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Film review: ‘Please Hold’

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One of this year’s Oscar-nominated live action shorts is called “Please Hold” — and it’s a film that I think Metalbond readers will want to see!

"Please Hold" film review

 

In this 19-minute movie, Erick Lopez plays Mateo, a young man who gets arrested by a drone and finds himself locked up in a futuristic jail. He encounters no other humans in the jail. His only interaction is with a video monitor. The film is an indictment of the for-profit nature of our criminal justice system, but anyone who has been trapped in voice mail hell trying to reach a real person at the cable company will understand the prisoner’s exasperation. It also reminded me of the paper clip helper that popped up on Microsoft Word! It’s funny except it’s also not. This is jail, after all, and the inmate’s situation is quite serious, terrifying even.

Beyond all that, I was excited by the clever concept of the actual lockup. Mateo is forced to handcuff himself and self-report to the incarceration facility. I’m told there’s a similar experience available in Second Life. I hope that someone reading this will go see the film and use it as inspiration for a story that can appear in the Metalbond Prison Library at some point!

I saw this film as part of a screening at IFC Center in Manhattan of all five of the Oscar-nominated live action short films. Sadly, several of the other films nominated in this category were quite dark in terms of subject matter, so be forewarned. If I had to do it all over again, I would have walked out after this film, the second of the five, was shown and skipped the others.

Click for the film’s official Facebook and Instagram pages.

The IMDb page for “Please Hold” is here.

If you see it, definitely let me know what you think!

film review "Please Hold"

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Handcuffed at CMNM

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At CMNM.net, the designer and buyer know exactly how to play these two big stupid lugs. They run their fingers under the sheer fabric. These skimpy thongs barely cover these brutes’ bulging genitals. It only takes a small flick to release them. Now that each man is fully exposed, things have gone so far the lads don’t feel like they can back out. These proud tough guys feel completely humiliated as they are led through increasingly debauched behaviour!

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Island Paradise – Part 2: Chapter 04

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By Joshua Ryan

Chapter 4: What I Saw from the Coffee Deck

The Coffee Deck was a place where you could sit in a chair and look out to sea.  Coffee was served from a cart at the entrance.  At the other end of the resort, the beach came right up to the “facilities,” but this end was on a hill, and the hill was all rustic with brush and shit.  If there was a trail down to the beach, nobody’d put up a sign for it.  But anyway, Patrick said to get there early, so I did.

When I arrived—at 7 a.m.!—there was nobody around except me and an old waiter manning the cart.  When he brought me my coffee he said, “It is unfortunate, sir.  They are working down there—underneath us.  Making the trail.  They do it every day. Often there is noise.  If so, you may wish to return in the afternoon.”  Then I heard it—the noise of men cutting and whacking and shoveling and hauling, somewhere beyond the polished rail that ran around the Coffee Deck.

I leaned over the rail, and I saw them—slappies, a whole crew of them.  They were dressed like Dobie and Patrick, but they were working at stuff that had nothing to do with queer boys from North America who did housework in the morning and sex in the afternoon.

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