Every year John Lewis releases a much anticipated Christmas advert, hoping to top the last one- and this year it may just have done that.
John Lewis released its Christmas advert this morning, and it is already going viral.
Entitled ‘Man on the Moon’, and filmed at the Warner Brothers studios in Hertfordshire at an eye-watering £1 million production cost, the year’s ad is set in ‘outer space’.
The touching advert features a star-gazing little girl who loves nothing more than staring through her telescope.
One evening she comes a cross a lone elderly man on the moon, and begins to follow his lonely life.
The shots see the man staring longingly at earth- bursting with life- as he alternates between his empty house, and a single bench on the vast deserted landscape of the moon.
As Christmas celebrations get into full swing, and the little girl is surrounded by people and laughter, she desperately tries to get a message to him to show him he isn’t alone.
When her bow and arrow fails to launch her hand-written message to the moon, she sets a bunch of balloons free into the sky.
And just as Christmas eve strikes, the man’s eyes light up as the balloons land by his bench, complete with a wrapped present revealing his very own telescope.
Through the lens he spots the little girl waving to him- proof he is not alone.
The advert ends on the message ‘Show someone they’re loved this Christmas’- reminding us of the plight many elderly people face this season.
We love it!