Wasp Short film Analysis

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Wasp is a 2003 26 minute short film written and directed by Andrea Arnold. It revolves around a struggling young woman with the ambition that she is going to get with Dave and her children will not get in her way. The issues the film deals with is, poverty, neglect, teen pregnancy and the universal conflict of desire vs duty. We see Zoe(the main character) struggling with this constantly as she can't find someone to babysit so she decides to take the kids to the pub and keep checking on them playing outside instead of taking them home. Then we see her buying drinks and she cant afford everything so she ends up disappointing the kids as they have to share one glass of coke and a packet of crisps between them so she can get Dave and his mates a drink instead. When the kids want to go home she tells them she wants to spend more time with Dave so unsupervised they find some ribs on the floor and eat them which leads to a wasp flying into the babys mouth where Kelly decides to put responsibility over desire and runs to save her child. When Dave finds out she has kids he buys them all chips as he drives them home so the whole film she felt like she had to choose when really she could have had both. The shots are mostly handheld which makes it feel more real as this deals with real life issues and Arnold wants to get this across so she also uses a dull and earthy colour pallet and real locations.

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