Islands

Reasonably well acted this film shows bullying and how one of the youths in a school gym stops the fight. Later on we see he desires the bullied youth and kisses him. There is a rejection, and the hurt youth who initiates the kiss runs from the locker room. The gym master comes in seeing the kissed youth's distress and kindly reminds him that we are all islands and that we connect with words. No more spoilers and I wanted to know more, and the frustration of many short films is that we see only a fragment of a wider story. Well made it seemed to tease its audience by giving a short lesson from the gym master how to live one's isolated life. Interesting, and interesting enough for me to want to review it. Finally it left me hungry for more.

It is a sketch of a beautiful film about loneliness, bullying, form of solidarity and confessions. A couch and a boy. A notebook , with many drawings, and a poetry. And an elephant toy. Enough for a story, far to be bad, touching, but, for many reasons, too long and too short, in same measure.