You Won T Regret That Tattoo Summary

To Rethink The Ink in 'You Won't Regret That Tattoo'

Angie Bird's short You Won't Regret That Tattoo (2013) puts the spotlight on older, tattooed members of our society and the colorful stories attached to their fading ink.

Having recently watched a close friend decide to splurge on a tattoo one drunken afternoon, Bird's short couldn't have come at a more appropriate time in my life. I've admittedly never understood the appeal behind tattoos- so this made it especially difficult to lie to my friend about just how much I liked his. Seeing that number 75 emblazoned on his chest like some permanent jersey number, I couldn't help but half-judge, half-wonder right then and there: What will his future-self think? Won't he regret it when he's 60-something? Are tattoos from our youth doomed to become nothing more than follies of our yesteryear?

You Won't Regret That Tattoo Short Film

Watching You Won't Regret That Tattoo provided the perfect counterpoint to these inner assessments, which are realistically based more upon a personal fear of needles than upon anything else. The film is made up of a series of anecdotes, philosophies, and accounts told by seven different baby boomers regarding the
I would love to see other topics treated in the same fashion as it is here- where normal people who have personally-intimate things to say can get together to demystify subjects that not everyone totally understands. It gives me some hope that aspiring filmmakers out there who wouldn't otherwise try their hand at short films will see works similar to You Won't Regret That Tattoo and realize just how simple the process could be. If it's got me scheming and brainstorming away (a college grad with relatively little interest in filmmaking), then I can't imagine what it has the possibility to do to those with a more pronounced interest in