniest things." This seems like the typical sentiment you'd hear from a teenager experimenting with philosophy, the kind of thing you might see in a self-indulgent social media post. But that is when Hazel immediately leads this off into speculating about other dimensions. She says maybe there are other worlds entwined with our own, all connected through a single interdimensional mind. "Do you ever think about that?" she asks her friend. Her friend says she's "monologing again", but that the idea is a pretty wild one. We cut now to Hazel's friend who passed through this scene previously on her way to bar. Having acquired some liquor, she heads back to poolside on the lawn, and is setting next to Hazel, who is dressed differently. There's a quick flash where we seem to be back at the beginning of the film for the moment, with everyone diving into the pool again. Hazel begins her awkward and strangely intense dialog once more, almost identical to how she spoke to the boy in the grass. "They keep saying I'm crazy...."
By the time she gets to the hive minds, she's directed her friends gaze toward the stars, only to be broken up by the sound of a rattling gate. The gate is also revealed to be Hazel, just out of view, and across the pool there now sits yet another Hazel, this one dressed in black and smiling across at the girl who is speaking to Hazel #2, now looking very confused as the boy who spoke with Hazel #1 swimsup and asks if there's alcohol at the bar. Hazels other worlds and multiple realities are real and moving around the group.
This film is very well done; particularly with excellent casting in the role of Hazel, a woman who truly seems otherworldly throughout the film. It's a short and very interesting film which effectively takes the viewer on a brief trip through an altered state of mind.
DMOFF
It's the realm of a typical slasher film, and we know something is going to crash this little party, but we don't really know what. What it turns out to be is definitely not what we have prepared ourselves for. Hazel is now sitting on the grass with one of the guys, and the two are looking up at the stars. Suddenly Hazel speaks an enigmatic bit of dialog that begins with a familiar refrain which we'll be hearing again: "They'll always say I'm crazy. But want to know what's crazy? Living day in and day out being oblivious to the tiniest things." This seems like the typical sentiment you'd hear from a teenager experimenting with philosophy, the kind of thing you might see in a self-indulgent social media post. But that is when Hazel immediately leads this off into speculating about other dimensions. She says maybe there are other worlds entwined with our own, all connected through a single interdimensional mind. "Do you ever think about that?" she asks her friend. Her friend says she's "monologing again", but that the idea is a pretty wild one. We cut now to Hazel's friend who passed through this scene previously on her way to bar. Having acquired some liquor, she heads back to poolside on the lawn, and is setting next to Hazel, who is dressed differently. There's a quick flash where we seem to be back at the beginning of the film for the moment, with everyone diving into the pool again. Hazel begins her awkward and strangely intense dialog once more, almost identical to how she spoke to the boy in the grass. "They keep saying I'm crazy...."
By the time she gets to the hive minds, she's directed her friends gaze toward the stars, only to be broken up by the sound of a rattling gate. The gate is also revealed to be Hazel, just out of view, and across the pool there now sits yet another Hazel, this one dressed in black and smiling across at the girl who is speaking to Hazel #2, now looking very confused as the boy who spoke with Hazel #1 swimsup and asks if there's alcohol at the bar. Hazels other worlds and multiple realities are real and moving around the group.
This film is very well done; particularly with excellent casting in the role of Hazel, a woman who truly seems otherworldly throughout the film. It's a short and very interesting film which effectively takes the viewer on a brief trip through an altered state of mind.
DMOFF