Written by Lara Rosales
In Interference by Luana Di Pasquale, it is clear that the woman is living in two realities. In one, she is barely there, and the nurse points this out when she mentions it seems she’s not even alive.
The real distinction, however, comes through the colors used in the short. When Isabella is lying on the hospital bed, not moving or speaking, the screen is black and white. It feels like an old movie, but in reality, it is showing the stillness of her body. She experienced something so traumatic that to experience it, her body had to stop.
But her mind never does. Even when she seems like a corpse, her mind is going a hundred miles per hour through memories, wishes, and desires. That is when the screen turns colorful. Inside Isabella, there is a life that cannot be perceived on the outside because she isn’t ready to face her new reality.
Once she is ready to move on (to come back to life), she opens her eyes, sits up, and gives her son a name, while the screen simultaneously turns on a bright color. We see the blue of her eye, showing us she is no longer trapped inside her body. The motion of her mind is translated to her body as she chooses to face what has happened.
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