One day Xiao Nan returns home to find that everything familiar to him has changed. His parents are locked out, and he is stuck inside a house in turmoil as an invisible shackle silently suffocates the family. What Xiao Nan ‘sees’ and ‘hears’ in his mind become disorienting commands where truth is difficult to separate from fiction. Can Xiao Nan find the way out? Shackled deals with children coming face-to-face with their parents’ frustration of estrangement and the shaping of learned behaviour akin to animal training. Through the use of photography and post-production special effects, the resultant surrealism depicts the child’s subtly complex inner thoughts, memories and psychology interlaced with fantasy and reality.
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