the audience applauded

Best movie ever!

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Firmly tongue-in-cheek, the short film The Herd cutely poses a farmer's dilemma: what to do about the little deer who hangs out with his herd of cows.Besides the evocative shots of the deer bonding with its fellow creatures, the sort of stuff one sees frequently on "happy news" segments of local newscasts, the film consists of interviews with the farmer and his mum, both presumably relatives of director Ken Wardrop (given their identical surnames).The gentle strain of black humor comes from the implication that if push-comes-to-shove, our farmer will shoot the deer, once it interferes with management of his herd. Mum keeps chiming in how her son "couldn't hurt a fly", but in the usual editing gimmick so beloved by documentary filmmakers, their verbal admonitions are constantly contradicting each other.Certainly a trifle, it makes a good lead-in for a feature film - in my case in NYC as the short playing before Jacques Rivette's latest.