Disconnect, a gripping short film by Rabbath
Aronite Thinking has nothing more to add than this reviewer, except that the ‘Preacher’ or Morality and Organised Religion itself is today the most likely singular ‘cause’ of such Apocalyptic world making?
This is might be seen as yet another topic, or actually an oversight by the Movie maker-
Thus we have instead of Bush going incommunicado and an America in those hours as the Plane kept carshing on at other places like Pentagon, it is the people who get disconnected and in a Techno 9/11 where the bad guy is not an islamist but the Oil driller in Middle east- the subtle and stubborn Leftism not missed.
‘The Drill’ and the subsequent ‘Disconnect’ might be as grave as this daily drill of Religion and its questionable meta-moral politics and its counterpart- Political Correctness, something that happens all the time and seldom noticed as much as the causes of the Decay.
Dianna’s Review-
“The desperate circumstances and lack of communications breeds fear and violence in Fred Rabbath’s nightmarish apocalyptic post-world. Mikey sees his share of this fear, but nothing will stop him. Finally, he comes home again, only to discover the tragic results of the seeds he has sown in fear and desperation. The violence he commits in the name of survival reaches much, much farther than he intends.
Fred Rabbath’s story holds many parallels to other literature-as-parable works, particularly with the story of The Lord of the Flies by William Golding. Even the name of the main character, Mikey, evokes an image of a child, like the children lost on the island who must survive. Mikey does his best in a terrible situation, without realizing where the actions of his darker nature will lead him. He, like Ralph in Lord of the Flies, ends sobbing “- great shuddering spasms of grief that seemed to wrench his whole body” over what has happened.
While such a scenario playing itself out in real life would be very unlikely, Fred Rabbath does manage to raise many disturbing questions: Is such a “kill switch” possible? How prepared are we to lose our cell phones and other communication devices that we have come to rely on so heavily? What would happen to a society where basic trust in government and each other is lost? Are we truly moving in such a direction as this?
“Disconnected” is a mini-Lord of the Flies for a society ever dependent on technology for survival and communication. It is also, in a sense, a remake of the children’s story “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” from the villager’s perspective. It’s a high-concept film that shouldn’t be able to be made on less than someone would spend on a cellphone every month.
Yet, Fred Rabbath has done it…yet again.”
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Published by Dianna Zaragoza
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