Chris’ Paper

Lost in Society

It is a part of life that everyone wants to fit into society somehow. Whether it is by race, age, or interests, everyone strives to find somewhere that they would fit in. It is the feeling of being alone and separated that no one wants to experience. In the short film The Lost Thing, a man helps a strange creature find a place for it to fit in. It is during the adventure of trying to find someplace that the creature fits into that the true meaning of feeling lost in society is found.

The film makes it clear that the strange creature does not fit into society by making it a strange looking crab and everyone else regular humans. Until the man found the creature on the beach, it was by itself, alone with no one to be with. Throughout the journey of the man and crab trying to find somewhere to fit in, it is apparent that no one wants to interact with the strange crab. Everyone seems to ignore the creature, even though it is many times bigger than any of the people around it.

The man eventually finds a place that the creature fits into. There is a place where many other strange creatures reside in. The man drops off the strange creature and leaves to continue with his own life. Instead of trying to incorporate itself into the current society, the creature was dropped off somewhere other creatures resided in. The true ending should have been the creature living with the man in his society.

The creature resorted to joining a society consisting only of other strange creatures. It felt the most comfortable in that society because it fit in with the others, and the other creatures accepted it. The other humans didn’t even give the creature an opportunity to join its society, and immediately out-casted it by pretending that it wasn’t even there. The humans should have seen that the creature was out of place and tried to welcome it into their society, even though it was different from them. That same idea should be placed onto other people in everyone’s life. When people see someone who is different they should try to welcome them instead of instantly shutting them out. One cannot know what they will be like unless they are given an opportunity to present themselves.