Running at a length of 14-minutes this short was directed by Steven McCarthy and is light on dialogue, but whilst it still offers a well communicated narrative it is less a story and more a captured moment in time. However it is one that is excellently portrayed by all those involved. It also has a wonderful lore moment.
We see a man (Steven McCarthy, The Strain) driving through the night, concern etched on his face. In the backseat of the car is a semi-conscious woman (Alyx Melone). He gets a knife out and cuts his palm, whilst driving, holding his hand back to the woman.
transfusion mask
They get a motel and we see she is on the bed as he brings equipment in. There is a mask he places over her mouth and he injects her with something. It is clear that he is hooking himself to a transfusion machine but, rather than transfusing to a vein, the machine pumps the blood to the mask, feeding blood to her through the tubing. This is the lore moment I mentioned – the machine is a stroke of genius.
love like blood
The "transfusion" of blood having brought her round, he must then find her a more substantial meal. Just how he achieves this is revealed in the short that I have embedded below. However, despite such sparse dialogue, we are offered a richly layered narrative through the actors – we see his love, almost fatalistic, we see his anguish and feel that he is both reluctant and also desperate to keep the woman he loves fed.
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