In this video, two different scenarios are present. One of which takes place in Rome, Italy; the other somewhere in Bosnia or Serbia or somewhere during 1994. During the former, the audience perceives a foreigner getting his photos developed, which would take ten minutes. During the latter, it shows the life of a boy who lives with his family somewhere close to the front-line. In the ten minutes it took for the man's photographs to be developed, the enemy forces began shelling the area. The boy's family dies. The scene shifts back to Rome, where the foreigner the audience first saw receives his developed photographs.
The meaning of this is that in such a short span of time, a lot of different things occur at once. Ten minutes may be convenient for one person, but tragic for another.
I suppose that the lesson learned from this could be that one should think about more than just oneself, and think of how life would be if one were in a different place. Or to think about how we should be grateful for what we have. Yeah, something like that.
As I'm typing this, there could be an entire village starving somewhere, or a man having his first drink, or a car crash unfurling. Something like that. I guess this theme could teach me to be more aware of the world. I guess. Here in the developed world, we take a lot of things for granted. For instance, literacy, and furthermore, education, with which I'm able to record and preserve my thoughts in cyberspace. There are many people who would love to have this skill, but it's beyond their reach. And yet, there are individuals who groan and complain about the obligation to go to school.
That's just an example but yeah, I think that the producer of this video was trying to send the message that we should not take what we have for granted.
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