Eight to Five
2023 · 2m · USA
Directed by Sasha Lebedeva
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
An office worker on his lunch break calls into a radio show to argue, with great conviction, that everyone has misread '9 to 5.' Two minutes long, one delusional monologue, no rebuttal offered.
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Two minutes is the correct runtime for a man defending the wrong reading of a Dolly Parton movie on company time. Lebedeva trusts the bit and gets out — a discipline most shorts at four times the length never learn.
A two-minute character study built on one phoned-in radio rant — Lebedeva delivers the Nathan Fielder bit with the laugh track surgically removed, which is the harder note. Tight and a little chilling.
Two minutes of a delusional office worker phoning into a radio show to set the record straight about '9 to 5' — character study compressed to one monologue, no rebuttal. That's a tight bet at this runtime.
Reviews
Concise and tightly knit, with eclectic frames that observe an unsettled protagonist during lunch break.