On My Way
2018 · 2m · USA
Directed by Mary Dauterman
Genres: comedy
Tones: darkly comic, humorous, whimsical
Ninety seconds of split-screen texts between two friends frantically lying about being on the way to hang out. One is snacking; the other is horizontal in bed.
Picked by Felix
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Ninety seconds, all text bubbles, zero pretense — and it lands harder than most twenty-minute relationship dramas. The form is the joke and the joke is everyone you know.
Ninety seconds of split-screen text-message lies between friends pretending to be on the way — Instagram-story form with Hal-Hartley soul is concise and clever, but small.
Ninety-second text-message split-screen lying-about-being-on-the-way comedy is exactly the kind of formally tight bauble that earns its runtime. Best execution of the 'too lazy to leave' impulse.