Refugees are primarily people who flee their original country, to go elsewhere in order to be protected. Many refugees need to escape due to persecution of their race, nationality, religion, politics, or because of conflicts happening within their country. Due to tough immigration laws and struggles to get citizenship, many successfully escaped refugees stay quiet about what they went go through because of the risk of getting sent back to their country. In Ramussen’s animation film, Flee, he tells the story of Amin Nawabi who has never told anyone what has happened to him and how his experiences still linger with him today since he still fears the possibilities. 

In the film, Flee, Ramussen decides to start off the story with the earliest memory of Nawabi. During this reenactment, he plays over “Take on Me” to express the joyful memories that he had in Afghanistan and uses brighter toned colors. Ramussen consistently uses different styles of music in certain parts of the story being told by Nawabi to show the current mood of how he feels as he is telling it. For instance, around the 22 minute mark, Ramussen uses sad, monophonic orchestral music when going over how Nawabi had to flee his home while the Taliban went to invade Kabul. Furthermore, Ramussen also uses different artistic/animation styles when going over events. 

When Nawabi talked about his process from fleeing from Russia to get to Sweden originally with his mom and older brother, the animation gets quite darker in tone since it is not a blissful memory. Additionally, when he started talking about his mothers fear of drowning, the animation style shifted to silhouettes moving really fast to show how it is an imagined thought of what could’ve happened. When his sisters went to Sweden by themselves, he started talking about how the human traffickers are psychopaths and illustrated what possibly happened on that cargo they were on. To summarize, Ramussen uses his original animation technique to illustrate what happened to Nawabi that he experienced but uses empty faced silhouettes when it is something that happened to someone else or is a supposed thing that happened to narrate the story. 

By utilizing all these styles, Ramussen is able to accurately portray who is involved and how the speaker feels. When Nawabi speaks about a sad moment, the colors and music adjust to that to show the reader what is felt. Since he adjusts colors and music, he is also able to change artistic styles to demonstrate hypothetical situations, Nawabi’s verbatim experience, and historical evidence to demonstrate what happened in Afghanistan at that exact time and how refugees were.