http://www.upworthy.com/how-do-you-handle-people-being-awful-and-the-universe-sucking-sometimes-come-home-to-one-of-these?c=hpstream

—Within the first moments of the video we see a man, dressed in black, (likely our protagonist judging by the length of the video) walking in an empty field with a soccer ball in his left hand (facing toward the camera) showing the audience that he is walking away from a soccer game.

—In the seconds that follow, he is chased by two men in red, who run into frame. Their body language is that of annoyance which perfectly mirrors the verbalization directed confrontationally toward our protagonist of this scene. We see a closeup of the three characters, and for the first time get to see the front of the protagonist in black. Evidently he is the referee, as he has a stopwatch hanging around his neck implying he had kept the time, and likely had a say in when the game ended. Also in this scene we get to see just how far the ref has walked, and how long the players likely had to run to catch up to him, making it an unnecessary, and obnoxious attempt which should only enrage our protagonist. In these few seconds I am met with a feeling of disbelief, as the background portrays a long ended game, be there only one (very blurry) player in red playing on the far off field.Yet their anger has clearly not had time to fester into appropriate behavior. The two red players are enraged screaming, waving their arms, and take position on either side of him indicating a highly threatening scenario. The ref clearly isn’t blind looking to the right at one of his aggressors he recognizes this threat but his face only shows signs of fear/confusion/remorse/avoidance. We are presented with a behind the back shot of the scenario showing they are following the poor ref to his car in the parking lot.

—We are then greeted by sky shot in a busy sidewalk in a town of some sort. There is a woman dressed in pink standing with a clipboard. Nearly everyone else is dressed in black, gray, other dull colors, telling the audience that she is the likely protagonist of this new scene. The camera zooms to a close up of her face slowly turning into one of discouragement, after she delivers a polite line directed at some individuals who refuse to acknowledge her existence. She attempts again, this time we are greeted by her face while the line is delivered and she has a gentle and outgoing look while again asking for a moment of time. I do find this somewhat strange as this woman is clearly attractive, and has now been met with two, both male, unwilling participants. Her polite/friendly/cute face turns and watches as another walks right past her invitation to talk and again turns to discouragement. This is a nice contrast to the first scene: instead of the our ref ignoring the belligerent behavior of past players, it appears society is ignoring our cute woman’s friendly behavior, acknowledging that the ignorance/and evil of man takes many forms.

—Thirdly we have a long shot showing a pink building cleverly named wonderland with three gentlemen attempting to enter but are halted by a man. In the shot, there is also a line indicator, (some poles with a red cloth hanging in between them) which in addition with the man disallowing entrance (bouncer), allows us to determine that this is likely outside a popular place: club or pub, since they are audibly British. The fact that no one is in the line however seems to indicate that a majority have already gone in, and there is little room for more. Maybe even the bar hasn’t been accepting people for quite some time. Before we zoom to examine the scene closer, the words “are you stupid or something?” are heard, the leader of the three gentlemen walking to the club. The aggressors are all visibly annoyed most notably the one on the far left who is wearing a hat with Greek symbols on it (fraternity dude, wants to party) who is verbalizing his malcontent for the bouncer who is simply doing his job. We then are showed the obvious protagonist against such atrocious human behavior, who gives understanding smirks, and nods indicating that this is a regular thing, but that he is sympathetic to them. Back to the aggressors one is on the phone, likely making a feeble attempt to get someone to let them in. Ironic that it is named wonder land, as they can only wonder what it is like inside it, or even better that the inside is full of wonderful things, and these awful people will never get to see it.

