A man (Kasimir Poh) is ready to go to work in the morning, and he has just finished brushing his teeth after breakfast. But something is not quite right. The exit door leads him into a room that is identical to the previous and then again and again. No matter what he tries to do – even jumping out of the window – but he always ends up in the same old room.
“Stuck” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
Beside the several allegories and metaphors that can be associated to the entrapment motif – mental illness, introversion, displacement alienation, not to talk about echoes of the recent Covid isolation – Alistair Quak's brief 5-min work “Stuck” is an amusing and well-crafted piece of entertainment.
Aided but the dissonant avant-garde-style jazz score of drum and strident violins, the bafflement mounts gradually to became highly claustrophobic, and to end on a humorous note, thank also to the slight comedy injected by the leading man.
The command of the technical side is remarkable, the seamless transitions make the flow really consistent and the editing is neat and lively. Surely a talented filmmaker, turning his own fan into a pleasant product!
