This short film about dreams and love will surprise you

Sometimes, to understand an idea it is better to get out of theory books and go to artistic forms of expression. This, for example, can also be used to explain how love works and our expectations about it.

precisely for that reason This short film about dreams and love that you can see below is interesting: The Wishgranter, or "The Wish Fulfiller". An audiovisual work that, despite telling a relatively simple story, contains a powerful message within itself.

expectations and love

When we experience that psychological facet that has to do with love (or with the absence of reciprocated love), we always do so through our expectations. The most common thing is that we think about our love life not focusing on the present, but judging the present from the perspective of someone who accumulates several good or bad experiences.

However, the fact of keeping in mind our memories about the role we have previously played in the world of love it does not cause us to make the wisest decisions; sometimes the opposite occurs. For example, it can make us see what happens to us in a dichotomous way of "either black or white." If you win, you clearly win, and if you fail, this too will be a self-evident fact.

In this animated short, this is reflected in the emphasis placed on the mechanics of the machinery used by the wish granter. This is a little man who from the beginning appears to us as a simple technician, someone accustomed to routine and little committed to his job precisely because of its monotony: he simply gives a predetermined reward to people who toss coins at a fountain.

This machinery represents, in some way, the just world theory: "you get what you give". This theory is, in fact, a mental bias that has been widely studied from psychology; we tend to automatically think that everyone has what they deserve, in the absence of reasons that make us change our minds. However, this belief, as a bias, does not really always serve to explain what happens in the real world, and when we see that it is not fulfilled, it is easy to think that the problem is in oneself, and not in what one does.

This not only lowers your own self-esteem; also immobilizes us and makes it easier for us not to continue making an effort, because we assume that our destiny is not to participate in this “karma justice system” in which the relationship between what is given and what is obtained is clear and instantaneous.

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When our dreams don't come true

When the two young people who go to the fountain throw a coin and see that nothing comes to them, they assume that they have failed and that what they have done is useless. Of course, this would be true if the mechanics of love were exactly the same as the machine in the short. However, it is at that moment when the wish-fulfiller leaves his comfort zone and decides to actively participate in what is going to happen.

After failing several times through his attempts (which is another demonstration that the just world theory is not always right), there is something that makes the story have an ending happy: the coincidence between an act of kindness and the fact that the wish fulfiller has tried very hard to make love I arrived.

Luck and affective life

The fundamental idea behind this animated short is that making an effort is meaningless. because it will allow us to create the result that we expect in the way that we had foreseen, but because allows us to make luck play in our favor.

Once we have accepted that we will not always immediately obtain benefits that compensate our sacrifices, it is important to be clear that, since luck has an important role when it comes to reaching or not fulfilling our dreams, we too can "hack" the system to make luck play in our favor.

In this short, the wish-fulfiller is an incarnation of that part of the two protagonists that refuses to give up and does not give in to frustration. He is a character who knows that from time to time the karmic justice system can fail, but who instead of being frozen by pessimism, he manages to create the options necessary for luck to play in your favor. In the end, it is not only he who makes everything go well, but a mixture of circumstances that never would have occurred if he had not first become involved in the resolution of the problem.

Thus, the message of the short film is: "things don't always go as expected, and for this very reason it is important that you commit yourself to what you do." It is not convenient to wait for some kind of divine mechanism to solve our problems, we must be clear that it is oneself who You must do more of your part to create the chances of success, knowing that you may need the collaboration of others.

The happy ending

Tempting good luck will not make us have exactly the same happy ending that we have always fantasized about, because in the end we are not in complete control of the situation.

However, if we fight hard to get out of our comfort zone and we reject the idea of ​​becoming cold and incapable of empathy, we will be ourselves, in collaboration with those with whom we connect, who build the outcome we were looking for.

This outcome will almost always be unexpected, but in the end, almost all truly original and memorable endings are.

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