The 2016 Oscar winning live action short film by Irish writer/director Benjamin Cleary – now available to view online in its entirety courtesy of the New Yorker.
Thirteen minutes well spent (if, God forbid, you’re using a regional masking browser plugin), to wit:
…a young London typographer named Greenwood (Matthew Needham) stutters to the extent that verbal conversation is difficult. When he tries to resolve an issue with a service representative over the phone, he can’t get the words out; the operator, gruff and impatient, hangs up. (For surliness, she rivals the operator in the old Yaz song.) When a woman approaches Greenwood on the street, he uses sign language to avoid talking. But in his thoughts, which we hear, he does not stutter.
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Only available in America I’m guessing? Copyright is so dumb sometimes. These artificial walls online are just annoying.
*flicks on tunnelbear*
I don’t find it very entertaining and/or fulfilling to listen to people stuttering, unable to get words out.
In fact it’s quite painful, so I won’t be watching this film.
“The uncomfortable subject matter makes me uncomfortable.”
Fair enough, I guess. I’m the same when it comes to horror films, although I never approach horror films expecting the receive an insight into, or alternative understanding of, the life of a psychotic slasher killer or paranormal being.
But each to their own.
Ignore my comment. It is invalidated by a typo. I even read the damn thing twice before posting it…
I’ve seen it. It’s a lovely piece. So don’t get yer knickers in a knot.
Brought a sniffle when i caught it late one night on Rte.
Great film. Used to be on the RTE player I think.