Four students from the ESMA Film University of Montpelier, in France, have created this pretty good science fiction short film.
In just 9 minutes, leave several messages for us to collect and value our way of life and our way of caring for and treating children.
In the video we see a perfect world full of symmetry, of an established order, of “people” living identical lives convinced that it is the best. A "child" (in the meantime because they are aliens) has the audacity to play and get out of that social monotony, that is, dares to act like a child.
Therefore, for not being like the others, for having different concerns or for wanting to live in a different way, he is treated as abnormal (understood as abnormal as not normal or unusual), subjecting him to several cognitive tests that end with a medication for place it in the role of a normal and passive subject, in line with society.
I have not been able to avoid comparing this scene with the hundreds of children with behavioral problems derived from social or family situations that destabilize them (or children with enough character to continue being children despite adult dictates) who are wrongly diagnosed with Deficit Disorder of Attention with Hyperactivity (ADHD) and medicated with Methylphenidate (Rubifen or Concerta), which act at the level of the central nervous system as if they were really sick.
Nor can I avoid thinking about the struggle of much of society for the child to be the same as others when he feels different. It is to avoid being unique, is not to let him experience from what he feels, is to turn off the light.
At the end of the video the story takes a wonderful turn. Everything we have seen and associated with our behavior on Earth turns out to be a kind of perfect sub-world that sends all the distorting subjects to the planet earth in the form of a newborn.
Those extraterrestrial children in need of fighting to be themselves and with a strong character to defend their convictions are sent to Earth in the form of a new opportunity to open their eyes to their parents and those who already inhabit it, to change a society that It collapses (or it seems to me).
Too bad that many of the children who arrive end up being treated just like where they come from, thus losing the opportunity to allow them to change the world.
