The ending is so brutal. You can see him trying to avoid it few times before accepting his fate

@JettyBootChamp

Жыл бұрын

I noticed that. At one point he braces early, knowing the bus is coming. Then he tries to jump out of the way. Every ill fated attempt to avoid this terrifying death loop, a vain endeavor 😢

@Veloziraptor111

Жыл бұрын

I don't think he's been through it enough to realize just how horrible his fate is, much less accept it. Think about it, with no way in sight to break the loop, he is stuck living this one second before dying over and over and over again FOREVER. There seems to be no way for him to move fast enough to avoid the bus and the conditions will always be the same as it's just the same second, same scenario being replayed every time. No outside factor is coming to change those conditions. No one else but him will even be aware that it's happening. And since he can't save himself and no one is coming in to save him, his existence will be an eternity of repeating the same moment. Eternity is not really something a human mind can grasp. 10 years is a long time for us. 100 years is longer than a lifetime. 1000 years seems impossibly far away already. 6000 years encompasses the entirety of human history. 200000 years - the entirety of known existence of our species. He's going to exist that long, stuck in repetition of this moment. But that's not the end of it, oh no. That is a mere drop in an infinite ocean that is eternity. And we can only theorize what that would do to a brain. Our memories are faulty even for the duration of several years, not to mention a lifetime. But he will experience multiple of those. It's probably safe to say that he will eventually forget any memory of the man he was or the events that lead to his current condition, his only memory being this one second repeating as far back as he can remember, with no way out and no ending in sight. Forever. Honestly, being that we don't and can't know what that sort of experience would do to a mind, his only hope of relief would be that his brain would get fried to the point where he doesn't realize what's happening anymore, essentially existing in a vegetative state. Still, that's only a different form of eternal torment. When your only hope is that you at least won't realize how much you are suffering, you are well and truly fucked. When you think about it, this has to be one of the cruelest things to ever happen to someone on screen.

@JettyBootChamp

Жыл бұрын

@@Veloziraptor111 man took a casual comment and wrote a thesis on why he doesn't agree.

@internetphia

Жыл бұрын

+@@JettyBootChamp Did you actually read it? He's right. Don't just dismiss something because it's longer than a TikTok comment..

@JettyBootChamp

Жыл бұрын

@@internetphia lol

Given the comedic tone of everything leading up to it, I can't decide if that ending is the darkest of dark humor or just straight-up horror.

@Pawelandbajer

3 жыл бұрын

It's definitely a horror if you think about it. He is stuck FOREVER in a loop where he constantly dies over and over again without ending, unless he somehow manages to dodge the bus. I can't think of worse punishment at the moment and that already says a lot for a psycho that I am :)

@BatMan-xr8gg

3 жыл бұрын

@@Pawelandbajer And she is stuck looking at her shoe forever.

@Tespri

3 жыл бұрын

@@BatMan-xr8gg Difference is... She is not aware of it.

@Tespri

3 жыл бұрын

@@Pawelandbajer That machine has to run out of power one day.

@BatMan-xr8gg

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tespri And?

That ending had me in stitches. Me and my nephew once played Half Life to complete it all the way through. We was doing so well... and then my nephew hit the quick save button at the wrong point as the elevator opened, and we kept getting immediately blasted. We was stuck in a loop just like that guy, so we ended up giving up...

@erayozdemir4738

8 ай бұрын

LMAAAOOO!!!

@lakecityransom

8 ай бұрын

We all done it before haha.

8 ай бұрын

it happened with my lit sister, we were playing Resident evil in hard mode and we get to some point that we were damaged and have no potions, before a boss, by mistake we saved on the last checkpoint and... nobody could survive with that amount of health. :c F

@alexreadsthings5677

8 ай бұрын

Someth8ing similar happened to a friend of mine. Halo 2, saved right before or as he got stuck with a grenade. Only save file.

@rishirajmukati8407

7 ай бұрын

so did this guy

That ending is... disturbing and horrific. And one of the best things I've seen. Great job y'all.

