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This is simultaneously a 6 minute comedy sketch, and a feature length life long horror movie
@austinembry2809
Жыл бұрын
Joel has an uncanny ability to make the most simple of concepts profound. He's the embodiment of: "To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour."
@bilboswagginz2808
Жыл бұрын
DAN BULL!! woah
@Jackenack
Жыл бұрын
blast from the past right here, cool to see
@blitheringape5321
Жыл бұрын
it's got that adult swim energy
@JaneNayes
Жыл бұрын
Well it's not horror, it's existentialism.
You know it's a Joel Haver video when you don't know whether to laugh or to cry from existential dread.
@deadmo1
Жыл бұрын
High quality content, Joel is a hero.
@neonclown2727
Жыл бұрын
i am currently in tears and im not sure why
@percythecryptid
Жыл бұрын
why not both?
@someguy4489
Жыл бұрын
I love it but that existential dread is real lol
@lowgrs1
Жыл бұрын
I feel like this could be a full movie.
I literally say “I help with box and encourage, Jim” every time I have to move something for someone
@shadbadrkhan7413
Жыл бұрын
did you keep your promise
@rjelavic
Жыл бұрын
sure you do
@Alixdkari
Жыл бұрын
no you don't...
@sonan333
Жыл бұрын
Sure, but how many times did you help move in the two months that this video was out, and have you helped since? If so, have you continued your weirs, new, tradition?
@Heizenberg32
11 ай бұрын
And here I am, just a small town boy. I've got a box I can't handle on my own, and I am borderline discouraged.
i love how certain characters know more than others. some seem deeply invested in their roles in life, like joke guy, others seem like they just accept it as reality, like "hard cut" guy, others question, like party guy and protag, but some choose to embrace the moment while it lasts, even knowing their purpose, but choosing that brief purpose over a prolonged existential dread of what's to come, like loving embrace guy.
@electroshock1021
Жыл бұрын
you realize hard cut guy and longing embrace guy are the same guy, right? and that his name is neither of those. He's guy who help with box and encourage and then party and then talk on balcony
@tsriftsal3581
Жыл бұрын
We are in a prison.
@longebane
Жыл бұрын
@@electroshock1021 small correction- he's not guy who help with box, his name is guy who helped with box
@wyleFTW
Жыл бұрын
This video reminds me of acid tripping lol
@ndrmartin2416
Жыл бұрын
@@longebaneI’m pretty sure it’s help with box. In the scene he’s says he is guy who help with box, and then motions that he helped with box, so now it’s time for longing embrace. The worst part though, is that he never got that embrace…
I have this video on repeat so you guys will never die
@yesno7889
Жыл бұрын
Is it really worth being alive, when everything repeats meaninglessly, endlessly?
@kdiggity4802
Жыл бұрын
@@yesno7889 To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep, No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heartache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to.
@sharpieman2035
Жыл бұрын
Hello Ben
@NormanTiner
Жыл бұрын
You're killing them over and over. You monster.
@greatestyoutuber
Жыл бұрын
@@kdiggity4802🤓
The fact that he didn't get his longing embrace actually made me feel so sad.
@MLBlue30
Жыл бұрын
A lot of it just hits way too close to reality and it pisses me off lol.
@marcus8710
Жыл бұрын
The moment the scene switched to the apartment, I cried "NO! INTERIOR APARTMENT!"
@MitchellD249
Жыл бұрын
That was it for him. All he wanted was that moment.
@AdamLord
Жыл бұрын
Start the video over, he did
@thegrandnil764
Жыл бұрын
Only meta stuff makes no sense at all. There is no deciphering this because it's paradoxical. It's just the hand of the author pointing at the medium and telling us to laugh. This is not funny.
this is honestly genius. It feels a lot like how in life we obsess over trying to figure everything out and then in the end its over, and the answer never mattered. We have the option to panic or go along with it and laugh at the joke that makes no sense.
@AshleyBubbles27
Жыл бұрын
I love how deep of your response is! Its really true... its not about the "destination" (The answers), its about the "journey" (living life for moment and not trying to over analyze everything).
@SkylarStJohn-mo4yi
Жыл бұрын
@@AshleyBubbles27 amazing comments
@NaeroSpace
Жыл бұрын
underrated comment
@dynawesome
Жыл бұрын
This is exactly what Absurdism claims, and the video reminds me of works from the Theater of the Absurd movement like Rosencrantz and Gildenstern are Dead
@SaaDN1
Жыл бұрын
The answer does matter though; if a certain religion is true, that changes everything.
"Maybe when they play it back, it's like I'm alive again." Something about that line just hits me so hard... I've watched plenty of KZreadrs who have since passed away, and I've been avoiding watching their old videos to keep from digging up painful memories. But somehow I feel like, even though that probably wasn't the intention of that line, that's what it feels like to me.
