This nine minute short doesn’t waste any time starting off. “Streamer” Director, Writer and producer Jared Bratt takes you into the main characters personal space, to the point where you feel you are seeing something that you shouldn’t be. Which goes to show how well the main actor Ryan Leslie Fisher, fell into this roll. Filmed in one room, with only two characters, and almost the entire short is close ups. It wastes no time to start to mess and cut into your thoughts.
We are driven into the mind of a man opening up his deepest desires and his confrontations with them. His performance invites you if not kidnaps you into his madness. Cydney Penner the love interest, amplifies the emotions were going through with Ryan. She blows up the roller coaster of emotions basically. Cydney becomes what he wants, what he hopes they can be and what he fears they will be.
“Streamer” stems from one of the oldest stories in the book. Boy meets girl, boy obsesses over girl. He falls into deep thoughts and fears about her. Is she heartless? Does she even know he exists? Would she use him? This keeps us intrigued as to where they are in there relationship in real life. If it even exists or will exist? It is very difficult to create such intimacy and to really make you feel like you are connected to characters in such a short amount of time. Jared accomplished that and then some. You felt like you were with Ryan through all his twisted thoughts.
Everyone can relate to this story on some level. We have all over analyzed situations with people we had moments, flings with. Trying to see some sort of moment that we hope will show us why things didn’t continue. It could possibly be a bit of reality to us all, as scary as it sounds when it comes down to it, most people have been there.
