Good Samaritans
2022 · 10m · USA
Directed by Johnny Frohman, Jeremy Levick
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, tense
A man in a yellow vest and double mask returns a misdelivered letter to his neighbor and uses the encounter to passive-aggressively shame her for breaking park Covid protocols. Shot in a single take.
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A film built entirely on the social cringe of pandemic-era do-gooderism, shot in one take so nobody can hide. Comedy that pokes at the people who think they're the good guys — yes, please.
Frohman and Levick stage a one-take pandemic-doorstep humiliation in the Tim Robinson register, except the camera doesn't blink. The single take is the entire point and they earn it.
A single-take doorstep passive-aggression spiral about pandemic park-protocol shaming — the squirm is in the unbroken camera and the yellow vest. Frohman and Levick know how to let a confrontation cook in real time.
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