@Fweaka

3 ай бұрын

Smart enough to make a time machine with plutonium and etc. But not smart enough to time save in a safe location.

Imagine how ballsy he had to have been to test that thing out for the first time.

@ProtTheKPAXian

3 жыл бұрын

@@thesphider8298 clever idea for a test

@michaelwinter742

3 жыл бұрын

I think it’s a metaphor.

@jobzzraj7979

3 жыл бұрын

@@thesphider8298 by what you said, it will only cause him to go in a loop without end.

@bluejay44

3 жыл бұрын

@@thesphider8298 If he tested it on an animal it would reset time to when he hit the button and he'd never know it worked.

@zzasdfwas

3 жыл бұрын

@@thesphider8298 No, he wouldn't be able to observe it working for anyone else but him. Presumably, it does work for others, but only in their point of view, since only their consciousness jumps back in the timeline. But the boy is the protagonist, and we are following his conscious timeline. That's why it didn't appear to work for the girl. It's related to the idea of quantum immortality, which is the idea that a conscious being is immortal, because in the many worlds interpretation, anything that can happen happens. The idea of many worlds is not so controversial, but the idea that your subjective consciousness would not perceive itself dying is definitely controversial.

Moral of the story: don't be a doofus and not look both ways when crossing the street with a magical time resetting device.

@misterandrefriggindoppelga7595

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@mammadingo9165

3 жыл бұрын

Yes underrated comment right here

@kh9785

3 жыл бұрын

Well, wasn't he just doing it for fun? Ok. I am gonna have to watch again.

@pnut3844able

3 жыл бұрын

@@kh9785 no he wasn't

@pnut3844able

3 жыл бұрын

@@kh9785 he's stuck in a time loop forever

When she was giving him a beating the danger became pretty clear... It's possible to end up with a respawn point right before you'll inevitably die. This has happened in video games too...

@user-lm4eo1yc1o

Ай бұрын

Does anyone realize she beat him to death in that restaurant? She beat him to death!

The ending has been a brutal recurring dream of mine for many years. Not the dying part but the reliving the same second over and over with no control. It was so bad after the 3rd bus hit I was actually getting nauseous and had to stop the video. Ive spent the last few days forcing myself to watch the ending and it has no effect on me anymore. So thank you for inadvertently curing a condition I didnt know that I had. I no longer fear that dream.

@ArcticProxy

4 ай бұрын

I've had several bad trips on nitrous that were like that. The ending made me so unfortable too because that is the most terrifying feeling ever to be "stuck" in a loop like that.

@Nunya111

4 ай бұрын

Holy cow man I mean it’s pretty brutal but grow a pair ya snowflake 🤣

@ArcticProxy

4 ай бұрын

@@scorpion0498 Yeah, I'm not sure if anything external was involved with OP's dream, but I will say that I have avoided most psychoactive substances since then. Even stuff that is supposed to be beneficial for dealing with challenged like psilocybin has become much more uncomfortable now. But time definitely helps the lasting dissociation after such a thing happens.

@MichaelC1245

4 ай бұрын

@@scorpion0498 no the OP did not. Never done anything harder than alcohol and weed. The dream started when I was in my early teens before I had the chance to try any of it. Still have it every week or so but as I said ive conquered it now. I now wake up calmly cause I know its a dream instead of a state of pure panic and terror.

@bayc3715

3 ай бұрын

​@@MichaelC1245I had a bad trip on MDMA and Ket and thought I was stuck in a never ending time loop where my death is repeated over and over, very very scary.

That was literally the best ending of the short movies I've ever watched...

@nic8671

2 жыл бұрын

Nope. The ending ruined it. Cliche' AF.

@stdev.

2 жыл бұрын

@@nic8671 Disagree.

