FOG | Omeleto Drama
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- Опубликовано: 26 окт 2021
- A woman meets a man after speaking online for years.
FOG is used with permission from Margaret McGoldrick. Learn more at causewaypictures.com.
Clare is waiting in a hotel room, readying to meet a man named Matt for the first time. But she already knows Matt. She discovers that she's met him online and has been chatting with him for some time.
But Matt has a different agenda: one that will not only upend everything Clare knows about him but change the course of her life.
Written and directed by Margaret McGoldrick, this taut short drama takes a situation right out of a thriller and knuckles down into it with relentless intimacy, boiling it down to its elements of betrayal, trust and love.
The narrative opens with a cryptic tension, as a clock ticks in an otherwise silent room. A woman waits in the coolly impersonal hotel room, the film's main setting rendered in icy, muted cinematography and lighting. A man strides in with an impatient, brisk air, throwing down papers on a table and then making a phone call. They then have a conversation. It seems simple, but from the beginning, the writing sets up a puzzle, each piece precisely deployed via staccato, tense dialogue to reveal a crucial piece of information.
The dramatic situation slowly clarifies with each beat, but like the best of thrillers and mysteries, each reveal leads to more questions. Likewise, the film's elegantly severe, almost abstract simplicity in both visuals and dramatic set-up reveals a subtle complexity, from the intricate editing to the byzantine secrets held by both Matt and Clare. And what initially seems like an illicit assignation reveals a dark complexity for its underbelly, with high stakes for both.
Actors Michael Condron and Bronagh McAuley begin the film with simmering tension, capturing the riddle of knowing someone without being familiar with them. The risk of beginning with a high level of drama is that a story can become a draining melodrama. But the filmmaking is too intelligent and disciplined to let that happen, and both performers pattern in flickers of surprise, disappointment, sympathy and vulnerability as their larger story comes together. They're both able to balance emotion and restraint in the extreme close-ups on their faces, as their facades -- both online, and in real life -- shatter and their truths are revealed.
As the initial mystery of FOG recedes, crystalline suspense builds, and themes of morality, love, personal responsibility and sacrifice come to the core. These crest towards a difficult decision for Clare and a cliffhanger of an ending, where we see how intimacy is weaponized and a woman confronts the situation she's made for herself. An entire feature could be generated from the story leading up to this moment, making for a top-notch thriller. But the short reckons with something else more relatable -- when the weight of all our decisions, large and small, adds up, and we can choose to either shore its foundation up or burn it all down. 
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How can we be sure that the man wasn't sent by the bad guy to test her loyalty?
A masterpiece of writing, directing, filming, editing and excellence of acting. Quality. Loved it ❤ Congratulations.
Well done.
No idea what was happening but looks like it could be a snippet of a great long firm film.
Haha. Me neither, I’m afraid.
Brilliant! Really well written & I love the shot selection, pacing, actors...all of it! I just want to know more-about the story leading up to this & what happens when she makes her decision. I’m so surprised this doesn’t have more views & comments! I’ve watched a lot of short films & this really checks all the boxes!! Everyone involved should be really proud! I want to see more of your work!❤️
I watched this story quite a while ago.. it was brilliant then and it's still a masterpiece now.. great dialogue, good emotional tension, great acting, the music .. the setting.. I LOVE IT!!
Great short! However sometimes I don’t like to tell myself the end..but I’m going to choose to believe she took her son back, but have a feeling she didn’t.
Part 2 !!? This needs to be a série ! Great actors and story line
This would be a great open for a mini-series. Should have more likes! Very well done!
Amazing acting! Loved this...I want a whole movie! Her son ✅.
I have seen this actress before. Such an odd, yet beautiful face and especially her nose and profile!
Both are very good actors.
I bet she did not get her son back.
Would be a nice mini series.
One of my favorite Omeleto films. Excellent.
She’ll walk out. 100%
The investigator seems completely untrustworthy- he has obviously lied to her for years and will do anything to get what he wants. If i were Claire- i would assume I was on my own.
That actor man is now in coronation Street playing a far right role
'FAR right". What a joke.
great performances!
Damn this was good! Excellent writing!
Ooh, every young woman who thinks hooking up with cartel boss should see this. I doubt they think a decade ahead to the problems they will face.
Intriguing.
Set supposedly in a hotel room.
Excellent conversational acting.
Kept my interest.
The dialogue had reality
written between the lines.
I don't go to the movies.
I don't have Cable TV.
This is top-notch.
Very much a reality play.
Did the writer
ever work in Law Enforcement?
There are multiple ways
to handle this style of
interview.
Job well done.
Believable.
Today there are so few
Law Enforcement
who are actually
working
'Law Enforcement'
[ Especially @ the Federal Level ].
5 Stars / * * * * *
+ Durasaxon +✝️
My Father & I travelled almost every year to the Languedoc region of Southern France after I shared books written by a local author named Kate Mosse, books that became a best selling trilogy, & which initiated our interest in the plight of the Cathars. Living on the south coast of England it was easy for us to ferry over & drive down for a few weeks a year.
I subsequently have a fond interest & pity for the Cathars because of all I learned on those trips. I recommend Montsegur of course, & Carcassonne is a wonderful piece of living history. Amazing mountain villages hewn out of the very rock still exist as they were going back a thousand years ago.
So What’s it gonna be ?
Great script, great acting, great direction.
I loved it!
Really? That’s how it ends?!?
This is soooo Brilliant !!!!!
10:20 So being “sloppy” using her real name didn’t really matter coz he could change it (12:02) any which way he wanted anyway.
That's the point. If she didn't use her real name he wouldn't have known to change it
Loved it
Best I’ve ever seen
Reminds me of the short story,The Lady or the Tiger?
Well I'm here!
December 22, 2022 Thursday 4:46 pm EST
O come on!!! What’s the answer?
Excellent vid
Wow and wow!!!
Didn't like the overuse of weird shots like the silhouettes and such.
I think the male actor is unconvincing.
His attempt of the American accent is absolutely terrible.
I don't think it was American. I think it was Irish. They were somewhere in Great Britain because the driver's side was on the right side of the car.
@@stevencurrie4171 If that’s an attempt at an Irish accent it’s even worse, but I don’t think it is.
He's Canadian born but grew up in Northern Ireland
Absolutely BRILLIANT! The dialogue, the acting, cinematography.... I'd LOVE to know how this ends, but I'm quite satisfied in what they allowed us to see 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
5th
Oh 3rd😂 it counted omeletos comment too my fault
bleh. didn't like it
First lmao
Second lmao
Women directors crack me up.
Self conscious little incel boys crack me up, too.
So?? WHAT did she doooooo?? I Wwannnnaaa know!!!!!