A QANON CHRISTMAS - REVIEW
A QANON CHRISTMAS
Director : Chris Rourke
Starring : Scott Olson, Nick Hutchinson, Yovanna Harris, Clint Saint Clint, Kyle Strang, Jake Bolton, Alli Raymer
Runtime : 11 minutes
Genres : Animation, Experimental, Comedy
Digital - Color - 16:9
Language : English
Country : USA
2024
Storyline
A young man meets a young woman on Christmas Eve in the waiting room of a doctors office. An old man arrives, and reveals the truth about a dark and clandestine ancient Christmas secret.
© Chris Rourke
A Qanon Christmas directed by Chris Rourke is a short film with a mixture of real shots and animated images based on a simplistic narrative but which questions: an old man (Scott Olson), extroverted, with a somewhat neglected physique, denounces Christmas and his satanic message in a waiting room. He acts like a kind of degenerate prophet in the eyes of the characters who surround him. His vision is quite raw, to wonder if he is not an envoy of Satan in order to dissuade human beings from believing in Jesus and celebrating his birth. So we have a confrontation between good and evil. Aesthetically and visually speaking, the film is quite rich: the animated images represent the ideas of the old man in an almost satirical way. The shots with the actors represent the concrete and the real. The color palette is quite bright (blue, green, red, etc.) although some sequences are shot in black and white.
© Chris Rourke
The director did not hesitate to create plays of lights sometimes even stroboscopic, and to use effects of transitions: including image inlay in the image to allow the viewer to always identify the face of the protagonist telling his story and justifying well the fact that everything takes place in his head. We can talk about a psychological side. The original music composed by Kyle Strang, light and naive, brings a certain dreamlike and enchanted calm, and reconciles us with Christmas. The film ends like a fairy tale where the "villain" lets himself be dominated by souls of good conscience.
© Chris Rourke
In the end, the film lets us reflect on a potential political message: Are we beings lulled by an immense naivety, hardly observing the dark coded messages that are offered to us every day? Do some beings (like the protagonist) aim to direct us towards the infernal abysses of our existence or to warn us only of blasphemous messages that hide behind Christmas? The film is a sort of contemporary farce in which everyone can make their own opinion of the messages left by this strange main character.
By Hallucinea Film Festival
