Trent Dickens’ PANDA Is An Illusory Love Story With A Body Count
On par for the course of this year’s film festivals is actor and filmmaker Trent Dickens, just shy of a decade in the entertainment field and having worn multiple hats on a number of TV and film productions to date. His shortfilm debut now takes shape with Panda, a compelling, almost bewildering character drama at times that isn’t afraid to take a left turn somewhere in its reaffirming symbolic plot points and story tools. The choice of a panda mask is what intrigues me the most in that whenever I think of pandas, I’m reminded of viral videos of these adorable, playful animals with limited intellect who run amuck an can’t stand or sit still for long periods of time. With Dickens, as he immerses you in much of Mississippi’s dark, dreary, suburban millieu, our Panda (Jordan Salloum) is a grown man with multiple, dangerous addictions. Wherever he goes, the […]
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