This is a lovely, poetic video of a little girl interacting with light, understanding the world around her. The entire film is backed with wonderful piano and strings playing delicately, and the little girl hopping and dancing around the Light as delicately as the chorus of the piano keys. The Light is as if a character came to life, playfully running away from the girl.
This short can speak differently to different people. The Light may be seen as hope, innocence, dreams, etc. To me, the Light is as if love. When the girl first encounters the Light, it is warm, beautiful, wondrous and magical. We can see her little feet dancing on the wooden floor, her fingers trailing the edges of the teacup under the light, her eyes marveling at the glimmering of dust as she blows them into the air. As she realizes that the magical is slipping away, she tries capturing it, but in vain. Nothing really stays in life. When the girl unravels the mason jar from the bunched up blanket, audience could see the spark in her eyes extinguished. The magical couldn't stay, and the magical turns out to be the plain ordinary.
The playful and whimsical undertones of the short depict the wild imaginations of a child. But the quiet ending also depicts the realization of the worldly limits and the loss of innocence of a child; as in the final scene, the girl's eyes, despite seeing the glorious morning rays shining through the windows, has dimmed into a dull stare. Her excitement, dead; heart, broken.
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