Lance & Lucy The Short Movie

2013, 12 minutes

Ordinary People with Ordinary Dreams

Lance & Lucy The Short Movie is a story about ordinary people with ordinary faith and ordinary dreams to which ordinary miracles happen. A comedy with a strong love element, built around a dead end race and a monotonous cafe conversation full of those little things which make life extra weird. The classic boy meets girl theme, with a philosophical view on the pursuit of happiness. Lance, a detective, the fallen hero type, is barely able to confront failure, while Lucy, a waitress, depressed, as the result of her underachieving life style, has simply lost the motivation to seek any sort of excitement that would brighten up her hopeless existence. On an ordinary day a detective chases after his usual suspect, and a waitress confronts the absurd monotony of her life. By the tricks of destiny something happens when Lance meets Lucy. A profound definition of love as explained by his holiness the Dalai Lama, love that wants others to be happy. It is unconditional love and it takes a great deal of courage and acceptance, including self acceptance. “Admiring those character traits which we at first despised, feared and felt were inadequacies, is the beginning of self acceptance and self understanding, therefore the beginning of true love. The Lance and Lucy story is about embracing the self in whichever circumstance; it’s about ordinary miracles happening to ordinary people with ordinary faith.” Love is portrayed to be the final destination in the search for meaning and all purpose. When the characters arrive at the “in love” stop of the journey, they seem to forget that there was ever a search.


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