@CasualDandyAkaSqwrty
Жыл бұрын
Be one of the better people on the internet when you go there. Remember that for every single person who thinks that their "RIP Trevor Moore" was a good idea, there were countless others who were just there to laugh and have a good time. RIP Trevor Moore.
@ThomasMarnwill
9 ай бұрын
Ugh what memories? You didn't know them. They weren't your friends. Why would you cry over some person on the internet who felt nothing for you. Of course, it's sad that they're gone and I feel for their families, but don't act like you were buddies with anybody in that situation you didn't know them
@Lechgang
9 ай бұрын
@@ThomasMarnwill Mhm, mhm, I hear you. One question though, who hurt you? I get what you're trying to say, people take para-social relationships too far, but that's not what this is. They don't know you, but you do know them, at least a part of them, and you can grow to respect and admire them for it. So when they pass away unexpectedly, you can grieve for them. You wouldn't do it in the same way that their family would, obviously, but it's kind of ridiculous to insinuate that some KZreadrs and celebrities haven't changed people's lives just with their content. It's clear to most people that their importance to culture and the communities they foster can reach this level. So while I understand what you're *trying* to say, this whole "UGH, WHY YOU SAD, THEY DON'T KNOW YOU" schtick, just comes off as overly cynical and disrespectful. You don't have to have a mutual connection with someone to feel for their loss.
@sterowentUS
9 ай бұрын
what the fuck are you talking about? i feel things for stories, people, moments that i am not exclusively a part of all the time. that's what compassion is, that's what empathy is. @@ThomasMarnwill
@Jebu911
9 ай бұрын
oh yeah watching dead youtubers does make em feel like they are alive again
The whole "Longing Embrace" scene is perfect. It's such a mixture of comedy, tragic, and existential horror that you can't help but nervously smile. The acting is so unnecessarily great in that scene.
@seanwade8188
Жыл бұрын
“I’m guy I help with box and encourage” killed me
@Meraxes6
Жыл бұрын
“You’re the guy Jim” got me 😭
@nickhinton8888
Жыл бұрын
You’re Jim! At some point we said that right?
@johnpooperton
Жыл бұрын
@@Meraxes6 "Give me this moment Jim! This is it for me man."
@ChadCardwell66
Жыл бұрын
Mr. Meeseeks existential horror vibes
Box Guy is actually a good actor. I felt his pain.
@ralek592
Жыл бұрын
God, if he had just teared up and that scene was just a bit longer, I'd have let it flow, ngl
@davidlandry3487
Жыл бұрын
All he wanted was a longing embrace. It's quite literally all he ever lived for.
@crimsonchaos5
Жыл бұрын
genuinely a great performance from all, this was unironically palpable. kudos to Joel.
@tabcreedence6553
Жыл бұрын
I carry box, I encourage, and I party
@WinkLinkletter
Жыл бұрын
I like his determination in being willing to hold his box forever. Inspiring.
I love how Joel explores the more uncomfortable parts of life, the awkward shadows we pretend don't exist, and avoid at all costs. It takes some balls, good job, Mr. Haver of balls.
@whirled_peas
Жыл бұрын
Navigator of the jungian shadow
@lukepedersen2899
9 ай бұрын
I know it's seven months late but I just wanted to say I appreciate your punch line.
@grabble7605
9 ай бұрын
I understand in text that this is a pun on 'haver of balls' but because I know how his name is said, it sounds in my head like an old-timey name ala Jesus of Nazareth: Haver of Balls.
That part on the balcony was so well done lmao, that longing embrace guy is a great actor. I actually started to feel bad when he said "i dont think so..... i dont think so....."
@arthurjeremypearson
11 ай бұрын
Now I need to do a part 2 when someone is replaying the video, and they realize that someone is replaying their video, and they get to live again, but they know the end is coming again
@miikavihersaari3104
7 ай бұрын
Damn it Joel! You gotta stop not making more of these and just... make more. Please.
This feels like gaining consciousness during a dream and realizing that nothing makes any sense
@breakmeoffapiece8404
Жыл бұрын
and then you tell the other people in the dream that they dont exist but they dont believe you
@diracflux
Жыл бұрын
Philip K. Dick level mind blowing.
@holbvgbbbbkfz
Жыл бұрын
I once argued with a dream character about who between us was real we even rock paper scissored and we drowed So we came to the conclusion that we were from different universes in a shared consciousness
@Oscarous64
Жыл бұрын
@@breakmeoffapiece8404 I have these dreams where I'm hanging out with my best buddy only to wake up and realize that he doesn't exist, like the characters in the short film, they don't know who they are or why they're even interacting with each other, they only live in the moment.
@fred_bauer
Жыл бұрын
@@breakmeoffapiece8404 And until know those guys want to convince me that I am awake and this is not a dream, instead of just accepting it. Completely lost those guys xD
This was sad, horrifying, and hilarious at the same time. In other words, INSANEO STYLE
@jakek1735
Жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who's bothered by the fact that it's not pronounced "insane-e-o style"?
