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I never write reviews but this one made me stop for a moment and type. It's an incredible story of a father trying to impress his son and the entire world with his magic and imagination. Of a person who never really achieved anything but disapointment in people around him and most of all his very own son.

He uses the apocaliptic event to surprise and astonish his son for the one last time before the sun "stops shining." He does it in such beautiful manner that I could not hold my tears. The deapth of his love towards his son and the dedication to what he does, how he prepares himself and gets tidy for his very last "abracadabra," is just beautiful!

I am sure everyone has their own interpretation of this movie. For me it was a masterpiece

"8 Minutes" is a live action short film from Georgia that is also in the Georgian language with the exxeption of one or two sentences in English from the biggest female character. This one runs for 13 minutes, so a pretty quick watch, but the premise is kinda interesting enough to turn this into a full feature film. I wonder if it ever happens. The approval seems to be massive for this one if we look at the rating here on imdb, even if it was under 600 people at this point who rated it. A 9 left of the comma is still pretty big. You can watch the film on Youtube by the way with English subtitles. The director is Giorgi Gogichaishvili and this is his only filmmaking effort. In the closing credits he was also credited as the writer in contrast to this imdb page we got here. I trust the credits there at the end of the film, also because the imdb page in terms of cast seems a bit confusing. The order I mean. The first credit here may be the most stunning cast member, but definitely not the mist crucial. The key writer, however, seems to be Zaza Koshkadze and he is more prolific than the director. There is no awards recognition credited with this film here, but it is just missing I think. Take a look at the photos and you will at least see some of it and even more film festivals where this movie was shown. I think it also played in Cottbus here. Not entirely sure about that though. As for the story, we have the dark (no pun intended) setting that the sun is about to stop giving light to the Earth. Early on, you do not now if this is an apocalyptic scenario or actually you don't know through the entire film, especially if the man says he would have liked to find out more about the female character he is on the phone with which sounds a bit like farewell, but in the very end we see that the light is gone, but they are still alive. So civilization is not erased apparently and the planet turned into a gigantic ball of ice. It's an interesting movie I'd say. Makes you wonder what you would do in these last minutes of light. Very creative idea we got here with what the father does to/for his son. It's maybe even easier to appreciate this film if you speak Georgian, but it's also okay with subtitles. I enjoyed the watch, but I would not say I saw greatness here as the average imdb rating suggests and many people did apparently. I think they could hae maybe kept it a bit shorter early on and, as a consequence, under ten minutes in total. Many people who rated this with a perfect score were probably biased because of the great ending and as a consequence they forgot some of the mediocrity before that altogether. The build-up was okay at best. And how come, the girl all of a sudden has a caller telling her what happens when it happens? This felt slightly unrealistic to me. So there are flaws here, but nonetheless I give the overall outcome here a positive recommendation. Go watch it. Thumbs-up.