What Daphne Saw (2019)

10/10

mleighstone22 May 2022

Wow, someone must be really upset they didn't make this movie. Ignore the one stars, that's a product of projection. Truly sad to see.

What Daphne Saw is a poignant piece, touching on the horrors of human trafficking. Anyone that can't get behind this concept needs therapy.

Incredible direction, compelling performances, beautiful visuals, amazing scoring. It is absolutely worth watching.

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10/10

Excellent short film

Samdean78922 May 2022

I saw this film in theater on the big screen, and recently re-watched it online.

I am not usually a fan of short films but this film has an impact much greater than its length would suggest.

The acting was excellent, and I was impressed how much tension, suspense, and sense of dread it developed, followed by a cathartic release of an ending.

Entertaining and thought-provoking, very much worth the 20-minute runtime, and a second or third watch to pick up details you might have missed.

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10/10

Impressive as hell

kevin-6977922 May 2022

Gorgeous, stunning, and well executed. Congrats to all the filmmakers involved. Every shot looks like a painting and is so deliberately lit and framed.

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side of darkness

Kirpianuscus22 March 2022

A young woman, punished for obscure guilty, a man, using her as servant, a girl, an envelope with money and a broken mirror. Pieces of a short film with beautiful sound and powerful message. A great remind about a dark, easy ignored, terrible to atrocious aspect from near reality.

Well acted, well tell, precise use of each detail.

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10/10

Stunning and haunting

pepperjade22 May 2022

I saw this film at the Horrible Imaginings film festival in 2019 (it also streamed on ALTER). After watching this film, I felt like I had been hit with a ball-peen hammer and that's how a film that covers these types of subjects should resonate. The subject matter is very dark but the filmmaker handles it with incredible sensitivity. There was no need for gratuitous violence to make the points she made. I hope to see a feature length adaptation some day.

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4/10

A blatant Detroit: Become Human copy.

Kitahito29 April 2022

Oh sorry, a Detroit: Become Human "inspired" story. A homage, if you will. That's how the cool kids call stealing ideas nowadays. My bad. To be fair, our very brave and inspired writer/director, Lizz Marshall added a few new ideas with the themes of physical and mental abuse... wait, these themes were in the video game too, but certainly not in such a didactic and direct way as they were featured here. My bad again, for assuming a small grain of originality from the maker. (Let's not talk about the lobotomized human android thing, it's just plain stupid...) Her imagination probably was exhausted when she changed the letter K of the name Kara to C. A great achievement, indeed. Let's applaud! You get what you deserve, 10/10 flock...

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10/10

A thought-provoking movie!

danielwinkler-7338723 May 2022

I saw this movie in theater opening night in Houston. I'm not much of a film aficionado, and wasn't sure what to expect, especially from a short film. I was blown away! It raised questions society as a whole will have to examine, and probably sooner than we expect. It was very well done, but more importantly, entertaining! Great work.

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