FAULTLINES

FAULTLINES,Curtesy of Shorts Nonstop Productions, Inc.

Fault lines  centers on the breech of the family structure. The family unit. And a man in his middle years is driven by madness, leading to violence,and possibly murder? This is a very intense short series, but boy! It is very intense, primal even.

But what made me fall off my chair, hysterically laughing, was that what he killed, was a rooster?!

The story unfolds with a rage which suddenly grips a man, with no apparent motive, shoves his wife out the way (although the series never tells you why),then he proceeds to get a riffle and begins shooting at something. At first, we think it's the wife who's getting "whacked", but no. When the whole drama, which unfolds, is over, and one looks out the window to see what got "hit". We see a rooster.

All that anger, all that rage, believing he would kill a member of his own family, come to find out,he was upset because he wanted chicken and there wasn't any available(I guess Ireland, where the series was shot, is devoid of poultry!)

And therefore kills his wife's pet rooster instead.

This was hilarious to say the least! And well made, very clever!

This was a surprise "farce" which was, in five minutes, GENIUS!

I give it FIVE STARS