This Remarkable Short Film Set at Costco Explores the Empty Obsession With Shopping

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We've all seen shoppers like the lead character in Andrew DeYoung's new short film, Shopping. Some of us have even been sucked into conversation with them. Sometimes they're really annoying, sometimes not, but they generally radiate a modern sort of loneliness that draws our pity, if not always our sympathy.

DeYoung's film uses both improvised and scripted scenes to explore this phenomenon, centered around a shopaholic whose up-to-the-minute observations of price and inventory changes suggest an otherwise empty life.

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