Atomic Tabasco

The film focuses on a short time period in a corner store. In the store are a young junkie girl, the two store owners, a group of men who are close to getting a record deal and a pair of Orientals who are heavily into break dancing. We see the same scene from all different perspectives.

This short tricks everyone who watches it. We all miss the point for the first few minutes – I didn't catch on immediately that the time skips back and forward and that we see the same few minutes over and over again from with the focus on different characters. Each character's bit is interesting in itself, but the real reward here is the issue of perspective.

We assume things that are proved wrong when we see it from another perspective – eg the two store keepers yell in a foreign language at the junkie girl, we assume they are insulting her, but their view reveals something else. This makes the short for me, it makes it clever and produces an interesting point that stays with you.

The direction is good – technically competent and imaginative. However the editing is the best bit, the time skips back and forward with no sign that it's happened – the first time it's disorientating but after that it's clever. The cast are good, particularly the store keepers and the junkie girl.

Overall this film is very clever in terms of content and production. The director has already been snatched up by a studio for motion picture work – I hope he can brig this same imagination and intelligence to his films as he did to this short.

i see hundreds of student films- this is tops. james cox is a fantastic director- he moves the camera, tells the story and uses music in a way that is far advanced for his years. no wonder he got a feature from this film.

This is the most energetic and entertaining ten minutes of film >I've seen in a long time. As a film student at NYU, where this >short has been screened several times, I salute Jim Cox for his >astute sense of style and pace for our generation. I'm sure >I'll see his name later on the big screen. Hopefully this short >will find a market on TV or somewhere, so this inspiring work >can get the wide distribution it des

I cannot stress enough the artistic and fantastic way this short was written shot and edited. Mr Cox and his editors do a superb job of showing the interaction of 4 different groups illustrating not only the errors in their perceptions of others and events around them, but also of our own errors and prejudices. Works best as a short though you may wish for it to be longer. 5 stars out of 5

I saw this short film on HBO the other day and absolutely loved it. Eight different characters, eight different perspectives. At first I was confused by the way the story was moving along, but then I realized that it was just one scene being shown over and over again, just to show us the different perspectives of the characters.

At first, you think the clerks are yelling at the teenager for stealing. They speak in their own language, which I (and Chris the teenager, played convincingly by Eleonore Hendricks) cannot understand. The perspective of the clerks dispels that view. I didn't realize how wonderful the short really is until the last two scenes.

Excellent short film. Hopefully, the director James Cox can turn the short into a feature length film with the same cast, or win us over with a whole new film.