'Try' (2000)
dir. Jonas Åkerlund
Wri. Billy Corgan
This is a short-film I watched a long time ago back in A-Level. It's a brutal film about a young homeless couple living in a Stockholm train station and their struggle for a better life while dealing with the trouble of drug addiction and pregnancy. I personally love Åkerlund's style, he has directed some of my favourite music videos of the past two decades, from Madonna to Rammstein, he has a distinctive style that leaps off the screen and demands to be noticed.
In this piece there's a stark and shocking transition between the psychedelic dream gone wrong and the grim and dark reality our protagonists live in. The entire piece is done in voice-over right until the end and adds a real gut punch to the visuals.
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