The Pantene commercial was filmed in a what seemed to be an urban, bustling city somewhere in Asia. Withing four minutes, the director shot a short story about the triumph of an underdog. The opening scene has a young girl watching an older man who is a street musician that plays the violin. She is drawn in by his passionate playing and admires his musical abilities. The next scene shows her and a friend or possibly her sister practicing a piece of music with the main character playing a violin and her friend on the piano. The scene builds because her friend becomes frustrated by the main character’s imaginative thoughts and wandering mind. Then the main character comes back to the streets and listens to the street musician from when she was younger. They talk by sign language since the street musician is deaf and they share their feelings about life. The street musician understands how she feels because I think he’s gone through the same rough patch she’s going through then in her life. The violin is a way both the deaf musician and the quiet girl could express their emotions to the world without having to talk. The protagonist is the quiet girl who ends up stealing the music contest at the end and the antagonist is her “friend” that broke her confidence in the beginning. The evil friend devised a plan for a gang to beat up or possibly kill the street musican and the main character, which is where the climax took place. It’s ironic in that the underdog came out on top even though her friend tried so hard to take her out of the competition. The audition for the music contest was almost over until the violinist shows up with her mended violin to win the crowd’s heart. I believe the theme of the commercial was that your goal in life can be acheived no matter how many bumps in the road there are.