RESEARCH: HIGH MAINTENANCE

High Maintenance is another short film that I watched today. The film is set in the near future and it is about a woman whose robotic husband fails to meet her standards returns and upgrades him for a better version with standards that she now fails to meet.

The film is clever in that it uses a sci-fi concept relating to relationships to explore the very real human connection. It also gives an alternative insight to modern relationships in the future. The writer of the film conveys with the idea of the "perfect" relationship, showing how a lot of people concentrate on the perfect job, house or man/woman but never on the small, personal details and human emotions that truly bring two people together.

There is also a clever twist at the end of the film when not only is the husband a robot, but so is the women - who we are led to believe that she is human since she upgraded her robotic husband. By creating this original storyline the audience stay interested throughout the duration of the film.

At the beginning of the film we see both the husband and women eating together. However, there is no conversation - just loud eating and chewing on the food which seems to be amplified to make the sound more noticeable. This technique therefore emphasises the awkwardness and uncomfortableness of the scene.