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+Episode: 2957
+Title: HPR2957: Lord D's Film Reviews: Ever
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2957/hpr2957.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-24 13:51:04
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+This is HBR episode number 2957 for Tuesday the 3rd of December 2019.
+Today's show is entitled Lord D's film reviews Ever.
+It's part of the series Lord D's film reviews and it's hosted by Lost in Bronx.
+It's 17 minutes long and carries a clean flag.
+The summary is Lost in Bronx reviews a recent drama slash romance.
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+Hello, this is Lost in Bronx.
+Welcome to Lord D's film reviews.
+The movie review series that's named after Lord Drakkenbluth who was well known in this community.
+Today I will be reviewing a film called Ever EVER.
+It stars Wendy McComb and Christina Elizabeth Smith.
+It was directed and written by Josh Beck.
+It's available on youtube.com for free.
+You can find it by doing a search forever.
+The movie or you could probably go to Wendy McComb's page on youtube.com.
+Her last name is MC Capital C-O-L-M.
+And finally, the cinematography is by Micah Van Hove.
+And that's worth a special credit there because it was very pretty to look at.
+So I'll talk about that in a bit.
+Okay, so this film is freely available and there's a note right at the very beginning.
+First thing you see, it says this film has been made available for free by the filmmakers.
+If you enjoy it and would like to support the artists via PayPal at EverTheMovie at gmail.com.
+Either way, we're glad it's out, so thank you for watching.
+That's a note right at the very, very beginning.
+They've released this for free out into the wild.
+Okay, now I have five categories that I go through and each category has two questions that can be answered yes or no.
+A yes is worth one point.
+At the end we tally the points and that's our scale from zero to ten for a particular film.
+Okay, and my categories are plot, main characters, genre, construction, and payoff.
+So the first category plot does the plot make sense and or is it free of holes?
+And that's combined because if it's got too many holes, it doesn't make any sense.
+I give that a no and I'll explain that later when I get into this but there's a problem and I'll talk about that in a bit.
+So that gets a no right there.
+All right, the second question under plot is is it fairly original or not overdone?
+How does it feel? Does it feel like we're seeing a lot of this or was it something that seemed fresh?
+I'm going to give this a yes but as I describe it you may feel very differently just based on the description that I give you and the impression that it gives you.
+But I'll tell you why I gave this a yes later.
+Okay, main characters are they realistic?
+Yes, emphatically yes, they seem absolutely realistic to me.
+Two, do I care about them? Yes, yes I did.
+Okay, so that's main characters.
+Third category genre.
+Does it work for the plot?
+Yes, but the genre is very particular in this.
+It's a drama, it's also romance, it's also a kind of a coming out film, but not really.
+And again, I'll go into that a little bit later.
+The next question, was the genre a good choice or a good fit for this particular film?
+Could it have worked better in another genre or something like that?
+This could have been done in another genre I suppose, but I think it would have changed the film substantially to have done that.
+If you had set this in a historical period, suddenly we have what it was like to try to overcome the obstacles these characters have to deal with in a historical context,
+which changes the kind of struggle that they're going through if you'd made it a mystery that would have brought something else in.
+And much of what's important or what makes this film what it is would have gotten buried under a complicated plot or action or something like that.
+So yes, I think this is exactly what it needed to be.
+So that's a yes there.
+A category four, construction, the first question, how was the acting?
+Was the acting good? Yes, the acting was very good, the acting was tops, in fact.
+The second question, how was the production and or editing? Was it any good?
+And the answer is yes, the production and the editing were both extremely good.
+In fact, they get special notes for the cinematography by Micah Van Hove, and also the sound quality was excellent in this film.
+And that is often a real challenge for extremely low budget films, which this was.
+This was a low or no budget film, and very often sound is what gets the worst treatment in these sorts of situations,
+but they paid special attention to it. It sounded great. It looked very, very good.
+So yes, on that last category, the payoff.
+Okay, first question is, did the filmmakers seem to accomplish what they wanted?
+I'm also going to give this a no, but it harkens back to that element of the plot.
+When I left this film, that was nagging me. It was an issue that was nagging me.
