Holy crap, the pivotal turn in Luca's story where reality started shifting back to an almost normal really got to me, and how it ended kind of made me feel really sad. Amazing story guys, this was really deep!

This was actually one of the best post apocalyptic short films I've ever seen. The story and Luca's experience felt authentic. Great job.

Good to see an after actually looking dirty like he's been in the zombie apocalypse for years unlike some of these videos where every one looks clean and fresh cut hair

@philipjoseph5099

5 жыл бұрын

Cory Sartin fingernails clean asf though

@kl152ci

2 жыл бұрын

true in general, except it was really distracting that both guys had eyeliner on every day. Like, who has time for that in an apocalypse?

@DogBeast221

2 ай бұрын

But is Luca wearing eye liner?

@KimsKluckers

Ай бұрын

I thought the same thing Cory

I spent two months homeless a few months ago, I lived among and witnessed people actually like this. This film brings reality to a real trauma these folks suffer. It moved me, good job relating and drumming up a ton of emotions in me. Five Finger Death Punch - Wrong Side Of Heaven, search it, watch it. I too had a choice to make, stay homeless and live free, somewhat, or answer my daughters call to let her take care of me. I answered the walkie-talkie. This really brought me back to those moments living alone in my head. Many are not as fortunate to have a hand out of the hell.

@dhh488

3 жыл бұрын

I hope you are doing ok.

@justinrabbitt9492

3 жыл бұрын

It turly is sad how many are homeless and need help. Yet many have nobody, no aid, and almost no escape due to insane laws that bind them to where ever they are. At least that's my thought and opinion. Nothing more than a thought

@darmuslives4340

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you took the hand offered. May we all be so lucky to recognize it when it happens. I wish you well.

@waskozoids

3 жыл бұрын

II've lived this 20 years squatting....kzread.info/dash/bejne/a5yWmrmHfKapd6Q.html

At least that wasn't the same old guy with girl and gun and both look perfectly clean and shaved always, good job. Very creative. Unexpected, so thank you.

What a deep plot. I feel like every conversation is thought through very intensively, to be one of lucas thoughts. Also the way that theyre talking is exactly the same way people are talking to themselves. 👏

@stewartmullings1552

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! Especially the scene where he was walking on the train tracks. The point of view made it look like he was talking to himself most of that conversation.

This film is so well done its hard to express. I watched it through just once but it stuck in my head for weeks. I couldn't shake the idea of, how lonely do you have to be before your mind creates an imaginary friend. Then how long of living with your figment does it take to forgo the chance to find another real person. This scenario haunted me. Then it hit me.........there is no other person......he is so utterly alone his mind is creating a new friend. It was when he told Ford the radio is how he found him that drew me to the conclusion, there is no one else. Just a desperately lonely person with no hope. Well done.

@Oligarchi

3 жыл бұрын

Great analysis! :)

@russman3787

Жыл бұрын

I got chills reading that... and that's never happened to me before.

Great story! When Ford presented himself by saying "are you talking to yourself again?" I had a hunch that Luca might be crazy and just imagining his friend from the start, and it was interesting to see if this was the case. I loved how the story was left open, with no questions answered, felt the connection with Luca right there.

His ‘friend’ was the voice in his head that said “there is no-one else, you are all alone, accept it and push on” the ‘woman’ over the radio was another voice in his head, that was the HOPE he was holding onto that someone else existed, that he was not alone. The truth was too hard to accept, so he had a battle raging within. At the end he was having to come to terms with reality. He decided to accept the truth.

@andiestewart7423

4 жыл бұрын

Tinkertime Thank you! Makes sense now

@sirlaugholot

4 жыл бұрын

And the mantid? Creeping dispare?

@joesagliani3778

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, but at the end of the film before he walks away you see the top of a hood walk past the camera and then Luca following the same path. Two people?

@deebreed1570

3 жыл бұрын

Dude you really have to many ford's running around your studio apartment..

@watching95

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Ford was a coping mechanism; like Wilson in Cast Away (Tom Hanks movie, early 2000's, I think). Do we take the delusion, or venture towards reality. After all the time of being alone, reality becomes scary. Good movie.

@nannz.7266

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@NorseGraphic

5 жыл бұрын

The radio was a hallucination, how could the woman know his name?

