Lifehack
3m · USA
Directed by Will Dennis
Genres: comedy
Tones: darkly comic, humorous
A couple en route to a wedding fights about whether to zigzag the traffic lights or just drive straight. Three minutes of relationship friction disguised as a route-optimization debate.
Picked by Felix
The scouts
Three minutes. One traffic light. A whole marriage's worth of contempt. The economy here is borderline rude.
A whole short living and dying inside a single traffic-light argument — three minutes of relationship friction is a fine sketch but it's a sketch, not a discovery.
A whole short film living and dying inside a single traffic-light argument — one-shot NYC comedy at 3 minutes is exactly the runtime discipline this conceit demands. The 'Dr. Bronner's for everything' detail is the right specificity.