Too Shy- Harry Quilley

Too Shy (2011 Ryan Hutchins)

Too shy is a young man doing a poetic reading in a high school open mic night. The film is shows the concept of love,death and regret. It start as a man in possibly his early twenties, reading the entry of his poem/reading as we cannot be sure whether it is actually a poem. The young man is wearing what seems to be very casual clothing and seems to not be under any pressure in front of an audience as he begins to read, this implies confidence in what he is to say.

Reaction to Emotion

Audience Compatibility

Audience feels the same way

From what we see, the audience then begins to react to what he has said, and they start to really engage with the reader and that they have experienced  they same type of emotion that the protagonist has within the poem, and that are all intrigued to listen closely to see what comes of these feelings and emotions.As the film enters its stage of cut-scenes and visioning the poem, we begin to feel sympathy for the protagonist, as though knew exactly how he felt.

Sudden realisation the poem's about her

The film shows a very stereotypical way of gender roles, in that the man must be the first to make a move within a relationship for it to go any further, even though the girl wanted to express her feelings, she felt as though the friendship between the to could be ruined. This leads back to the stereotype of the man having to ask out the women, even though overtime this has changed, it is still seen as the responsibility of the man to express feelings before the women. This short film implies that he once was to shy, but that he grew in confidence and as we see at the end, he got the girl that he had 'loved for years'. This is shown at the very end when there eyes catch from across the room, and it seems she realised the reading/poem, was all about herself, with the final shot being of the journal, implying that the second half of the poem is what his life it could have turned out to be like if he didn't express his feelings towards here before they moved apart.

As there eyes meet across the room