Girl Walks Into a Bar
sounds pretty awesome from its title alone. The intrigue and mystery is enough
to raise interest, even if we aren't entirely sure what the film is about.
Fortunately for viewers the film is able to sustain some of the anonymity, but
loses something each time it fades to black.
In Los Angeles, things get started after the sun sets. Told over
the course of one night, a group of apparent strangers visit ten bars
throughout the city. At the end of
the eighty-minute film, we get to see that our characters aren't quite the
strangers we thought they were as their stories become interwoven with one
another.
Girl Walks into a Bar was
actually released on YouTube the same night that it premiered at the SXSW Film
Festival. Watching it on the
internet is certainly better than seeing it in a movie theater as Girl Walks Into a Bar is told in
vignettes, short scenes that tell one particular story. At the end of one of
these scenes, the film fades out and then reopens to a new scene. This style of
storytelling is much more appreciated on the web, so it makes sense that it was
touted as "the first feature film with notable stars made expressly for the
internet."
A lot of the dialogue was sharp so the film moved at an even
pace. Some of the plot points died off without any clear reason, while others
seemed out of place. With so much to explore, I felt the film had tons of room to grow, but never reached its full potential.
Don't get me wrong; I thought that for the most part the film was
good, as was most of the acting.
But Girl Walks into a Bar began
to feel gimmicky after awhile with a new celebrity popping up in each scene. It
was fun at first, until it got a bit mundane and wasn't.
