This short film displays the themes of comeuppance to characters within the film mostly involving the displayed through a antagonist in the shape of the higher class and successful guy and a proposed protagonist in the form of the homeless man. The basic plot shows the antagonist threaten the homeless man at the start, and then the homeless man stumbles upon the antagonist arguing with his girlfriend who proceeds to throw his suit out of the window which lands at the homeless mans feet who puts them on. The antagonist then hits his girlfriend which causes a role reversal with the antagonist and the homeless man, who now has the antagonist suit car and girlfriend. The role reversal was the key twist in the film as the man who had nothing ending up with everything due to the actions of the antagonist.
This is achieved with a cross cut in which the Mise en scene of the homeless man evolves from his tattered old clothes that reveal he is in fact a homeless, to looking like a high class if a tad rugged, due to his facial hair. The main themes within the short film which are explored are comeuppance and irony. The homeless man that the antagonist threatens at the beginning for being a "loser" turns out to get the material items in his life that are important and most expensive to him, in which the title extends to "one mans loss... Is another mans gain".
The purposes of the short film are to almost educate the audience and convey a message to not take everything for granted like the antagonist did, as what you have could serve a less fortunate person very well, if ending in a more unlikely way. In films like this a message can be very powerful and is done very well in the film by conveying a powerful message.
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