A wildly funny short film starring Joshua Malina ("The West Wing" fame) as a nerd-looking, charismatic poster boy of "Ditched", a revolutionary
dating app that connect recently divorced people in finding a match and building new relationships.
In this commercial parody, the actor presents
successful yet crazed stories about many men and women who found something in common by using the app, a series of unbelievable and hilarious scenarios
where love doesn't seem to get in the first place, as those folks were all traumatized by the end of their marriage, they lost confidence in
another human being, so basically what's left are sharing the burden, the pain or maybe connect with what's obsessing their minds (like the
guy who cries as he eats chocolate; or the lady who complains about the kissing scene from "The Notebook" - "no one makes out in the rain!").
Despite the absurdity of it all, there's plenty of relevance in this humored critique on fantastic apps and how users experience good and
bad things, especially dating and hooking apps and their ideas of using algorhythms, profile particularities and peculiarities in order to form
a match, then comes the exchange of contacts, personal or not, and even so it can go wrong or far from one's ideals. And to those characters featured
in the film, it's a more complicated issue going back in the game after long relationships, the positive parts of it all and also the traumas or negative
stuff that stays behind. "Ditched" finds the right part in showing the humanity and the weirdness that inhabits us all, and it rewards with big
laughs all the way through. 8/10.
