Love keeps no record of wrongs.
This a very difficult film to describe as it’s barely even four minutes long, the characters aren’t really introduced, and neither is much of their background. Suffice to say, the two seem to have been involved at one time, but something happened to separate them. Nothing about their past is mentioned, but they both receive a message from the other asking to meet and reconcile.
Both messages are played together, but cut back and forth between the two, which effectively turns it into one message. It’s a clever way of showing both without having to show one and than the other. Although, I do have to wonder about the logic of the message and the fact that they both ask to meet at the same place – although it does seem to have a lot of significance to both of them – but logic might dictate that one person would have sent a message first, and the other a reply. Given that they play the message together, however, I’m guessing that there is some sort of implication that neither individual actually sent the message, but was some sort of divine intervention.
With such a short film it is difficult to give background, and I get the sense that any background/logic issues wasn’t exactly the point of the film – more just to get across its final message, “Love keeps no record of wrongs.”
This film has a really nice visual look. It starts out in black and white with the added effect of blurred edges. Not only is black and white easier to shoot in, but it leaves the opening for other effects, which these filmmakers took advantage of by switching to color at the end of the film.
The difficult thing in black and white, though, is to make sure that contrast is good, because it’s the one thing that will be glaringly obvious while shooting in black and white. This film did a pretty good job at keeping contrast, although it did seem a bit low. (Running the film through some more advanced filters in something like Magic Bullet Looks could take it from a desaturated grayscale to a more authentic black-and-white contrast ratio.
The filmmakers made use of the Redrock Micro M2 35mm lens adapter to give a very film-like look to the short, allowing highly selective focus in different shots. Combined with the black and white choice, it allowed the film to feel very vintage.
