Six Shooter Review

Six Shooter is a live action short film written by Martin McDonagh in 2004. This film won several awards, including Academy  Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

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As this films opens, a doctor inform Donelly that his wife died at 3 o'clock in the morning. When he was  sitting beside his wife to say his last goodbye the doctor told him that he was busy beacuse of two cot death. One of them is a woman shot brutally her son and she has no head left on her.

In his way back home, he met several people. In the train, he sits on the opposite of a young boy who smoking. The boy reveals himself as a manic foul-mouth. Donelly tolerates this kids, and keep talking with this kid. The problem begin when the kid asked a couple who sit across the aisle without proper manner and he use so many swear words. After some commotion, the kid leaves to get something from buffet cart. As the kid leaves, Donelly asks about what happened to the couple who sit across the aisle. And he got the answer. The man told him that they'd just lost their son because of cot death.

After the kid comes back, Donelly told him that the couple had just lost their son. The kid asked "did they kill it?". After Donelly explains to him about cot death, the kid said "they must be banged ther child's head on to something." The heat blows up but Donelly steps out.

The scene continues with Donelly goes to buffet cart to get something. In the buffet cart he met the man who sits across the aisle. The man engaged a briefly conversation. After that he got a couple cup of tea. As the man comes up, the kid sits beside the woman. He quickly moves and harass her when she hold a photo of her dead son. After that the woman walks out and the photo tear up. After the kid comes back to his seat, he saw a head banging on the window. He investigate it and found that the woman had just jumped out of the train.

After Donelly and the man comes back to their seat, the kid inform the man that his wife just jumped out of the train and banged her head to the window. The man takes it as a jokes. But, after he saw the blood in the window he turn on the emergency alarm and the police coming to investigate it.After the accident, the kid told him that he just lost his mother. His mother got murdered.

The police suspects the kid because of his manner and attitude. After he remember that he knows the child, the police says that they should takes the kid's guns off. The scene continues when Donelly arrive in his destination. From the window he saw the police stand by with their gun. He remember about the doctor's story about a son who shots his mother. He just realize that the kid who sat in front of him is the suspect.

Donelly comes back to home with a gun from the kid. He shot his rabbit pet David and he wants to shots himself because of he wants to met his wife. But he changed his mind, and the scene was over.








Sources :
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425458/