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Out follows Greg (Kyle McDaniel), a young gay man that's struggling with the decision to come out to his parents. But things get crazy when they unexpectedly visit him to help him move, and he ends up with his mind swapped with his dog, Jim. Greg/Jim then spends the rest of the short trying to hide any evidence of him being gay from his parents.
I'm not gay, but I can only assume that coming out has never been easy. Stigmas and discrimination makes the process really hard on everybody involved, and more often than not, people get hurt in the process. However, sometimes the hurt doesn't necessarily come from the "revelation", but rather from the lack of communication and trust between the family.
That's what happens with Greg's mom (Bernadette Sullivan) when she says the above quote. In his efforts to prevent his mom from looking at a picture of him with his boyfriend, Greg/Jim bites her. But ultimately, the hurt doesn't come from the bite or from her son being gay, but from losing that connection between each other.
The fact that it is inspired in director/writer Steven Hunter's own life experience only makes it more real... except for the mind-swap thing, of course. Maybe the way that mind-swapped thing is tossed in there seems a bit odd and out-of-left-field, but it does reinforce the theme of "pretending to be something else", while also putting out the way that we hurt others while trying to hide who we are.
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OUT
(2020, Hunter)
(2020, Hunter)
"This hurts... This *really* hurts."
Out follows Greg (Kyle McDaniel), a young gay man that's struggling with the decision to come out to his parents. But things get crazy when they unexpectedly visit him to help him move, and he ends up with his mind swapped with his dog, Jim. Greg/Jim then spends the rest of the short trying to hide any evidence of him being gay from his parents.
I'm not gay, but I can only assume that coming out has never been easy. Stigmas and discrimination makes the process really hard on everybody involved, and more often than not, people get hurt in the process. However, sometimes the hurt doesn't necessarily come from the "revelation", but rather from the lack of communication and trust between the family.
That's what happens with Greg's mom (Bernadette Sullivan) when she says the above quote. In his efforts to prevent his mom from looking at a picture of him with his boyfriend, Greg/Jim bites her. But ultimately, the hurt doesn't come from the bite or from her son being gay, but from losing that connection between each other.
The fact that it is inspired in director/writer Steven Hunter's own life experience only makes it more real... except for the mind-swap thing, of course. Maybe the way that mind-swapped thing is tossed in there seems a bit odd and out-of-left-field, but it does reinforce the theme of "pretending to be something else", while also putting out the way that we hurt others while trying to hide who we are.
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