"Curfew" is a 20-minute film from 2012 that won an Oscar in the live action short category. The writer and director is Shawn Christensen and he is mostly known for writing Taylor Lautner's "Abduction". In this short film here, Christensen also plays the lead character. So what is it about. A man decides to commit suicide, but before he finishes the act, his estranged sister calls him and asks if he could take care of her daughter for a day. So he does and he bonds not only with the girl, but also with her mother/his sister again. In the end, he still decides to kill himself, but another call gets in the way. I have to say that I am not too impressed with this short movie. It's not bad by any means, but I just did not find anything about it really interesting, be it the direction, the characters or the writing. It felt baity to me with the beginning and ending in the bathtub and also with her discovering his wound and the dancing scene at the bowling alley was strange and not really great filmmaking in my opinion. They turned this into a feature film last year and I have not seen it, but I personally do not find this short film interesting enough to check out 90 minutes of the same. Pretty surprised it won an Oscar. Then again, I have not seen the other entries, but I certainly would not have awarded it with anything unlike so many awards bodies all over the planet did. The child actress wasn't that great either. Not recommended.
Review of Curfew
