I saw Bobby Loves Mangos a few months ago when /Film hosted it as a Video of the Day. Since watching it back then, I have been meaning to do an article on it. However, things ended up coming up and I forgot about it. That is, until now.
In the late 1990's, director Stuart Archer made this short and began getting it into various film festivals. However, the film didn't really pick up until he infamously tricked Robert Ebert into watching the film (a story that is told before the film starts in the YouTube version below). Ebert ended up loving the movie and endorsed it.
The plot for Bobby Loves Mangos is very simple but still very intriguing. An elementary school principal receives a videotape in the mail from the future that warns him of a school bus accident that will kill fifty children. The story deals with a lot of moral decisions and what happens when you try to change the future. Also, the ending is surprising and not exactly where I thought the movie would go.
Watch the whole short film below in three parts. It's pretty low budget but the story and direction are so strong it's pretty much impossible not to get sucked in.
Source: /Film
1 comments:
This was really cool. Nice find.
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