Safety Film Analysis

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Oh, young love. The swarm of butterflies you get when your helplessly in love. They’re driving you lovesick to the point where you would do anything for that one special person. You would even move to a new city just to try to make it big so you can live a comfortable life with your partner. Along the way you encounter that things aren’t going to plan. Doing anything and everything for the love of your life is a lot to handle. You have a mediocre job and you are barely scraping by but you know that you have to keep your lover proud and happy. A surprise visit from your aficionado sets you into panic mode to play the role of someone you’re not. This is what happens to The Boy (Harold Lloyd) in Fred C. Newmeyer’s and Sam Taylor’s film, Safety

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