“Anxiety slowly dances one to one’s grave in a Danse Macabre, yet one can change a sinister dance partner with a friend.” – Yomna Mohamed The movie is a metaphorical expression of anxiety struggles. The director wanted to express anxiety through a medieval theme called the ‘Danse Macabre’ or the ‘Dance of Death’. Dark thoughts that haunt anxiety patients are like the skeletons from the ‘Danse Macabre’. Patients engage in a struggle with their symptoms and that struggle is like the dance between the dead and the living in the Danse Macabre. Anxiety leads patients to death like how the Danse Macabre skeletons waltz the living to their graves. Nonetheless, patients can escape their deaths by ‘changing their dance partner’. This movie raises awareness about anxiety and how anxiety patients should not suffer alone. Medication is not always the way out…sometimes all one has to do is find someone to talk to.
