The film’s reality is one of complexities and nuances, and yet, the ideas are presented to the audience with unmissable ease and clarity. The narrative straddles a sense of the past and the present. 

A woman is swiftly losing her grasp on her memories, forgetting more than she can remember. The fear and heartbreak that this flow of events ushers in is mapped against a beautiful, bright summer where a young woman is the constant companion of the older, ageing one. 

Through the interactions of the two, perhaps the woman’s interactions with her own self, we are presented a thoughtful realm of stories, the pain of separation, even if sometimes it is the very cost of existence itself, and the pressing, urgent need to let go, if one is to truly accept the inexorable movement of time. All of this is constructed with a visual landscape that is evocative and skilled in its control and all that it conveys. The screenplay and the performances only serve to strengthen the film further, alongside a tonality and approach to writing and storytelling that should definitely be engaged with further in more such endeavors.

Everything in This World Is Exactly What It Is  | Short Film of the Month

A suggestion of urgency and an ignored phone with unanswered calls is our first introduction to Debbie’s world. It follows visuals of unfeeling cityscapes that remain insensitive and detached in the hard cement and concrete they conjure on screen. Despite the things unfolding in her own life, Debbie finds herself distracted by an unfortunate circumstance of a young woman, Tay, and cannot look away. Tay leads an unforgiving existence in direct contrast with Debbie’s seemingly sheltered life. As the narrative progresses, however, it takes the viewer, as well as Debbie, down all sorts of circuitous paths that reveal more than either of them could have expected at first glance. The driving force of the narrative is a very noble cause, and it makes a compelling case for it, aiming to make the viewer sit up and pay attention to the malady of homelessness that plagues modern society, especially, the youth. It draws upon dreams, hopes, and often the failure of their completion to share its message. Though a few rough edges in terms of sound make a rare appearance, the visual progression, choice of the background score, as well as the screenplay, exhibit investment of thought in portraying it all for the viewer.

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