Lightning face. Like a history of origin. It happened once... (c)
Director and screenwriter Brian Petsos presented his version of how a person comes to the decision to change something.
The main role in his short film is played by Oscar Isaac, his character Basil Stitt spent a quiet Saturday evening at home, drinking red wine and thinking about his own. When he went out to smoke, his attention is attracted by a suddenly frowning sky, that is, a huge cloud with flashes of bright light inside. Before he enters the apartment, he is struck by lightning. He comes to himself after a while, gropes on the left half of his face something, runs into the apartment. When he finds a large mark on his face from a lightning strike, something switches in his head.
This is just the first two minutes of the twenty. And for the viewer, everything that is happening at first glance may seem extremely strange, just as for Basil - a huge cloud in the sky. But in the end, the main value of the film is in the originality of Brian Pitsos’s view on the question of changes in life and in the acting of Oscar Isaac. Pitsos wittyly created a week-long hero path, starting on Saturday and until Friday, with one character and limited the action to one location, which cameraman Daniel Katz shoots with extraordinary warmth and awe-inspiring symmetry.
And Basil came to his senses after a lightning strike on Sunday. In a way, I started a new life.
Sunday originally means “day of the sun”. This name was given to the day in honor of the sun god in Germanic paganism. Later, the name “Sunday” was adopted by the Christian Church as a day of worship and rest to commemorate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which took place on Sunday. Interestingly, in many cultures, Sunday is officially the first day of the week in the United States (also in Poland, Israel, Canada and some African countries).
I think that someone should show the students of acting courses for inspiration, how to act out despair, humility, enthusiasm, anger and a state of loneliness. Oscar Isaac skillfully combines comedy and drama without exaggerating or downplaying the importance of both. He looks convincing with the necessary amount of despair and confusion in an unusual situation - his character behaves strangely, he radically withdraws from normal life just because of a small sign on his face, but the actor's performance of this state is simply excellent (scenes with telephone conversation and hallucinations). Perhaps, after such a shock, Basil will become a superhero or villain, as we later see in the pages of Marvel comics. Perhaps this is Brian Pitsos' subtle hamstring over comic book heroes.
Basil Stitt is a collective image of the most ordinary person in whose life something extraordinary happens. That is, separately it is a message that incredible events are possible in the life of any person. The universe doesn’t care what kind of person you are, it sends lightning, essentially, to anyone.