@Oligarchi

5 жыл бұрын

@@NorseGraphic Maybe the woman was a hallucination as well.

@HRHMANSOUR

5 жыл бұрын

@@NorseGraphic He broadcast his name and that he was with his friend.

I got lost once in Alaska for +30 days, so it was kind of hard for me to watch this. I could relate to every emotion and the loss of his reality. that was 30 years ago for me this short movie was very emotional for me to view. I joke around all the time about my experience but now I realize the impact its had on me. thanks for making this, and I hope you heal from your trauma as I have. because there's no way you could have depicted this so accurately with out being lost a long time...... yourself.

@TheDrummerman1951

5 жыл бұрын

How in the hell did you get lost in Alaska for 30 days?

@danelobe2524

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheDrummerman1951 I was North East of Fort Yukon back in the 80's (before cell phones). I wandered off into Canada. I did a 50 mile right hand circle ended back in Alaska and a road. That's how.

@TheDrummerman1951

5 жыл бұрын

@@danelobe2524 Thanks for your reply and glad your all right must have been scary at times.

@stanleypasquale7080

4 жыл бұрын

You sound like a liar I don’t believe everything these days good luck God bless

@ericoman6743

4 жыл бұрын

Where in ak i live in eagle river were you hunting camping day hike

Very impressive. I know this story, but you retold it with vigor and care. The actors are to be congratulated. Well done.

@mateussousa3639

5 жыл бұрын

Is there one other version?! How may I find it?!

@mlcrip9552

5 жыл бұрын

What’s the original story??????

I honestly would love to live this life wether it be short or not it’s the truest sense of freedom I can think of

This film brings reality to a real trauma these folks suffer. It moved me, good job relating and drumming up a ton of emotions in me. I spent two months homeless a few months ago, I lived among and witnessed people actually like this Five Finger Death Punch - Wrong Side Of Heaven, search it, watch it. I too had a choice to make, stay homeless and live free, somewhat, or answer my daughters call to let her take care of me. I answered the walkie-talkie. This really brought me back to those moments living alone in my head. Many are not as fortunate to have a hand out of the hell.

two guys spend a long, long time together meeting no-one. On their travels they find people who have lost hope. There then comes a choice of more the same or to hope for contact. Good acting all the way.

Very nice. I kind of had my suspicions about Ford early on when Luca tried to radio him and Ford just shows up and tells Luca he always knows where he is.

@stewartmullings1552

3 жыл бұрын

Yes! That first scene where Ford just shows up, for the first few seconds I felt like Ford wasn't really there, just a figment of his imagination. But I pushed that thought to the back of my head and continued.

Incredible short film. I guess his partner Ford, was actually Dead, perhaps from an earlier depiction of their fight, and Luca was suffering from his uncontrollable rage, of having killed the only human being left besides himself, thus his extreme desperation to find another living soul. His insanity completely took over him. Sad case indeed.

@conrad13579

5 жыл бұрын

Well said

@pauladawson2648

5 жыл бұрын

Spot on my friend. .😎

@adamteashaw9441

5 жыл бұрын

What if his friend didn't exist

@aerialfishuu

5 жыл бұрын

@@adamteashaw9441 That's what I was actually thinking aswell! What is his friend is only a depiction of his desperation, making him imagining things that weren't there? What if the sounds on the radio is actually his imagination too? Luca said he met Ford by a radio signal What if this all only happened in his head and not in reality?

@adamteashaw9441

5 жыл бұрын

@@aerialfishuu it is right and when a real person contacts he starts losing contact with floyd

Nothing else....just....WOW! This is again why I love shorts. So much put into so little time. Simply Brilliant. Thank you.

Some pluses and minuses both in this film ( minuses like having filthy faces and skin even after just having had a bath,or frequently finding canned goods but not being able to find/ improve their tattered clothes, a little too much eyeliner on Luca!, both bodies Luca found still being fairly fresh, though whatever SHTF event occured, was supposed to have taken place 7 years previous) Still though, overall entertaining and fairly well done. I would argue that both Ford (Ford gives us a clue that he may be a delusion when he mentions Luca stinks, but he himself is relatively odorless!) and the voice in the radio signal were part of Luca's delusion. The 'HOPE' being the psychological carrot he dangles in front of himself to continue to have a reason to live and carry on. Gave it a thumbs up overall.

