just plain stealing!!!
Read part of a plot from a film released last year and tell me it isn’t a little too close to what I am doing?
Soft Shoe: Alex Holdridge’s “In Search of a Midnight Kiss”
“The further unveiling of Vivian’s softer side continues as she and Wilson come across a single shoe strewn on the pavement outside. She lights up and rushes towards it; turns out she’s been taking pictures of what she terms “lost shoes” for three years (and, naturally, maintains a website called thelostshoeproject.com). “How could anybody just lose one shoe?” she plaintively asks Wilson, and he appears visibly surprised, moved, as he contemplates her enthusiastic shutterbugging in a shot-reverse shot full of meaning.
Clearly the moment is meant to make Wilson, and the spectator, realize she has more depth than we initially give her credit for, but the scene, followed by a photo montage of abandoned shoes littering streets and sidewalks, struggles under the weight of its precious lonely-heart artiness. The snapshots voice the characters’ isolation, both adrift in L.A. after bad break-ups and waiting for their brands of rough beauty to be appreciated by some virtual stranger, but the sought-after sense of romantic unfolding here and elsewhere in the film feels affected rather than truly sublime; “Midnight Kiss” is too standard in its bittersweet conception and palpable in its striving for any real swoon to sneak in. And, as its title suggests, it has an agenda, which makes for schematic viewing as it attempts to hit its major marks before the clock strikes twelve…”
I both hate and love things like this, the give my project validation as being something society is interested in, but I hate sharing an idea, and feeling a little like it was stolen from me. I wonder if I could ever figure out how to contact the writer/director