@N0V-A42
Жыл бұрын
@@jakek1735 I thought it was "insane-o-style" or "insane-o style". Were do you get the extra 'e' from?
@OneNamelessHero
Жыл бұрын
@@N0V-A42 It is all because of this 'neo' at the end. Neo is a prefix that means 'new', and also it sounds freaking cool, thus you could interpret insaneo as a portmanteu of insane and neo - they blend well greatly and the idea of insanity is in intself opening to the usage of a prefix as a suffix, birthing in itself an insane word that expresses the new level of insanity, a higher level of something truly groundbreaking. Truly an insane-e-o word
@28porkchop
Жыл бұрын
@@OneNamelessHero in-say-nee-o like a mix of insane an neo
@asgacc8789
Жыл бұрын
Wow this comment thread is going INSANEO STYLE
That last cutoff just sent chills down my spine the sheer horror while staring at the credits knowing that he won't exist anymore after that
@TropicalCyc
Жыл бұрын
The parallels to life, one moment you exist, the next your gone. Leaving only the scenes of your life in others, and when they remember you, its like your alive again. You can relive these memories, but its not the same anymore.
@Dorin_Azril
9 ай бұрын
knowing or believing?
@MrSponge56
8 ай бұрын
Hey at least you wouldn't see it coming lol no time to react just gone which means you would not suffer in the slightest
I love how Joel takes a seemingly impossible to modify cliché and flips it on it's head in the most creative way.
It's so good. I just wish there was a post-credits scene so I could see Jim alive, one last time.
@ImTheWarlock64
Жыл бұрын
we will keep him alive, don't worry :)
@anonymous71207
Жыл бұрын
play the video again, and pause it at the beginning of the party scene. he's there, forever, having fun. Forever.
@Manhandle730
Жыл бұрын
@@ImTheWarlock64 That’s right! In fact he’s here right now. It’s where he’s always been and always will be…..(taps your chest where I assume your heart is located)….right here. As long as you remember him fondly, he will stick with you. Keep your chin up, champ.
@MarcosElMalo2
Жыл бұрын
He was never alive. Joel fooled your eyeballs. It’s been Joel all along, fooling our eyeballs. The post credit scene is two short vertical lines, two triangles, and an arrow curved in a circle. The arrow is pointing counterclockwise. The ultimate mocking F.U. to all our eyeballs.
@yesmaybe7394
Жыл бұрын
I'm more of a "Guy who carries box" guy myself.
I really appreciate the fact that Joel doesn't always make himself the main character and allows others to have the spotlight!
@finfrog3237
Жыл бұрын
Joel turns into a light, almost a spotlight. We've been had!
@northwestguru1
Жыл бұрын
Yeah! I had no idea who The Guy was until Help-With-Box-Encourage-Then-Party-Guy said so. A real twisteroo.
@ShermanLeungpointofgravity
Жыл бұрын
Man, sometimes I wish I was The Guy...
@RyanHarville
Жыл бұрын
Who's Joel?
This is one of my favorite videos Joel has ever made. I’ve watched it like 5 times and it’s better every time
@sarcasm-83
Жыл бұрын
I still can't believe it was his vending machine the whole time :D
@hunterwilk
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for keeping the characters alive.
@DPresidential
11 ай бұрын
Facts. This was brilliant.
@Jonaperq
9 ай бұрын
Me too
I NEED this concept to be a full length movie..I didn't know that I needed it but it's so apparent now. Please, someone make this happen 🙏🏿
@cheddarssalad1230
Жыл бұрын
Rosenkratz and Gildenstern are Dead.
@digiquo8143
Жыл бұрын
Watch 'In the Mouth of Madness' with Sam Niel.
@empurplednut
Жыл бұрын
whyyyy cannn't weeee just enjoy these 6 minutes.
@cactusdemar
Жыл бұрын
There is a full lenght movie, it's called the truman show
@tony2888
Жыл бұрын
The movie The Game is kinda like this but without the existential horror
Joel just casually drops a cinematic masterpiece
@serickpellerin4131
Жыл бұрын
Actually tho
@ryanhutchinson4467
Жыл бұрын
Facts
@violentbenevolence
Жыл бұрын
It's so fucking good
@beauregardheer
Жыл бұрын
This is actually genius if this concept was played differently it could be a full movie
@rabbitspliff
Жыл бұрын
Scrolled down before watching and thought you were exaggerating. You weren't.
"I'm...I'm...man with box, moves the boxes" - had me howling
@ArcYT
Жыл бұрын
I help with box and encourage
@javsandarts
Жыл бұрын
@@ArcYT thats the first line in My resume
@Yipper64
Жыл бұрын
I love it when people in videos speak in a slightly grammatically incorrect way
@rykemapo
Жыл бұрын
So close to saying Guy #1
It takes a special kind of sketch to give you an existential panic attack while laughing your ass off. Kudos, guys, very good job
Props to the balcony scene and those two actors!!! I don’t know whether to be embarrassed at how sensitive I am or impressed at how good their acting is, or both but I teared up a little at the hard cut front he balcony to interior new apartment. Also the composition was so clever in using shots that never had both of them on screen at the same time. It showed that they weren’t in it together like they think, and they’re more alone than they think too.
