Short of the DayOR: Don’t Mess with Magicians.
There are certain people you just shouldn’t make fun of in a public forum — like say professional football players, or IRS auditors, or serial killers — because the risk of personal harm is greater than the reward of a punchline. As a late-night talk radio host finds out in the short film Sleight, from writer-director-editor Faisal Hashmi, magicians are another profession to add to that list.
When the DJ starts disparaging the art of magic on his show, he gets a call from a practitioner who’s taken offense at his rant. From there things go downhill fast and weird. Sleight is a simply-staged film, largely taking place in the confines of a studio booth, meaning the story has to really hook you if you’re going to make it all the way through. You’re in luck, though, because Hashmi has delivered a well-paced, well-told...
There are certain people you just shouldn’t make fun of in a public forum — like say professional football players, or IRS auditors, or serial killers — because the risk of personal harm is greater than the reward of a punchline. As a late-night talk radio host finds out in the short film Sleight, from writer-director-editor Faisal Hashmi, magicians are another profession to add to that list.
When the DJ starts disparaging the art of magic on his show, he gets a call from a practitioner who’s taken offense at his rant. From there things go downhill fast and weird. Sleight is a simply-staged film, largely taking place in the confines of a studio booth, meaning the story has to really hook you if you’re going to make it all the way through. You’re in luck, though, because Hashmi has delivered a well-paced, well-told...
- 4/11/2017
- by H. Perry Horton
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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