One day, a day that happens to be his sixtieth birthday, Peter receives the most unexpected guest. Unable to recognize him, while the man remembers him clearly, Peter has to reexamine his past from twenty-five years ago for this visit to make sense. The story reveals a shocking development and does it with earnestness as the plot comes into its own. Visuals move from the confines of a room, to hilly, green outdoors to back to a room where the most pivotal action of the film will occur. With unpredictable events up its sleeve, the storytelling exhibits potential, even if it lags a little in terms of narratorial progression. If the same is finetuned, it would be interesting to engage with more such endeavors in the future.

Some Connections | Short Film Nominee

The plot of ‘Tussle’ is centered around a pen drive, one that contains extremely incriminating details about several powerful people and their respective organizations. As members from each join the bid to acquire it, more specifically, Jake and his former mentor, David, the film presents its carefully constructed world to you. It is marked by stylized action which is free-flowing and seamless without any awkward punches (pun intended). 
Though the visual department has a limitation of resources and capacity, owing almost entirely to the fact that the whole film is shot on a smartphone, it exhibits a deep investment of thought and skill in making the progression of events come to life. The very endeavor of storytelling is marked by unmissable devotion and sincerity, despite the young voice of the filmmaker, and thus, should definitely be explored and developed in future projects.

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