"The Eleven O'Clock" is a funny short film and the only one of the nominees for this year's Best Live Action Short Oscar that isn't deadly serious nor powerful. While I do NOT think it's among the very best of the nominees, it has a very good shot at winning simply because it is so different and all the deadly serious films might just take votes away from each other.
The story is well acted and directed. It consists of a patient and a psychiatrist arguing with each other. It seems that one is a real psychiatrist and the other a very deluded man who THINKS he's the psychiatrist...and telling them apart is no easy thing!
In many ways, this reminded me of the old Poe story "Stonehurst Asylum"....where the patients take over a psychiatric hospital and become the doctors and nurses...and it's difficult to determine who is who! Well done and quite interesting.
The story is well acted and directed. It consists of a patient and a psychiatrist arguing with each other. It seems that one is a real psychiatrist and the other a very deluded man who THINKS he's the psychiatrist...and telling them apart is no easy thing!
In many ways, this reminded me of the old Poe story "Stonehurst Asylum"....where the patients take over a psychiatric hospital and become the doctors and nurses...and it's difficult to determine who is who! Well done and quite interesting.