The Parlor

2001
11 min

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Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaA group of people are gathered in a room, which is a "live" depiction of a typical Internet chat room. Some pretends to be much younger than they are, to chat up minors. Two of them falls vi... Ler tudoA group of people are gathered in a room, which is a "live" depiction of a typical Internet chat room. Some pretends to be much younger than they are, to chat up minors. Two of them falls victim of their own scam in a surprising way.A group of people are gathered in a room, which is a "live" depiction of a typical Internet chat room. Some pretends to be much younger than they are, to chat up minors. Two of them falls victim of their own scam in a surprising way.

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8,1/10

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Scarface-18

Funny

This is a funny satire of the whole chat room thing. An unflinching and painfully hilarious look at the secret lives of the most unsuspecting people. I'd like to see the writer/director of this short to break into feature film. This man is a genius.

LostRomantic23

not bad at all!

I found this on a friend's profile on Instant Messenger, and at first had no idea what it was. Up until the last two minutes or so, I was very confused, but I'm glad I kept watching until the end ... upon finishing the clip, I came to IMDb to see exactly what it was: a short film, an excerpt from something, etc. I would love to see this more of this man's work; I'd REALLY like to see this piece go to Cannes or Sundance if it hasn't already -- I can see it winning an award. Definitely check it out.

Deathpod

Where oh where is the funniest thing I saw in 2001?

This short had me howling at the accuracies of my chat room addiction days of the late 90's. I really wish I could find a copy of this somewhere, so very well thought out and executed. I believe this won the Sundance "Best Short" award, or something to that effect, for 2001.

10mgafm

So cool

I love short films, but but this was more than I expected. It was simply cool beyond words. And the twisted ending was brilliant. Overall, more than worth spending the ten minutes or so to watch it. Its sort of weird trying to figure out what's going on, and once you do it is just hilarious. I enjoyed the mind games.

10diswiz

Simply Amazing

Only a few words come to mind after watching this film, and those are, in slang, OMG... It is simply fantastic. The cast was very well chosen, the direction was right on target, and the overall "pazzazz" of the film was high and mighty.

9.7/10 --- Superior

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This short coincidentally had much in common with the real life crimes of Lorne Lynn Armstrong. The character of "Jerry" has a similar appearance to Armstrong (bald head) and is chatting with an underage blonde girl who has a boyfriend named "Derek". In real life, Lorne Armstrong was caught by the vigilante group Perverted Justice for chatting online to a decoy posing as an underage blonde girl who was named "Kayla" ad surprisingly had a so-called ex boyfriend named Derek. This all happened in 2007 (six years after this short). Armstrong was later caught and exposed on NBC's To Catch a Predator episode, Bowling Green, Kentucky.

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Jerry: Cool name.
Mandybear: Thanks.
Jerry: Do you like bears?
Mandybear: They're okay, I guess.
Jerry: Yeah. I think bears are definitely where it's at. So how old are you?
Mandybear: I'm 14. You?
Jerry: [Jerry is obviously a middle-aged man] I'm 15.
Mandybear: Cool.