When
Bonnie Clayton (Samantha Jane Polay) wakes up in her bed
after a terrifying nightmare, she has no clue that her
nightmare will resemble a pleasant daydream when her actual
life catches up with her.
So begins Alex Ferrari's directorial debut, Broken.
What is special about Broken is that it is designed
to push all boundaries about what you can do with "no
money". As such, while the storyline that's actually
shown in this short film is extremely brief and inconclusive,
it's designed to be seen as twenty minutes that could
have easily been ported straight out of a two hour action
blockbuster. This makes reviewing it challenging, but
I've always been up for a good challenge, so let us carry
on.
When
Bonnie stumbles from her room to get a drink of OJ from
the fridge after waking up from her bad dream, she discovers
that she is not alone in her apartment. At first she suspects
that her boyfriend, Christian, is in the house with her,
but quickly reassesses this when she realizes that the
man and woman who now lurk in the shadows are people she's
never seen before. She doesn't have time to dwell on this
due to the fact that she's quickly knocked out by the
overly athletic female and strapped to an antique wheel
chair. When she finally comes to, she finds that she's
in a ruined basement that seems to have come straight
from Midway's video game, The Suffering.
Held
against her will she must discover who the man who holds
her is and who the mysterious "Management" that
he works for is.
