Singer Taylor Swift directed and wrote the film that begins with a line from Pablo Neruda’s Poem 20.
Hundreds of fans of singer Taylor Swift gathered this afternoon outside AMC Lincoln Square (New York, United States) for the official screening of All too well: The Short Film, directed and written by the 31-year-old artist and inspired by the song of the same name, included in her new album Red (Taylor’s version), launched this Friday, November 12 on various digital platforms.
With 14 minutes and 55 seconds of duration, the audiovisual piece is carried out by Sadie Sink (Stranger Things) Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner), who interpret a young couple, with a great age difference between them, in their best and worst moments. “Love is so short and oblivion is so long.”
Swift was present at the event and, as a surprise to the audience, she sang the song musically accompanied only by an acoustic guitar.
After the premiere of the short film worldwide through YouTube (7:00 p.m. in Ecuador), his followers seem even more convinced that the characters represent 20-year-old Taylor and her then-boyfriend, actor Jake Gyllenhaal, with whom he maintained an intense relationship between October and December 2010. The physical resemblance with the chosen actors is evident.
In accordance with MTV News, Jake and Taylor met through the intervention of actress Gwyneth Paltrow, who presented them during a dinner hosted by her and her then-husband, Chris Martin, lead singer of Coldplay, but they broke up after a heated argument on Swift’s 21st birthday (a scene that also appears in the short film).
The 10 minute version of All too well in his lyrics he already offered new indications about how they lived their romance, such as that his father (Scott Swift) immediately liked him and they sipped coffee together while joking like they were in a late night show and also about the moment when ‘an actress’ approached Taylor to ask if everything was okay while crying in the bathroom at a party.
The short film, however, It is not limited to the lyrics of the song and also includes original dialogue What a fight between lovers while washing the dishes after a dinner with friends, a moment baptized in the audiovisual as ‘The first crack in the glass’. Although there is a tender reconciliation, perhaps those were the first signs that something was wrong?
The breakup and the agony of separation also occupy much of the piece, but the ending brings a surprising twist that empowers the female character after several years of ending that relationship.
The famous swift scarf, which according to the song, left abandoned in the house of Gyllenhaal’s sister, it is the element that opens and closes this story, although perhaps his fans will never know if he actually still has it or not.
Two hours after its premiere the short film is already close to 2 million views.
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