A man holding a microwave oven is running away from the police. He talks to the camera as he’s trying to escape with the hot merchandise.
“I have made some bad choices in my life,” he readily admits while showing that he’s still fleet afoot.
He goes on to tell us that you can’t make a bad choice, though, at Mr Sub, which offers five kinds of bread that are baked fresh daily.
As police cars converge on him, the man declares that at Mr. Sub there’s “no way you can make a bad choice–not like some people.”
We hear the sounds of his off-camera arrest as a Mr. Sub sandwich appears on screen. In the background, he claims, “It’s not my microwave.”
“Running” is part of a Canadian campaign directed by Joachim Back of The Partners’ Film Company, Toronto, for agency Zig, Toronto.
The Zig team including creative director Martin Beauvais, associate creative director/writer Michael Clowater, art director Niall Kelly, managing director Christian Mathieu, team leader Leslie Hunter and producer Anna Tricinci.
Aerin Barnes executive produced for Partners’ with Tim Corrigan serving as producer. The DP was Barry Parrell.
Editor was Brian Williams of Panic & Bob Editing, Toronto.
Supreme Court Seems Likely To Uphold A Law That Could Force TikTok To Shut Down On Jan. 19
The Supreme Court on Friday seemed likely to uphold a law that would ban TikTok in the United States beginning Jan. 19 unless the popular social media program is sold by its China-based parent company.
Hearing arguments in a momentous clash of free speech and national security concerns, the justices seemed persuaded by arguments that the national security threat posed by the company's connections to China override concerns about restricting the speech either of TikTok or its 170 million users in the United States.
Early in arguments that lasted more than two and a half hours, Chief Justice John Roberts identified his main concern: TikTok's ownership by China-based ByteDance and the parent company's requirement to cooperate with the Chinese government's intelligence operations.
If left in place, the law passed by bipartisan majorities in Congress and signed by President Joe Biden in April will require TikTok to "go dark" on Jan. 19, lawyer Noel Francisco told the justices on behalf of TikTok.
At the very least, Francisco urged, the justices should enter a temporary pause that would allow TikTok to keep operating. "We might be in a different world again" after President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20. Trump, who has 14.7 million followers on TikTok, also has called for the deadline to be pushed back to give him time to negotiate a "political resolution." Francisco served as Trump's solicitor general in his first presidential term.
But it was not clear whether any justices would choose such a course. And only Justice Neil Gorsuch sounded like he would side with TikTok to find that the ban violates the Constitution.
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