Hole in a Paper Sky

For the first time in the two-and-a-half year history of this blog, I’m reviewing a short film. But only because it deserves it. Producers Jessica Biel & Michelle Purple, Director Bill Purple, and screenwriter Howard Kingkade could teach a master class in the often ignored filmmaking dictum “keep it simple.” Deep subtext and emotion can be raised from the simplest of stories, like here, where a lonely man falls in love with a dog. It's a simple story, beautifully executed, without a cynical bone in it’s whole body. Unabashedly sentimental. Nice too, to see the emotion so thoroughly trump the logic. You never stop and ask how certain coincidences happen. You’re just too wrapped up in that damned dog. Outstanding and Inspiring. (I said in my review of Chuck and Larry: Biel deserves better. This. This is better.)