A woman afflicted with an unfortunate hunchback is not give the proper medical clearance to fly. So with with grit, spit and determination decides to rebuild a junker that will prove to all no perceived disability will prevent her dream. Though you want the end to be more grounded in reality, metaphorically speaking we can be rewarded for our efforts in some spiritual way. We can assume a few things in the wake of the end result but I imagined angels. Which require no Earthbound logic.
8 Reviews
Just why
plasmasphinx5 February 2020
Warning: Spoilers
This short is a strange mix of bizarre surrealness and Hollywood pandering. With impressive visuals and voice acting, I was onboard with how uncomfortable I felt until the film subverts itself at the end. At first I thought our protagonist would come to terms with her disability. But alas, the moral of the story is that you should either A) destroy any prosthetic you have (after all, they were made for you to be ashamed of who you are, not to help you in your day-to-day life), or B) wait for magic to happen so that you don't have to live with a disability anymore. Honestly, I thought these days we had moved forward to the point where disabled people could be depicted with dignity, but nope.
...And Then She Fell Out Of Bed And Broke Her Neck
boblipton3 February 2020
A woman who has such a hunchback that she can only look down dreams of becoming a pilot so she can see the world in the only attitude she knows: from above. When her physical disability means she can't become a pilot, she decides to become one anyway, by repairing a crashed airplane in a junkyard..
I sat through to the end of this short, wondering how it was going to turn out. Would Henrietta be heartbroken? Would the plane fly? Instead, it went off into an ending that came out of left field and made absolute mush out of the issues of the story.
Sometimes the people who create stories chicken out and avoid the issues by having their protagonists wake up. That turns any attempt to tell a story into something utterly pointless.
I sat through to the end of this short, wondering how it was going to turn out. Would Henrietta be heartbroken? Would the plane fly? Instead, it went off into an ending that came out of left field and made absolute mush out of the issues of the story.
Sometimes the people who create stories chicken out and avoid the issues by having their protagonists wake up. That turns any attempt to tell a story into something utterly pointless.
I was left with a question
jatonangel8 February 2020
She wanted to look down on the world from the sky. However, she couldn't legally become an airplane pilot because of her disability. But did that mean she couldn't be a passenger? Why couldn't she just buy a plane ticket and look out the window? Or ride on a hot air balloon? Or helicopter? It sounds silly but I could not get past this.
Visually beautiful though, especially that landfill, and the plane, and the little town she built below it.
Visually beautiful though, especially that landfill, and the plane, and the little town she built below it.
Sweet and Strange and Beautiful
ACMproducer8 February 2020
Well I found it hilarious
christinamurphy964 February 2020
You got to be kidding me
jmacbomb22 April 2020
No doubt about it, Rachel Johnson has talent
walt222 September 2021
This is the story of a Henrietta Bulkowski, a young woman with kyphosis, who wants to become a pilot. It is set in what appears to be the 1930's in what seems to be Canada. Henrietta (Christina Hendricks) has help from a male friend, Danny Wilcox (Chris Cooper) in her attempt to accomplish her dream. The story starts out as a tale about a young woman bravely trying to deal with the hand that life dealt her, then the story changes. It really changes! The movie suddenly and shockingly becomes a different film. The short is bipolar! The movie is great to look at, obviously a good sum of money was spent here. Writer/director Rachel Johnson is gifted and "Henrietta Bulkowski" is worth seeing, but prepare to be startled.
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