@nic8671

2 жыл бұрын

@@stdev. don't care

@JeloOW

2 жыл бұрын

@@nic8671 dont care

@nic8671

2 жыл бұрын

@@JeloOW don't care

I love the foreshadowing of the end by the line about how a shoelace can mean the difference between finding the love of your life and being hit by a bus

@catbert7

2 ай бұрын

*forever

@ThisIsKayce

Ай бұрын

I had forgotten where I had heard the reference before in the film😅

@user-vz9ko1ih3z

Ай бұрын

Chekov's Bus.

@Ryl3925

Ай бұрын

Ahaaaa

@aotmn8399

Ай бұрын

I honestly thought he was going to destroy the device only to discover that Sarah got killed by a bus, and then he could never go back and save her.

What an ending. That is the description of hell. Endless pain, no more hope, destruction continues forever and ever.

The smile at the end!! One can only imagine sisyphus as being happy

I did not expect that ending, and I was not disappointed at all

@Nice2MeetU2011

3 жыл бұрын

Well said! Great story. Brilliant acting. Peace.

@alexandergaus493

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed...

@Antigone10

3 жыл бұрын

No joke, brilliant!

@aakds

3 жыл бұрын

Fabulous ending for a clichê story haha

@RenLobo69

3 жыл бұрын

That's funny because that's almost exactly how I thought it would end.

Am I the only one who wanted to scream at Carrie that she hadn't lived through three years? She only lived through it once. It was Ed that went the long way round.

@38procentkrytyk

3 жыл бұрын

She's awful human being.

@EverlifeGame

3 жыл бұрын

She was just being funny.

@JoelMurphy77

3 жыл бұрын

@@38procentkrytyk That's a rather extreme point of view.

@bruceforsman4812

3 жыл бұрын

yeah but she felt violated, feelings don't have to make sense you know she is in shock trying to wrap her head around it as well and think it add humore to the vid. but ed pointing that out could easily been scripted and would not be out of place either not sure it would make it any better though just different

@Turbonilla

3 жыл бұрын

yes, but he changed her destiny a million of times without her consent, though

I love how the box moves around the table with every shot :)

@anotherpromotor

24 күн бұрын

I was so confused why there was a shot of it hanging off of the table and the next it being against the wall. That is really clever

Easy fix set it so that once you hit a save point x number of times it failsover to a previous save point a few seconds prior. This continues indefinitely.

I love that his former comment about taking a second to walk around someone who had to tie their shoe could be the difference in finding the love of your life or being hit by a bus...and then Carrie's shoe is untied, but she says she'll tie it in the car. He needed that second to save his life instead of ending it...brilliant use of the concept!

@nic8671

2 жыл бұрын

Nope. The ending ruined it. Cliche' AF.

@daevydjae

2 жыл бұрын

I don't believe I didn't realize that before seeing this comment. That's brilliant!

@ututut77

Жыл бұрын

holy crap, i missed that!

@clearspiritnow

Жыл бұрын

Spot on Carol. Your analysis allows a so-called "dark ending" to be also interpreted as a logical conclusion to the aforementioned "former comment about taking a second......"

@BettyAlexandriaPride

Жыл бұрын

@@nic8671 For me, it took on a different meaning. I was actually hit by a car. I survived but my dad didn't. Seeing it over and over again was... traumatic to say the least. It didn't really ruin it for me, but I went from almost crying to being really confused about how long he'd be stuck in that loop.

That was literally the best ending ever!!! And if you notice dude even starting smiling!

@sparkymist

3 жыл бұрын

It’s because of the irony behind it lol

@Todd5747

3 жыл бұрын

he seemed to try getting more momentum and turned different ways trying to survive the hit. But the timing is against him. xD

@bruceforsman4812

3 жыл бұрын

@@Todd5747 at first yes then there is, without doubt, resigned acceptance of the absurdity while grinning like an idiot and trust me long before that battery wears out freeing him it will become uncontrollable sobbing followed by some sort of madness I think manic periods followed by some sort of vegetative or catatonic state

@frogpants3005

3 жыл бұрын

wonder if he felt the hit each time over and over and over and over

@TanmaySaha1

3 жыл бұрын

@Teena Courtney Yeah I am sure you'd want that lovey dovey end! In all fairness, I knew it that he was definitey going to die, but I thought may be destroys the device, and then dies! But omg, this ending is just beautiful!

