EXIT RIGHT Short Film – Audience FEEDBACK Video from the Nov. 2015 Film Festival

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EXIT RIGHT was the winner of Best Film at the November 2015 FEEDBACK Film Festival.

Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Video of EXIT RIGHT:

EXIT RIGHT, 5min, Germany, Drama
Directed by Bernhard Wenger & Rupert Holler

Look away or intervene? When a black man is victim of unfounded, racial abuse in a packed bus, there is only one passenger who won’t ignore the situation like everyone else.

Read the audience transcript of EXIT RIGHT:

Moderator, Matthew Toffolo: The film from Germany, Exit Right.

Audience Member 1: So when I first started to see the plot come out I was like, Oh this guy’s not racist he’s just legitimately upset that this guy’s dodging the ticket, right? Like, oh there’s an interesting twist, he’s just really moral on tickets! And then as he slowly starts talking about how you guys come here… I was like ooooh, oh no. That made me sad. But, I loved the twist. Gotta say, I kind of saw it coming, but it didn’t make it any less rewarding when the door closed and the bus drove off and there was that beautiful long shot with the guy left off the bus. So I totally loved it.

Audience Member 2: While watching it I remembered an old Japanese fable that was once told to me by my dad in which there are two samurai on a boat and a rice farmer joins on the boat. One of the samurai demands that payment for constant protection of the farmer’s crop and the farmer pleads that it is the only food he has and he needs to bring it over to his family on the other side of the river. The other samurai speaks up in defense of the farmer. The samurai demanding payment takes issue with this and suggests stopping off on an island to duel with their swords. The other samurai agrees but talks to the boat driver and instructs him to ride away on the boat after the samurai gets off. So it actually is a old Japanese tale that this short movie has been based on which is pretty cool.

Moderator: I love how people applauded when the bus driver shut the door on the guy. Everybody just broke out into applause and I love how that happened.

Audience Member 3: What I love about this movie is that this guy who was so negative, he managed to unite all of those people on the bus who were strangers in their resistance towards his prejudice. So it was a positive outcome of something very negative, which is quite nice.

Audience Member 4: He’s just there, he’s going to catch the next bus.

Moderator: The funny thing is that he’s in the middle of nowhere, right? So maybe it’s one of those buses that picks everybody up in the city and then the drive out somewhere, so yeah. Although he did pick up the bananas for that girl so he can’t be that bad of a guy, right? It is a film that is very quite dramatic and then it has a very funny twist to it. So it’s kind of like this festival, we’re doing comedy and drama and it’s like a two-in-one in this five minute short.