Judas Kiss

Zachary Wells returns to his alma mater to judge their annual film festival, but when one of the nominated films is the film he'd won with fifteen years earlier, submitted by a student that bears the same name he used to bear, Zachary realizes he has been given a chance, by God or whoever, to change his life. A life that includes a going-nowhere career and a stint in rehab. As he figures out what's going on, he's forced to examine where things went wrong, and what could have been done to make things better.

I'll be honest. I bought this film because the cast includes Sean Paul Lockhart, whose absolutely adorable everything has had me smitten since his role in Big Gay Musical. His performance in here was equally beautiful, but equally powerhouse performances were given by Charlie David as the tormented filmmaker, and Richard Harmon as the tormented filmmaker's earlier self. The campus setting was gorgeous and the direction included some brilliantly lit and breath-taking scenes that captured not only the mystery of the temporal flux, but the magic of life's little unexpected moments of clarity.

It is a film of second chances. It makes you think, if you could go back and change one moment in time, what would it be? Roller coasters might not run in reverse but in life, you CAN fix things. When those crossroads moments come, which way do you choose? What are you willing to give up for a chance at fame and fortune? Do you trade in a chance at love for a chance for glory?

Young me, this is old you: don't fuck up. Watch this film.

This has been a bobert review.