Private investigator Austin Peterson gets a case involving a young man called Stephen Maker who apparently committed suicide . As Peterson uncovers more and more details he wonders if there might be more to the case than simple suicide 

This is a strange film by Ben Crowe . One can see it's trying to be a type of modern film noir and one with morbid overtones but everything about it is done very badly . First of all the exposition is done entirely via voice over which leads you to think that this was originally for radio and the on screen images of Peterson wandering around bust streets and deserted council estates don't really have much to do with the story itself . Secondly the delivery of the voices are rather flat and wooden . This wouldn't be so much of a problem if it was characters talking to one another on screen but they're not so the vocal range or rather lack of it is distracting . . Thirdly there's a constant musical soundtrack being played and sometimes the sound mix drowns out the dialogue and since the dialogue is the most important part of the film this is a major problem . Sadly this means THE MAN WHO MET HIMSELF is the most disappointing short film I've seen in a long time

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