Employing only a voiceover and two pairs of hands, the short film puts forth its message and all that it intends to convey. It invokes the disturbing, but relevant reality of child sexual abuse, one that mars the very innocence that childhood embodies. <br><br> All of this is achieved by means of symbols and metaphors. As a little girl, fragile as a butterfly (suggested by the title of the film which translates to butterfly) plays with her crayons, drawing colourful pictures from memory, her hand is forced in a direction that is against her desire. Violence, force and sexual oppression are thus portrayed visually, using the same frames of hands, and the voiceover, reminding the viewer of the ugliness of the world they inhabit. 

Poombatta | Short Film of the Day

The short film invokes several emotions in the viewer, some that allow them to participate in what the protagonist is feeling, others that take them far from that. The first portion of the film might lead one to believe that its only character battles some form of extreme social withdrawal, almost manic in nature. He constantly wakes up to check the locks on his door, shutting them tightly every single time. <br><br> However, the second half of the film has a fairly opposite development in store - one that might make the viewer experience a sense of entrapment, akin to even claustrophobia, a situation that several must be familiar with in a post-quarantine world. Additionally, the title is a clear suggestion of the depths of the human mind, and how difficult its darkness can truly prove to be sometimes. Further, the film exhibits promise and allows itself just enough abstraction for the viewer to bring to it their own interpretation of the events unfolding before them. 

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