The short film tries to be an engagement with the issue of women's safety. A woman finds herself stranded in a dark street with a phone drained of all battery. As her car breaks down and she tries to tackle a flat tyre, she finds herself face to face with three men. While they swing their bottle of alcohol in her face and behave inappropriately, there is an attempt to build a sense of tension.
However, they soon leave her alone, and she is met with another person, who seems sober and less of an obvious threat. Essentially, the message the film is trying to convey is to avoid hasty judgments of character. However, it remains superficial in its exploration of gender dynamics. While the three boys may have not physically hurt her, they do manage to create a deeply uncomfortable situation for a woman in the middle of a dark street, which the narrative does not address. Additionally, the film would have benefited from portraying some amount of panic or distress in a woman who is physically assaulted by a man, even though the situation was saved from escalating into anything more disturbing.
Read LessHowever, they soon leave her alone, and she is met with another person, who seems sober and less of an obvious threat. Essentially, the message the film is trying to convey is to avoid hasty judgments of character. However, it remains superficial in its exploration of gender dynamics. While the three boys may have not physically hurt her, they do manage to create a deeply uncomfortable situation for a woman in the middle of a dark street, which the narrative does not address. Additionally, the film would have benefited from portraying some amount of panic or distress in a woman who is physically assaulted by a man, even though the situation was saved from escalating into anything more disturbing.
