Kaleidoscope (2014)

What makes the border between reality and illusion too thin? Hanna’s imaginations are placed to reality and friends joke will make everything true. Kaleidoscope is turning and sucks Hanna inside.

Hanna’s imaginations are starting to melt in with reality. When she is playing the boardgame with her friends, she forgets “Charlie Chaplin” name. She tells how she is starting to forget important things, but her friends doesn’t take it seriously. Friends will make a plan how to make Hanna’s mood better and show her that her problem is not real. They ask two guys to play their old friends. When they will be all together again then two guys are coming to talk with them and Hanna’s friends act like they are old and good friends and make weird gestures to Hanna who seems not to remember them. Hanna starts to believe the joke and starts imagining situations what haven’t happened. Liis understand that joke went too far, but Hanna is already living in other world. Reality and illusion melt together and both of the sides have to reconcile with it.

Keywords: creating an illusion | joke | understanding reality | friends | View all »