This won Best Live Action short at this year's Oscars. It has a great twist that in any other timeline would be comedic but here is definitely being played as serious.Jaydee (Ashley Thomas) smiles across a supermarket aisle at a little white boy (Jackson Robert Scott), sparking a confrontation from the boy's white supremacist father (Jonathan Tucker), who calls his friends and attack Jaydee in the parking lot in front of his wife (Shelley Francisco) and son (Lonny Chavis). Later, a group of Jaydee's friends abduct his attacker in front of his son, drug him, and tattoo every inch of his skin black.
I was really trying to prepare myself for this film to end violently. The setup is there and there's been too many real news stories that start exactly like this for me to hope for a happy ending. As it was, the ending felt like a surprise and yet inevitable, which is good. My only real complaint is that the majority of characters aren't referred to by name and one of those names is wrong on IMDb. I just find that irritating.
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