Video transcript
CApture Film Festival 2025 – 01. Someone Like Me – An Allegory About Belonging

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NARRATOR: In a world like ours stood a faceless man-- still, quiet, untouched by hunger or worry. Life was simple, until one day, a new thought stirred within him.

He wondered who else and what else was out there. Though he never moved, he knew he could. So he stepped down off his stand and began his journey.

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His quiet world vanished behind him. He entered a land of perfect, colourful bricks where everyone fit together, but not him. They had shapes and smiles he couldn't match.

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He asked to stay, but they turned him away. Feeling lonely, he moved on.

He climbed onto a strange board where rules ruled all. Spaces told him where to go and who to be. He tried, but the roles weren't his. The rules were too tight. Frustrated, the game pieces attacked him. So he fled.

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Next came a wild ocean. Waves crashed while strange creatures swam below. No one cared who he was.

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He fought to stay afloat, battling his sea foes, and pushed on-- stronger, but weary.

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He entered a land of stiff, clay figures, all perfectly sculpted, fixed in grins and glares.

They offered to mould him like them, but the idea of being frozen in place filled him with dread. He declined and was cast out as unworthy.

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In a bright kitchen, blades flashed and vegetables waited.

A knife fell too close, nearly slicing him in half. Shaken, he escaped, stung by being seen as no more than fruit. Finally, he reached a cold, quiet office. Paper towels loomed. Metal clips snapped like mechanical beasts.

He ducked and dodged, pushing through the chaos until he found refuge in a forgotten storeroom. There, on a shelf behind a layer of dust, sat a plastic box. Inside was a figure just like him-- faceless, still and alone.

He reached out. And in that small moment, the faceless man understood. He didn't need to change to belong. He just needed to be seen. And now, he was.

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