Getting struck by lightning is, famously, pretty rare. In the new fictional short film “Don vs Lightning,” by Johnny Burns and Pier Van Tijn, a Scottish fisherman contends with a strange pattern: getting zapped over and over again. Watch the full film:
It would be hard not to take repeated lightning strikes as a personal attack from on high, but the protagonist of “Don vs Lightning” seems unsurprised that nature, or a divine power, may have taken issue with his existence.
Don, played by Peter Mullan—whose ream of a résumé includes “War Horse,” “Westworld,” “My Name is Joe,” and Amazon’s forthcoming “Lord of the Rings” TV series—trudges down an empty road, carrying a tackle box and a fishing pole. As a red Volkswagen crests the hill behind him, he looks suspiciously up at the sky, where clouds are gathering. The driver is his talkative neighbor Maggie, played by Joanna Scanlan, who stops her car and puts down the window for a chat.
The film is based on the true story of Roy Sullivan, a Shenandoah National Park ranger who survived seven lightning strikes. Sullivan took to carrying a can of water around on stormy days in case he had to put his hair out, according to Burns, who wrote and directed the film with van Tijn. “He just kept getting fed up because his friends would just avoid him,” Burns said. “No one really knew what was going on, and it never seemed to really hurt him that badly.
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