Drift Away: A Slow Glide Through Misery’s Homeless Mind
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“Drift Away” is a beautiful, but sadly melancholy 4-minute short film directed by Jean-Julien Pous and produced by Sophia Shek. During the course of the film, a gracious and ethereal young woman slowly and silently glides all alone through the busily teeming streets of Hong Kong. During the earliest part of the film, it’s somewhat difficult to discern exactly what’s going on, or even what the movie’s theme might be, except possibly a visual rendering of the emotional deadness of anomie and anhedonia in contemporary urban life. The attractive young woman’s eyes acutely capture everything around her, but only the movie’s camera can catch her own eyes.
Sadly, it’s probably true that only when you’re really able to lose yourself in something or someone else, only then will you finally become capable of an emotional investment in yourself, another person and/or the world around you. Lacking that, the despairing message for people left with a desolately barren life in the midst of the intensely seething modern world is something like: “Pour your misery down, pour your misery down on me.”
This piece includes a number of color photographs from the film, as well as the beautiful short film, “Drift Away.”
Sadly, it’s probably true that only when you’re really able to lose yourself in something or someone else, only then will you finally become capable of an emotional investment in yourself, another person and/or the world around you. Lacking that, the despairing message for people left with a desolately barren life in the midst of the intensely seething modern world is something like: “Pour your misery down, pour your misery down on me.”
This piece includes a number of color photographs from the film, as well as the beautiful short film, “Drift Away.”
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Hi lolitanimatronic,
I think one message of this film was that, whether the young woman was attractive or not, some people unfortunately find themselves in the position of being unable able to lose themselves in something or in someone else. I am glad that you appreciated some aspects of the short film, and thanks for your comments!
Best wishes to you.
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