Observation:

In front of the State Library on a sunny day, the grass crowded with young, hip trendsetters and old people smoking incessantly, a couple walks past. They are not holding hands, nor does one of them have their arm around the other. Instead they are hugging each other tightly with both arms, creating a siamese twin perpetually in danger of stumbling over its own feet. Maybe they are so in love that they cannot bear to let each other go even the slightest bit. Or perhaps this is their last hour together before one of them jumps on a plane to France for a year. Will they maintain the relationship long distance, or will it fizzle out? Perhaps they both secretly are seeing someone else, and so hold each other tight in an overcompensation for their infidelity. These are all possibilities. Truly, I think they are just happy to be together, and are willing to sacrifice a portion of their mobility to be very close to each other.

The film:

Cheesy. Could probably be a short 2-3 minute deal of them walking through the city, stuck to each other like glue. However, when I think about it, I can’t picture this couple in a film I’d want to watch. Maybe this is an indicator that it’s not a film I should make. I like seeing them walk past clumsily, but I’m not sure if the type of people to walk like that are the type of people I’m really interested in writing about. If my penultimate presumption was the case, and they were cheating on each other, this observation could be a scene in a longer film, which details their affairs.