Third Contact (2013)
10/10
Absolutely phenomenal micro budget film.
20 January 2014
I am a huge fan of indie film. I vastly prefer them to most of what comes out of Hollywood as they tend to be far more creative in terms of script and story and characters, and as they don't have huge budgets, then the makers have got to get creative with certain things. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Here is an example of where it absolutely does.

Trying to explain this film to someone would be quite an impossible task. The best way to describe it is as a deep and involving psychological film with a few shades of Darren Aronofsky's "Pi", which is indeed an accomplishment in itself. The fact that this is a British film that doesn't involve gritty gangs and gangsters is also impressive, as all that tends to come from the British film industry is that or period pieces really. Which can get tiresome after a while.

This is a very important piece of film and it is showing that the indie film scene is getting more and more creative with each passing day, and it is hugely important to invest in such a thing to keep the creativity going.

If this film gets a screening near you, I absolutely urge you to go and see it. The performances, the black and white slight shakiness, the dialogue, the script, the direction - it is all truly a work of art. The director Si Horrocks is clearly on a mission to make good films and show the world that it can be done with very little, and in that mission he has completely succeeded. I personally can not wait to see what he does next.
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