"PM 2.5." The sprout will live... The short film directed by Peter Bidron “PM 2.5” is devoted to the problem of air pollution in the modern city by PM 2.5 particles. Doctors and environmentalists are talking about their harm. PM 2.5 is an air pollutant that includes both solid microparticles and tiny droplets of liquids. They are in the forest and on the sea, but it is in the city that they are the most dangerous, because in the city they are much more, and the chemical composition of fine aerosol in the city is more dangerous than in nature.
In the film PM 2.5, the film crew allowed themselves to look into the future and imagine what awaits humanity, if not today to think about the problem of air pollution.
Watching Pyotr Bidron’s PM 2.5, we find ourselves in the Krakow of the future. What do we see? Yellow, no signs of life grass. Everything is covered with soot: walls and windows of houses, earth, butterfly, Man trying to find lumps of unpolluted earth, his clothes, skin, hair. It seems that we hear the crunch of soot at every movement of a man, even if he just turns his eyebrow. And the pipes of the plant continue to violently spew smoke, enveloping everything around and destroying living things. A person has an oxygen sensor, he is forced to interrupt his classes and run. Where? When we find out where the man was in such a hurry, we understand the scale of the tragedy around us. It turns out that Man was in a hurry to the only green plant in the area - a small green sprout living under a glass cap. It was he who, as a result of a failure in the system, ran out of clean air. A second fluctuation, and the Man gives the supply of oxygen to the sprout, thereby condemning himself to poisoning with contaminated air and death.
It's an amazing shrill movie. The extraordinary role of Man in a lifeless city, brilliantly played by Paul DeLong. A role without a word. All feelings, thoughts of experience, the actor masterfully conveys primarily with a look. How does an actor’s eye expression change depending on the situation? In his eyes reflected pain, despair, hope, and doom, and then joy, fatigue and awareness of the job done. Paul DeLonge's man speaks with a glance to the viewer. With the help of the actor’s eyes, it seems that we “hear” the thoughts of his character. In a difficult moment of choosing between his life and the life of a plant, what a gamut of feelings runs over the face of Pavel Delong: from despair to relief from the solution found, although this decision is disastrous for his hero personally.
Beginning to suffocate and putting his head on the pillow, the Man, performed by Paul Delong, looks with warmth and tenderness at the green sprout, with what love and affection his eyes glow. The sprout will live and, perhaps, it is with him that the revival of life will begin in the city?