+As I say, I will get into that in a bit. They're basically pinning on the same problem.
+These two questions. So that's a no right there.
+And finally, the second question is the film emotionally satisfying.
+Well, despite those problems, yes, it is emotionally satisfying. I was happy with the ending.
+Not that it necessarily has a happy ending. Actually, it more or less does.
+But I was happy with the ending. It made me feel satisfied. It made me feel like it was worth my time to watch it.
+So that was my categories and my questions. And as I say, each yes is worth a point.
+If you've been adding it up as we go, the total is 8.8 out of 10. That's a pretty good score.
+Now then, I'm in my car right now. I'm about to get started. I had to read all that so I couldn't drive while I was reading.
+But I will get into the plot and the things that I think matter for this film in just a moment.
+Okay, I'm on the road now.
+Ever is, obviously, it's a low budget film. It's an independent film. Very often independent films.
+They suffer from, well, many of them suffer from the same problems.
+As I say, cinematography can suffer sound very, very often suffers in low budget independent films.
+Acting very often suffers. They often have cast people that they can get as opposed to casting people who are really right for the role.
+So this is a film that does not have any of those problems. They really did cover those things. It's a pleasure to watch.
+The cinematography, as you might imagine, is not a lot of long tracking shots, wide landscape shots.
+Nothing quite like that. There's a lot of run and gun. There's a lot of handheld stuff going on with this thing.
+But it's done very well. And of course, you can see those techniques in high budget films as well.
+It doesn't get a knock because of that because they did it well and they did what they needed to do to tell this story.
+It looks good, in other words. It looks good. It sounds good.
+Ever is a drama. In parts, it's a heavy drama.
+It starts off with a young woman whose name is Ever. She's the eponymous character.
+Ever is in a serious relationship with a young man. It starts off there on a romantic date on the beach.
+There's a table there. There's food. It's a beautiful little thing and he's got the ring case. He's ready to pop the question.
+He's ready to commit to Ever and she's very clearly deeply in love with him.
+Well, he has to pick something up in their car, which is not on the beach. It's parked up by the road.
+So he goes up to the car and gets hit by a car that's driving by.
+Ever goes up there on the happiest day of her life and finds her now fiance dead lying on the side of the road.
+The car that hit him has pulled over to the side.
+That's the past. Time goes by. We see that Ever is just spinning her wheels.
+She's got a job at a bookstore. It's not a great job. Not a terrible job. Just a job.
+We see her with her family. She's got a sister. She's got a mother.
+And her mother's concerned about her. Her sister's concerned about her.
+But she doesn't really want to engage with life anymore.
+Things are pretty bad for her. We don't know where the father is just yet.
+That comes in later. And it's an important element.
+And it's important actually to my criticisms of this film.
+But Ever basically is at an appallingly low point in her life.
+This kind of creepy guy hits on her and she agrees to go on a date with this guy.
+Not so much because she's interested in him, but partly I think because her family's been nagging her to get out and do something with her life.
+And partly because this guy has been a bit of a past and she's like, well, whatever. Let's just try it.
+Well, he turns out to be a real creep and terrible date. In other words, she ends up walking the street on her own to get away from this date.
+Filled with despair over the state her life is in.
+And in a moment of weakness, she finds the front gate to an apartment building open.
+She climbs those stairs, goes all the way up to the roof, and goes to the edge of the roof.
+And we don't know exactly what she's going to do, but she's up there and it doesn't look good.
+When a woman who is up there already asks her to stop and she turns around and this is our second main character.
+The woman that she meets as a photographer, amateur photographer, and she was up there taking photos of the city at night.
+They strike up a conversation. I think they go grab something to eat and they laugh.
+And after a short amount of time, Ever is in a much better place emotionally.
+That's a good thing. So they begin spending time together, bit by bit.
+They go to parties together and slowly, Ever finds that she's not only starting to become alive again after this tragedy that occurred in her life,
+but also that she's developing feelings and the other woman feels the same way.
+In a way, you could see this as a coming out film because Ever has never had a lesbian romance in her life.
+But it also isn't a coming out because it's not especially a big deal, not to hurt, not to anybody else in the story.
