The 'Go'
- Episode aired Oct 9, 2012
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1.23: The 'Go' by Sean Christopher Lewis: A tangible sense of sadness and inevitability
This short film is an achievement of writing and performance together, because one without the other in this case really wouldn't work. Based around the experiences of displaced youths, the monologue focuses on a young woman talking about a 'go man'. She does this in a rather sparky and humorous way which one would when the depressing becomes just a factor of life so it no longer stands out as odd or different. The experience of a 'go man', or a partner that drives you to despair to the point where you have to just pack and go, is perhaps not totally familiar to all viewers, however the performance and the writing makes it so, understanding the context thanks to how well told it is.
This extends to the bigger picture to where the world feels like it is doing the same, where the individual feels like this is what is pushing them from one place to another in search of something or to get away from something else. At this point the script doesn't give so much, but rather what steps up is the performance from Brewster. In her there is a tangible sense of someone who looks inward briefly, not in a really showy of obvious way, but just in the way the inflection and poise changes. The words give this to her, but it is her performance that makes it work as it appears on the screen.
I don't think that The 'Go' is a great film as a whole, but it delivers a feeling or a sense of something that works well. We understand the character thanks to the natural way she talks (in words and performance) but then also the feeling we get at the end does more than cover up for the lack of words, which to me is the trip.
This extends to the bigger picture to where the world feels like it is doing the same, where the individual feels like this is what is pushing them from one place to another in search of something or to get away from something else. At this point the script doesn't give so much, but rather what steps up is the performance from Brewster. In her there is a tangible sense of someone who looks inward briefly, not in a really showy of obvious way, but just in the way the inflection and poise changes. The words give this to her, but it is her performance that makes it work as it appears on the screen.
I don't think that The 'Go' is a great film as a whole, but it delivers a feeling or a sense of something that works well. We understand the character thanks to the natural way she talks (in words and performance) but then also the feeling we get at the end does more than cover up for the lack of words, which to me is the trip.
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