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Two Distant Strangers is a 2020 American short film written by Travon Free and directed by Free and Martin Desmond Roe. [2] [3] The film examines the deaths of Black Americans during encounters with police through the eyes of a character trapped in a time loop that keeps ending in his death.
Jun 10, 2021 · The short film, which was directed by Travon Free and Martin Desmond Roe, tells the story of a young black man named Carter James (Joey BadAss), living in New York City, who is trying...
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Carter wakes up in Perri’s (Zaris Simone) flat. She is the girl with whom he had spent the night. They have breakfast together and then Carter prepares to leave. He tells Perri that his dog was waiting for him back home and that’s why he needs to get back. He goes down on the street and an officer clad in uniform comes to him and asks if there is a...
Again and again, the same events repeat. The modus operandi changes but the result remain the same i.e. Carter dies. Every time he wakes up, he tries to do things differently but no matter what he does, he ends up being killed. It is then you realize what the filmmaker is trying to say in a subtle manner. It was never about you doing things differe...
Carter goes through the same dreadful events more than a hundred times. He is tired and is about to give up this endless charade of being blamed for something absurd just so that they find a reason to kill him. But he realizes one thing. He cannot stop. He can fall. But stopping is not an option. Stopping would mean that defeat was accepted. it wou...
In this Oscar-winning short film, a man trying to get home to his dog becomes stuck in a time loop that forces him to relive a deadly run-in with a cop. Watch trailers & learn more.
- Travon Free, Martin Desmond Roe
In "Two Distant Strangers," cartoonist Carter James' repeated attempts to get home to his dog are thwarted by a recurring deadly encounter that forces him...
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- Travon Free, Martin Desmond Roe
Apr 21, 2021 · The Oscar-nominated film tells of a black man forced to relive his killing by a US police officer.
Two Distant Strangers is a 2020 American short film written by Travon Free and directed by Free and Martin Desmond Roe. [2] [3] The film examines the deaths of Black Americans during encounters with police through the eyes of a character trapped in a time loop that keeps ending in his death.
