@mynightshadows
So i read a lot of comments today about this short and i just wanted to put in my 2 cents.. i didnt see a woman that didnt want a child as some comments stated.. but a woman who was struggling with the loss of a child and the indecision if she wanted to put herself through the possible.loss of another. The shadow was her fear and her grief. In the end she made her peace with it and is starting again.
@TheTeslacoilz
I think the ending showed she made her peace with it and is trying to move forward while also giving space for the negative feelings to exist while hopefully working thru them. Perhaps we just learn to live with our monsters.
@tjwright-df2cu
The black dog of depression/grief. Accepting the darkness as a part of you & moving on in life. Grieving her lost child but taking the steps to move on. A haunting of a different kind. Very deep for such a short movie.
@asbury29
Intense, well written and well acted. I've seen many friends go through long stretches of IVF treatments, some to no avail and some to eventual success, but I know it can be a harrowing experience full of doubts and pain, and relationships can become strained and even ruined. This short film captures a woman's experience and, without didacticism, translates it into a metaphorical horror story. It's hard for me, both as a man and as a parent who didn't have to go the IVF route, to entirely understand what women and couples go through, but this defiinitely gave me a new level of empathy for women putting their bodies, lives, careers and psyches on the line to bring new life into the world.
@Quantum-Chaos
I needed to see this, thank you. In my older age, I've been struggling with the fragility of my own existence and the thought of the darkness beyond death. I've finally gotten to a good place in my life with a loving partner and comfortable living, but as cliché as it sounds, you only start fearing death once you have something to lose. The terror of not being around for my partner haunts me. Being able to interpret this video as a deep dark thought that consumes you (depression, existentialism, etc) helped me cope. At some point I just have to accept that I'll die eventually and try to compartmentalize the scary shadow monster threatening everything I've built. Anyway, great film.
@VictoriaYateley-np9ny
the actress kind of reminds me of juliett Lewis
@CeeBee781
Reminds me of the Babadook. There’s a similar concept here, the idea that your grief is something you have to confront and make room for in your life, or it can eat you alive. The more you try to ignore it, deny it, hide it, the more it digs in, finds unhealthy outlets. In the Babadook, that outlet was rage and resentment directed at Simon, the protagonist’s son. Here, it seems to be fear of trying again, inability to connect with her husband, envy of friends who can easily have children, and shame over past ambivalence about becoming a parent at all. This wasn’t very scary but she packed a lot into 15 minutes. I do think some of the auntie stuff was extraneous, and her struggle was so different from the main character’s, it seemed a little forced and out of place. I’m not sure it landed well. Interesting little short.
@toffeesock
Incredible! I also love that here in your comments people are discussing different interpretations of what the ending means. Awesome and thought provoking :)
@DarkSideofSynth
Brilliant! Fantastic sound work. Dark & creepy.
@jacksalzani
The acting is pretty damn incredible! So much conveyed in such a short time
@abigailhaverl9508
I feel like this was about a woman who lost a baby, but I’m pretty sure it was during an accident where she lost her husband as well because it seems like he’s not real throughout the whole movie hence when the woman asks if she should wait to open the present until her husband gets home and the lady was like he’ll get around to looking at it and then looked at her really strangely and said that she lived just up the street if she needed anything… And then it was like it ended where she let the darkness into her home but her husband as well came with it. It was like he was dead and she was in denial and the truth was just lingering over her and she was not able to come to terms with it so she just kept giving herself hormone injections, which probably drove over the edge with the excessive hormones adding even more of a delusional hysteria.
@VaporVixen1990
Dealing with miscarriages and watching this was a bit of a trigger. Good acting and the filing and production were great as well. Good video overall ❤
@philipneuheller3833
So well done. How it begins as maybe a ghost then turns into her grief! Such a great twist and great acting.
@edaturk7529
This was quality work. Brilliantly made and well executed. Bravo! I just subscribed and cannot believe you only have 3 subscribers???!!! Keep up the extraordinary work because the world needs to see your talent!
@morneschaap2944
Wonderfully shot, great acting and high quality production. Congratulations to everyone involved. I enjoyed it a lot.😊
@emergentform1188
Wow, this is a brilliant work of art and creepy as all get out. Bravo!!
@ckpaige3956
This is excellent, all around. I have read other comments, which give me the impression my interpretation is probably out of left field, but I thought she was "adopting" the dark spirit of the aborted child, because she did not want to go through the ordeal of again trying to conceive and possibly miscarrying, also again.
@_creighton
Bravo on all counts! Story, Acting, Photography, Sound, EDITING, sincerely engaging storytelling. Bravo and thanks for sharing.
@no.jasmine13
The lady very much reminds me of Juliette Lewis at times.
@ewintertyler