Safe Journey (2002)

Safe Journey (2002)

Director: S. Leo Chiang
Genre: Short movie
Country: USA
Language: English
Duration: 15 min
Year: 2002

Stars: Dennis Dun, Jay Michael Ferguson and Peter Holden

A Short That Leaves You Wanting More, 30 December 2004
Author: Legion from Pennsylvania  – IMDB

As the story unfolds, you get to see pieces of the lives of two different men whose lives eventually intersect. With the older Asian man, you get the sense that he’s lost the partner of his life’s journey. The younger man has lost more, yet doesn’t know his destination. Will the two of them help each other find their way? The actors do well expressing themselves without words, instead using their eyes and body language to reveal their true feelings. There’s limited dialogue, but its enough to convey what each of them are fleeing.

Good cinematography and editing. The plot seems a little implausible, but if you can get beyond that, you are left wondering what happened before and what will happen after.

The Kid has no money, no place to live and nowhere to go. He’s done more than he cares to admit just to survive on the streets.The Man has lost the one he loved. He is losing his eyesight. He’s selling all his possessions so nothing will be left to lose. Both are trapped, each alone until Fate brings them together one windy autumn night.

• Director: S. Leo Chiang

• Country:USA

• Genres:Drama, Short, Short movie

• Runtime:15 minutes

• Actors:
  Man

  Dennis Dun
  Kid

  Jay Michael Ferguson
  Mechanic

  Peter Holden
  Older Trick

  Brian Hatton
  Young Hustler /
  Street Hustler

  Matthew Blaine
  Short Thug

  Leslie Hoffman
  Tall Thug (as Michael Stode)

  Michael Strode
  Street Hustler

  Skyler Marshall
  Lover (photo)

  Scott Rinker
  (as Peter Asle Holden)

  Peter Holden

• Plot:

  The Kid has no money, no place to live and nowhere to go. He’s done more than he cares to admit just to survive on the streets.The Man has lost the one he loved. He is losing his eyesight. He’s selling all his possessions so nothing will be left to lose. Both are trapped, each alone until Fate brings them together one windy autumn night.

  – Written by
  <havan_ironoak@bigfoot.com>

• Rating: (60 votes)