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SOME BODY Send This Review to a Friend
We're getting to the point where with a digital video camera almost anybody may be able to make a film and on very little money. "Some Body," directed by Henry Barrial, is a depressing example of what we can get. On a budget of less than $10,000, Barrial and co--writer Stephanie Bennett, have done a movie stemming from the angst both have felt in trying to get a handle on their lives and where they were headed. It was shot By Geoffrey Pepos, who edited it on his home computer while the filming was in progress.
Bennett also stars as Samantha, who is having trouble with relationships and finding that experimenting with sex and drugs isn't the answer to her need for a steady relationship, which doesn't seem to solve the problem either. What to do? Whom to do it with? The men depicted in the film aren't in much better shape.
It is possible that people going through such difficulties may connect with the characters of "Some Body," but to this viewer the dramatization is a vanity-type indulgence of thrashing around in public instead of in private and calling it filmmaking. As a character Samantha grates on the nerves. Will anyone really care how she learns to cope?
One of the arty techniques applied is to fast-forward the action to eliminate mere movement between what pass for more important moments. I could have done a lot more fast forwarding. And by the way, this is hardly a new device. A Lot 47 release.
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