Documentary Treatment

     Sixteen-year-olds Max Poscente and Jonah Smith have known each other since preschool. The two boys have always had a lot in common: Their love for star wars, their taste in women, their musical talent, and more. But with too many similarities, can the competition aspect of their friendship drive a wedge between them?      
     Jonah and Max started attending Zound Sounds, a music school in Dallas at a very young age. When their music careers began to develop, they found themselves head to head in many situations. While their relationship grew strong for years, it had always been easy for Max and Jonah to hold grudges against each other for even the most trivial reasons. After having attended school together for many years on end, Max and Jonah found themselves separated in 8th grade. One at White Rock Montessori and one at Shelton, they grew distant and began to dislike each other for a reason even they couldn't tell you.
     When Jonah started his band Plowboy, and Max his former band The Psycho Sonics, jealously became an even more distinct factor. Their freshman year at Booker T. Washington High School For The Performing And Visual Arts hit Max and Jonah with the realization that they were stuck with each other for four years, whether they liked it or not. Regardless of the underlying rivalry, the boys had grown up together, so in a way their friendship sort of picked up where it had left off.
     After surviving their freshman year, adapting to new circumstances and new environments, we've arrived at the present. New friendships came and went yet here stands Max and Jonah, brothers, in the most literal way it can be taken without actual blood relation. They truly have been through a lot together, and their unique bond in unlike any other.
     In this documentary, you will hear opinions, insight, and stories from band members, childhood friends, teachers and more in order to explore the ins and outs of a friendship like this. Jonah and Max will talk about their sides, and points of view and you will be taken into the childhoods that raised this friendship to be what it is today.

"The Future" Movie Review

"The Future" is a very very strange, obscure film about a couple who are going to adopt a cat with an injured paw when the cat gets released from the vet. The story is narrated by the cat who is personified using a creepy, yet pitiful voice. The cat is depressed and pessimistic about making it out of that cage in the vet alive, as the main story follows the couple's relationship complications throughout the waiting period they have before taking their cat home. The film as a whole is very sad and makes you rethink a lot of things about your current state of being. If you are already sad, don't watch this film- for it will make you more sad. It will make you very, very depressed. And if you're like me and initially skipped to the end to make the sad stop, you will be disappointed as well when you find the sad just increases as the film progresses. Above all, I enjoyed the film. It has many complex, profound qualities that in turn are quite stimulating.
I think you should watch it as well, just don't expect anything too uplifting.