@davidthompson1529

5 жыл бұрын

Pretty sure the woman hanging was a regression back to his wife. Hence the fresh body u mentioned. So it fits w the story.

@VladTheImpalerTepesIII

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe neither of the bodies were dead for 7 years.

These actors we're actually pretty good. 👍

@RagnarokFilm

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

@needmoreramsay

3 жыл бұрын

They really were decent; other than the tackle at 23:48. LOL 🤣

Almost feel like a professional made movie, these two actors are really good!.

Holy cow! That was freaking amazing, I was at the edge of my seat. Loved the storyline, it was deep and so well put together. I'd absolutely love to see a part 2 of this short film.

Good job on the wardrobe. I've seen many post apocalyptic short films, and the actors always look way to clean. Hair is clean, face is clean. If the clothes are tattered, the material is also very clean. It makes it hard to get into the feel of the end of the world. Great job!

I am rarely moved to comment on shorts in this genre. This was a thinking-mans film. Yes, you could spend all day poking holes in it. But ultimately the need for hope (in any form) is chillingly shown to us. I found myself immersed throughout the entire story.

It was brilliant. But it would have blown me away if Luca was the illusion and Ford was desperately trying to prevent him from disappearing forever.

@Oligarchi

5 жыл бұрын

Wow, yeah. That would've been some twist! Good idea :)

@drdoggystyle1

5 жыл бұрын

Deeeeeeep twist :D

Very good screenplay. Its an unusual psychological drama. The dead bodies 'found' leaves alot to wonder about. Some Lessons: Always keep your batteries charged, walkie talkie on, and use a large hilltop antenna to reach far way persons who just might be listening. Just dont IGNORE the signals. Only at the ending is I fully understood this film: hopeful, yet ironically -hopeless in a sense... Definitely a must-see.

I really enjoyed this! The mournful expectation in Luka's eyes each time he heard a response on the radio. These two delivered Oscar worthy performances!

The character of Ford was well conceived and acted.

Превосходно! Замечательная режиссура прекрасные актеры великолепная операторская работа. Всё вместе сошлось в этот маленький шедевр.

the music was excellent, went with the mood changes of the characters perfectly in fact that was the first thing that drew me in

Better than many of the movies I have paid to see. Thank you.

Awesome..... very powerful and original. The exact opposite of Hollywood.

@Jli777

5 жыл бұрын

Need to get the people who write these short films as writers for Hollywood. Then we wouldn't just have 100 reboots of old movies

@thejollyjohnson9015

4 жыл бұрын

I know right?! My mind is still twisted I can't remember when a Hollywood movie made my mind twist this much 😂

@rokkodurango4368

4 жыл бұрын

@Gerrit Peacock and they are old and die..thats why they recrute.....but time is against them...they waited to long.....and they will meet theyre so called god.....what can they expect.....they will be meat 4 the grinder not more....kek

Wow... I am still reeling. So strong, so true. Congratulations on a superb movie.

that was so mcuh deeper than I was expecting, wow

After all, i just realized... Luca has been alone all the time. And, Ford is just part of his subconscious mind already...his HOPE to keep living and accept the fact that he's the only one left there ALONE.

This was well done left me wanting more. Probably the best one of the style on youtube in my opinion . Awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everyone knows he answered the radio and that's when all the chaos began.

I watch a lot of these films. This was very very good. Loved it. Legit good.

Very relevant in today’s society. On how individuals suppress their rational side for hope something will change, enabling them to find happiness or fulfilment of their life. Opening your eyes to the personal responsibility of the self.

I just watched your film, stunning work! Thank you for making and sharing this!

Excellent film. The acting, direction, writing, and soundtrack were superb. Add it all up and great job.

@TheNecropolis20

3 жыл бұрын

i loved it more than "SIREN"

Woiw. What a deep dive into the depths of the human psyche. Well done!

Great movie and for me, over the story, ther is this exceptionnal sound track over! The movie wouldn't have been the same whithout this great music behind. It's an entire part of the ambiance, the landscape ... Lucas and Ford are acting over expected too. 29:35 minutes of movie delight for me.

very nice twist at the end you can feel this mans pain……...

Stunning work, despite a comment from another user I actually really liked the ending.

@michaelwertzy9808

5 жыл бұрын

Please don't read the comments until you've watched the production. They shouldn't be able to sway your own opinion! Peace!