What's so striking about this is how accurate it feels to when someone does move away, they just kind of vanish into the aether and it becomes like they never really existed at all.
@greenmuso
Жыл бұрын
Shit, yes, and trying to keep in contact with them is like trying to revisit a video game you once loved, but when you do it's like "I can't enjoy this game anymore, I can only enjoy my memories of playing it before" or something like that.
@thomashill1340
Жыл бұрын
I feel that. I moved away and ironically I ended up going to an expo at the city where I used to live. Met up with some old friends. Felt like I basically died to them because one day I was in their life, the next I was gone.
@kevgmei
Жыл бұрын
Then they say they will keep in touch, but you never hear from them again
@into.the.wood.chipper.
Жыл бұрын
I agree! **moves away**
@xmisterpilgrimx4869
Жыл бұрын
As someone who has moved around a lot, often starting from scratch and reinventing myself, I always feel like my previous life was a work of fiction, or a totally separate existence lived by a different person. Every time I leave my life behind and start over, I'm born again as someone else.
Jim and Ben are both talented and sincere creators in their own right. Joel has highlighted so many worthy entertainers over the last 18 months.
@Joel-Haver
Жыл бұрын
They both make amazing weekly videos, love their stuff, happy you do too :)
@crimsonchaos5
Жыл бұрын
@@Joel-Haver this was unironically palpable. thanks, Joel.
@BennyBall
Жыл бұрын
Thanks ramen! And thanks Joel! ❤️
@victorkreig6089
Жыл бұрын
That's the whole point of Joel's channel, to let people see the many talented artists out there that go unnoticed
@assmane999
Жыл бұрын
@@victorkreig6089I don’t know if that’s the whole point. Definitely something he loves to do with his influence, though.
This is genuinely horrifying and a smart way of breaking the fourth wall. I like how none of the characters made it overly obvious that they were doing so and that they reacted how people IRL would react to world shattering information like that. The subtlety makes it a lot more emotional and funny. Great work!
Its like a universe where existence is strictly only within each cutscene, there is no before, between or after. It's honestly an incredible base for a mind-bending thriller.
This would be such a good concept for a psychological horror film
@effjesse_
Жыл бұрын
You should check out David Lynch's work.
@juicy.oranges
Жыл бұрын
It’s called Truman show
@Zionswasd
Жыл бұрын
It's called Resolution (2012)
@EdgarRoock
Жыл бұрын
It's called Stranger Than Fiction.
@ingenious_crab1952
Жыл бұрын
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is also based on the concept
The idea that the characters aren't only self-aware that they are in a video, but also only have the same information that the audience knows from their own vapid, expository dialogue is pretty interesting. In any other sketch like this it would be one character that is totally self aware with everyone else being like "What are you on, dude? Haha." Until it goes too far and comedy ensues, But by making every single character self-aware, it creates this deep existential dread that is shared by all the characters in this little world. In reality, even though we know it's a joke, and these actors will move on from the video itself, the characters themselves won't. They won't exist anymore after the video ends. Each character then has this little motivation to get the most out of each scene where they "exist." It's almost a little metaphor for the moments that you "exist" in other people's lives. When others go away, leave, disconnect from you, all that's left is the memory of you, just like characters in a video. You have to make the most out of the little time you spend on the "screen" of another person.
@nickb8755
Жыл бұрын
So true
@hedonistic_ambition9060
Жыл бұрын
wow, well said
@Marceau.
Жыл бұрын
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭👏👏👏👏🥺🥺🥺🥺💅
@1stepatatime
Жыл бұрын
Well said. It felt like these characters were alive when I first watched this video. When I replay this video and see that others have watched this video to, they don't feel so alive anymore. Why is that? Anyway, .... I believe the nature of reality is quantum.and that time is spherical and spiral....so I'm not so sure if what exists in memory is unchangeable?...
@apinkgoat
Жыл бұрын
I want a full feature length film based on this concept of self aware characters
4:15 The "I don't think so..." is legit existentially scary and sad - wasn't expecting it. Lol good stuff bois
@bigsweatyboy1
11 ай бұрын
Question where did you get that pfp?
"Maybe when they play it back, it's like I'm alive again." Man
... and then I was like "wait, this isn't a comedy sketch, its a tragedy!" Gets me every time.
@blueninja012
Жыл бұрын
comedies and tragedies are disturbingly similar
@MLBlue30
Жыл бұрын
@@blueninja012 Tragedy is when I cut my finger, Comedy is when you fall through an open sewer and die." - Mel Brooks.
