Portrait

The film deals with the past, the memory and the nostalgia. Seen through the eyes of the protagonist, the plot is a short trip in his memories from the past and specifically in the most important moments that he experienced with the woman he was madly in love. Essentially, the story highlights the 'portrait' of the main character, through intense snapshots of three past phases of his personal life (when he was a teenager, an adult and a middle-aged man),which acted as catalysts in his personality and determined his future actions and ultimately his whole life. At the age of 78, the events that he remembers constitute his most intense emotional moments and, therefore, those that his memory has chosen, set apart and retained. Thus, he strongly recalls these both positive and negative reminiscences that indelibly marked his life. It is widely accepted that objects, photographs and scents from the past function as the main vehicles for the activation of memory and nostalgic emotions. In the case of the film, two old tickets, a portrait and a musical melody, become the occasions for such activation. A nostalgic life assessment is made when the end approaches. Time is compressed to specific memories and shows life as a puzzle of highlighted events, which emotionally affect the human being, and have a deep impact in its present actions.