Donelle uses all of these gestures to establish her characters. A furtive glance, a sincere greeting, and then a whisper. Unbeknownst to her, a man has taken note of her presence. It’s a bright and sunny day at downtown Los Angeles as First Grade teacher Emily, walks purposefully into La Cafe for a morning sip. Director Julianne Donelle’s Split Second is a nuanced and layered narrative of such an event, but executed so delicately, that one begins to understand the gravity of similar tragedies from a new lens. But what about the survivors? Barring a select few that pursue them to ‘‘decode’’ the violent events, there are very few in this subgenre that explore this much-overlooked segment. Their devastations and the subsequent mayhem they cause have been well documented too. Too often have movies been made on arson and terror plots.
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