When you think you’ve gotten it, life hits you so hard and you keep trying until you eventually just stop trying

@kajakjohlopi7843

2 ай бұрын

Then maybe you're doing it wrong.

"Can you just make a save point on there for me please..." Hilarious! Didn't see that coming. Haven't laughed out that loud in weeks. And that ending. My gosh. Thanks to Dust for sharing it and thanks to cast and crew for filming it!!

The actors chemistry is so great he entire way through. THAT ENDING. Savage

@nic8671

2 жыл бұрын

Nope. The ending ruined it. Cliche' AF.

@unicorn.mushroom

2 жыл бұрын

@@nic8671 your comments have ruined the comment section. Over used. Old. Tiring. Seems kind of immature to copy paste the same thing... over and over and over. Everyone gets it, you hate the ending. Move on 😂

@nic8671

2 жыл бұрын

@@unicorn.mushroom - aww, someone else's opinion can ruin something for you? Not for me, I don't give a F about your opinion. Everyone gets it, you don't like my comment. Move on😂

@drewross3240

Жыл бұрын

@@nic8671 you should copy the end of this short movie irl

@superyeah4ever2

11 ай бұрын

@@nic8671 you don't care that much that you just had to copy paste it everywhere to show everyone how much you don't care

I like to imagine he escaped the time loop by falling straight onto his back eventually narrowly avoiding the bus

@meenalkhanda7941

6 ай бұрын

Not enough time for even that

@jameswehyee9116

4 ай бұрын

We all would like to say that but the thing is it's over he is done for

@eldritchbeluga9277

4 ай бұрын

if something has a chance of happening, even miniscule, and time is infinite, it eventually will happen

@cholobok

3 ай бұрын

@@eldritchbeluga9277not before he’s turned into a vegetable though. His brain won’t be able to take this for long.

@user-mn8ul9bf2g

3 ай бұрын

No!

I always watch DUST videos just like I watched Black Mirror. You can't get too attached to any character, not even have a little hope for them, bc you never know what kind of terrible things might happen to them.

@xoxo.patriona

Ай бұрын

Didn’t it use to be named Alter or am i trippin?

One of the Best DUSTs....The Ending in my opinion is him going back thousands of times to experince that moment with her, cheek to cheek, and we already know how persistent he is....and it is soooo romantically hillarious😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

Sci fi is that part where he actually gets her number

@mikomikolul

3 жыл бұрын

not possible in our universe at all

@davidanthrope6084

3 жыл бұрын

It's the phone number for the local suicide hotline. She must be psychic!

@maisetas

3 жыл бұрын

@@davidanthrope6084 comment section is better

@FukaiKokoro

3 жыл бұрын

Not necessarily. A lot of guys would call her ugly or fat. So. There’s someone for everyone.

@johnconstanix9936

3 жыл бұрын

ooooo burn !!!

"I'm a woman. No, literally, I'm a woman." And he just laughs. LOL I love male/female friendships so much. So many great lines in this. The writing is superb; as is the acting.

@leroyj3627

3 жыл бұрын

Totally agree!

@Rahul-ow8qz

3 жыл бұрын

@Music & Whistle msk Hey Mr/Mrs Vanilla from the Rainbow world living on the Strawberry street.

@Nihilism110

3 жыл бұрын

@@Rahul-ow8qz lololol

@vandellprueitt7

3 жыл бұрын

@Music & Whistle msk shut up it had nothing to do with her size it had everything to do with their relationship

@2552644

3 жыл бұрын

lol i put on a dress and wore make-up once on a sort of school prom once, one of my guy classmate gasped when he saw me and he was like "[MY NAME] YOU'RE A GIRL?!!!" everybody else looked at my direction at his exclamation and had the same reaction

That ending gave me the chills right up my spine.

this film has a such a deep meaning. even the logo for the restaurant is an all-seeing-eye. if you want a hint about what it really means, notice the way that he ends up dealing with the girl situation in the end, then notice how he deals with the "stuck in being hit by a bus forever" situation.

