It ’s been almost 200 years since “ the last war , ” and the people dwell in a grimy clandestine metropolis , controlled by their totalitarian government ’s cruel police force . It ’s a grim future indeed … until one heroic man lucky enough to own a very particular pair of sneakers accidentally inspires an rising .
Teddy Cecil ’s noir - drenched Helio has some obvious influence , but they ’re good ones ( Blade Runner , 1984 ) , and the images are striking . The master character , a miner whose name we never learn , has only a abbreviated snipping of dialogue ; he ’s basically all military action and panicked emotion . Though it ’s a longish short — essentially one retentive 18 - minute Salmon P. Chase setting — Helio is well deserving the prison term it take to watch it .
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