Switch: If You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!

Switch is a 4-minute short animated film by the young French filmmakers Jean-Julien Pous and Pierre Prinzbach, who describe the film as “a metaphysical thought on the pressure of time on our society.”  Switch recently won the Jury Grand Prize, Folie-Ô-Skop, in Québec. The film takes place in a surreal world where people are born with clocks on their backs, and life nothing more than a constant rat-race.  Humanity, as portrayed through the eyes of a business-calibrated mannequin, is in a struggle within itself about the ever-increasing demands of time in the face of important choices that need to be made.  The mannequin attempts to cope with this struggle by doubling itself, which then leads to an infinite re-doubling of itself.  Its attempted solution only leads the mannequin to experience a sense of anonymity among the rapidly accumulating multitudes of its identical selves.  Further, the unsuccessful solution leads the mannequin’s frustrating journey to end in a state of solitude, confronted by a timeless, boundless oceanic world.

Switch: If You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!

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My Biggest Weakness? It’s Right Inside My Brain, But Right Now I’m Uncertain

The Biggest Weakness is a humorously bittersweet, but quite serious and absorbing 5-minute short film directed by Bradley Jackson.  The story takes place within the context of one of today’s most widely spread urgent concerns, unemployment and the grave difficulties one faces in trying to secure a new job in a very competitive environment.  Specifically, in this film Leonard needs a job, but in order to get one he has to come up with an answer to everyone’s least favorite interview question: “What is your biggest weakness?“

Leonard rehearses a number of different approaches that he could take in answering that question.  First, he tries to come up with an answer that would turn weakness into strength (he works too hard, cares about the job maybe too much), but that wouldn’t work.  So then Leonard practices a script based on how confident he is, but that only makes him sound like an obnoxious bragger.  For his next attempt, he takes an opposite approach, preparing a scenario based on honesty, confessing his weaknesses in terms of how personally flawed and vulnerable he is.  Well, that approach sounds just plain awful.

Finally, he rehearses an approach that’s like a delicate dance, a balancing act between seeming too humble versus acting overly confident.  But that doesn’t work either.  In the end, Leonard concludes that for him it all comes down to having a sense of humility, as he responds to the interviewer’s question by admitting that his biggest weakness is being indecisive, for example that he was completely uncertain about how to answer the question.  But he continues by vowing to do his best to find out more about his weakness, and that he’ll try his hardest to turn his weakness into a major strength on the job.

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My Biggest Weakness? It’s Right Inside My Brain, But Right Now I’m Uncertain

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Hmmm….Looks Like He’s Doin’ Something There On Company Time….

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Just Found Some Money in That Ponzi-Scheme Hedge Fund! Let’s Have a Drink!

Ah, those wonderful hedge funds, they were all so sexy with their “rich people only” requirements and secretive investments. When Bernard Madoff, finally admitted that his hedge fund was “all just one big lie” and a “giant Ponzi scheme”, it was estimated that his investors lost over $65 billion. This makes it one of the largest cases of investor fraud and definitely largest Ponzi scheme in history. The SEC said it appeared that virtually all of the assets of his hedge fund business were missing. Ooops! Now, five months after Madoff’s massive fraud was revealed, very little of his victims’ money has been found. It appears increasingly likely that the worldwide hunt for the missing billions could drag on for years. So far, only about $1 billion has been located, a tiny fraction of the $65 billion the confessed con man stole from his investors.

But our secret, super-duper professional accountant team has been hard at work in their undercover investigation of every tiny, itsy-bitsy detail of this horrible detailed financial web. And lo and behold, the two of them just found some more money that had been hidden away in that Ponzi-Scheme hedge fund! Yes indeedy, the financial figures are looking better and better, and our super-duper accountant investigators are goin’ to celebrate their glorious achievement by having themselves a little drink! Or maybe two. Or just maybe more….

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Found Some Money in That Ponzi-Scheme Hedge Fund! Let’s Have a Drink!

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