Review: Seeing the truth...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 4, 2012
I like Mary Calmes,  but she has this intensity you have to be willing to buy into,  or it can all feel a bit melodramatic.  I like a bit of melodrama and passion and angst,  so this piece works for me.  It's very short,  perhaps too short for the amount of story it's trying to tell.Eli/Jake is on the run from old ghosts and thinks it might be time to see his family,  but he is very ambivalent.  His brother, Chase,  (who I liked a lot) bumps into him and encourages him to come home.  His lover Craig is also chasing after him,  wanting him to come home.  And Eli is collapsing under the weight of everyone's expectations.It's 1455 locations,  and I think it could have been double that to tell the same story,  so it felt a bit rushed to me,  which is why I gave it 4 stars,  but I do rate is a keeper and a reread,  just wish it had been allowed to unfold more slowly.