Fly Away

As I was cleaning and organizing my room after returning from a friend's thanksgiving potluck party and having friends barge into my house to chill, I suddenly remembered about the short film that we saw in class today: the Big Empty. It was about a woman with nothing inside; no organ, no uterus, nothing but cold icy breeze. It was a bizarre and unconventional at first, but as I dug deep inside her (no pun intended), she turned into a model of a typical woman--and perhaps a man as well--in our society.

The establishing shot starts out with a pitch-black background with a blurry but shiny hole in the middle. I thought it looked like a closed-up eye and iris, but it turned out to be a hole that the eye of the doctor was looking through--the hole to the inside of the woman's body. The plot developed basically focusing on that big emptiness inside her body. The woman wanted to know what was wrong with her so she went around asking as many doctors as she could possibly meet in her entire life, but every one of them always said "nothing's wrong with you," "I've never seen something like this," "I don't know what this is" and never did anything about it. She finally went to the Specialist and he took her around on a medical tour kind of thing, which he introduced her to other people and explained the "remarkable" thing. She became Miss Big Emptiness and famous, but the ache from the Big Emptiness continued even after the Specialist promised her that they'll go all around the world for her cure and all.

The Big Empty, that "remarkable" emptiness inside her, is a symbol for one's loneliness, internal emptiness. The Ache she feels is a symbol for the heartbreaking pain from loneliness and from the society taking advantage of oneself and one's weakness. The inside of her body is freezing cold; this is another symbol for the characteristics of loneliness. In such a cold place, no one exists, thus it's a lonely place. She feels "cold" inside because of the loneliness. Also personally, I think the color white gives an impression of "empty": her inside was icy white.

The woman's Big Emptiness is finally cured by the person who actually cares about her. He was the first person to ask her "if [it] ever hurt" and sympathized and seemed to be understanding her. This short film, obviously bizarre at first sight, actually contains a significant hidden message: We are all one "Big Empty" inside and need someone to care for us.


*Sorry for bad grammatical structure...I am in a rush! My dad's been calling me to come downstairs for family time :S HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!