Amusement parks are for fun and laughs, to get away from our problems, but in "The Circle" Shila tells her niece horrible news that would change her life forever. The topic for the shorts program was called "Family for Better or Worse" that showed many shorts about many families. I liked how it was not a cliche of the loving families we see in our society; we see pain and struggle just like any other family. My favorite short from the program was called "The Circle," it was taken place at an amusement park where an aunt told her niece her mom was dying. Amusement parks are supposed to be happy, and a great time but in this short, it was not the happiest, it was very depressing. The irony of sad news at an amusement park, it showed how life is like that sometimes. In the climax of the short, the characters were in a Ferris wheel, and the aunt told her niece that her mother was dying. The aunt told her that "life is like a cycle, and it is goi...