+It just is what it is. And it also kind of illustrates the fact that
+when you're talking about honest feelings and when you're talking about getting over trauma, getting over grief and loss,
+in many ways, questions about sexuality are immaterial. They're secondary.
+At least that's what I feel this film is proposing.
+The term lesbian, I don't think, is ever used in the film.
+The question is brought up in context of, well, I like women, but I like men too.
+But it's really more about the person.
+Now, there are terms for that sort of thing. Pansexual is a term that people sometimes use.
+That term isn't used in this film either because it's immaterial.
+I think the point of the film is how you feel about a person matters more than the gender of that person.
+As I say, it isn't really a coming out film. It's a getting over grief film.
+Well, here's my problem with this movie.
+We don't know exactly what it is that drove her father apart from her.
+That's never really made clear and it's never super cemented, at least to my mind, where the wedge is.
+Well, I'm not sure, even after having watched it, I'm not sure if it's meant that
+ever's father is the one that hit her fiance.
+If that's the case, that's a ridiculous occurrence in the film because they were just on the beach.
+And this is just some random road by the beach that someone driving by hit her fiance.
+If that's the case, that's very badly constructed.
+Again, it's not clear, right?
+And if that isn't the reason why there's a wedge between her father and herself,
+then we never find out what the problem is.
+So the only problem that's bad enough in her life for the kind of reaction that she has,
+any time her father's mentioned, is this thing.
+What are the ridiculous odds that her father just happened to be driving by and just happened to be the one to kill this guy?
+That doesn't work for me.
+I don't think it's a very good plot point.
+So I had an issue with that and I have an issue with how the father fits into all this.
+Because if he's the one that killed the guy, that doesn't work.
+And if he's not, there's no explanation for it, so that doesn't work.
+At any rate, whatever her problem with her father, it's a real one to her.
+It's a major, major, major issue.
+It does get resolved by the end of the film.
+And I think it's resolved in a fairly organic way that is to say she comes to accept the loss of her old life.
+And her father seeks her forgiveness, either for the killing of her fiance or for some other unknown reason,
+but her father desperately seeks her forgiveness.
+And by the end of the film, she's able to move on to something new.
+Well, she and this young lady be together forever.
+We have no idea.
+That's not really the point of the film.
+Romance is an important part of this film, but it's not what the film is really about.
+This film is really about ever's journey from being broken to being whole again.
+When they become plays ever in this film, as I said,
+she does an outstanding job as this character who is extremely soft spoken.
+You might even say, mousey, but all of that hides a massive gulf of pain and anger that only gets to flare up every now and then.
+And when it does, it's pretty impressive.
+She's able to pull off ever's quiet moments, absolutely brilliantly.
+But when she gets riled up, you don't want to be in ever's sights.
+As her love interest, Christina Elizabeth Smith does an outstanding job trying to help ever get over this issue.
+And absolutely and totally misinterpreting the scale of pain that ever is going through.
+Now, it seems a little unrealistic at first when we first see how she's trying to help her.
+But I've seen people make appalling mistakes like this.
+Just really not quite getting what the person is going through because they themselves have never gone through anything like it before.
+Ever's girlfriend is in that position in this film and it's painful to watch.
+They get by it too.
+As I say, there is a happy ending to this film.
+Again, it doesn't necessarily mean that things are perfect or that their relationship will go on to be one of the great romances of the world.
+But it will go on and their lives will go on.
+I really enjoyed this movie.
+I was surprised at how well made it was for what it was.
+There are moments that I believe are probably improvised by the actors.
+There are some moments that were clearly scripted.
+But I don't fault it for those things because I know how hard it can be to integrate a lot of that material together when you have no money.
+For rehearsal, you have no time.
+You're probably not paying anybody, not any of the actors, the crew, anybody.
+This thing, they did an awful lot with absolutely nothing.
+And they deserve all the credit in the world.
+I do recommend Ever.
+8 out of 10 points, I think it's worth your time.
+Anyway, that was LordD's film reviews for the film ever available on youtube.com.
+And this has been Lost in Bronx.
+Thank you for listening.
+Take care.
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