Marina Del Rey 2022 Shorts Review: MASK, A Compelling Reminder To Those Who Feel Alone
TRIGGER WARNING: This review discusses suicide and PTSD. While FCSyndicate has largely taken notice to Peter Jang’s work in the stunt arena over the years, he’s continued to further showcase himself beyond cinematic fight scenes and wrecks, invoking an intent to one day take the mantle as a bonafide filmmaker, with a diverse repetoire of his own ideas to share with audiences en masse. Audiences at this year’s Marina Del Rey Film Festival will get to sample a little of this as Jang dives deep into the torured psyche of an ex-veteran coping with the loss of a fellow soldier and friend in the new shortfilm drama, Mask. The opening two minutes are a medley of explosive, violent and torturous audibles of warfare and voices inside the head of Nick (Peter Jang), an ex-soldier already in the middle of a nightmaring pounding session on the bags at his local boxing […]