Best Friend (2018)

The short film Best Friend made in 2018 is set in a dystopian/futuristic world compared to the one we all live in today in this short film we follow a man celebrating his 30th birthday with a room full of his friends all clapping and cheering for him as he blows out his candles and makes a wish. We soon come to find out that these friends are not real and are instead visions created in our main charter's head (Arthor) we quickly come to learn that these visions are provided to Arthor by a special type of eye drops that when applied into Somone's eye gives them imaginary friends for a brief period. The simulation quickly comes to an end when Arthur ends up breaking his box off eye drops, he then goes out into the city in search for more but gets frustrated when there is a line of people also trying to buy some and it will take too long to get to the machine , he ends up finding another machine but gets in a fight with a somewhat homeless man who is desperate to get hold of the drops. Aruther ends up losing a fight to the man as he rips out his little device in the side of his head that allows him to see his friends. Aruther then struggles to get home as he is without his friends and ends up blacking out on the floor. Our final shot of the short film shows Aruther back home and that he has a new device installed on the opposite side of his head with the film ending with one of his friends saying “hey Arther” the films overarching message is about an addiction to drugs and how they can change a person. These best friend eye drops are there to represent drugs and how they can become such an important part in people's lives that some people cannot live without them. We see the homeless man who is so desperate for them he is willing to fight and kill someone just so he can experience having these friends again for only a brief period. I found this short film to be remarkably like the movie Blade Runner 2049 as that movie also has technology that gives you friends through holograms and shows how desperate people are for them. I quite enjoyed this short film, I found it. to be quite interesting and is a clever way of showing how drugs can affect people and there every day lives. I would give this short film a 4/5 stars and would recommend it to anyone as it shows a message about drugs in a unique way them usual.