Video games inspire their own personality types, I guess. I’m not a gamer, but I’m happy to report that I was amused by writer/director Todd Wolfe’s short feature “We Need to Talk.”
The star here is a video game influencer who calls himself Great Scott (James Maslow), complete with T-shirt. I had to look up the term “influencer,” which shows you how far out of gaming I am.
Scott’s work (if you can call it that) is to allow his fans to watch him play new video games and listen to him comment on them on the way by. His knowledge of gaming – and his sense of humor – have attracted a pretty good audience.
What could go wrong? Scott is even lucky enough to have a beautiful girlfriend named Aly (Christal Khalil), who one day, as she walks out the door, says “We need to talk.”
Now that’s a locution I understand. It’s fraught with all kinds of possibilities, none of them positive.
Poor old Scott is also aware of that, and we get to watch his Iife disintegrate before our eyes, pondering what she meant by that. He’ll spend the rest of the film looking for the answer (just calling Aly doesn’t work).
But hey, you say, here’s a guy with millions of fans who depend on his analysis of the latest games. What’s the problem? Well, Scott may come across as all-knowing in the unreal world, but deep down he’s got some earthbound insecurities that he likes to pretend don’t exist. And “We need to talk” does not help.
Wolfe has created a delightful, funny, and even thought-provoking piece that just might make us all reflect a bit on how to treat those people who fill our days (and nights) with work, amusement, delight and even love.
“We Need To Talk” is short (about an hour and a half), snappy and fun to watch. It will be released on digital platforms from Global Digital Releasing on May 13.
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