The Role Of Imagination In The Animated Music Video Shelter

Imagination runs this world. Imagination creates what we live in today, and will evolve into what we live in tomorrow. “Imagination is more important than education” (Albert Einstein). Einstein was an extremely smart person who lived for education, but the importance of imagination is heavily stressed. In the animated music video “Shelter”, a girl is living in her own world through her imagination and it allows her to keep living in the horrible situation that she is facing. Contrary to “Shelter” is a series called Steins;Gate; it focuses on the world not changing because of lack of imagination, by the main character named Okarin, in solving issues. Imagination is the most important aspect of life because it changes our perspective of anything we want. In Steins;Gate, a close friend to …show more content…
His mind becomes corrupt with memories of his friend and that is all he could think about, instead of using the world around him to help him. He lossed all of his happiness and imagination and his perspective never changes. On the other hand, in “Shelter”, a little girl is shown living a normal life on her home planet. Unfortunately, seconds later, signs of the apocalypse and the world falling apart begin. The little girl’s father sends his daughter into outer space to allow for her to survive, but he is not able to go with her. The girl is then shown years later still stuck in the machine that saved her, however she starts using her imagination to bring a new world to life. She wakes up and grabs a tablet and starts building anything she wants. She designs mountains, lakes, clouds