The Terrorist (Luisa Williams) arrives in New York for her
mission. Where she
came from and why she's doing what she's doing isn't made clear,
all we know
is that she's up to no good. She prays a mantra about how
everyone dies and
foreshadows what's expected to happen.
She's met by a mysterious stranger(Tschi Hun Kim), who buys her
lunch and
drives her to a nondescript hotel, and here she waits…and waits.
This is a film about the minutia of waiting. The cinematographer
and the
foley artists have a field day making close-ups of many parts of
her body and
creating sounds in such a way as it appears the audience is
listening from inside
her head. She cuts her nails, watches TV, takes a shower, naps,
goes outside
on the balcony…something that makes her omniscient
Commander (Josh P. Weinstein), call and tell her not to do that
anymore.
Then they show up. Masked men (Weinstein, Gareth Saxe and Nyambi
Nyambi)
inspect her and quiz her on her mission. They make a video, Then
she waits some
more, until she's taken to get fitted for her bomb.
Then comes the plot twist. It's a very nice plot twist that is
not only
unexpected, but in complete keeping with the tone of all that
has gone before.
That is on a different subject: frustration. It's also a tour of
the Times
Square area, which as the film was shot on HD in the middle of
one of the great
tourist destinations of the United States, is rather easy to do.
It's quite
effective.
Even with a literal cast of thousands [most of whom had no idea
they were
being filmed], this is a one-woman show. Ms. Williams is in
frame almost the
entire time, and the expressions on her face, especially her
eyes, tell the entire
story of the film that is otherwise spare and devoid of
meaningful dialogue.
This is pure visuals, and would work even if it was silent. This
is
filmmaking!
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