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WEAPONS AND THEIR NAMES | Omeleto
A grieving teenager sneaks off to shoot guns with her best friend in rural Florida.
WEAPONS AND THEIR NAMES is used with permission from Melina Valdez. Learn more at melinavaldez.com.
Luciana is the teenage daughter of an immigrant mother and an American stepfather. After her stepfather's death, Luciana struggles to connect with her grieving mother and feels emotionally stuck. Instead, she spends much of her time with her best friend Mickey to fill the void.
When Mickey sneaks off to shoot guns with her boyfriend, Luciana tags along. Luciana feels awkward at first, but she proves to be surprisingly deft at shooting. It was something she did with her stepfather, and it brings back memories of her time with him, leading to a strange moment of grace -- and allowing herself the freedom to feel what she needs.
Directed by Melina Valdez, this Sundance-selected short drama is a study in contrasts. Luciana's restless experimentation with identities, friendships and boundaries makes for a poignant coming-of-age story, but it's woven with a more grown-up, weighty portrait of grief's often wayward path. Rendered with warm, weathered 16mm cinematography that captures the worn-in tropical moodiness of rural Florida, the result is a unique fever dream of a narrative, one as surprising and fascinating as its milieu and protagonist.
There's a sensuous, languid quality infused throughout the film, both in the images and in the pacing. The thoughtful writing charts Luciana's world, from her responsibility for her little brother to her more strained one with her depressed, grief-stricken mother. Amid the oppressiveness of her home life, adventures with her best friend sound more exciting.
"Dutiful good girl led astray by a more adventurous, devil-may-care friend" is a classic teen dynamic, but the story develops in unexpected directions, more interested in Luciana's reactions, thoughts and feelings than in playing out teenage rebellion. As Luciana sneaks off with Mickey and her boyfriend, the guns they shoot seem to unlock an unconscious series of memories. Luciana is deft in their handling, revealing that her stepfather taught her how to use them -- and the memory of that relationship is evoked now.
Actor Cecilia Rene as Luciana is effective in portraying how grief has walled her off from her loved ones, and from life itself. Yet as she wanders off from where her friend and her boyfriend are shooting, she finds a release from that grief from an unexpectedly magical event, and she finally is freed from that inner sense of separation.
Unpredictable, palpable and strangely dreamy, WEAPONS AND THEIR NAMES has its moments of dark portent that, combined with its matter-of-fact portrayal of gun culture in Florida, could lead viewers to anticipate a story about violence. But this is Luciana's story, one where the typical patterns of life have been interrupted by grief and sorrow. When she finally finds her way out of the labyrinth of loneliness and isolation through an unexpected conduit, she finds nothing much has changed in her life. But she has changed, and it makes all the difference.
WEAPONS AND THEIR NAMES is used with permission from Melina Valdez. Learn more at melinavaldez.com.
Luciana is the teenage daughter of an immigrant mother and an American stepfather. After her stepfather's death, Luciana struggles to connect with her grieving mother and feels emotionally stuck. Instead, she spends much of her time with her best friend Mickey to fill the void.
When Mickey sneaks off to shoot guns with her boyfriend, Luciana tags along. Luciana feels awkward at first, but she proves to be surprisingly deft at shooting. It was something she did with her stepfather, and it brings back memories of her time with him, leading to a strange moment of grace -- and allowing herself the freedom to feel what she needs.
Directed by Melina Valdez, this Sundance-selected short drama is a study in contrasts. Luciana's restless experimentation with identities, friendships and boundaries makes for a poignant coming-of-age story, but it's woven with a more grown-up, weighty portrait of grief's often wayward path. Rendered with warm, weathered 16mm cinematography that captures the worn-in tropical moodiness of rural Florida, the result is a unique fever dream of a narrative, one as surprising and fascinating as its milieu and protagonist.
There's a sensuous, languid quality infused throughout the film, both in the images and in the pacing. The thoughtful writing charts Luciana's world, from her responsibility for her little brother to her more strained one with her depressed, grief-stricken mother. Amid the oppressiveness of her home life, adventures with her best friend sound more exciting.
"Dutiful good girl led astray by a more adventurous, devil-may-care friend" is a classic teen dynamic, but the story develops in unexpected directions, more interested in Luciana's reactions, thoughts and feelings than in playing out teenage rebellion. As Luciana sneaks off with Mickey and her boyfriend, the guns they shoot seem to unlock an unconscious series of memories. Luciana is deft in their handling, revealing that her stepfather taught her how to use them -- and the memory of that relationship is evoked now.
