Noting "Comedy" as its genre category in the database, this would-be satire of showbiz casting (and many other issues) fails miserably due to exaggeration. Even the editing is overdone, signalled from the very beginning as a simple set-up scene between heroine and co-writer Hanna Dickinson and her best friend Kristen Laffey (who also directed and co-wrote) is broken up into reverse shots, cut in such a rat-a-tat-tat fashion as to be utterly distracting.
The main themes, billboarded broadly are: craze to be young (not only for self-esteem but in this case work opportunities); self-image (in the horror movie shots of heroine looking old and/ot a victim of makeup effects); sexism and of course the Hollywood cattle-call auditioning process. The filmmakers take the most extreme approach to all of these, and that plus the truly awful ending (a crucial element in a short-short (5 minutes duration) movie), sink the entire enterprise.
Is it funny to laugh at Hanna's self-delusion? No. Is it edifying to take real-life serious issues and treat them in Mad Magazine fashion? No, but it's a good way to elicit groans from a captive audience.
The main themes, billboarded broadly are: craze to be young (not only for self-esteem but in this case work opportunities); self-image (in the horror movie shots of heroine looking old and/ot a victim of makeup effects); sexism and of course the Hollywood cattle-call auditioning process. The filmmakers take the most extreme approach to all of these, and that plus the truly awful ending (a crucial element in a short-short (5 minutes duration) movie), sink the entire enterprise.
Is it funny to laugh at Hanna's self-delusion? No. Is it edifying to take real-life serious issues and treat them in Mad Magazine fashion? No, but it's a good way to elicit groans from a captive audience.