Fallin ‘Floyd: A Video To Help Move Forward

Falling to the bottom is a situation like finding yourself at a dead end and believing that nothing can save you anymore. You know very well the intense feeling of discouragement and sadness that makes you want to stay at the bottom of the bed for a few days, as you get a little shelter from the cold outside world.

In those greatest moments of mental weakness, your anxiety mixes with frustration and begins to blur your eyesight: these feelings make you feel self-pity because of your bad luck, and the idea of ​​complete surrender comes to mind.

Today, we’re sharing with you a little animation designed to help all those who have to endure self-confident psychic enemies. The name of the video is Fallin ‘Floyd and it teaches us e.g. how we can move forward after falling to the bottom. We encourage you to watch the video before reading on:

Fallin ‘Floyd: A funny video that reflects the reality of life

Created in 2013 by the Dutch production company Il Lustern , this short animated film tells a simple story that you can certainly identify with either because of your current or past experiences.

The protagonist of the story is a young trumpet player who plays his music on the street and cheers people up as they walk past. Everything seems to be going well in his life until one day he gets to know something that upsets him profoundly: his partner, who he’s madly in love with, has abandoned him for another person.

Then the music, the colors and the look of the musician together form a sad and gloomy atmosphere that reflects his current feelings. In addition, a kind of little rogue appears to him and begins to simulate that inner recession in his life: it weakens his prospects and derails him, beating him and following him everywhere like a big burden.

But when you feel you have fallen to the bottom…

In the middle stages of the animation, it is seen that the character can no longer feel any worse and nothing is going on in his life: he has no enthusiasm, no energy and no desire to move on. But just like in real life, something helps him get his head above the water and continue: accepting the fight and the victory that follows.

And so, after going through the gloomy and harsh stages and meeting other people who feel the same way he does, he realizes that giving up on himself is going nowhere. And even though the rogue that follows him is already bigger than him, he faces adversity and begins to be that awesome, happy trumpet player again, like at the beginning of the story.

This short animation that does not use verbal language manages to convey an extremely important message: any difference or traumatic moment needs a natural process of adjustment during which there is pain and after which we can start over and continue our dreams, projects and relationships… It is almost as if we have fallen to the bottom so that we can push ourselves up again with greater effort.

The visual power of video

This is a short animation full of sensitivity, and it makes us face life in all its harshness, but also its truth: things went well or bad, we always have something to say, we can always make the decision to move on, swim upstream and overcome obstacles in our way.

In the video, we also see the value of the little things in life (like the smiles of passers-by that fill a musician with peace), the importance of self-esteem and courage we all have within us, and the fact that only we ourselves are able to know when our backs are against a wall. This is an animation full of nostalgia, emptiness, sadness and – ultimately – great courage that represents what we are all made of.

Finally, if you liked Fallin ’Floyd, you might also want to check out an animation called“ Little Quentin ”. It comes from the same authors, Paco Vink and Albert Hooft, was made in 2009 and is another animation full of contrasts, lights and shadows, and just as interesting as Fallin ’Floyd.