The story is very short and not much development is found but I feel like that's the point. I honestly had no idea what the plot was going into this film so I had no assumptions of what I wanted. What I got out of it was just a story about a boy and a woman who don't really know their place in the world right now and need a little push to get themselves walking again. They're at a stand still and they've found life boring, until they found each other that is. Now when people see that line, they probably assume this to be a love story. Errr, wrong. I didn't feel like it was a love story at all! There are some melancholic hints of unrequited love toward the end, but it's just a school boy and some older woman who happens to be a teacher at his school. What I found more important, was that a boy found something worth devoting time to and a woman found a reason worth picking up her life and moving on. It's not easy to just change your life direction and lots of people end up in a rut. The story wasn't extravagent, the characters didn't have an immense amount of depth and yet, it was still a story worth telling.
The best thing about this 46 minute film is its simplicity. The OST is just a piano and some nature sounds. The characters are slimmed down to mainly two people. The dialogue is mostly inner monologues. The boy just wants to make some damn shoes. The woman just wants some peace of mind. This film made me appreciate how slow life can be at times and it's only fast because we make it that way. There's so much to life that can be beautiful, we some times have to slow down and take a look at it.
