A woman collapses in a car park and dies. We join her body as it is cut up, examined, weighed, packaged, and shipped back home for her funeral.
Unremarkable has its selling point in the title, which is to say that this is not a murder mystery or CSI investigation, but it is a procedural in the strictest sense of the word. While such a mystery would have TV actors making quips while running software all over the body, this short film quickly plays through the process of, well, processing a body through the system. The special effects are impressive (I found them hard to watch actually), but again this is not CSI reconstruction, but rather something very ordinary for all involved. It has a good pace as it runs through this, which helps it a lot when we first meet the family. At this point the pace and lively tone comes to a dead stop, and it has impact that it is a devastating thing for the family, even if not for anyone else involved.
After this I was hoping to continue to follow the body, but instead the film jumps back to give us what happened to lead to her death. I felt this section gave me closure I wasn't looking for; I was more taken by the pace of the film and the impact of it all - I didn't really at any point get hung up wondering what kicked it all off since that seemed unimportant in what the film was doing. Despite that, the film does still work, and has the pace and impact to keep the attention. It is impressive work on several levels.
Unremarkable has its selling point in the title, which is to say that this is not a murder mystery or CSI investigation, but it is a procedural in the strictest sense of the word. While such a mystery would have TV actors making quips while running software all over the body, this short film quickly plays through the process of, well, processing a body through the system. The special effects are impressive (I found them hard to watch actually), but again this is not CSI reconstruction, but rather something very ordinary for all involved. It has a good pace as it runs through this, which helps it a lot when we first meet the family. At this point the pace and lively tone comes to a dead stop, and it has impact that it is a devastating thing for the family, even if not for anyone else involved.
After this I was hoping to continue to follow the body, but instead the film jumps back to give us what happened to lead to her death. I felt this section gave me closure I wasn't looking for; I was more taken by the pace of the film and the impact of it all - I didn't really at any point get hung up wondering what kicked it all off since that seemed unimportant in what the film was doing. Despite that, the film does still work, and has the pace and impact to keep the attention. It is impressive work on several levels.
