Chocolates: The Movie
by Shot in Sydney in this dark, suspenseful short a man goes to work on the same road and does the same things every day. Once he is forced by circumstance to take a different route. This route leads him to a house. Something makes him to go in. Inside he is going on an increddible journey, which might be real or not. In the end he must decide what it was, and if things are going to stay the same.
Tagged: Akira Kurosawa, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Andrei Tarkowsky, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, Terry Gilliam
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Suizou said | 15 January, 2012
Campy.