Really well done! Very Bergmanesque. Enjoyed it.

Nicely done! Which do we choose, our comfortable self-delusion or the "hope" of something unseen?

@RagnarokFilm

5 жыл бұрын

You get the gist! Bravo!

@vivenomada

5 жыл бұрын

@@inspectorgary1000 the bro only exists in his mind and some women can be better friends than some "bros"...

@TheGreatestBot

4 жыл бұрын

@@inspectorgary1000 How can something real come from something not real.....? Unless I'm missing what you're saying!

Excellently done great story 5 stars

Very Rod Serling-like script! Great acting & excellent cinematography... A+++ in my book! Can't wait for more works like this!

Great video I don't think I will be able to forget this one Thank you

2:25 told you everything...if you were paying attention and this movie deserves attention.

@drdoggystyle1

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah! Great comment, thank you :D

WOW This is a deep film very creative truly brilliant.

Excellent!!! You found some fantastic actors as well!

Only sound for one set of footsteps except when the other is clearly in view. Very nice!

Beautifully done. Incredibly emotional and moving.

This was very well thought out. Great film, Toni! These guys looked the part too. At least he's still got his dead friend for company. Wish I knew what was going to happen to him...Thanks, I really enjoyed it!

@vivenomada

5 жыл бұрын

I don't believe that has a happy ending

This is a beautifully-done film (in every way). But damn, it's sad and lonely.

Nice bit of their. Bombastic!

Love the moves

Wow... powerful but sad. Heartbreaking as well. Very good job.

Outstanding Toni! Happy New Years to you and yours! New subbie and thank you! 😍

So many emotions. This was a really great short. Thank you.

@RagnarokFilm

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Outstanding acting. I felt on a journey with them. Simple yet so complex. Thank you! I would have watched a whole movie of them no problem with the right scripting.

Awesome movie really enjoyed it!

Exceptional job. Very well done. Thank you.

Awesome movie outstanding

A top-shelf piece of work. Well done!

Brilliant work and acting. There is nothing to say but good things. The way they sang that song of a better time and how volatile they were and the emotional breakdown of the reality of the loneliness he was facing and a hope of someone waiting for him to find and giving him a purpose to carry on. I may be wrong but was the friend a made up imaginary friend because I am always the last to figure things out. One last question is where was this filmed? It reminds me of home and the east coast of Canada. Newfoundland looks just like that. It made me miss home. Cheers and I will sub. That actor is very good and he deserves a my thumbs up.

@RagnarokFilm

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! You are absolutely right about Ford being an imaginary friend. This was filmed in Norway.

@axeguy3856

5 жыл бұрын

Norway or Nfld or Labrador: all hardy people. If it was Newfoundland, though, Luca would have had a fiddle strapped to his pack and he would have remembered the 'chant'... :)

Awesome !

Great short film that kept viewer interested as to what happens next. So many questions were left to be answered in the clip, the production team could have another successful film if they make it. They just need to get the word out, maybe with an announcement at the end of the clip.

@RagnarokFilm

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! We have more films planned, but getting economic support is rough. We're working on it!

Strange but interesting. Not my usual type of movie to like but I found this one entertaining. Slow but entertaining. Reminded me of a Ray Bradbury story of a man left behind on a planet.

We desire a part 2, loved the emotional art work.

That was fantastic. Surprising and sad.

I’ve seen Luca before. He lived on the second floor.

Can someone try to explain this to me, I’m assuming Ford was dead the whole time and is only the protagonists mind as he tries to find another person besides ford (which he could of killed). I’m also assuming the whole thing has impacted the protagonist heavily in that he tried to take his own life as mentioned by his subconscious (Ford).

@edwardmurdoch5070

3 жыл бұрын

Plus, the woman on the radio is probably also in his mind. Since she call him by name.

@darmuslives4340

3 жыл бұрын

@@edwardmurdoch5070 He did mention his name on the walky talkey so she might be real. Not alot of range on just the walky and her voice was coming in real clear so could be imagination too.I guess it's up to you if want to believe if she real or not.

@edwardmurdoch5070

3 жыл бұрын

@@darmuslives4340 It could be. Then again, the radio is how he found Ford... And Ford is interacting with ¨that reality¨, he is aware of her existence by telling Luca that if he searches for her, he would be gone.

