Pawn -2020-2020 Review

He walks away into falling snow. The camera lingers on the door. Then, without warning, the date on the screen reverts to January 1, 2020.

The protagonist, (a deliberate echo of both chess pawns and Raymond Chandler’s detectives), is not a hero. He is a passive piece. As the world outside his shop descends into lockdowns, supply shortages, and a blur of screens, Marlow becomes the reluctant archivist of a collective meltdown. Pawn -2020-2020

And the pawns are still waiting to be moved. You can’t buy back a year that never ended. He walks away into falling snow

Runtime: 72 minutes (one minute for each week of the loop). 2020. The protagonist