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8 Ball (2008)
Excellent writing & directing.
The writer/director succeeded to bring 3 human stories tangled with mishaps and turn them into one optimistic end in a short movie. The script is well balanced, clear & sharp. The characters are well defined and with very careful directing, got the actors to express with a huge sensitivity, the right lines, and display the ambivalence of their reality: The tough ex-con with the delicate parental feelings, the young hustler with the limits of decency and fairness, and in between, the small kid with toughness and need for family. The allegory of the billiard table as a small universe with set rules, made to be broken, is well defined in the collision that unexpectedly breaks the rule and sets a new situation, and brings the plot to an unexpected end.