Perfect Day

The Story A story of denial, detachment and defeat. The main character’s sense that her life is under her command and control slips away, as she finds herself increasingly trapped in a reality that she doesn’t want and struggles to embrace. She chooses to believe her reality commands her, where she floats helplessly and aimlessly, as her sister’s depression culminates. The parallel academic quest, running alongside the main character’s personal one, is that of the meaning of history. A quest to try to find a coherent and universal history. What is lost is the ability of the “postmodern” person to experience the world as a harmonious and coherent whole. It simultaneously reflects and accentuates her inner struggle on the meaning of her life, and her inability to feel it or find it. Showing simply the tragic found in the ordinary. The bravery and the courage needed to break free from her own limited perception, her past, and her present satisfaction, come to test her and haunt her. She is asked to choose how to live - a choice she does not want to make. The Project The inspiration for this short film comes from Oslo, August 31st (2011) and A Coffee In Berlin (2012). The aesthetics and emotional expression aimed for is inspired from Theo Angelopoulos's Eternity and a Day (1998) and Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry (1997). The important question this short film asks is whether meaning can be (and should be) sought after or felt, or instead, can it only be accepted that there is no meaning to life. Should life simply be lived, with everything that it throws at you? Parallel to this is the quest of a progressive history and civilization that bears a purpose: can we peacefully accept it if history is, in the end, arbitrary and coincidental and civilization transient?