4th time watching and I JUST NOW noticed the restaurant’s sign says “We do our business in your mouth.” hahahahaha

@hobbes2555

3 жыл бұрын

I noticed it about 4 mins in. lol

@zbellion__noillebz6021

3 жыл бұрын

U 3 nerd t0o slow like snail

@scottwall8419

3 жыл бұрын

Came to comments just to upvote the first person that noticed that ha ha

@tleemf6923

3 жыл бұрын

Lollollol ..didn't notice that thank you.

@dragonbmgo

3 жыл бұрын

F***ing lier

The fact that the cube is all over the table with every cut drives me crazy.

@russr9045

3 жыл бұрын

I'm trying to figure out if that is a continuity error or on purpose since that same scene has happened over 4000 times.

@Eidako

3 жыл бұрын

Quantum uncertainty. The position of the cube is in a state of flux until it is observed.

@cchapa7470

3 жыл бұрын

I'm certain that was intentional. Early in the convo it was my first clue (though I already suspected)

@RachaelClag

3 жыл бұрын

On purpose for sure! Too many other little Easter eggs in there as well for that one to be a mistake!

@adamantobserver8655

2 жыл бұрын

There's the one with the world of ketchupless

One of my top five shorts of any genre. I come back to watch this slice of perfection every year. Some things to muse on after you've seen it for the first time and may have missed.. The young couple in the first scene miss getting hit by a car by literally a second.. also the dichotomy of their falling out (for no reason at all) while Ed is trying to 'fall in'. The disparity between Carrie and Ed's clothing (he doesn't even seem to have a coat) The backdrop wallpaper showing lines of repetitive images Carrie's undone shoelace made Ed pause for the second, otherwise he'd not have been hit by the bus. So many other nuances, I keep spotting more each time. But above all, just great writing, spot-on casting & character acting, and about as perfect and unexpected ending as you could hope for. Props to you, James Kennedy. PS I've discovered on IMDB that Kennedy has another short coming out this year which he's directed, called "Resident Android"

@MortenAnderson

9 ай бұрын

cool

@rajkamalingle9144

8 ай бұрын

Please let us know of your other 4 shorts

@MatthewLenton

5 ай бұрын

He knows he's stuck in a loop whereas everyone else is oblivious

Wow, I can't say enough good things about this film. The dialogue, the storyline, the acting, the setting, everything was SO good!!! I'm so happy that I happened upon this little gem.

These two actors NEED their own sitcom or something! Excellent chemistry.💖

@shaunzee420

3 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more!

@masonhill775

3 жыл бұрын

@@mediatool9596 projecting much

@tonys9796

3 жыл бұрын

*Absolutely agree!*

@CourTooKnee

3 жыл бұрын

Netflix series would be awesome

@yevasirakanyan3129

3 жыл бұрын

@@mediatool9596 so you only watch shows/ movies with good looking people? I almost feel bad for you

"Is it that obvious?" Took him 3 years to notice.

@frogpants3005

3 жыл бұрын

the waitress of eternal knowledge

@Ana-im4dz

3 жыл бұрын

Actually the joke was also about himself, that HE was an evil man. That’s why he wrote that note, he wrote it about himself, as an apology.

@EggBear

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@angelsintahoe

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ana-im4dz I can't make out what the note said! Can you reveal?

@candeezymarie9827

3 жыл бұрын

@@angelsintahoe "I'm sorry some men are EVIL."

This is great. Clever premise, fantastic comedic acting, beautifully lit. So much fun.

100/100. just perfect. the idea, the acting, the actors, the setting, the ending. loooooooooooove it!

The script, the characters, the ending, the acting --- PHENOMENAL

His female friend was a really good actress, I loved her character. And that ending, holy crap. This was well made all around. It was nice not to predict what was going to happen or sit through another remake. I'll take a good short over a standard length movie of the crap they're putting out today.

