Party Animals

2011, 10 minutes

No one looks forward to school reunions. Least of all when the host was the tyrannous tough guy of the playground and you were his punch bag...

No one looks forward to school reunions. Least of all when the host was the tyrannous tough guy of the playground and you were his punch bag. When Sid is invited to an intimate school reunion by Alexander, he is expecting the worst. However when he is met at the door by Julia clutching a cocktail and canapé, and invited to share his thoughts in the current trend in house prices, he feels assured that these once malicious minors have matured into civilized individuals. That is, until Alexander fetches from the attic a collection of masks the group wore at college. Hidden behind the masks, the group regresses, and the playground pecking order comes into play once again, with Sid at the bottom. Angered, he refuses to play unless he can swap masks with Alexander, and Sid begins to feel something that he has never felt before – power.

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