People complain honesty doesn’t exist anymore, but what would the World be like if we all really did speak our minds? “Honesty” is a series of shorts by Brit McAdams & Dave Steck depicting a World where everyone says exactly what they’re thinking.
Here’s one from an auto mechanic shop. The script, I think, is great — it’s one of those situations where people are very likely to be thinking one thing and saying something else.
These might not necessarily be funny – but then the cold hard truth seldom is. The thing that struck me is that it feels people really are like this sometimes. We rarely think of people other than ourselves, and many conversations–especially with people we don’t know very well–are so phony, everyone can feel it. The problem, I think, is that people are too caught up in their own World (and problems) to be much interested in what the person opposite is all about.
But I guess it’s human nature to feel “attached” to other people, and making a show of caring about others as much as we do satisfies that. Maybe I’m just cynical. But don’t you think the people around us deserve more attention than we really give them? I think so.