@misterandrefriggindoppelga7595

3 жыл бұрын

🤣LMFAO with Truth🤣

@Sci-Fi_Fan296

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. Well said.

@nic8671

2 жыл бұрын

Nope. The ending ruined it. Cliche' AF.

@jamiecurran3544

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah well said, can't stand all this Hollywood modern BS !, 😁🤣🤣✌

@timchiplis4128

Жыл бұрын

Did he create a safe point seconds before stepping out in front of the bus ?

"one must imagine sysyphus happy"

You guys, Omeleto and Wf? are my new favourite channels, quality work and entertaining to watch, keep it up!

The worst part is that he will be the one truly stuck and going mad, its the worst punishment

@carbon60unit

3 жыл бұрын

But the save point seems to be for all reality. He single-handedly stopped the universe, forcing it to repeat the same short interval. Only way out I can see is if the box has some property which is not reset and runs out eventually. (Save limit, plutonium decay, batteries, etc.)

@RiversJ

3 жыл бұрын

@no one expected the spanish inquisition It'll malfunction at some point due to quantum tunneling, at some halfway to infinity number of repeats there will be a fusion collision causing the devices properties to change. Any interdimensional travelers will however dissect his brain and psychology for an entire infinity to see why he would timestop his entire universe.

@carbon60unit

3 жыл бұрын

@@RiversJ Travelers from the parallel universe kept disappearing into this one reality. They finally sent a class 10 temporally shielded probe which traced the problem to some bozo on one backwater planet. They took him and the device back to their reality where he will be in a penalty box for a few millennia. At least there are no buses in said box.

@club6525

3 жыл бұрын

@@RiversJ That's impossible to determine because we don't understand how the device actually functions and from what I heard when he mentioned how it works, it probably won't stop working ever.

@thesphider8298

3 жыл бұрын

@@club6525 Heisenberg's uncertainty principle says: given infinite retries, it will certainly malfunction at some point.

Absolutely BRILLIANT combination of Sci-Fi, Comedy and tragedy... With a discrete dose of foreshadowing, haha! Loved this piece.

@pratham3537

7 ай бұрын

Foreshadowing ?

@adammortley6375

7 ай бұрын

@pratham3537 I'm paraphrasing, but when he said "When you bend over to tie your shoe, the one extra second it takes a stranger to walk around you can be the difference of them meeting the love of their life or getting hit by a bus" 11:45

@kynaleonardo1829

7 ай бұрын

Funny enough when I heard her about to tie her shoelace I knew something was up lol.

@erikkarlsson9192

7 ай бұрын

@@kynaleonardo1829 Not so discrete tbh, but awesomely executed. :D

@technical3182

6 ай бұрын

Didnt get it. He did remembered stabbing himself and forgets that he got hit by a bus?

I really hope to think he’d eventually find a way out of that ending, the rest of it was so sweet!

this is literally the best short film under 1 hour I've ever watched, including the alien fanmade series.

That ending, I’m gutted. this is one of the best written shorts I’ve seen. Kudos to all involved!

@cristhecris_

4 ай бұрын

yeah the ending was not good. i mean it's kinda funny but also extremely sad and it's sad that he got the happy ending he wanted and then that happened

@700toamillion2

4 ай бұрын

They just copied S04E08 of Rick and Morty

@DrTheRich

3 ай бұрын

@@cristhecris_ Watch closely, this only happened because he tried making a savepoint anyway while saying he would destroy it. It's his own fault because he still got greedy in the end. Poetic justice

The fact that the cube keeps moving around throughout is GENUIS

@ashleighjavani5716

3 жыл бұрын

GENIUS *

@veradorton7447

3 жыл бұрын

OHHHHHHHHH THATS WHY IT MOVES AROUND

@ReneCarmonaCaimito

2 жыл бұрын

please explain... or I'll time cube you in a fit of passion loop... err wait

@9Kualalumpur

Жыл бұрын

@@ReneCarmonaCaimito It's a collage of different iterations

This was fantastic. The writer/director of this is amazing! The actors were fabulous...there are SO many crappy full-length movies out there - why aren't there more like this?! Quirky and funny and super entertaining and clever...oh my god, as brutal as the ending was, it was also hilarious. Soooo good!

