Roses

Synopsis: The main character lost a close companion, and is suffering from the loss. The main character keeps remembering the memories with the friend, and decides to go back to the place of the companion’s death to overcome the pain.

There are many metaphors in the video. For example, the Sun symbolizes the main character’s sense of guilt, and the character tries to run away from it. The ring-shaped space station symbolizes “running around in circles” which means trapped in the past. And leaving the space station on a spaceship symbolizes the will to overcome the trauma. At the end, the scene showing flowers on the companion’s grave represent the emotional wound healing.

Directed by Hyunjoon Kang (South Korea)