“I don’t even know why I’m angry. I just am. It’s like a flip of a switch. I’m just some little kids entertainment. On, off, on, off.” Depression. We’ve all heard of it. It is hard to define because we do not have much knowledge about it. The best way to describe it is prolonged feelings of severe despondency and dejection. We all feel depressed sometimes, but many people can not even fathom how someone can feel desolate and melancholic all the time. In this society, depression is barely understood. Scientists speculate that it may have something to do with a chemical imbalance of the brain. People who have never had depression do not understand how inhibiting it is from daily life. They do not comprehend how this heavy feeling that grows
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She wears a dark gray shirt and leggings. She is surrounded by red paint, almost like bloods and she is the cause. She rolls over and her side, as if in pain and as she moves, her commentary starts. Garrick’s way of having the camera move around her and her dance describing how she feels mentally and emotionally is brilliant. Her moves and words are the whole focus, and there is nothing going on in the background to distract us or focus on anything else. Also, I enjoy the amazing idea of simple piano music in the background. It only emphasizes what she is saying even more. For example, the more frustrated she is with her words, the music becomes louder and faster. The music was well planned with her words and dance. What he does not explain thoroughly in this video was the physicality of depression. It sure was implied throughout and along with , the speculators bring up the point was how she seemed like it was not believable because of her energy when she dances. Many comments on the video say that depression makes it as though you never have the energy for anything. They want to sleep all the time. One comment, and I quote, says, “it came off as borderline offensive and overly histrionic. Almost like a caricature portraying those with depression as helplessly drowning in their own self pity”. I do not agree with this. This video is a moving, almost desperate form of communication to her loved ones. A way to
She wears a dark gray shirt and leggings. She is surrounded by red paint, almost like bloods and she is the cause. She rolls over and her side, as if in pain and as she moves, her commentary starts. Garrick’s way of having the camera move around her and her dance describing how she feels mentally and emotionally is brilliant. Her moves and words are the whole focus, and there is nothing going on in the background to distract us or focus on anything else. Also, I enjoy the amazing idea of simple piano music in the background. It only emphasizes what she is saying even more. For example, the more frustrated she is with her words, the music becomes louder and faster. The music was well planned with her words and dance. What he does not explain thoroughly in this video was the physicality of depression. It sure was implied throughout and along with , the speculators bring up the point was how she seemed like it was not believable because of her energy when she dances. Many comments on the video say that depression makes it as though you never have the energy for anything. They want to sleep all the time. One comment, and I quote, says, “it came off as borderline offensive and overly histrionic. Almost like a caricature portraying those with depression as helplessly drowning in their own self pity”. I do not agree with this. This video is a moving, almost desperate form of communication to her loved ones. A way to