ENTRY 7：Reponse to the short film "10 Minutes"

  In the main narrative of the short film a man walking in a very modern city with people sitting outside, drinking coffee, accompanied by a very soft and bright music, displays a very leisure life just as the city dubbed as “romantic city”. However, in the frame narrative, in a very dark and rough room accommodating a whole family, stories begins with baby crying, mother yelling; the boy then walks in a shabby street with ruins, aiming at the relief food. The two main character in separate stories show a completely different life from each other. In terms of the color, it is obvious that the main story adopted a very warm color to display a sense of leisure and pleasant, but in the frame narrative, the color is cold with a sense of danger. Another element both showed in these two stories is the technology. In the main narrative, the man is amazed by the advanced technology that his photos can be developed in just ten minutes, while in the frame narrative, the high technology, the mass destructive weapons like guns, can ruin his whole life in one second. The former one is the praise of the technology, and the latter narratives criticize the cruelty of it. I personally think the film tells us that never disdain 10 minutes; it can develop everything, also ruin everything, and the same with technology. Through the contrast of these two stories happened in simply ten minutes, we should also learn how cruel the war is.