Tradgedy - Small Hands

So the films we watched in class today were all pretty tragic in some way or another, but out of the three short films Professor Leeper showed us today, I thought “Small Hands” was the saddest one.

Of course the other three films had some great ways to impact the people watching them, but when you first start watching “Small Hands”, it doesn’t seem all that sad, just a bunch of cute little animal couples doing things together. But if you really listen to the music in the background, you can kind of figure out where the video is going to end up, a tragedy.

Then as the film gets to about half way, one animal from each couple is taken from the other. And if that wasn’t sad enough, we get to see the frog by itself, floating alone on the lily pad, the owl sitting in the tree alone on the branch, and the little rabbit alone in the burrow, shivering. I almost started crying, it was just so heart breaking.

The whole film focus around loss and mourning and how we might never get an answer to way love ones die and leave us all alone in the world.

And this got me thinking.

As Christians we almost take loss for granted. I don't mean we never cry or never wonder why someone died, what I mean is that we will always mourning for someone that was close to us that passes away, but usually they are Christian too, so we just assume that we will get to see them again haven when we die.

But I think that sometimes we tend to forget that everyone else in the world faces with loss and not everyone is a Christian and they might not believe that they will ever see their loved ones again. They just don’t have that hope we have that they will see their love ones again in haven. They might believe that once people die, their just gone forever, never to be seen again. I think if you looked at the film without a Christian view, it makes the film ten times sadder. Just imagine if you lost someone with no hope of ever seeing them again, what would your reaction be? Would it be the same as it is if you lost someone now, or would it be even more heart breaking?

Anyways, these were my thoughts on the short film “Small Hands”.

~Sara Mark