By Terry Sherwood
Illuminating the downtrodden is what Director Thomas Bayne’s short film Washed Up is all about with a tinge of criminality. Mike (Brendon Cobia), an expectant father arrives late for a car wash heist with his lifelong friend Aaron (Christopher Dietrick).
The two play rock paper scissors and bust in while remarking on their lives. Stuffing the dough in bags, gloating about how this is a good thing, the bag handles break turning things Absurd.
The two push the bags like Sisyphus senselessly pushing a boulder up a mountain only to have it slip back. Police crash the scene and Mike locks himself in a room.
Captured Aaron seeing Mike with the money in the alley as he is driving in the police vehicle says nothing.
Loyalty despite betrayal for a friend as Aaron looks pathetically out the rear window playing rock paper scissors for the final time.
Washed Up screens as part of Panic Fest 2024.
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