(2005)

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Not A Lot Of People Know This
Theo Robertson22 September 2005
Warning: Spoilers
... But EVER AFTER reminded me of ALFIE

!!!! SPOILERS !!!!

Set in the early 1960s and featuring a lovable rogue who is too good looking by half , makes the most of his good looks and directly addresses the audience you can see why I thought this . Guy seduces June a hyperactive redhead followed by Antonia a punctual home maker but having two girls on the go isn't enough for Guy so he then seduces Gaia followed by Verma and it's this that leads to his downfall

Actually the more I think about EVER AFTER the less it seems like ALFIE because at least the eponymous character of the Michael Caine movie did receive some form of redemption and you can always relate to someone who's a bit of a lad , with Guy however he is shown as an arrogant bully and does something with a shoe that loses any sympathy the audience had with him

All in all EVER AFTER is an entertaining enough short with some flaws - perhaps Guy could have been developed slightly more and despite having smooth good looks Tom Swire comes across as slightly stagy - And some good points with Deri Roberts jazz funk score being very pleasing to the ear
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A poor story weakly told
bob the moo15 September 2005
Guy has yet to find one woman that totally does it for him – however he has met at least three that do it. One has a wild social life, another likes early nights and cleaning, another is a sexual dynamo and the final one is a real mystery. His four-timing works well for quite a while until it transpires that the four are all friends in the same club and are waiting for him to come home so they can confront him with their discovery.

Not quite sure what to say about this short because, aside from the message that men constrain the liberation of women, it doesn't have a great deal to say and doesn't do much of value. The story tells us Guy's view of the women looking back before jumping back to the present to see how the women deal with him – hence the "moral" of the story. However it is quite dully delivered and it never gives us a chance to get into the characters, although that may be a good thing. The women are simply painted but this is mainly because it is Guy's viewpoint, while Guy himself is about as smarmy and unattractive a person as he could have been written without making it a total mystery as to why he got the girls. This limits the story (for what it is) and means that we care for none of them or their stories.

The cast can't help and the women are just present rather than being people. Swire is too obvious and he made for a poor leading role. The direction is OK and only really limited by budget at times, however Carvalho needed more work on the people in the story more than anything else. Overall then a strange short film that mostly fails in terms of being interesting and entertaining – not really worth watching even if it drops in your lap.
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