Automation

This is a powerful and searing film about loneliness in the modern world. Despite all that, it's also very, very funny. Sean Everett gives an amazing performance.

The cinematography is also amazing, giving this movie a haunting isolationist feel.

I don't want to go too heavily overboard as far as the deeper meaning of the film, yet this short film gives us an excellent snapshot of a man who has managed to reach out to almost no one, who in this modern day and age manages to survive without almost any real contact with other people, and who seems satisfied with his sole place in the world. This leads to a hilariously frustrating and violent episode when he tries to find a movie using one of those 777-film phone numbers. His ability to even connect with a computerized voice stifled, his carefully modulated life spins out of control.

This movie, though short, is powerful, beautifully shot, funny, and very touching.