The Broken Places

This film is a reflection on the increasingly accelerated pace of modern life—a pace driven by consumerism, career ambition, and our growing reliance on technology and social media. Over the past two decades, I’ve witnessed how these forces have not only shaped our external world, but also eroded our inner lives—reducing our attention, suppressing creativity, and weakening our connection to lasting values.

 

Having spent 20 years in the financial sector, immersed in the high-pressure world of banking, I became intimately familiar with the mindset that more is never enough. Long hours and relentless striving became normalized, even as my physical and mental health began to falter. Eventually, I hit burnout. Only after making fundamental changes did I begin to understand just how deeply I had been living with a constant undercurrent of anxiety—something I had mistakenly accepted as a normal state of being.

 

This film seeks to translate that realization into a sensory experience. It is both a personal expression and a cautionary message—a way to externalize the invisible toll that our lifestyles can take, and to invite viewers to pause, reflect, and reconsider the cost of our collective momentum.

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