Staying idle while you are bursting with creativity does not seem to be an option for the duo behind “Repossession“, even during the strict quarantine laws of Singapore. The result of this mentality is a surprisingly intriguing 4+ minutes short, which seems to dictate the way the two of them should follow for the rest of their filmmaking career.
The story revolves around a man in Singapore during quarantine, who, tired of watching every kind of porn on his cellphone (including Japanese ones), decides to call his girlfriend over to deal with the real thing, despite the quarantine laws. His girlfriend agrees, but things do not go as planned for this cowardly, lazy (he did invite her over instead of going himself after all), lustful individual.
There are some plot twists that forbid from delving into the short more, but what can be said is that Goh Ming Siu and Scott C. Hillyard found an ingenious way to speak metaphorically about the consequences of breaking the law, within genre “rules”.
Having to shoot and produce the film remotely, due to quarantine restrictions, not much could be done about its visuals. To deal with this issue, the directors turned their attention to sound, with Golden Horse Award-winner Teo Wei Yong doing a great job in both sound and music, in a style that has the events implied eloquently, instead of actually presented, a tactic that works quite nicely.
Not much more to say, “The Shape of You” is one of those shorts that definitely deserves a watch. Take a look at the link beneath.
