Conor Dooley has taken on a real challenge here. Tell the life story of a female doctor in six minutes and still have us care for her, in spite of how absurd some of the moments can be. Ana Fabrega, as Dr. Ana Fabrega, is our one constant.
I'd say it's episodic in nature, but some of those episodes last scant nanoseconds while others play out. Falling in love at a horse farm, a patient who spits all over the place, a balloon animal in bed and a remembrance at the end where it's difficult to tell what was real and what was a dream. I wonder, in the last three years of dementia life that my dad had, how much did he remember and how much did he think was television? Was I any more real to him than Fred Sanford, Jessica Fletcher or Johnny Rose?
This is the kind of short that you can watch so many times and come away with something new each time. Incredibly made and just perfect.
I'd say it's episodic in nature, but some of those episodes last scant nanoseconds while others play out. Falling in love at a horse farm, a patient who spits all over the place, a balloon animal in bed and a remembrance at the end where it's difficult to tell what was real and what was a dream. I wonder, in the last three years of dementia life that my dad had, how much did he remember and how much did he think was television? Was I any more real to him than Fred Sanford, Jessica Fletcher or Johnny Rose?
This is the kind of short that you can watch so many times and come away with something new each time. Incredibly made and just perfect.
