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"Need" is a Canadian live action short film in the English language from 2008, so this one is already over a decade old now. It runs for over half an hour and is from many perspectives a one-person project, at least when it comes to key fields like acting, diredting and writing. The one in charge here was Tijuana Layne and she is still making movies today, also acting in films, but apparently only because she keeps casting herself. But I shall not judge. Let us focus on this one here instead. Well, I thought it was really bad and I can see why some of her other projects have really low scores. This one here does not have a rating at all because so far it has not reached the amount of five voters, but I am sure things would not look differently otherwise. It does look really amateurish. this is the story of a woman who is a sex addict and about half of the film is basically her having intercourse. The rest is talking and car driving and pretty bad dialogues. Woth "bad" I mean the way they were written and how the lines are delivered. It is not just Layne who struggles, also the other actors. It feels really wooden most of the time. Cannot come up with anything positive here at all. The film's perhaps biggest problem is that despite being so disappointing, it still takes itself seriously from beginning to end and it feels as if all the people working on this project really thought they came up with something of high quality, something that was touching and made a difference from a creative perspective. The film does no such thing. I have seen many student films and the majority of these is certainly superior to this one here. If I could at least say it was all rookies working on this one here, but this is not the case. They are just void of talent I suppose. The consequence is that this film at only slightly over half an hour feels like it has the lengths of a 2-hour movie. But it does not have the rewarding moments. It's failure from beginning to end. Highly not recommended.