‘Status Update’ opens up as being a short film where a woman posts her everyday memories on Facebook, looking for emotional shelter and finding it. Her story, based on her Facebook posts, is quite sad – she gets engaged, time flies, and then Adam, the man of her dreams, doesn’t seem to come back to her. He disappeared somewhere, and we don’t know where, how, or why, but what we know is that Helen misses him, and wants him back. At first one may think the whole movie is about some soldier that went to the warzone and never reported back to his wife. Her attitude is very similar to what we’ve seen in war movies, and her pain is pretty much what some sort of post traumatic stress disorder looks like.

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Even though it starts as a Facebook short film, the back story is tragic, and there is not much till the viewer understands the background of the whole suffering and posting ritual. The woman, Helen, was suffering from dissociative amnesia, and everything she posted was a way of maintaining the idealistic story from her mind alive in her heart. 

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