Lunch Date Character Traits

In the short film “Lunch Date” directed and written by Adam Davidson, there is an “Old Lady” that seems to be senile and has traits of which prove that she is either becoming or is senile. The three sub traits include rude, delusional, and judgemental. Im here to prove she is becoming or is senile rather than is not.

During the beginning of the short film Lunch Date the old lady is rude for a good 60% of the film. Rudeness is a characteristic of being senile in which almost proves our statement. for further proof she is ignorant and rude to a black male who is trying to help her pick up her belongings in time so she doesn't miss her train, she ignores him and as he tries to help she begs him not to touch her stuff due to what looks like racial stereotyping.
Other than her being super rude and stereotypical she shows signs of being slightly delusional, one scene from the short film seems to prove this characteristic very well. As she enters a cafeteria she purchases a salad and leaves it at a table while she grabs utensils to eat with. She returns and there is a homeless looking black male sitting at a table in front of hers. She automatically assumes he is eating her salad when indeed her salad is at the table behind the man. She sits down with the man and starts eating his

salad with him. After this encounter she notices she was eating the mans salad as hers was at a different table.
Bringing it back to the cafeteria scene, she purchases her food before the interaction with the black homeless looking male.

During this process she shows strong signs of judgement as she judges the prices and the quality of the food. I don't understand why she expected so much from a train station food court but she must've had insanely high standards. Even though these high standards aren't met she wouldn't even have been able to purchase a high end meal because she cant even afford the salad she bought at the food court. She was a few cents short but the waiter gave it to her anyways out of his own kindness even though she was a little red and judgmental towards the food quality and

cost.

Throughout this short film we've seem signs of this lady either becoming senile or is indeed senile. There is pure evidence due to her rude comments and lack of respect towards the African American people in this film. There is also evidence of her being senile due to her delusional actions and judgmental comments toward the waiter. It is clear that she is succumbing to her old age and is senile or is becoming.