In this short film, the scene begins with a man and a woman chatting on a couch. It is clear that they have been on a date. The dialogue is filled with clichéd double entendres. The man is eager for things to advance to the next level, but the woman is demanding that he ask for his “dessert.”

The dialogue in this half of the film is not realistic. The play on words is too scripted to be an honest conversation between real people. This isn’t how people talk. This is how playwrights and poets wish people would talk. The only thing that comes to mind is “pretentious.”

After several minutes of uninspired repartee, the narrative ends and is replaced by three commercials for pantyhose. What the director was trying to achieve here isn’t a narrative. It’s a statement. From his own synopsis of the film, Connell writes:

The movie examines how an object of desire can be used to enhance humane (sic) values as well as subvert them … How that object of desire is utilized by the protagonists (and viewed voyeuristically by the audience) provides fuel for this thinking person’s film.

The film comes across as a school assignment rather than a legitimate attempt to tell a story or create a piece of art. While I can certainly respect what the director wanted to do, it wasn’t something that I could appreciate.