When are People Most Alone?

        If I were to make a five-minute silent film about isolation, I think I would pick myself as the main character. I am person who is quitter fearful of loneliness. To me, loneliness can occur in many forms and can exist in everyday life at any second. I would make my film to include many different short scenes of situations that I or many people in today’s life may experience. My first setting would be me in a foreign country, in a country that I can’t communicate very well with the people, at a school where my familiar friends are all gone and I am forced to adapt to the new environment. My scene will convey the main character (me) trying to find the classrooms on an unfamiliar crowded campus with no one in particular to help her. My scene will then turn to depicting everyday situations. For example, when I feel depressed and need someone to talk to but found no one reliable enough. Another scene would be set during fall or winter when people often feel melancholic. Walking down a street crowded with people can also be lonely. For me, sometimes being in a crowded place make you feel even lonelier seeing all the people happily interacting with each other. In conclusion, to me people are most lonely when they do not have a companion to accompany or console them through times of depression or unhappiness.