—We are taken back to the fist scene and the referee is in his car buckling his seat belt, looking scared as one of the red team bangs on the window. Only now to a realize the importance of the team color which is red, and red is psychologically determined to be a color of fury and rage. Once the seatbelt is buckled we see a behind the back shot of the car, painting a somewhat nice scene behind a fence and despite the evil soccer players who are now making attempts at opening the locked door. My immediate reaction to them showing this shot was to look at the license plate, to see if they took advantage of some sort of anagram or other split second Easter egg, but alas there was nothing, which I find a bit of a waste. We cut back to a front shot behind the windshield of the car giving us full view of the ref who slams on the gas, as evident by the screeching sound the tires give off. His face is rattled, maybe even horrified, as he looks in the rear view mirror to ensure his safe distance from the aggressors.

—Back to our cute pink woman on the street. She gets off a full sentence to the first passerby( a woman) who looks her directly in the eyes and says absolutely nothing and keeps walking which I must admit makes me cringe. I have done this may times before, but only by looking at it objectively do I realize the pure vanity of it. She attempts again with someone who is walking diligently stepping in front of her. This woman doesn’t even look her in the eye, but simply sidesteps and proclaims to the world, as if the protagonist didn’t even exist, “I’m Really Late!”. A third time she tries this time with a male, who quite unrealistically walks by her and looks down at her stomach giving a face of disgust. This seemed the most unrealistic, as there was simply no reason for the face to be there, that is not a normal reaction, at least not one that I have seen. We the woman in pink begin to willow in her sadness, but not give it a second thought as she puts forth an effort to not let it get to her, eventually smiling and looking onto the next passerby.

—Cut to the three very angry gentlemen again who are now screaming threats at the bouncer and walking off as if they had lost. His face doesn’t change and he just stairs at their pathetic intimidation tactics.

—A brief shot of a clearly fed up ref walking out of his car likely into his house

—another brief shot of our bouncer walking in the streets, then to a fence which he opens, and then begins to fumble in his pockets while walking leading me to believe this is his house.

—Our female protagonist walks in a door right as the bouncer walks off screen, the order of which leads me to believe she is also in her house. She bends over and says “hello!” enthusiastically and playfully the sound of barking is heard, and an adorable small white with brown spots dog jumps into her arms. The dog has a pink collar which due to the longevity of human social norms for gender lead me to believe the dog is also female which only goes further to strengthen their relationship. The dog is just as excited to see her as it licks her face and wags its tail.

—The referee walks in his door, with the first smile I have seen him muster, while also saying his first words, “Hey!” as a chocolate lab runs down the steps. He bends over and pets him as if he hasn’t seen him in years.

—Our bouncer is strangely already in his house, and is petting a shaggy dog saying “Good Boy!”

—we then cut back to the ref. The dog submits on it’s back so the owner can pet his belly.

—The screen then whites out with the words “Unconditional Love” and “Adopt a dog” on screen. This seems to be implying that they have learned unconditional love from their pets which is an adequate assumption, and that, the only reason they had the strength to go through these awful human interactions is because they have practiced with dogs. Also implying that dogs lack human social inequities which means it is impossible for them to treat you this way. Interestingly, the two male protagonists only spoke when the saw the dogs, implying they were unsure how to handle those bad situations as they only had kindness in their hearts. The dogs were immediately happy to see their owners, and tend to behave similarly with new people as well, which contrasts the human arrogance quite well.

—The contrast would have been much stronger had it had an equal number of protagonists to portray human evil. Had it been just the ref, and the woman in pink, the message would have come off as, You can ignore human arrogance, and you can be subjected to it, but man’s best friend will prevent you becoming human arrogance. With the addition of the bouncer, it seems a better case was was being made to ignore arrogance. The bouncer seemed somewhat underdeveloped as well, which makes me wonder if he was some wort of last minute addition to meet time requirements. To combat this they could have added another outgoing protagonist met with the same problem, rather than relieve the bouncer. Also, if the outgoing woman had come home, and said nothing in somewhat of a melancholy, than the dog could have cheered her up, which would have contrasted beautifully with the men who never talked until they came home to their dogs.

—Unfortunately the video does not live up to its full potential, that being said it was incredibly powerful.