8+ Weeks

The writer and director of this short film were realists rather than principled exponents of a predetermined point of view. The closing quotation that 'For those who know, no one is one thing or the other' stands as a stark testament to the relativism that is their central focus.

The frustrations of the lead character upon finding that she may be pregnant, her frustrations at her inability to acquire a quick and painless end to this situation, her ambiguous connection with her lover, her willingness to confide not in him but rather in a male friend who wonders at her rather offhand attitude to all this, frustrations with a pharmacist, and drinks and smokes at a bar all make for an open-ended, inconclusive, somewhat ambiguous and all-too-realistic presentation of how actual people may very well respond to this situation.

In this, the film fails to deliver any central moral message but quite convincingly displays the questions and unresolved situations that indeed represent much of people's real lives.