Girl falls apart in ASSEMBLY REQUIRED short film

MindiFlyth · 12-15-2019

I wasn't sure which category to put this in, but it seemed like it had to be of interest to some folks here. The short film Assembly Required is about a cute, neurotic young brunette who begins mysteriously, literally falling apart bit by bit, losing her arms and legs and finally ending up as a helpless pile of loose parts in a box before she gets herself back together. It's dark but also quirky and cute, not gory or even particularly horrific. She comes apart like a doll with no blood or anything, and in some scenes you can even faintly see the seams of the molding on her rubbery fake limbs. But the process is slow, taking time for the loss of each part to sink in, and I bet some of you will enjoy her increasingly desperate insistence that nothing is wrong and she's FINE. This isn't really my thing but it seemed like there had to be at least a few folks on the forum who've been waiting for something like this forever!

https://www.pbs.org/video/assembly-required/

https://vimeo.com/336478825

generallyawesome · 12-15-2019

The part of this that really infuriated me was that when she loses her Left arm, the prop they use is a Right arm. It is so obvious, I can only wonder how nobody noticed this during production.

MindiFlyth · 12-16-2019

It wouldn't surprise me if they noticed and just thought it was funny. It's supposed to be comedic and realism clearly wasn't a big priority. As I said, you can see a molding seam on at least one of the limbs! Or, maybe they could only afford one arm prop (it's a student film, although it looks pretty professional) and they hoped nobody would notice.

12-15-2019	#1
MindiFlyth Frequent Poster Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 152	Girl falls apart in ASSEMBLY REQUIRED short film I wasn't sure which category to put this in, but it seemed like it had to be of interest to some folks here. The short film Assembly Required is about a cute, neurotic young brunette who begins mysteriously, literally falling apart bit by bit, losing her arms and legs and finally ending up as a helpless pile of loose parts in a box before she gets herself back together. It's dark but also quirky and cute, not gory or even particularly horrific. She comes apart like a doll with no blood or anything, and in some scenes you can even faintly see the seams of the molding on her rubbery fake limbs. But the process is slow, taking time for the loss of each part to sink in, and I bet some of you will enjoy her increasingly desperate insistence that nothing is wrong and she's FINE. This isn't really my thing but it seemed like there had to be at least a few folks on the forum who've been waiting for something like this forever! https://www.pbs.org/video/assembly-required/ https://vimeo.com/336478825

12-15-2019	#2
generallyawesome Frequent Poster Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 218	Re: Girl falls apart in ASSEMBLY REQUIRED short film The part of this that really infuriated me was that when she loses her Left arm, the prop they use is a Right arm. It is so obvious, I can only wonder how nobody noticed this during production.

12-16-2019	#3
MindiFlyth Frequent Poster Join Date: Feb 2015 Posts: 152	Re: Girl falls apart in ASSEMBLY REQUIRED short film It wouldn't surprise me if they noticed and just thought it was funny. It's supposed to be comedic and realism clearly wasn't a big priority. As I said, you can see a molding seam on at least one of the limbs! Or, maybe they could only afford one arm prop (it's a student film, although it looks pretty professional) and they hoped nobody would notice.