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In all due fairness, the short never does confirm whether or not she is deaf
* AmbiguousEnding: The short ends without Greenwood approaching Ellie, leaving it ambiguous whether or not she accepted his stuttering or rejected it.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Greenwood is shown learning sign language, so he can pretend that he's deaf and thus will have an excuse to not talk to people. The ending reveals that Ellie, his Internet girlfriend, is deaf.
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* StutterStop: Played with. Greenwood's stutter doesn't vanish when he meets Ellie; but it doesn't matter, because she's deaf.
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* StutterStop: Played with. Greenwood's stutter doesn't vanish when he meets Ellie; but it doesn't matter, because she's deaf.he's never seen approaching her
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Greenwood (Matthew Needham) is a young London bachelor who lives alone and works as a typographer. He has a severe, crippling stutter that makes him virtually unable to communicate with people--a cable company customer service operator hangs up on him. Even worse, it's threatening his relationship with Ellie, his Internet girlfriend (Creator/ChloePirrie) who wants to end their six months of texting and actually meet in person. Greenwood is terrified of what might happen when Ellie hears his stutter.
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Greenwood (Matthew Needham) (Creator/MatthewNeedham) is a young London bachelor who lives alone and works as a typographer. He has a severe, crippling stutter that makes him virtually unable to communicate with people--a cable company customer service operator hangs up on him. Even worse, it's threatening his relationship with Ellie, his Internet girlfriend (Creator/ChloePirrie) who wants to end their six months of texting and actually meet in person. Greenwood is terrified of what might happen when Ellie hears his stutter.
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* StutterStop: Greenwood has a severe stutter that renders him basically incapable of communicating verbally.
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* StutterStop: Greenwood has a severe Played with. Greenwood's stutter that renders him basically incapable of communicating verbally.doesn't vanish when he meets Ellie; but it doesn't matter, because she's deaf.
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* CallBack: The first scene has Greenwood unable to ask a customer service rep about his internet bill, due to his stutter. A later scene has Greenwood in his dad's house, chopping vegetables, while his father can be heard offscreen angrily shouting at someone from the broadband company for failing to accommodate his son.
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* {{Mouthscreen}}: Opens with a tight closeup of Greenwood's lips. At that moment he is trying but failing to get out a question regarding his Internet bill, to the customer service rep on the other end of the line.
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Greenwood is a young London bachelor who lives alone and works as a typographer. He has a severe, crippling stutter that makes him virtually unable to communicate with people--a cable company customer service operator hangs up on him. Even worse, it's threatening his relationship with Ellie, his Internet girlfriend who wants to end their six months of texting and actually meet in person. Greenwood is terrified of what might happen when Ellie hears his stutter.
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Greenwood (Matthew Needham) is a young London bachelor who lives alone and works as a typographer. He has a severe, crippling stutter that makes him virtually unable to communicate with people--a cable company customer service operator hangs up on him. Even worse, it's threatening his relationship with Ellie, his Internet girlfriend (Creator/ChloePirrie) who wants to end their six months of texting and actually meet in person. Greenwood is terrified of what might happen when Ellie hears his stutter.
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Greenwood is a young London bachelor who lives alone and works as a typographer. He has a severe, crippling stutter that makes him virtually unable to communicate with people--a cable company customer service operator hangs up on him. Even worse, it's threatening his relationship with Ellie, his Internet girlfriend who wants to end their six months of texting and actually meet in person.
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Greenwood is a young London bachelor who lives alone and works as a typographer. He has a severe, crippling stutter that makes him virtually unable to communicate with people--a cable company customer service operator hangs up on him. Even worse, it's threatening his relationship with Ellie, his Internet girlfriend who wants to end their six months of texting and actually meet in person.
person. Greenwood is terrified of what might happen when Ellie hears his stutter.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Greenwood is shown learning sign language because he can't talk. The ending reveals that Ellie, his Internet girlfriend, is deaf.
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* ChekhovsSkill: Greenwood is shown learning sign language because language, so he can't talk. can pretend that he's deaf and thus will have an excuse to not talk to people. The ending reveals that Ellie, his Internet girlfriend, is deaf.deaf.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: At one point Greenwood is shown anxiously puffing on a cigarette outside
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: At one point Greenwood is shown anxiously puffing on a cigarette outside
* LongDistanceRelationship: Greenwood and Ellie have been texting for six months. Ellie, who seems to hail from somewhere vaguely OopNorth, is visiting London and wants to meet Greenwood.
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* SpeechImpediment: It's pretty bad. Even with his father, and even when he practices what he's going to say in advance, it takes him forever to get something out.
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* RidiculouslyLongPhoneHold: Greenwood is put on interminable phone holds with his internet service provider, which makes it all the more agonizing when he ''finally'' gets a human to talk too, and the human hangs up because Greenwood can't get his question out.
* SpeechImpediment: It's pretty bad. Even with his father, and even when he practices what he's going to say in advance, it takes him forever to get somethingout.out.
* StutterStop: Greenwood has a severe stutter that renders him basically incapable of communicating verbally.
* SpeechImpediment: It's pretty bad. Even with his father, and even when he practices what he's going to say in advance, it takes him forever to get something
* StutterStop: Greenwood has a severe stutter that renders him basically incapable of communicating verbally.
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''Stutterer'' is a 2015 short film written and directed by Benjamin Cleary.
Greenwood is a young London bachelor who lives alone and works as a typographer. He has a severe, crippling stutter that makes him virtually unable to communicate with people--a cable company customer service operator hangs up on him. Even worse, it's threatening his relationship with Ellie, his Internet girlfriend who wants to end their six months of texting and actually meet in person.
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!!Tropes:
* ChekhovsSkill: Greenwood is shown learning sign language because he can't talk. The ending reveals that Ellie, his Internet girlfriend, is deaf.
* InnerMonologue: While Greenwood can't express himself verbally he has a rich and busy inner monologue.
* ObfuscatingDisability: Greenwood learns some sign language so he can pretend to be deaf so people won't talk to him.
* SpeechImpediment: It's pretty bad. Even with his father, and even when he practices what he's going to say in advance, it takes him forever to get something out.
Greenwood is a young London bachelor who lives alone and works as a typographer. He has a severe, crippling stutter that makes him virtually unable to communicate with people--a cable company customer service operator hangs up on him. Even worse, it's threatening his relationship with Ellie, his Internet girlfriend who wants to end their six months of texting and actually meet in person.
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!!Tropes:
* ChekhovsSkill: Greenwood is shown learning sign language because he can't talk. The ending reveals that Ellie, his Internet girlfriend, is deaf.
* InnerMonologue: While Greenwood can't express himself verbally he has a rich and busy inner monologue.
* ObfuscatingDisability: Greenwood learns some sign language so he can pretend to be deaf so people won't talk to him.
* SpeechImpediment: It's pretty bad. Even with his father, and even when he practices what he's going to say in advance, it takes him forever to get something out.