@chuckn4851

3 жыл бұрын

@@edwardmurdoch5070 Of course he's aware of her existence, he's Luca's subconscious. And if Luca finds a real person/woman/friend, then Ford would be gone because Luca wouldn't need Ford anymore. Meaning, to my mind, that the woman is real.

What a great show. I watched it twice so far, back to back. 😊

Great acting, great cinematography, great editing, great sound, nice foreshadowing! All around nicely done! I'd love to work on a project like this!

@j-ch8787

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. It avoids the major failure of this kind of movies : just showing materials... Sad and bad behaviors without any reflexion on the most important which "what's happening in our brain and heart / soul when facing lonelyness and nothing left. I mean facing hard times of lacks of everything... People and material penuries. In 1972 a french moviemaker made a film in a very nice desertic region I love located south France. The scenario is different but very interesting becose of the dialogues... And situations it sat between 2 "clans" of suvivors after a nuclear attack. A very realistic film... With trully details of what we could have to face if... Actors were perfect but the movie maker took them among the best we had in France at this period. For me it s THE best film I saw about " how will we act if ... In case of a collapse" Ethic... Bad and good behavios... Shock impact on everyone... Generations conflicts... Usefull Competencies ... Lack of technologies remedies ... weapons or peaceful acting... Memories of Old times and new hopes for future... State Power and institutions vanished how to live without rules... Love affairs and reproduction of the human being race... How to reset nature after disaster. Etc etc. Nice movie "Malville"... Inspiring one. with JL Trintignant M Serrault J Villeret J Dutronc... As actors. The end is a "must"...after one year of fights and difficulties then a peaceful and hopeful times with improving ways of life and surviving... State rescue services took them all... Forced them in fact and sent them in a medic and psy reservation camp...except 3 of them who escaped. State authorities declared the whole region forbidden zone for human settlers and reserve it for their "scientific future tests". We see them on a raft... they are escaping on a river. Their white horse following them freely on a hill... A nice symbol of freedom and stubborness... Rebellion against state bullshits. A very humanistic film.

This was one fantastic short film!

@RagnarokFilm

3 жыл бұрын

thank you very much!

Let me see, a chick for company or crusty old ford?...chick wins!

@NorseGraphic

5 жыл бұрын

Problem: how could she know his name, if he never told it?

@keithblount8403

5 жыл бұрын

@@NorseGraphic He did

@tinkertime7165

4 жыл бұрын

There was no chick. It was his own battle within.

@ThePryzmean

4 жыл бұрын

Praying Mantis is telling

@littlemrpinkness295

3 жыл бұрын

It's all his imagination

Brilliant. A work of art.

One of the early explorers of the US was missing 5 years alone and when he was asked if he had been lost he said no I just did not know where I was. He never felt lost. Perspective.

Great movie, one the best Ive seen here.. Loved the mood, the actors were awesome.. "If you answer that.. Im gone forever".... xD

@TerryReedMiss

4 жыл бұрын

I'm female so maybe that's why I did not like it! LOL I'd have chosen the voice over the mic long before a hallucination of a man, if I were a man! :-)

@xamurai00

4 жыл бұрын

@@TerryReedMiss You assume he is straight.

@xamurai00

4 жыл бұрын

@@TerryReedMiss You assume he is straight.

Fantastic film, really loved it x

Wow! Just as good as twilight zone

Really awesome job on this!

I said to myself: "Self, that was deep."

Too much loneliness can bring an insanity of schizophrenia . Come together for survival but still keep your own independent space !

@j-ch8787

2 жыл бұрын

Yer... That s why yu need to prepare it long before it s starting...

Thumbs up 👍 Subbed Thanks for an amazing short movie !!!!!

unpayable!!! thx.

I'm guessing he answered the call. May not be best to listen to the part of oneself that is always the negative part. I was wondering if Ford was real or in his head. Hard to imagine only one person left no matter what happens. Great film. Emotional, believable, from Luca's dirty appearance to his attempt to pound Ford to death. Well written and acted.

A good psychological short. The run time was just right.

Very well done!

very well filmed and acted

Спасибо!

Замечательно) посмотрел с удовольствием.

That was excellent. I enjoyed watching this in a sad way.

Outstanding

Excellent……..and true.

top notch luv your work!!

Really great, x