IPS (to avoid the IMDb auto-censor) is a short film that offers little in the way of narrative. We are stuck with a parade of police cadets, who are then hazed over a brutal day of training. There isn't much to say more than this, although the film does seem to have a point right at the end when it moves to focus on the experience of one cadet over the others. For the most part it is very much a documentary style approach, wholly observational with no dialogue in terms of character development or story-led. Instead it is a raw experience and it works pretty well as such. Towards the end there is an attempt to deliver a message that I read is about bias in the workplace, but I'm not sure it works in the moment - instead it just shows one character having worse treatment out of nowhere. I guess is its point, but because the film had been so matter-of-fact about bad treatment, it didn't work that it sort of needed you to reflect on this one moment.
