A Prayer in January

After reading the write up on the site I'd found this on and seeing that it had been seen by a couple of million people who raved about it, I was expecting far too much.

I don't know if the subtitles were duff, but "one last time" implies a break up to me, not a happy relationship. The synopsis on IMDB and elsewhere implies that there's some sort of existential struggle of a religious lad to transgress the Sabbath. I didn't get a sense of this at all. OK, he took his yarmulke off. But he was the one making all the running. To me this was a separation that needed a last event to be embedded in the memory. That feeling for me was reinforced when he turned round for a last glimpse of the farm.

This was a very odd ten minutes and I can't really recommend this short.