All the people from the movie talk to Ahrum that she is not enough, not hardworking and not trying hard. When Ahrum tries to deny it, no one listens to her. The mother, the professor and friend –all the characters that triggers stress to Ahrum-is in different outfit but actually same. That is why she keeps mistaken them as the student’s mother, who she is going to see tonight. But, this character is not just villain. At the end, someone opens her eyes at the same subway station where Ahrum was waiting for the train.. but she is that bad character in ahrum’s situation. This ending deeply relates to the idea I wanted to talk about through this film. She is not that bad character anymore. She is another Ahrum, who is pushing herself to the end in every situation, struggling with reality.

 

I focused on ways to deliver the idea through light and shadow. Colors and visibility. Shadows could be dark, oversized, 2 dimensional. But Ahrum fears those shadows and reacts to them. Therefore, Shadow relates to her fear toward figures in her dream. Shaking shadows and effects of shadows moving in different ways expresses her own feelings toward situation and represents state of the dream.

 

It also has deep relation with space; how the character reacts to certain space settings. The space is not limited to actual space. It has widen its meaning to virtual reality of light and installed settings. So, in the studio border between inside of the projected light and darkness creates different worlds.

 

Music was important part, too theme song, specially composed for this film is variated through the story to deliver the main idea. Also, it explains every other different spaces in the movie and ahrum’s feelings. Additionally, I tried various editing effects to maximize the feelings of Ahrum, as the film is all about her