How Joe And Christian Massa Are Using Film To Fight Mental Illness
Through a must-watch, untraditional film by the Massa brothers
It is a silent film without any dialogue, only music. It starts with statistics about suicide. A man goes through a seemingly insurmountable amount of challenges that lead him to see a dark-cloaked figure who reminds him of death and suicide.
The film starts with the man waking up to his alarm, eating breakfast in the fridge. The man closes his fridge and sees a dark figure, handing him a lethal amount of pills. He is later frustrated about a bill that needs to be paid. He sees the figure again. On a run through the suburbs and close to the train tracks, he sees the figure on the train tracks.
The figure is meant to be temptation towards death, and the protagonist sees the person over and over again. In one hallucination, the character is holding a noose. The protagonist receives notice that he is laid off from work. He goes to the store, grabs a bottle of water, and in the pits of despair, hands the bottle to the cashier, only to see the hooded figure of death again. The man is handing him his change, and still, he sees the pills.
With his whole life falling apart, the protagonist then goes through a breakup. He sits on the couch and the hooded figure…
