Academy Award Nominated Best Picture

“How do you feel?”

“Well, I honestly feel kind of lost and frightened. I’m kinda just stuck. Like my whole life was supposed to be a preparation for the real world and now that I’ve been out of high school for several years I realize more and more that I don’t want to take part in the so called world waiting for me. It’s all been one big waste of time. I feel like this person who’s just been told to go see this great new movie that everyone loves and so I have my ticket and the usher has shown me the theater but then he just leaves me standing in the aisle. I look around at the audience and they seem bored and tired. I see all these empty seats and wonder which one is mine. I’ve spent my whole life preparing to see this movie but nobody shows me where I’m supposed to sit. And as I look closer, the seats are all dirty and some are broken and none of them look very comfortable. Everyone who has a seat looks unhappy and yet nobody makes an effort to leave the theater. Sometimes they move from seat to seat to try and get a better view but nobody’s happy. So not only do I not want to sit down anywhere but also I’m having serious doubts about the movie itself. For some reason I’m beginning to think that it’s not what everyone has made it out to be. But as I’m standing there more and more people are entering the theater and going right to their uncomfortable seats as if they knew where they were going
to sit all along.”

“And this frightens you?”

“Yeah, it does at first. I’m scared because what if I never find my seat and before I know it the movie’s over and that’s it.”

“You said you felt frightened at first, you don’t anymore?”

“Well, it’s not as easy as that. The fear is still there but now I’m more frustrated. I’m starting to think that there has to be a different movie playing. This can’t be it. If everybody is as miserable as they look then why haven’t any of them tried to leave and look for a better movie?”