Laurie (Anastasia Morrigan) has just had a rather pleasant session with
her psychiatrist (David Carlson), and now all she has to do is fetch her
prescription, and she's on her way home - should be easy, right? Well, not
if everything in the doctor's waiting room - not only the patients, also
the dripping coffee machine and the like - gives you the feeling you're in
a room full of psychos. And while the doctor's secretary (Sandy Gulliver)
is doing her best to get her prescription in her own eyes, she's slower
than an army of snails in Laurie's - so eventually, Laurie bolts. But what
awaits her in the world outside might be far worse than what's in the
waiting room ... Anxiety is pretty much social anxieties
put onto film and made tangible for everybody via clever cinematic
techniques. Fact is, there isn't all that much all that horrible in Anxiety
- but if you've seen the film, you'll disagree, and with quite a bit of
justification, too, as direction, pacing, camerawork and sound design get
the most out of everyday things to make them seem about as menacing as
they appear to be for persons with social anxieties - and yet, despite a
mere 6 minute running time and quite a bit of cinematic mindfuck, there is
a comprehensible storyline with an unexpected ending to this. Definitely
worth a look!
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