The chronicle and anthropology reports of a young person in their 20s

In 2014, as a high school student, I was studying hard to go to a good university. There was only one reason why I wanted to do that. It is because I wanted to be someone who could help others. In order to accomplish that, I needed to be a better person than others, so I wanted to go to a good college. However, while I was studying, I was constantly feeling this unexplainable anxiety. In the meantime, through this documentary, I interviewed my friends and tried to find out the source of the anxiety. It was death.
Time passed and after studying for another year, I finally became a college student. When I saw my best friend, who was accepted earlier, not doing well at college, I made an effort to help my friend. However, she kept experiencing a series of misfortunes or repeated the same mistakes. Whenever something happened, my friend tried to kill herself. I became fed up with her and started to avoid her. Before long, she jumped off a bridge.

A dragonfly refers to us and also our sense of loss. Adults tell us that going to college is like becoming a colorful butterfly from a caterpillar, but the reality is we only grow like an incomplete metamorphosis dragonfly. Saving a Dragonfly is a documentary about the 7-year life of the director who has been “successful” at the college entrance exam after another year of study but torn between her past worries and situations in reality. I hope this film can show and recall what we lost and left behind, to those who grew up and became adults without going through the pupa period with this record of one individual’s 7 years.