HE COULD'VE GONE PRO | Omeleto Drama
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2019
- A woman and her mother confront the truth about their family's past.
HE COULD'VE GONE PRO is used with permission from McGhee Monteith. Learn more at mcgheemonteith.com.
Gayle is the middle-aged matriarch of a Southern family, calling each member of her clan on Christmas. She's keen on maintaining connection, even if the family members are far away, going through her list and beginning each call with a "happy ho ho ho."
But then her daughter Debbie arrives for Christmas with her boyfriend, initially to collect her gift money, despite a lingering anger at her mother. But Debbie refuses to comply with Gayle's attempts at normalcy, eventually rupturing Gayle's illusion of familial bliss and forcing Gayle to confront their troubled past as a family.
Writer-director McGhee Monteith's powerful short drama is an incisive yet sensitively observed study in dysfunctional family dynamics, with an exceptionally well-observed script and a strong set of performances all around from the small cast of actors.
Essentially a chamber piece and a dinner scene, Monteith's story ably takes this one event in a family's history and examines it with forensic precision, observing with clarity how family dysfunction perpetuates itself, as a toxic sense of denial chafes against years of powerlessness and pain.
The quiet camerawork often emphasizes the isolation and distance that Debbie feels from Gayle, with framings that often forgo harmony and balance. The direction is attuned to the bitter aversions and suppressions that happen when families don't deal with the traumas and troubles of the past, and the performances are all around strong, able to encapsulate years of suppressed trauma into one family meal.
But eventually the resentment, anger and hurt builds, and any carefully maintained facade will crack, especially when it's at the expense of others. And when it does for Debbie, she unleashes torrents of anger, resentment and grief upon her mother that levels any illusion Gayle may have of raising a good family. The resulting pain and agony, held back for years, is devastating to watch and hear, but its expression will be highly relatable to anyone who's struggled to speak their truth in a situation bent on smothering any authenticity or honesty.
HE COULD'VE GONE PRO is emotionally intense, and unflinching in its portrayal of the sometimes corrosive influence families can have on each other. In the end, it also becomes a powerfully ironic portrait of just how entrenched denial can be, and how a refusal to look at the truth of a situation -- and dig deep into a sense of responsibility for one's part in it -- can cost someone the very thing they want more than anything else. - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
This hit home, dysfunctional family dreaded holidays. The big elephant in the room that either gets looked over or actually gets brought up, hurting everyone in the end. Well done.
This was so sad to watch. Superb job from the actors and staff.
I feel like all the underrated Omeleto videos are the best
EXCELLENT! casting of mother and daughter was perfect. uncanny resemblance. well done.
Wow. That was pretty intense. Riveting too. And tragic. Families, eh?? The dynamic is so simple yet so complex. The mother in denial. The angry daughter. The new boyfriend who is embarrassed by the awkwardness if it all. I loved the opening shots, which I thought were very clever, very distinctive. Well-written and well-acted. And I liked the title.
So well done! The actors & setting were so natural. Really tragic story, but that mom did a perfect job!❤️
Well DAM 😬 skeletons just came a falling out & crashing all over the place!
So good! Impressive acting 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Well bless her heart 🖤
That's when you know there southern
Yes! 😂 that phrase is said for everything! It’s a great identifier.
Thank you. It shakes my soul.
A grown woman not bringing a gift for her momma on Christmas?
How do these actors do it?
How do they compel their feelings to do just as the script demands.......on demand?
I think that once they have had enough of acting careers, they should become lawyers.......
So painful. So real. So honest. There is still so much pain in families when some one comes out as LGBT. When will it end? Great performance.
When we ALL stop sinning agaisnt God with our bodies or actions!
Wow, that was amazing!
I'm cautious about vilifying the mother. She was just acting according to her traditional values. It's not as if she actually wanted her son to do the unthinkable.
Superb.
The daughters name is really McGee.. could you imagine? Lol sorry, great acting and awesome short!
So sad 😢.
Like a modern Flannery O'Connor story.
I think there would have been some tragic/ironic ending for the daughter if it were an O'Connor story. In O'Connor stories the one who behaves as the moral superior usually is the one who is brought down.
So so sad😔😔😔
No one is perfect... even mammas.
Humans do their best and hope they're doing the right things.
Do their best? How do you suppose many parents do their best by putting ugly thoughts in their children's minds just because they're different in some way, shape or form? Extreme religious and cultural beliefs are at the base of many of these children's skewed ideas of what actual reality is. Little girls getting mutilated or married off to seniors, gay people bashed and outcast.. That has little to do with "your best" if you're not informed as a parent.
@@elkecelis9364 let he has NOT sinned cast first stone...i put mine down a long time ago🙏...we ALL should
But excellent nonetheless❤❤❤
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