life lessons

The Butterfly Circus 

It is an analog short film directed by Joshua Weigel. The director uses the emotion as a central resource, makes the audience to involve with the character and uses moral lessons as the development of the story.

At the end of the short-film the main character overcomes

all his difficulties as the audience expects and he finally “obtains” the

condition of human being.

The film situates us in the Great Depression era at, in the time when someone weird or different was often discriminated and used as entertainment, as we can clearly  see reflected in the movie and that resembled a movie filmed in that time called Freaks.

The short-film is an emotional story about personal growth, the pursuit of our place in the world  and about people who are like  butterfly, these  creatures began their lives as lesser beings who experienced a metamorphosis that revealed their innate beauty and allowed them to fly.

The main character (Nick Vujicic), a  limbless man, worked in a freak show, he had no faith, all his life people  made ​​him feel as an oddity and he used the feel the same way "Even God turned his back to him”

Then life itself puts different people on his way, rejected people like him, members of a traveling troupe called The Butterfly Circus that taught him not to feel self-pity because of his condition, but to realize how great he could become if he want to, they taught him that the soul of a man is so great  that it can overcome any problem or obstacle just with our willpower that is bigger than any trouble.

"the bigger the fight the greater your glory"  is the powerful phrase in this short film than tells us that the more difficult your life is, the more beautiful your reward will be.