Finding Emo is a comedic short about twenty-some-things that find each other in the most unlikely of locations, a small town bar. Emo Ian has been hurt by his only true love, he is afraid to admit he has lost it. He pines alone and out loud, as only he can, and is confronted by a seemingly stereotypical college coed; Drunk Debbie.
On the surface Finding Emo is a Classic Hollywood Narrative, but what lies underneath is a plot riddled with gender role swapping, juxtaposition of character and a new breed of antagonist. Emo may sound like it is up its own ass but rest assured while it’s up there its having a good laugh at itself.
Ian and Debbie converge, in this dialog driven short, and have a conversation that drives them across a gamut of emotion: from laughter to near awkward confession, baseball to Nietzsche, social roles and introverts, high school jocks to women’s jeans and the application there of, and of course from Bertram Russell to Kansas. Ian and Debbie don’t always understand each other’s words and definitely don’t understand each other’s lifestyles but they seem to be engaged with each other’s mentalities.
When it all comes down to it, Ian and Debbie are two very different creatures. Here in lies the conflict. Debbie with her no non-sense “Why don’t you just go pick up another chick? At the skate park!” attitude and Ian’s, “The only rational attitude is one of unyielding despair. Bertram Russell said that.” stance could not be farther from each other. Yet they both seem to learn a little bit about life and themselves from each other. That is until Ian ruins it all.
Debbie is disheartened by Ian’s attitude towards her and force’s herself to leave his side, even though she wants to help out her old classmate that she never really knew. But fate steps in and deals Ian the winning bullet in his own game of Russian roulette. Outside in a chance confrontation they meet again to settle the score. Will Ian overcome his eternal battle with himself? Will Debbie find the common ground they stand on? Or will their worlds collide in an unyielding fit of violence created by substance abuse? There is only one way to find out; watch Finding Emo an epic film about an epic journey, through epic trials and tribulations of epic proportions.
-Lee and Alex
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