Dotty

Dotty is a multiple award winning short film about the advances of technology and the way different generations learn. Dotty is in a nursing home and she wants to send a simple text to her daughter, so her nurse helps her with that that because "it is important that she gets the message." The film sets the pace from the get-go as it opens up with a slow, aged man walking around their courtyard. When Dotty stresses the urgency of the message, the nurse starts to help her. She has an old flip phone, the type with no keyboard so you have to press a certain number repeatedly to get the letter you want. I started with a phone just like this and I understood how to work it within a day or so. I'm the type of person that has no patience, so I admired the nurses patience level when Dotty came across all sorts of confusing problems. But this film is more than a woman who is learning the advances of technology. She has memory problems and the surprise twist at the end, will leave you grabbing for the tissue box.