Pianoman · review
An extremely shallow... short film? music video? The music is corny and lame, and seems to just be used as a device of "taming one's demons" or the "awakening of memory." Awful "mystical" flutes, fast piano—no atmosphere or weight to speak of. There's no meaning to any of this beyond just basic themes that are done to death, only with poor execution. The man has amnesia and ends the short with amnesia. He's none the wiser by the end, we're none the wiser, and there's really no reason to care about anything that happens. The set-pieces are decent enough, but this short cobbles together disparate andgeneric fantasy elements to no avail. Art-wise, it appears as an advanced student film, I suppose, but the character looks really, really dumb with the torn sleeves, and there is a clumsiness to the whole fiasco that leads to nausea. The devil also looks like a Saturday morning cartoon villain. Not a dignified portrayal, nor a menacing one. Yuck, all around.