Most time-loop films traffic in existential comedy. Think Palm Springs and Groundhog Day. But while the new short film, Two Distant Strangers, also features a time loop, the overall, suffocating feeling during its 30 minutes is one of existential terror.
The story of a Black man trying to get home to his dog after spending the night with a woman he has met, the film is a powerful dramatic take on police violence in America, situating its main character in an endlessly repeating day where he is shot, time after time, by a white cop, no matter what he does.
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