Many movies get their message across through the use of words and pictures, but "The Red Balloon," by Albert Lamorisse, is one of the few movies who achieves this through minimal dialogue and purposeful music. This movie has clearly won multiple awards. Two of the awards include the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or and the Academy Award in 1956. This movie deserves the awards that it received for many reasons, the main ones being that it was able to keep the audience captivated and holds many messages. The movies I watched that were made using mostly pictures were boring. The majority of them failed to keep the audience hooked, except for this movie. This movie kept the audience interested all throughout. One of the best parts about this movie, The Red Balloon, is that it holds numerous amounts of symbols, metaphors, and meanings. How one interprets these symbols and metaphors is completely dependent on one’s own “life experience.” The ideas that Albert Lamorisse constructs for the boy are endless. The Red Balloon conveys the idea of pursuing after one’s goals and is a metaphor for Jesus’ death. One of the many ideas that this film holds is being able to pursue one’s goals/dreams despite the people in society who put one down. At the beginning of the movie, the boy finds a red balloon on the way to school. This is similar to a light bulb that all of a sudden pops up in one’s head. On the way to school, he passes some people who look at him and the balloon in a surprised way. This is a metaphor for people who doubt a person’s goals and how successful they will be. Later on in the movie, his classmates pop the boy’s red balloon. A quote that is relatable to this situation said by Frank Sinatra is, “Success is the best revenge.” The best revenge is not through violence, but it is to be successful and prove to them that their attempts never affected one’s road to success. This is relatable to the movie because aft