What happens when political sycophancy goes over the edge? Bad things happen as they do In this startling piece of filmmaking.
In a word, WOW. There are so many virtues to the film starting with its overall look. The visuals were clear and precise. As someone with both a hearing and vision challenge, the cinematography and sound made the viewing easy and enjoyable.
Jaimie Andrews is the star and Executive Producer as well as the writer, and she has fashioned a script that is gripping, provocative, and compelling. Creating and filming dialogue to reflect the realities of the pandemic is not an easy thing and can often turn to too much tell and not enough show. Andrews understood the challenge and the dialogue was well paced and did the job without slowing the action.
Using cell phones, speeches delivered to the camera, and the split screens more than offset the amount of verbiage needed to fill each scene.
For an independent film, the cast was exceptional. In addition to Andrews as the love torn, sympathetic and tragic Andi, her male antagonist (Joshua Drew Payne) was superb as a smoldering presence turned lethal. His equally mind-numbed housemate (David Lee Carver), Andi's girlfriend (KD O'Hair), her neighbor (Corrye Harden) and fiancée (Curt Bonnem) all made their small parts larger.
In sum, DIVISION, despite its ugly themes and tragic ending, was an exciting surprise and one worth adding to the political film library of the runup to the 2024 election cycle.
