The advertisement spoiled the whole short film lmao.. but it didn't budge me at all. Anyway, this short film is touching and sad.

This is Lalin. She's an Internet celebrity with a face many adore. She's called "angel", "goddess", and many more.

She chose to live behind a mask, because she can't stand to look at her own face. Offline, she's just another girl on the street, living her life anonymously. Her secret runs deep.

She knows the superficiality and the manipulative nature of the Internet, but she just wants the attention, like everyone else. She's cynical about it, but attention is exactly what she craves. What's so wrong with that?

Then, she meets someone who makes her smile. It all changes.

She actually smiles, behind the mask. Life becomes chirpier, she enjoys the company of the new man in her life. He wants to engage her for a professional job, to translate a book from Thai to Japanese. She obliges.

Problem: he wants to meet.

She commits, but chickens out at the last minute.

Disappointed, he leaves, but he also leaves her with the truth. He knows who she is, the real her.

Now, unmasked, she, too, has to face the truth and irony of her own doing.

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I love the part where his story unfold @ 10:10 ( i will type it all out.. cause i find it nice. lol ).

A man in a bulky spacesuit has been floating aimlessly through the galaxy for countless years.
One day, the force of gravity pulls the astronaut closer to the moon. And on that day everything is going to change. The astronaut looks up at the moon floating above him and admires it beauty by himself. (Lalin, which means the moon). But the cluster os stars shinning nearby made the moon appear dark and lonely.

At that moment, he makes a decision to do something. The astronaut holds his breath and takes off his bulky suit piece by piece. He swims against the pull of gravity with difficulty. Towards the moon that is being cruelly mocked the the cluster of stars. Getting closer and closer. The body that had been cocooned now feels naked and light. The astronaut thinks to himself, "Did i sacrifice everything for myself, or for whom?". The answer is that it's worth it, just to be able to float up high, and whisper to the moon : "Screw them all".

Because after this, we will fall into each other's orbit.

for Lalin, the girl who has changed my orbit forever.

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