@Dannymon
Жыл бұрын
Society
@sozius0
Жыл бұрын
@@MLBlue30 I'm sure we can make cutting one's own finger a comedy.
@pex_the_unalivedrunk6785
Жыл бұрын
My Mother is Kentempolous, I am Sorcia, she sent me here to find you... It took me awhile to figure out that the video was over and that I was listening to an ad that played afterwards.
“I carry box, I encourage, and then I party” Getting that as my next tattoo that is fucking genius 😂
03:20 Just imagining the neighbors in the balcony below them listening in to this conversation.
I love moments like 2:29-2:30 in Joel's videos where he is about to bust out laughing but it cuts off or he's able to stop himself from cracking up. Always gets me and I have to replay it every time HAHA
Guy who helps with box and talks on balcony for longing embrace nailed it. Rewatching now to keep him alive
I want this as an actual plot for a movie. Where the edits and cuts from the director are the cause for the characters suffering. And then there'd be a pre/sequal the first of it's kind where it's the continuation of the past and they'll regain consciousness again within the same movie just reacting with prior knowledge of what had already occurred. It'll be called "THE Director's Cut" and it'll be the greatest thing we've ever seen....
@exiszentriker2952
Жыл бұрын
I have to see that movie
@n0vwls247
Жыл бұрын
Watch Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. It's basically this but the main characters are side characters from Hamlet
@guyr.6053
Жыл бұрын
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
@Matt-pb7ds
Жыл бұрын
I know it's not exactly this kind of existential horror scenario but if you haven't seen the Truman Show I recommend it.
@Dequerk
Жыл бұрын
There is a k-drama and manhwa called "Extraordinary You" or "July Found by Chance"
Now that I've finished watching this I feel like it's my moral duty to keep replaying this video so they stay alive. But now I feel trapped in my own loop, playing this video over and over again. Is this really what you wanted Joel?
This is a disturbingly accurate analogy for life, something I've been struggling to put into words. Joel (and co), you've made another masterpiece.
I am going to play this on a loop forever, so that these characters never die.
@CptPatch
Жыл бұрын
I won't. But because you're doing it I don't have to feel guilty about abandoning then to the void! Thanks friend!
@nautdead3197
Жыл бұрын
Do you think they want to be stuck going through the same actions unable to change anything for eternity? Sounds like hell let them rest
@steeltits1650
Жыл бұрын
More like reviving them from death.
@MLBlue30
Жыл бұрын
No, they can't keep repeating the same stagnant hell over and over. Let them go. What has been can never be again.
@saaudzuberi8709
Жыл бұрын
Watch it once, they die once. Play it on loop, they die on loop. You're a monster.
This is genuinely Joel’s magnum opus, the cinematography is amazing, the acting is brilliant, everything is perfect.
@StefanCreates
Жыл бұрын
magnum opuses is an oxymoron
@hjf3022
Жыл бұрын
@@StefanCreates You can't have more than one great work? Can there not be a "great works" of shakespeare? only one?
@DougerArt
Жыл бұрын
@@hjf3022 magnum opus is generally taken as meaning "greatest work"
@StefanCreates
Жыл бұрын
@@DougerArt yeah exactly, the single best work of an artist's career
@DougerArt
Жыл бұрын
@@StefanCreates I'd say this is his Magnum Opus though, as of yet. that or the hammer video on goodlongpee.
I can't believe how good the acting was in this. From everyone, but special props to guy who carries box.
I know nothing about Jim and have no connection to him whatsoever, yet I start rooting for him until the end of the video and feel sad for him. Amazing storytelling all in just 6 minutes!!
I am SO PROUD of Jim! He and I went to high school together and acted in plays and musicals together, so seeing him playing such a big role in a comedy sketch made by Joel makes me so happy for him. If you're seeing this Jim, keep doing what you're doing.
@ThatShaggyMatt
Жыл бұрын
Jim set the box down, he's gone now.
@BennyBall
Жыл бұрын
Jim is the best! Such a nice and talented guy. Love his channel and his whole vibe. 🙏
@dillonkeller4477
Жыл бұрын
How are you still here if Jim isn't in the high school part of the story anymore?
@theterminaldave
Жыл бұрын
@@ThatShaggyMatt some people believe that when your picture is taken a little piece of your soul is captured, maybe it's like that black mirror white christmas episode and a part of you really is trapped forever in that place, imagine being stuck helping friend move... forever
@tellmeninetails5819
Жыл бұрын
@@ThatShaggyMatt No but noah created an extended narrative. It's called fanfiction.
By my calculations, the characters have gotten to live for five days from the 12,000 people who've viewed the video. And thanks to Joel's script half of that was spent in existential dread without longing embrace
@subwayslut
Жыл бұрын
with 147,000 people who've now viewed this video, these characters have gotten to live for a year and a half
@user-yn3qv5vn3i
Жыл бұрын
@@subwayslut thats a long time to go without longing embrace 😔
@Dylanschannelodoom
Жыл бұрын
Joel doesn’t write scripts, he comes up with a premise and everything is improvised from there
@weebjeez
Жыл бұрын
@@user-yn3qv5vn3i did you not watch the video? It starts with longing embrace!!
