Words are limited. For as bountiful as the vocabulary of any given dialect may be, there will always be certain moments, certain experiences, certain feelings, that are utterly beyond the grasp of the written or spoken word to express. The phrase “deafening silence” exists solely as an ironic testament to how the absence of words can say far more than the words themselves. It’s part of the reason why I have such adoration to the medium of cinema, as it’s a form of visual language and expression that can tap into emotions that, for as many words as I devote to any one of them in these reviews, I would be entirely unable to put into words myself. It’s this mode of human emotion, where the unspoken says volumes, that this short film excels at.
