This film was certainly an interesting one, and in a way, a metaphorical one for how we live normally in modern society. To me, I feel like we live like those nondescript people in this short film, just going about our daily lives, following orders of a higher power, and going back home just to wake up and do it again the next day.
Bartholomew was different though, he found something that caused him to act differently, to be more creative outside of the world he previously new. He found a voice. His voice represented a breach in the societal norm. It was small and weak at first, but it only grew. He began to grow intrigued by the speakers on the device, and the intercom speakers.
Eventually this obsession drove him to act, and he found out where the voice of the intercom was coming from, and silenced it. This act to me, was metaphorically killing the norm and doing things our own way. However, when he started singing, he was called defective, and taken away. Then replaced later with a more 'appropriate' version.
In conclusion, I feel as though we represent this movie a lot, and the greatest question I have is simply this. When do we become defective? Can we even become defective? What does it mean to be defective? Just because one doesn't follow in the line of others doesn't make a person non-functioning. Can defective people be useful?
I believe that everyone is defective in some way shape or form. For me, I'm a procrastinator, I wait until 4AM for inspiration, then blame the world for being tired the next day. I'm also fat, another stigma to society. I also speed on most roads, I rarely wear a seat-belt, there's a lot that I don't do that society would deem me as 'defective'. However I feel like I can contribute so much, I have so much to give despite my defects, and I feel the same for Bartholomew. Sure Murder was a bit... much. But the metaphor it brought on was the most important part.
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