Promenade The Puzzle by Michele Dauria





Ths the best artistic flash movie I have ever written about. It starts off with a Halloween-style cartoon character wearing black and smoking a cigarette with a long pipe attachment.

My first impression of the film leads me to the "Nightmare before Christmas" cartoon viewed when I was a child. The backdrop and cartoons in the movie resembled a mysterious night. The waves of black ribbon, the glowing eyes of the black cat in the rafters cut through the black backdrop as to show something... someone... is watching.

Emotional moments were highlighted with the spotlight on the character - a lanky woman smoking this elegant cigarette in the night. The movement of this flash piece closely follows the movement of the eerie-mythological and mysterious music in the background. As she feels emotion, the music speeds up. As she feels sorrow for the loss of the figure that she is in love with the music slows… the spotlight is on her showing her audience her emotion. The figure continually reappears with the smoke coming from the cigarette.

The figure turns into a heart – beating for the one she loves. Is this a lost love? Is she in love with the smoky figure? Does she long for love?

This movie is very adaptable to the audience abroad. Many whom feel a longing for someone they loved, want to love, or just have an emotion about their current lover can relate to this flash movie.