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Please Hold
2020 · Film · short · 18 min
Directed by K.D. Dávila
A young man’s life is suddenly and inexplicably derailed, as he finds himself at the mercy of automated ‘justice’.
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The future iterations of this are purely terrifying. This is so elegantly demonstrated by the Oscar Nominated short film “Please Hold” from 2022. Picked up by mistake by a roving police drone, a young man is incarcerated autonomously and has no way of release outside of money or time.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11383280/?lang=en&ref_=ext_shr_lnk
There aren’t many three sigma customers, and it’s cheaper to drop you then fix the bug.
You might like the short film “Please Hold” for a more nuanced take.
Reminds me of one of the Oscar nominated live action short films this year, "Please Hold". It takes this dystopian concept to the extreme, where a man is subjected to an automated justice system and has very little rights to speak with humans in the process. Not my favorite of the nominations, but an interesting watch: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11383280/
This post reminds me of an interesting short film on HBO now called "Please Hold".