Our film was long and slow. We took after Tarkovsky. It was a winding portrait of masked beings living communally and unconsciously. Everyone is ignorant and everyone is satisfied. They live with their masks and though they see themselves in the mirror they won't change. The girl in the red dress is different however. When we find her, she is in the basement staring deeply. She realizes who she is apart from the mask and so she abandons it and runs for her life. She escapes out the front door and never looks back. Everyone else is perplexed for a moment, but the their docile acceptance returns.
Repressions are found in the passiveness of those wearing the mask. They won't give it up. Ideologies are found in the tasks the figures take up. They behave as they are expected to behave. I do not think that there were cultural tensions. And as for prophecy, the girl in red running out is a striking image of what they could all accomplish.
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