指鹿为马 Original

Call a Deer a Horse is a 5‑minute AI‑generated live‑action‑style short film. Drawing on the subtle, it reflects on the so‑called “growth” experienced by young people after college graduation.
Through understated, lifelike scenes, the film traces the inner transformation of ordinary youth stepping from campus into society. In their youth, they hold firm to right and wrong, staying candid and uncompromising with genuine principles. Yet under the weight of real‑world pressures and social unspoken rules, they gradually learn to flatter others and bend the truth to get by. What they once despised — distorting facts to fit the crowd — becomes a survival tactic.
Without high‑voltage drama, the work portrays adults’ quiet helplessness. Society frames compromise and opportunistic compliance as maturity, while eroding young people’s sincerity. With a delicate observational lens, the film questions the true meaning of growth and provokes reflection on social conventions versus one’s original self.