Two Distant Strangers |遙遠陌生人

93 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film

History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes

— Mark Twain

Two Distant Strangers is a 2020 American short film written by Travon Free and directed by Free and Martin Desmond Roe.

The film examines the deaths of Black Americans during encounters with police through the eyes of a character trapped in a time loop that keeps ending in his death.

We gotta start makin’ changes.

Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers

1986–1998–2020-???

Music Sample

“The Way It Is” by Bruce Hornsby and the Range (1986)

“Changes” by 2Pac ft. Talent (1998) < The Pope’s Playlist 2009

“Wishing for a Hero” by Polo G (2020)

“The Way It Is” by Bruce Hornsby and the Range (1986)

“Changes” by 2Pac ft. Talent (1998)

“Wishing for a Hero” by Polo G (2020)

History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes

The Pope's Playlist: Muse, Mozart, Fleet Foxes, and Tupac

Two Distant Strangers - Wikipedia