A short story

This is a famous dark-humor comic sequence (often circulated as a meme) that uses a visual metaphor to deliver a brutal twist about life, death, and perspective.
Here’s what happens step by step:

First image: A movie theater full of people watching a screen that says “-END-”.
→ This represents human life: we are the audience, and death is the moment the “movie” of our life ends.
Second image: An old man sitting alone on a park bench, head down, looking sad and tired.
→ After the movie ends, the audience leaves the theater. This old man is one of the viewers, now alone in the real world.

3–6. The old man slowly gets up with a cane and walks away through the park. A beautiful butterfly flutters nearby.
→ From the human perspective, this is a peaceful, bittersweet scene: an elderly man enjoying his last years, nature, a butterfly — symbols of beauty and transience.
7–9. The camera slowly zooms in on the butterfly… until we see its actual point of view: the old man’s giant shoe is about to crush it.

Final panel: The shoe has turned into a monstrous mouth and is eating the butterfly alive.

The punchline / twist
The entire “life” we just watched from the old man’s perspective (the movie, the lonely walk, the serene park, the butterfly as a symbol of fleeting beauty) was actually the butterfly’s life. From the butterfly’s point of view, its entire existence lasted only a few seconds: it emerged, flew briefly, and was immediately crushed and devoured by a grotesque monster (the old man’s shoe).
The comic brutally reminds us that lifespan is relative. What feels like a long, melancholy human lifetime is less than the blink of an eye from the perspective of a short-lived creature — and vice versa. Your whole epic story can be someone else’s insignificant, unnoticed moment.