Full Month: Review and Summary
A trip home doesn’t always mean a safe nor happy place, but you learn to make the best of it for the silver lining of what family could be.
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“Full Month” Film Details
Runtime: 14 Minutes
Release Date: January 13, 2025
Initially Available On/Via: Film Festival – Sundance
Advisory Film Rating: Not Rated
Genre(s): Drama, Young Adult, LGBT+, Non-English (Mandarin)
Director(s): Ash Goh Hua
Writer(s): Ash Goh Hua
Summary
To celebrate the birth of their sibling’s child, Jing returns home, leaving New York, knowing that, in her parents’ household, especially with her mother, an argument is guaranteed.
Character Descriptions
Jing (Tess Pang)
Jing is the black sheep of her family who has a rough relationship with her mom, but despite her mom making it seem everyone talks about Jing behind her back, they seem to embrace her mostly.
Review
Highlight(s)
- Getting To See, While Having A Complicated Relationship With Mother, Jing Was Loved [85/100]
On The Fence
- An Abrupt Ending [77/100]
Overall
Our Rating (81/100): Positive (Worth Seeing)
“Full Month” is your quintessential short. It throws us into the life of an interesting character, does just enough to establish their community and culture, and just as you get comfortable, likely forgetting this is a short, it abruptly ends, leaving you to say, “That’s it?”
Then, from there, you find yourself occasionally trying to see if an extended version, a full-length movie, was made to fill in the gaps of the lead’s relationship with their mom, further getting to see them play with their cousin like kids, or maybe have it where they end their trip with a better understanding of where and who they came from, so it doesn’t require special occasions to return.
Content Information
- Dialog: Cursing
- Violence: Nothing Notable
- Sexual Content: Nothing Notable
- Miscellaneous: Nothing Notable
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