Get to the bottom? It’s like not being anywhere and hopeless that something will save you from this situation, you’re well aware of this feeling of intense discouragement that makes a few days we don’t even want to get out of bed. the cold that causes our reality.
In these moments of emotional weakness, anxiety joins frustration and blindfolding: they make you feel sorry for your thoughts and you don’t see a ‘light at the end of the tunnel’.
“Sadness is a dark room, as small as a square cardboard box. “
-J. V. Martinez Gil-
Today we will show a short film that reaches all audiences, people fighting emotional enemies that weaken self-confidence: Fallin?Floyd teaches us, among other things, to move on after we get to the bottom.
Created in 2013 by Dutch producer “II Lustern”, this animated short film tells a simple story that had to live in the past or even in the present.
Our character is a trumpeter who plays in the streets and enlightens the people around him, everything seems to be going very well in his daily life, until he discovers that his partner, whom he is completely in love with, has abandoned him. for someone else.
Then, the musician, the colors and expression of the musician, create a sad and melancholy atmosphere according to his feelings, in addition, self-pity manifests itself as a little black devil: it alters your vision, accompanies you everywhere and makes your life difficult. like a heavy burden.
Until half of our short film, you’ll see that the character can’t feel any worse and can’t do anything: he lacks courage and energy, yet, as in real life, acceptance and overcoming pain will help you move on.
Thus, after going through inhospit places and meeting other people who look like him, he realizes that he cannot give up, this will not take him anywhere and although his devil is bigger than him, he faces adversity and becomes again the great and happy one. trumpeter at the beginning of the film.
“It is the overcoming of difficulties that makes us heroes. “
-Luis Pasteur-
The short film, even without the use of verbal language, carries an important message: any separation or traumatic moment requires a natural process of assimilation, we must accept and release this pain to resume dreams, projects and relationships, it is almost obligatory to reach the bottom of the well to propel yourself to the surface with more enthusiasm.
Technically we face a sensitive animation, which confronts us with the brutality of life, but also its truth, even if life is not what we want it to be, there is always something we can do: we can make the decision. to overcome inertia and swim against the current.
In addition, it shows the value of small actions (such as the smile of passers-by who bring peace to the musician), the importance of self-love or the courage that we carry inside and that we are able to find in difficult times. A short film full of nostalgia, sadness and a lot of courage.
“The midday sun darkens and cuts off the morning music when there is sadness in my heart. “
-Edward Young-
Finally, did you like Fallin? Floyd, can you watch Little Quentin too?From the same creators, Paco Vink and Albert Hooft, and shot in 2009, it is a short film full of contrasts, lights and shadows just as interesting.