The Nurse That Saw the Baby on the Highway

I live in Birmingham where this true/false story happened. This version takes place in Maryland where it was shot. With a title so good, I had to check it out.

It's a psychological thriller character study following the main character's descent into madness hitting all the memorable moments from the news.

I was expecting amateur home-movie-style visuals/editing as a quick cash grab, but it's clear these are not first-time filmmakers, er, video makers.

It still looks like it was shot with a handful of friends on a weekend. It's done competently with serviceable enough equipment. There are moments where the lighting and shots are decently composed. The editing keeps things moving and has some stylish choices. I would wager to say half the audio is news reports laid over shots of the main character just doing things. But again, that's how character study stories go sometimes.

It kind of reminded me a little bit of Sean Baker's work (Tangerine, The Florida Project), but maybe that's due to its low-budget minimal approach of hotels and strippers.

It's more effective and disturbing than I anticipated, slowly becoming a David Lynch-style nightmare. However, the last 10mins takes a sharp tonal shift where it becomes self-aware, jokey, tongue-in-cheek with faux-serious silliness that kind of derails the whole thing for me. Kind of wish they just committed to the same tone for the whole thing.

Overall, worth the $2, if anything for the sheer novelty of it.

The Nurse That Saw the Baby On the Highway is interesting. The film is not as bad as others claim it is, but with its short running time of less than an hour, the film does seem padded. I guess the scenes with the lead eating Cheez-Its, walking around semi-nude, and having sex with her boyfriend counted as character development? If these scenes were deleted, the film would have ran no more than thirty minutes.

Since the film had ultra-low budget production values, I can accept the sometimes criminally bad photography. What gives this movie an edge is an inspiring Psycho finale. Hey! It worked for me.

I'm sorry, but this was absolutely a time waster. Shot with mediocre grade equipment. Strayed from the actual timelines of events and is it quite honestly a politically and attention seeking title. I cannot honestly give any props to this title because its based entirely on an event where someone was seeking attention and gained it via international news to make money. Not only did this incident take away real time help from other events, it was an elaborate hoax designed to get someone attention to break away from a toxic relationship, and almost led to tens of thousands of dollars in theft.

Towards the end, the disaster piece became shifted and totally misdirected.

Given the nature of the incident it depicts, this is just another attention seeking attempt to portray this lady's life choices and give her more fame and a very misguided funding.

I would absolutely rate this a ZERO given the chance.