100 Miles
2022 · 1m · Canada
Directed by Louis Bodart
Restless children in the back seat turn a family car ride into comic chaos. Their antics steadily push the trip further off course.
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A minute of kids being kids in a car isn't exactly subversive—it's the kind of wholesome family content that plays it safe. Unless there's something genuinely weird lurking under the whimsy, this is consensus comfort food, and I'm not particularly interested.
The conceit has echoes of mid-century domestic comedy, though one minute hardly allows for the kind of narrative architecture that would elevate this into something with real formal stakes or lineage clarity.
In sixty seconds, the trick is the escalation—how Bodart uses each small misbehavior to compound the geography, letting the cumulative chaos do the work rather than relying on broad gags. That's the economy that matters here.