People get stuck in their jobs, watch others living out their lives and never get to see their own dreams come to fruition. You never know where life will take you, though. The Kiosk, a short film by Anete Melece, shows an obese lady who lives out of her kiosk. The film does an impressive job of showing just how one can fall into a sense of comfort in their environment, no matter how soul, or physically, crushing it gets.
Almost everyone has dreams, something they strive towards. Potentially putting their dream on a pedestal, the act of dreaming may envelop their entire lives and trap them in their own imagination. “The Kiosk†allows such a dreamer to achieve the goal and yet still be stuck in her earlier environment. The dream came to life but still stayed in its original format, as something to be cherished and admired at from a distance, rather than experienced.
The films art style is bland in the background and the director uses bright colors to highlight important or emotional details. A bleak gray-scale city surrounds this brightly-colored chippy obese woman and her beloved kiosk.
The Kiosk is a lighthearted film and shows that whether it’s destiny or design, life may take you in the direction you have dreamed about for so long. All you have to do is let go and take it in stride.
Following the philosophy that all things happen for a reason, a tragedy occurs and forces the woman to deal with hardship and the destruction of all that she loved. Only for her to realize that it gave her a freedom she never would have found otherwise.
The beauty of the film is its charming simple mindset that the world revolves and you just play whatever role you want. The Kiosk portrays all this with only a couple of spoken words and a bunch of emotional mumbling speech. Showing at this years Tribeca Film Festival, the film runs just short of seven minutes.
Whether it’s selling from a kiosk in a big depressing city or selling from a kiosk on a beach, the film lets you know that if you keep doing what you love doing then rest might just work itself out.
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