@isthisthingoH_NO
Жыл бұрын
2023 UPDATE:The characters have now lived for 2.68 YEARS
I… don’t think I can ever look at a movie or sketch the same way again. What a masterpiece.
When Joel returns at 5:00 through a voice, it seems like in Joel's universe, the characters do go somewhere (the light?) after their final scene ends (and then maybe Joel figured out how to return again through a voice)
@Cyberian_Khatru
Жыл бұрын
No, he revealed it was all part of the script. The only reason he's talking again is because the script demands so.
@o1OrangeLeopard
11 ай бұрын
"No, uh, this was the plan from the start"
@joseville
Ай бұрын
Joel incited the whole thing. Guy helps with box asks Jim "are you above this." Joel reveals to Jim he hadn't been totally honest, while talking from above.
Joel Haver drops an existentialist masterpiece and pretends it's a "weeky short film"
"I help with box and encourage" is my new self-motivational mantra to focus on the small, achievable, but meaningful goals in my life.
@j.enantiodromia3940
Жыл бұрын
Just remember... You don't need to focus on the embrace at the end, because you got an embrace at the start! 😁 Big picture perspective and memory, with small, achievable, but meaningful goals, will set you up for life my friend. Even if it's short, you'll be remembered. 🥲
One day, someone will play this video one final time, and that is the day this group of friends will truly cease to exist.
I wish there was an actual movie with this concept
@nothosaur
4 ай бұрын
Now that Joel is doing a movie per month instead of a short video per day, maybe we'll get something like this.
The idea that these characters can barely create new sentences and all they can do is repeat dialogue and script directions because that's all that they know is terrifying
Still feels weird to have Joel back after he was gone for so long, we're very thankful
@CITGProductions
Жыл бұрын
It seems like a part of him remained in the heavens.
@MrJ3
Жыл бұрын
Honestly I don't understand how they revived him. I didn't think that was possible.
@juanktrumpet10
Жыл бұрын
Oh Joel's back? Ok cool...
@The_Conundrum_Crew
Жыл бұрын
Joel 2.0 was a perfect replica. Nobody will notice. Except for the added sass. Too much sass if you ask me!
@RHGameDev
Жыл бұрын
@@MrJ3 just google it, is the first spell
Every now and then I watch this video so that they may live once more, Jim, Joel, guy who helps with moving, parties, and encourages Jim on balcony, and of course my favorite... guy who tells punch line with no set up
As someone who has moved around a lot, often starting from scratch and reinventing myself, I always feel like my previous life was a work of fiction, or a totally separate existence lived by a different person. Every time I leave my life behind and start over, I'm born again as someone else.
Damn, I actually got chills at the balcony scene. A testament to their acting, it feels so genuine.
The facial expressions from Longing Embrace guy were so good. Subtle, yet told so much.
@Killary-Klinton
Жыл бұрын
Yeah he was so impressive in that scene
@pablovirus
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, and Jim in the last scene also did a great job too
This was such a simple idea yet the execution was brilliant! It has a mix of comedy, existential horror and tragedy. I swear, if this was put up in film festivals, it would be up there.
this deserves a nomination at the oscars' shorts.
"that's my vending machine" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Sticking with the classics
@EktoplazmMusic
Жыл бұрын
What is that? Seriously what are you talking about??
@meathandsmans
Жыл бұрын
@@EktoplazmMusic brother it was his was his vending machine!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@The-official-grindel
Жыл бұрын
@@EktoplazmMusicit wasn’t really a piñata, that’s the joke. You’re supposed to think it is from the buildup scene prior, and then the misdirection happens. Hope to have cleared this up for you!
@ralek592
Жыл бұрын
@@The-official-grindel What? What buildup scene? What misdirection? What?
@MarcosElMalo2
Жыл бұрын
@@EktoplazmMusic Let’s try an alternate punchline. Ready? “Piñata? I hardly knew her. Oh, it was a vending machine.”
i've never felt such a mix of humor and existential dread. Masterfully done Joel. ...but like, you never know if it's the last scene with someone in your life. Or your last scene in theirs...
@brandonwiley5372
Жыл бұрын
Stop, the crisis was already crisis-y enough
@WeirdVideoGames
Жыл бұрын
Don't do this to me, man
@breeeegs
Жыл бұрын
@@WeirdVideoGames It's not your fault
@More.h
Жыл бұрын
Perhapes both?
I won't replay this. I won't let them live this hell again. Imagine looping it and keeping them trapped forever!
