Do Geese See God (2004)

Touches You

Great Film overall

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Well done film with a moral. Sound quality lacked when I watched it on Amazon.com. Stick with it and take a break to see how it ends.Warning spoilers:The Title: It is a palindrome...it reads the same forward and backwardThe Cartoon Characters: Silly things, with supposed authority, which direct our lives and keep us running around like crazy. They are everywhere in the movie...on the truck, pictures on walls, etc.The locations: For the most part the locations have nothing significant about them except to lead to another location. Think: the pointlessness of most of your meetings and appointments.The roses: Get interactive with this one (hint) and you will break the cycle.

There are amateur films, And films that look amateur.This looked amateur. Discontinuities cluttered the film. And any repeated actions in the film were achieved by playing back old footage. I actually thought I had a bad download. The first probably three minutes of the film is repeated frame for frame a little more than half way through.Then latter in the ending sequence they keep repeating the exact footage not in flash back but because the director was simply too lazy shoot different actions in different ways. I was thoroughly impressed by how bad this was.

Repetition is fine in theory, but this turkey should have been edited. We get the point already. To just drag us through it over and over without shortening the process is just plain pretentious. Where was the editor on this? And for what? Smell the roses?????? The assumption here is that the character is rushing because someone is in danger. Him? A loved one? We don't know. And that's okay. But to set that up and then say -- "hey, we all need to slow down sometimes and smell the roses" is just plain bunk (not to mention cliché sentimental crap). I'm exhausted watching this. And it was only a few minutes long. PASS. and PASS. and PASS. and PASS. and PASS.

I won't pretend to be at all well-versed in short films, but David Slade's Do Geese See God? gets its point across well enough. Here, a man seeks salvation from mysterious instructions giving him arbitrary tasks. In the end, he realizes the foolishness in never stopping to smell the roses, shown here as him never, well, stopping to smell the roses.One could probably interpret it a few different ways, of course. As I described the tasks the man must go through as "arbitrary", I began to wonder whether the director might have intended a subtle jab at religion. The meaning, of course, would not change should this be the case: enjoy the pleasures of life before you waste it looking for something more. Who knows?Though the bit about the roses is a little heavy-handed, everything else is here. Take the 10 minutes out of your life to check it out, its worth the watch, and if it seems repetitive at times... I suppose that is just the point. 8/10, perhaps.