Noreen – A Short Film – HD from El Zorrero Films on Vimeo.

The author of this movie poses an interesting contest: try and find an alternative explanation for what happened, other than the obvious one your mind presents.

Here is mine: pervert Nolan was actually Noreen, who had a sex change operation. Noreen was the “her” Frank referred to when he said “I miss her”. The dead guy on the floor was actually gay and fell in love with Nolan. The previous night Nolan told him the truth. In the morning they argued, Nolan was holding a gun which accidentally discharged and shot the dead guy. Nolan than staged the scene to look like a suicide and called the cops. He hurried to make the Police call response time of 10 minutes. He feared that if he called in later the Police would have figured out there was fishy, as the gun was not freshly fired to fit in the 10 minute response time, so the caller is the murderer.

Con makes me think of Sherlock Holmes teaching Watson how to keep her mind open to alternate possibilities in the series Elementary. During his “mistakes” he makes you think of alternate versions of the truth. Him saying “No, the gun went off!” means he is hinting you a possible alternate possibility, that the guy did not shoot himself, somebody else shot him when the “gun went off”. The dialogue between them, “plotting” what to tell the team that arrives after them, is actually the dialogue that happened in the shooter’s mind: to tell the truth or to make something up.

I wonder if the guy that wrote this short is involved in the series Elementary or any detective series. I also wonder what he imagined happened with the dead man.