TURKEY
by Amanda Lomonaco

Review of the short film.
Played at the September 2015 WILDsound FEEDBACK Film Festival.
http://www.wildsoundfestival.com/september_2015_film_festival.html

Turkey is set in a credibly typical and familiar scenario to many North American families; the yearly drama that surrounds Thanksgiving. Of course, those same tragedies are always much funnier when they’re happening to someone else, a fact that Turkey takes plenty of advantage of. Moreover, by centering the film around Thanksgiving, and in particular around the world “turkey”, the film is provides even more comedic relief by suing different definitions of the word as “introductions” to certain scenes.

You know the scriptwriters have done something right when you continue to cheer for a main character even after they’ve done something terrible. Some of the reason for this might be the fact that the horrible act in question is kept hidden for most of the film. Maybe we can’t help but…