Happy Sushi

Happy Sushi from Bart Radio SEA/NYC on Vimeo.

I chose the short film, Happy Sushi, to analyze, because it uses a sequence of images and sounds that all connect with one another to make sense as a whole. The short film centers around a wobbly table in a Japanese restaurant that is continuously frustrating a guest, the main character. As a solution to this issue, he uses a match book that seems to help him in other ways than the one he intended it for. 
At 0:16 - 0:20, he thinks the wobbly table problem is fixed because of the match book he placed underneath one of the legs, which makes it stable temporarily. Then it gets uncomfortable and strange as the tension rises due to the argument in a different tongue getting more intense and the match seemingly moving, and causing the table to wobble again, even more every time he looks down at the floor at 0:50 - 1:00 and 1:09 - 1:20.
The tense music starts around 0:57, when he first notices the paranormality of the match moving by itself and causing the table to endlessly wobble, and builds up causing a sort of suspense and intensifying the chaos of the whole situation for the character. At 1:36 - 1:40, the character's suspicions are confirmed of the match book having a mind of its own with the POV shot of it forming the middle finger aimed directly at the character.
The usual medium close-up throughout the short film of the character at the table enters a personal space where we can see his frustration build up as well as feel it. The over-the-shoulder shot followed by his reaction, 0:33 - 0:40, also reveals how chef's argument with the server fuels his frustration.
The match book's intentions are revealed from 1:56 to the end of the film at 2:26 as the opposite of heinous, when the character searches for the missing match book one last time under the table and misses the deathblow of an aggravated chef's knife slicing through him. When he sits back up, the match book is right on the table and when he turns it around, it says, "you're welcome," on it.