@pup838
Жыл бұрын
That would be like scp1733 where people are stuck inside a basketball game recording foerver
Absolutely loved this. How the music didn't stop or change at the party, how scenes would end still, regardless of the outcome. This is absolutely genius and one of the many reasons why I love your work, Joel.
“Maybe when they play it back, it’s like I’m alive again.” I feel like this was a statement from Joel, who I assume wrote this script. Don’t worry Joel, you won’t be forgotten. I have a premonition you’re going to be remembered for a long, long time. Thanks for these sketches :)
@namstel9225
Жыл бұрын
Joe who?
@ShidaPenns
Жыл бұрын
@@namstel9225 Joe L or something, I dunno.
@SyenPie
Жыл бұрын
That’s a reach.
@littleoldmanboy
Жыл бұрын
@@ShidaPenns Joe mama
@ShidaPenns
Жыл бұрын
@@littleoldmanboy What does Joe's mama have to do with this?
This is some of Joel's best work, a silly joke executed flawlessly and with heartfelt emotion.
I love seeing Jim slowly turning existential, you can see his face turn into "what the fuck is life" after the smash cut I love Joel lmaooooo
this is a cinematic masterpiece. It made me cry and it gave me goosebumps on several occassions.
I'd like to watch a movie with this concept, where throughout the movie the characters try to regain consciousness and try to make sense of things but at every new scene they lose awareness and have to regain consciousness and memory and have to continue their quest of trying to make sense.
@anthonystrangio
Жыл бұрын
Groundhog Day is kinda close to that
@taysem321
Жыл бұрын
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind isn't that but somewhat similar
@plancton4058
Жыл бұрын
"The Good Place" uses a similar concept.
@brichess8227
Жыл бұрын
Just don’t make a whole series out of it or you get haruhi endless eight
@Domek971
Жыл бұрын
This reminds me of the episode of futurama when time keeps skipping
I had a friend when I was in High School that always made fun of this trope, so he started doing it in real life. So for example if we were in a group talking and then someone approached us to talk, he'd just shout out of nowhere "AND TURNS OUT IT WAS HIS EX-WIFE!" and then started laughing in a very loud and obviously fake manner (I never knew why that was always the punchline but it was always that phrase). I don't think many people understood what he was doing beyond our friend group but every time he did it I thought it was hilarious.
@MLBlue30
Жыл бұрын
Great story, I'd play along with him.
Petition for Joel to make a sequel to this video so the characters can keep on existing
@pepperbytez8128
10 ай бұрын
That would kinda ruin the point
@LootFragg
9 ай бұрын
With different actors.
Loved this so much! Great writing great acting
This feels like Stanley Parable. This is so cool! Your skits are the best! Keep it up!
@bellabellabellabella
Жыл бұрын
THIS IS WHAT I WAS THINKING!!! TOTALLY STANLEY PARABLE
@beenblack90
Жыл бұрын
👍👍
@doozy_daisy_dah
Жыл бұрын
I only thought about the stanley parable just bc one of the guy's name was jim 💀
I feel like they could make a full-length comedy film with this concept
@genericname2747
Жыл бұрын
I want Ryan Reynolds to act in it
@jubies6286
Жыл бұрын
Never knew how much I wanted a comedic existential horror film until this.
@Flairis
Жыл бұрын
@@jubies6286 Probably the best way they can do comedic existential horror, with this template
@RaJaoeGris
Жыл бұрын
Watch Truman show
@whoisanarnb
Жыл бұрын
@@genericname2747 Free Guy but instead of a video game it's about a short movie and all the characters understand they have a limited time left until they don't exist anymore, but MC (Ryan Reynolds) tries to stop it, in the end making a way into real life, escaping the nightmare of playing out 45 minutes of your "life" over and over. The movie ends with them saying, "If we were still in the movie, the credits would start ro-" only to be cut off by the credits rolling, implying that the real life in the movie isn't our real life, and now they're trapped repeating 2 and a half hours of them escaping into one fake reality into another.
Keep up the great work Joel. Your sketches are thoughtful, funny and touching.
"i help with box and encourage" this will be my Tinder profile out of context
Joel just hasn’t been the same since he came back from the dead. He’s went full Plato’s cave on these guys.
A longer form of this would be incredible I just want more of this sketch Joel please they need to exist again
@TorvicIsSanta
Жыл бұрын
Sorta like the Truman show
@zackquillan7292
Жыл бұрын
I'm working on a screenplay for a shitty Hallmark movie where the main character goes through a psychotic break and starts to think they're in a shitty Hallmark movie and then they get thrown in a shitty Hallmark sanitarium. Very similar vibe to this short.
@stevenpolkinghorn4747
Жыл бұрын
I think the ultimate mind blowing arc is they get extremely close to full consciousness/4th wall break and then slowly go back to being oblivious but there’s one character who realizes if he doesn’t he’ll be written out of the universe by a maniacal writer who wants to keep them in the dark.
