So earlier today I was looking through Mary Elizabeth Winsteads’s filmography on IMDB, I was that impressed by her performance in 10 Cloverfield Lane I was curious to know what other movies or shows she’d starred in. Apart from Final Destination 3 and Scott Pilgrim vs The World I hadn’t really seen her in anything. Can’t say I was a fan of Final Destination but I loved Scott Pilgrim – that film hit all the right notes. Anyway, I’d noticed she hadn’t really done a lot of major films, Indie films seemed to be her thing. I’m all for the Indie genre so this wasn’t an issue but only two titles caught my eye; Smashed and The Beauty Inside.
I read a brief summary for each of them and decided to go with The Beauty Inside as you probably guessed. While Smashed was a film, The Beauty Inside was a web series that was released in 2012 so it wasn’t recent at all. The series is around forty minutes long in total and revolves around a guy named Alex who wakes up everyday as someone new. This immediately got my attention, it sounded like a great concept and I was thinking to myself “that’s genius”. So life is weird for Alex and when he falls for a girl named Leah (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) it gets quite poetic. As the show puts it “He knows he will see her again but she will never see him”, its actually quite tragic.
Now I’m not one for romances at all but with this, I actually really enjoyed it and surprisingly found myself getting attached to both Alex and Leah in the space of forty minutes. It was genuinely really heart-warming and it touches on the whole “its what’s on the inside that counts” ideology in a really clever way. All the actors provided an emotional performance and the music throughout was also really good, it seemed to match what was happening on screen almost perfectly.
It really is an impressive short, full of emotion whilst maintaining this delightful simplicity. Director Drake Doremus did a great job as did all the actors, Mary Elizabeth Winstead is just a joy to watch with her charming personality, seems she can do no wrong. I highly recommend this to anyone looking for something fresh and intriguing that excellently portrays one of life’s hard truths.
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