In news that shocked the world, God announced that He would grant the world an interview, but that he would only do it with one person – New Jersey insurance clerk Ike. Oh, and He will only field question on the subject of cooking.
This is a very low budget short film, playing out in only a couple of contained locations, and as such it is tempting to like it more than it perhaps deserves. Certainly the very limited scope of it does need you to go with it, but it helps that it gets a nice note of absurdity and honesty too. There is material in there about our relationship with God (or rather His with us) and about our propensity to essentially work our own planet into dust; these are generally presented in some nicely funny lines and moments – it is all very broad, and it moves at pace, but for all its limited scope, it does work pretty well.
It does have a very low-tech feel to it, which I guess is part of the very low budget, but also feels like an aesthetic decision as part of masking that low budget and working with it (for example the old television set and the dated period look of much of the technology – even if at least one cultural reference places it much later than the period it looks like it is in). Not an amazing short film perhaps but one that makes good work of what it has. I would have liked the material to reach out more, but it is still funny and has good pace.
