The Oscar-nominated live action short film by director Nazrin Choudhury is a masterpiece. She took one of the most divisive topics in America today and single-handedly threw a wrench in the middle of it. A haunting, gut punching film that deserves your eyes. Academy members need to watch this film and immersed themselves into the story’s narrative.
Directed and written by Nazrin Choudhury, Red, White and Blue is short drama features emotionally precise writing, a perceptive, even poetic eye in the directing and a muted and somber visual naturalism fitting the financial and emotional struggles of the characters it portrays.
That resilience and fortitude form the emotional core of “Red, White and Blue,” especially when the deceptively spare, quiet tenor of its storytelling belies a powerful revelation near the film’s end.
In many ways, the gut punch takes advantage of the uncomfortable silence surrounding the narrative’s subject matter, only to pull back the curtain, deftly reveal the true stakes of the narrative and provoke thought about the larger circumstances that have shaped the story beyond the screen.
Ladies and gentlemen, “Red, White and Blue,” is one Oscar nominated film that is cleverly written, directed with precise focus that takes the audience to a place it didn’t expect to go, and the acting, well, if they gave out Oscar’s for acting in a short film, Brittany Snow would win it.
The narrative provokes thought about the larger circumstances that have shaped the story beyond the screen. It’s a bold, devastating final stroke in the storytelling, one that guarantees the film will haunt viewers well after its conclusion.
