Emiline

So the other day in class, some of you may have noticed a group of us holding our arms straight up in the air, Taylor and I holding them up for the entire class. This was something that we agreed to make to Leeper as a reference to the first night of the Chicago International Childrens Film Festival. On the first night, a film titled Emiline was played.

Emiline is a story of a girl who, ever since she was little, has had her arms raised above her head. She litter ally can't put them down. That's just how she is. The story shows her daily life and how she had some problems but was able to deal with them because she had just accepted this way of life.

She ends up falling in love, but she's too afraid to come up to him because she is how she is and she's been made fun of her whole life for it. In the end, the man she liked helped her when one of the girls who used to ridicule her encountered her, and the two walk off together, he with his arms in the air to match her as  a way to show that he didn't care and that he loved her anyway.

Now our story behind why we raide our arms was that on the first night, after we finished watching the films of the night, walked out of the theatre with our arms in the air, trailing behind Leeper, even through the supermarket across the street.

If you get the chance, look up Emiline and watch it. It's very cute and very well done.