6 Years, 4 Months & 23 Days: Neat 14 Minutes

And my last review of a short film on Amazon Prime for the evening - not sure yet if it's for the year - this time of 6 Years, 4 Months & 23 Days.  First, as you may know, I tend to review mostly time travel, and if not time travel, some kind of science fiction when it comes to short films.  Because ... well, life's too short not to (and time travel has always been my favorite genre, with science in general my next).  But sometimes the title of a short film suggests that it could be about time travel.  So I watch it ... and if it turns out it isn't about time travel at all, but I enjoy it as much as I do a good little time travel story, then ... I give it a review.

That doesn't happen too often, but it did earlier today with The Weekend, a memorable vignette of a couple who connect over a weekend.  And lightning struck twice today, with my viewing of 6 Years, 4 Months & 23 Days a little while ago, a neat and expressive untangling of modern life that unfolds on the screen in just 14 minutes.

The time in the title is the amount of time that our hero, David (well played by John Mawson - who's been on Outlander! - and who also wrote this) has gone without sex - because his wife was in a coma and then died due to the car accident that David who had been drinking got them into.  The night before the short film begins, David's in a bar.  He puts on a hat which makes him look younger, and winds up in bed with a dancer half his age (good job by Augie Duke).  They wake up the next morning, she's shocked at his age, and that's when the complications and the fun ensue.

There's a heart-warming quality to this narrative, and a mix of humor and profundity that reminds me of Neil Simon, though I'm so old myself that I can't recall the last time I saw one of his plays (definitely more than 6 years ago).  In any case, one of the benefits of the Internet, and of Amazon Prime in particular, is you don't have to go to Broadway to see the story, and in fact you can see it on your screen, for free, any time night or day.

So don't wait 6 years or even 23 days to see this.  And if you wake up on New Year's Day with someone half your age in bed, someone you met just the night before - well, this movie is especially just the thing for you to see.

 

It started in the hot summer of 1960, when Marilyn Monroe walked off the set of The Misfits and began to hear a haunting song in her head, "Goodbye Norma Jean" ...



 

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