Essay

Short films

The previously seen short films have left a message or moral that has allowed me to see

certain things that I did not see before. In turn, I will try to explain here each short film, I will

also explain what is the implicit message in each one of them.

First, we will start with the French short film. In this film, we are introduced to a man

who gets on the underground subway. This man begins to describe his love situation and in turn

exposes a criticism of current love. This man spoke that he was single, he was alone and that he

would like to have a partner, that he is a good man, that he earns a lot of money and is willing to

do anything to get the love of his life. Then, he exposes his criticism saying that online love

today is useless, it is not real and that many times he has been stood up.

Finally, the man asks the women who are on the subway. Which of them risks having a

love story, so one of the women who was on the subway gets off the subway and the man tells

her: '' It was just a skit.'' In the end, everything was a theatrical skit and none of the above was

true. But what is the message to all this? well, the man made several criticisms of current love,

that today's love is superficial, virtual and not very dynamic. That many people look at your

appearance and not at your good heart, they look at your wallet but not for who you are.

The second short film was a film called: ''Add oil''. This short film shows us a family as

the first scenario and one of the daughters as the protagonist, who stands out for her introverted

and lonely behavior. This girl grows up without closeness to her family, even though she is with

her family, she feels that she does not fit in and that she is a hindrance. Her mother pays her little

attention and never listens to her, thus making her feel useless. Time passes, the girl grows up

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and leaves the country, she calls her mother before leaving but her mother does not pay attention

to the call, making her feel alone again, so the daughter hangs up the call and then boards the

plane. Years later, she gets a good job, however, despite her job success, she can't stop missing

his family, until she gets a call from his brother who tells her to go back to his family for

Mother's Day.

So, she went but with little expectation. So she went with her family, greeted her brother

and then she saw a photo where her family was and on it was a photo of her stuck. Then her

mother appeared and hugged her, so her daughter remembered those moments where the mother

ignored her. It was a moment full of memories, finally she forgave her mother and her family.

The scene ends when she wanted to help in the kitchen and her sister told her: ''Add oil''.The

message that is implicit in this short film is that despite the existing problems in the family, the

family will always have room for forgiveness.

In the third short film, he presents us as the protagonist a little boy who falls in love with

his teacher. His teacher becomes his crush, the lover gives him a toy promise ring. Then he goes

back home and thinks how to tell the teacher to marry him, so he writes on a piece of paper: will

you marry me? The next day he meets the teacher and realizes that she is engaged and that she

was not wearing the ring that he gave her so, angry, he returns home and tears up the paper

where he had written if he wanted to marry her. Finally, he challenges the teacher's fiancé to a

duel with a pistol, so the frightened fiancé starts insulting and yelling at his fiancée, but he also

said the following: I only gave him the ring "to shut him up". At that moment the teacher

realized that her fiancé did not really love her, at that very moment the boy shoots. But he doesn't

die! the gun was a toy, so in the end the teacher doesn't get married and takes the boy home.

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Finally, the message of this film talks a little about love, that wrong love, that many times we

don't meet the right person and that we don't realize easily.

To finish, I will leave my opinion about the films previously seen. I really liked each one

of them, I really liked the acting and the implicit messages in each one of them.

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