connected analysis

 In 'connected', she connected with the man on the bus non verbally whilst in the midst of an isolated experience. When she starts to touch his hand and connected with him, he is not really interested at first but a close up shot of the man now having a happy expression on his face and soon joins in and touches her hand back. Cheerful, uplifting music plays in her head when this happens. There is a dance number that plays when she finally accepts who she is and is happy with her life. An example of this is when she's swaying in and out of reality and sees her life now as a romance film.

At the start, there is grim lighting on the bus and feels claustrophobic. This unhappy music starts playing as she's getting on the bus and when she imagines that man shooting someone on the bus it shows she wants something more in her life and is tired of the life she is living at this moment. This ends when she interacts with the man and even though he is gone by the end she now feels a new purpose in life. Her having headphones on suggests she's switching off from reality and getting pushed to the back of the que  tells us she's an outsider and she's 'out of it'. At the end, there is now a happy expression on her face contrasted with the sad, gloomy expression on her face at the start which is no more.