@ruludos1977
Жыл бұрын
try Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, it's this but with Hamlet
@ildpusio7134
Жыл бұрын
@@zackquillan7292 cool , are you planning on filming it?
How he manages to be so philosophical and hilarious at the same time I’ll never know 👏🏾
This really gives me hope for the future generation of Filmmaking. Thank you so much!
the last conversation between Jim and Joel had an eternal sunshine of the spotless mind vibe. beautiful 🥲
@yukononun
Жыл бұрын
I love that film.
@bnamsrom2
Жыл бұрын
@Pdersey both of those, and a third Jim Carrey movie.
Finally, a realistic answer to a question I've always wondered about.
@zwenkwiel816
Жыл бұрын
Ikr I always thought it was a piñata as well...
@The_Rand-Man
Жыл бұрын
@@mezzb It turns out the answer was lack of agency all along. Thanks Joel
@MLBlue30
Жыл бұрын
Sometimes you get to be the main character, Sometimes you just get to moves boxes, but the movie ends for us all.
This is an absolute masterpiece, very original, excellent job
they're slowly peering through the veil but not with full comprehension. Enough to question but not enough information to know.
I laughed so hard at that piñata joke, what a knee slapper that was
@klop4228
Жыл бұрын
But, uh, what was the joke?
@PikaJim
Жыл бұрын
@@klop4228 they thought that the vending machine was a piñata, from the story
@d_all_in
Жыл бұрын
@@klop4228 that it wasnt a piñata, it was his vending machine
@andrasziegenham6766
Жыл бұрын
It's funny, because I really thought it was a pinata, the entire time, up until the point it turned out to be a vending machine.
@clint5406
Жыл бұрын
How did they set the joke up is my question. It's the editor's fault we didn't know, or maybe because it's really not that important to the plot at all?
Watched this video as a break from studying interpersonal psychology about the human agency and I feel like I learned more from this than the contents of my curriculum. Great job as always!
@dopaminecloud
Жыл бұрын
@sun diver wanna talk about it?
@ComradeKoopa
Жыл бұрын
What did you learn specifically?
The pacing and structure is absolutely perfect in this one, holy crap!
Loved it, very creative! I seldom see anything that makes me take notice! I'm looking forward to seeing your other work.
Jim’s facial expression at 2:38 as he begins questioning things is amazing. This might be Joel’s best video, it’s perfect
lmao the acting in this is too good. when they are in character you can tell they're acting but when they start questioning their existence they aren't acting any more and just sound like a real person. Very well done.
03:43 “what is this even” has the exact same delivery as “what the hell is even that”
dang, you make excellent short films. Great writing, acting, the music choices and framing - just very nice work.
this is why I keep tabs on your vids, you always think of the funniest specific things like this that are just so on point and I can't trust anybody else to really get it like you do "I'm jim.. I help with box, and I encourage" HAHAHA
@Joel-Haver
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sticking around DeSinc! I remember you commenting when I had like 1,000 subscribers. Hope all is well!
@Djimmmi
Жыл бұрын
@@Joel-Haver cute
@griffinshorts785
Жыл бұрын
Wholesome
Man, this just hits home. No agency just floating through life one scene to another. Life does feel like a hard cut sometimes. Where did all the time in between go?
@mbeecher9921
Жыл бұрын
Maybe you should look into "dissociation". We're not supposed to go through life like that.
@MLBlue30
Жыл бұрын
It does tend to feel like that. One day you are doing what you do and then it all just sto
@inconsistizzy
Жыл бұрын
this is how i live my life
@godsfool5284
Жыл бұрын
Free will is an illusion
@E-Brightvoid
Жыл бұрын
I stole it.
1:28 Man, I fully expected something like "and hard cut", lmao.
It is gold. I have seen so many films and a few of reached this level of play and writing. Congratulations.
This concept is good enough to be its own feature length movie, I'd die to ever get to see that
@KLondike5
Жыл бұрын
Perhaps you'd like a film called Adaptation by Charlie Kaufman. It turns in on itself. Bonus, filming scenes of Being John Malkovich also occurs within Adaptation.
@EyelessEntity
Жыл бұрын
Just had the same thought
@clint5406
Жыл бұрын
@@KLondike5 Nic Cage was so good at playing 2 versions of the director in that film.
@bosonbreeder
Жыл бұрын
@@KLondike5 Great suggestion, Adaptation is definitely one of my all time favorites. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Vanilla Sky (Abre los ojos) are also well worth watching if you enjoy similar concepts.
@Oscarous64
Жыл бұрын
@@KLondike5 cool, I will check it out!
Hands down the most incredible skit I have ever seen across all media, well done!
@peradean
Жыл бұрын
Dang! This is a massive compliment 😳
@1stepatatime
Жыл бұрын
1000% agreed!!!! It's the best!!!!!!
Joel has the most unique, genius sketch ideas, man should be in the big leagues by now
Great job. Have been trying to figure out a script like this for some time and you nailed it!