Bear Beer

As a director, I intend to create a slow-paced, poetic, and profound work that is worth watching repeatedly and studying, rather than a straightforward story that would be discarded after watching it. To achieve this, I have incorporated various complex, symbolic, and metaphorical strategies to depict an intricate emotional relationship in this film. At the same time, I want to portray subtle and complex emotions. I don't want the audience to intuitively sense what will happen next; instead, I want them to follow the film with questions in mind and seek answers.

Regardless of past conflicts, no matter how hard you try or wish for it, family bonds are impossible to sever. This is what I firmly believe and is the premise of this film.

With the continuous progress of society, nearly everyone possesses the capability to independently sustain themselves, free from reliance on anyone, including family members. In such circumstances, people are more prone to drifting apart due to conflicts. This is because open-hearted communication becomes scarcer, replaced by stubborn silences. However, does severing contact truly signify a complete lack of concern for each other? In this process, will each other really be happy?

In my film, Kelly has been cut off from her father for 12 years. She puts all the responsibility on her father to gain her inner comfort because of the self-serving bias. In fact, she also bears responsibility for her mother's accidental death, but she is unwilling to confront it. As a result, she still struggles subconsciously, this struggle makes her fall into depression. What about her father? Her father, Jack, blames himself, so he is afraid to see his daughter. This kind of deep guilt made him choose to forget the painful past during his dementia.

Yes, this is the answer I want to give to the audience. I don't think they can really be happy, and I believe when loved ones face significant setbacks, we still grieve and are driven to lend a helping hand. Therefore, when Kelly knows that his father has Alzheimer's disease, he goes to visit his father. Although there are some conflicts, she ultimately acknowledges her own past waywardness, forgives her father's past culpableness, and accepts her boyfriend who has long been rejected due to her insecurities.

For Kelly, she is fortunate because she still has a chance to make amends before her father passes away. What about other people in real life? If a tragedy occurs, is there still a chance to explain and make amends? Hence, I want to create such a short film that encourages families with conflicts to open up, to embrace one another, and not lose the most selfless affections of this world due to resentment, stubbornness, or pride.

In addition, although my setting is that the protagonist has depression, I don't want to express her state of attack. Therefore, I only select some characteristics of the recovery period of depression, such as emotional instability, anxiety, weakness, and taking medicine, etc. Those sensitive viewers, or viewers who have had similar experiences, would guess that the protagonist is suffering from depression through these details, and it does not matter whether other viewers can guess it. This is because in life, if individuals suffering from depression do not disclose it to others, many people may not be aware of their condition.