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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, May 29th, 2012 2:20pm PDT - promote requested by pumkinandstorm.

Enthralling, but two questions:
* Is it true or a story? Because it's unclear from the Vimeo description, only that this guy is Daniel P Jones whom he met on the day he was released from prison. And who is an actor in his feature length film 'Hail'. I'm going with true, but... well... just that it's not stated makes me feel it might not be.
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* Why is it called Cicada? He doesn't mention them in the story, there's no tying in to the sound they make or anything... odd.

Can someone summarize the story?

"Put a scratch in my record..."

When he was a kid, he was at a bar, as he hung about and got attention while his mom was at work.

One day, he is handing someone some darts, and a man with a double barrel shotgun blows the guys head off.

He describes the aftermath and the reaction of the adults around him.

If he's a liar, he's one of the worlds best... his eyes say truth

upvote for 'hope is a word with a big hole in it'

"It becomes a part of you." So much so, you have to dig it out of your scalp.

Question for all you movie people out there - WHY are there so many names at the end. This is a one shot of one guy talking. There couldn't possibly be an entire production crew behind this - Unless he is just an actor and this is just all fake.

If this is real, and this many people were needed, then this is a classic example of why it costs so much to make a movie in Hollywood. (Post Production Script? Key Artwork? Producer and ASS. Producer?)

Someone should let them know they could have made this with one person, an iPhone and a personal computer.

Perhaps this will shed some light on the subject:

"We posted the cut-from-real-life short drama Cicada a fortnight ago, and now we have the teaser trailer for Amiel Courtin-Wilson's feature follow up, simply titled Hail.

Hail is the evolved beast-cousin of Cicada, and is another docu-drama based on the real life stories of actor and ex-con Daniel P. Jones. The Hollywood Reporter describes it much better than I could:

Daniel P. Jones is an artistically inclined ex-convict playing a lightly fictionalized version of himself in Aussie auteur Amiel Courtin-Wilson's out-there docu-drama. Dissonant and brutal, but also unexpectedly tender, Hail melds coarse reality, extreme close-ups, nightmarish montages - including one featuring a dead horse falling from the sky - and a soundtrack that's alternately jarring and lovely.

Hail was the first Australian dramatic feature in nearly a decade to screen at the Venice International Film Festival and today we have word that the film has also been selected for Rotterdam, which starts later this month.

Now to that dead horse. As you can see in the teaser trailer below, the film features a sequence with a horse being dropped from a plane and falling slowly towards earth. It's pure madness, and 100% real. And I'm hoping makes sense in the final film. Tarsem eat your heart out!"
http://twitchfilm.com/news/2012/01/horses-rain-from-the-heavens-in-hail.php