Hydrangea is a short film that shows the contrast between a perfect life on TV and what actually happens when the cameras are off.
Sometimes when we watch a TV show or even a commercial, it can be easy to forget that the people acting on screen aren't the people we're seeing. With every situation fabricated and every reaction scripted and the actors given chance after chance to react perfectly, the audience can see a presentation of reality that simply isn't true. Each actor has a life outside of the screen that the audience isn't privy to, and more likely than not, this life is a lot messier than the life we see on screen. Hydrangea demonstrates perfectly that once the camera stops rolling, real life sets in.
A mother and father, Hannah and David, with their son Anthony, seem at first to be the perfect family, until a few moments later the audience realizes that they are acting in a commercial. As soon as the director calls 'cut,' Hanna pulls David aside and the veil of the perfect couple is dropped as the arguing begins. Ironically, one of the topics they argue about is the decision to participate in the commercial in the first place, as if they can't even agree on whether or not they want to be a picturesque couple. …show more content…
He asks her “can you be a little more interested in your son?” when just moments before, she and her husband had been arguing about what was best for their son and she asks David almost the exact same question. Similarly, even when Hanna is not on set, we can see a makeup artist come by to fix her makeup, again blurring the line between Hannah the person and Hannah the character (it's worth noting here that the leads are also named Hannah and David in the real world, adding yet another layer to this
Sometimes when we watch a TV show or even a commercial, it can be easy to forget that the people acting on screen aren't the people we're seeing. With every situation fabricated and every reaction scripted and the actors given chance after chance to react perfectly, the audience can see a presentation of reality that simply isn't true. Each actor has a life outside of the screen that the audience isn't privy to, and more likely than not, this life is a lot messier than the life we see on screen. Hydrangea demonstrates perfectly that once the camera stops rolling, real life sets in.
A mother and father, Hannah and David, with their son Anthony, seem at first to be the perfect family, until a few moments later the audience realizes that they are acting in a commercial. As soon as the director calls 'cut,' Hanna pulls David aside and the veil of the perfect couple is dropped as the arguing begins. Ironically, one of the topics they argue about is the decision to participate in the commercial in the first place, as if they can't even agree on whether or not they want to be a picturesque couple. …show more content…
He asks her “can you be a little more interested in your son?” when just moments before, she and her husband had been arguing about what was best for their son and she asks David almost the exact same question. Similarly, even when Hanna is not on set, we can see a makeup artist come by to fix her makeup, again blurring the line between Hannah the person and Hannah the character (it's worth noting here that the leads are also named Hannah and David in the real world, adding yet another layer to this