Actor Cecilia Rene as Luciana is effective in portraying how grief has walled her off from her loved ones, and from life itself. Yet as she wanders off from where her friend and her boyfriend are shooting, she finds a release from that grief from an unexpectedly magical event, and she finally is freed from that inner sense of separation.
Unpredictable, palpable and strangely dreamy, WEAPONS AND THEIR NAMES has its moments of dark portent that, combined with its matter-of-fact portrayal of gun culture in Florida, could lead viewers to anticipate a story about violence. But this is Luciana's story, one where the typical patterns of life have been interrupted by grief and sorrow. When she finally finds her way out of the labyrinth of loneliness and isolation through an unexpected conduit, she finds nothing much has changed in her life. But she has changed, and it makes all the difference.
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Precious has a new standard 😂😂😂 She could play a new version of Matilda or orphan Annie
Why didn't he use a gun to break door lock?
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so good!
I cried. Beautiful chemistry here.
Wow
As soon as the husband turned up, you could see that ending coming a mile away!
It's good but strange one though
0% romance
What the f... was that?
I don’t know what to say… but this evoked something deep and profound. I hope this film is shown in every school around the world ❤ ✨
Returning to this after 5 years, still the best short film on youtube imo
Come on, really???? The ending was completely foreshadowed.....smh.....
What a beautiful and terrifying blend of comedy and drama in a horrifying circumstance. Lanre has once again created something brilliant and thought provoking.
Money is always earned...but youth and happy days never come back،So enjoy the days ahead
Offensive and disappointing
this was the saddest thing i have ever watched. Im literally in bed trying not to wake my family up at 3am bc my tissues are filled with snot and my eyes are all puffy
yeah no this to me isn't old fashioned, it's plain desperate
Too bad most life insurance policies have a waiting period of 30 days to be active
It's like a mental hospital. Depression all the way
Good for a laugh
I believe the audience will adopt their own individual view of what this film means. It covers several topics in a short time. Kinda like when you read your horoscope and say "Hmmmmmm...."
Loved it - this feeling of unspeakable things hanging in the air, shaping up to take form...
Great dancing at the end?
dude this was actually so crazy
My conclusion is that between Lucy and the mother kill the stepdad… one of the clues was when Bryce affirm that he never run into her.. Maybe that was the excuse he used to take her out and molested her… whose little boy is he the brother or the product of the abuse… So many questions.. so much healing to do…
I had no idea this was 21 minutes long. It felt like 5 minutes and 3 hours at the same time. I refuse to believe the actors didn’t “hit it off” after this 😂😂😂
I grew up on death industrial and that- that was something else. Brutal. Thanks I guess.
WOWWWWWWWWWWW
0:20 Who else thought this was a weird short film
What is this I thought it was a horror film not this
This looks so cute ☺️ ❤
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Great film that hooked me from the opening frame. Dark, funny, intense and satisfying. Well directed with phenomenal performances. Top level production value with evocative, haunting music. Kudos all around.
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The Korean did homework for the Mexican but the African American came out of syllables.
Priceless. I have worked with a lot of people who have memory loss. this often happens. Beautiful story well told and filmed. Well done everyone.
This was DOPE
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The brail at the end. I kept it together until the brail. 🥺🥹🥹
Bravo! Well done! Such a talented young lady. Great script concept! Filming was excellent. ❤️
Thank you for your kind words. We were blessed with incredible actors and a passionate crew. Without them it would not have been possible.
I swear to God I HATE precocious kids with all my heart!
I wept, I laughed.......he got what he wanted, and he got the girl (presumably).....
2 wolfblood actors I haven't seen in years!
Sooo was she sick?? That's not really touched on in this. I'll admit that it is heavily implied that she was terminally ill and in real life, the only laws permitting euthanasia of people require them to be dying. The last one I read up on said that in that state (I don't remember which one) the person needed to have a 6 months left to live prognosis by a doctor. But that's the real world. A lot of these shorts kind of stray from that. We are never told that she's sick. We all just assumed that from a few hints. But she DID look healthy. You'd think if they were putting her out of her misery, they'd wait for the actual misery and some symptoms of the illness to show up. So maybe this is a statement on legal suicide? Like she wasn't terminally ill but had suffered some kind of trauma she couldn't live with, or was clinically depressed? And maybe this was dystopian in a sense of people have learned to be supportive about it? I think it's more likely she was sick, but I also feel like her not looking sick at all and the actress not projecting that in any way whatsoever was on purpose so that we'd think about it.
This is an extremely well crafted short film. I was intrigued from the start. Bravo to the cast, the acting was spot on. 👍🎬🎶
Loved that :)
It's hard to imagine a film that explains everything as clearly as this one.
haha
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