The irony of saving too much to lose to the infamous loop of death. Brings back pleasant memories.

Quint's : "We do our business in your mouth" Isn't that just hilarious 😂😂😂

@diazjoram

3 жыл бұрын

Lmfao I was waiting for someone to say this!!!! I couldnt stop laughing at that

@jroberts1734

3 жыл бұрын

Me 3!!

@anitabosse

3 жыл бұрын

Picture if it was an adult film maker...

@islandsedition

3 жыл бұрын

Genius!

@Alexandria197

3 жыл бұрын

I noticed that too when they were standing out there yeah LOL

LMFAO he even started laughing at the end. Lmfao

@RiversJ

3 жыл бұрын

@@juggalowhoa You'd go clinically insane within a day, i'd imagine since it is decidedly Not a time machine, the device will stop once the plutonium has alpha decayed to the point it doesn't function anymore, shouldn't take more than 20000 years or so... Then he dies and the device is destroyed.

@zachreichgut

3 жыл бұрын

@@juggalowhoa can't he just... take a step back?

@sergeyromanov5560

3 жыл бұрын

@@RiversJ but Plutonium will never decay since time resets.

@SivaKanthSharma

3 жыл бұрын

@@zachreichgut he's mid step when the save point was set.

@thesphider8298

3 жыл бұрын

@@SivaKanthSharma exactly... remember momentum? Physics is unforgiving 😂

Great dialogue, brilliant acting, wonderful story. I can even forgive the missing "OMG" (old sound designer, I'd notice these things). Wonderful work, team!

When I first got the gist of what his thing does, I immediately thought about what if he saved right before dying and couldn't do anything about it. I was shocked by the ending but one of the best short films I ever seen.

"Go to her" "Sorry?" "Huhu i'm just kiddin ion give a shet"

Don't know why so many people find the ending hilarious. His fate is worse than death.

@Mr-Pixelated

5 ай бұрын

eventually his atoms will phase through the bus he just has to keep trying

@orangesolarflare4228

5 ай бұрын

@@Mr-Pixelated omg this is brilliant

@DeadeyeDaily

5 ай бұрын

The irony is why! ...And the "I can relate" factor.🤣Mental-level hilarious!!

This movie was soo freaking amazing. A mixture of all the emotions. Just loved the story. Though did not want such an ending but the ending was something genius. Hats Off to the entire team.

The acting here is surprisingly stellar for a short film

Now that's a story well written and well shown to the audience.

@jameskennedy5811

3 жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!

@MahaDidThat

3 жыл бұрын

@@jameskennedy5811 this is a good one, James. Good job. 👍🏻

@PaulPinguin

3 жыл бұрын

james kennedy It‘s better than some episodes of the Twilight Zone remake. Thanks for making this masterpiece.

"You've kept me hostage to your ridiculous chub-on for three years!?!" 🤣 What a line! That was an AMAZING short! I loved it! Great job!

@Hust91

8 ай бұрын

He held the entire universe hostage for three years! Of course noone noticed, so arguably he only held himself hostage.

@protus3882

8 ай бұрын

she wouldn’t even feel like it. her feeling a certain way about it feels kinda off

@JesterLegend4life

3 ай бұрын

Yeah. For her, it is a normal day. I find it weird why she is reacting that way.

I didn't expect that! Director took creativity to a whole new level!! Cruel 😂

I have tears in my eyes!!!! First from deep sadness and then from beautiful laughter!

I was expecting a similar kind of mistake that he did in the end. We do face the same while frequently quick saving in a game just exactly before the character dies.

@irrevenant8724

3 жыл бұрын

Amazingly I have over a thousand hours sunk into Skyrim and *didn't* see this coming. >_

@sola4393

3 жыл бұрын

yes that is how I saw it when I save my game at the wrong time. lol

@NiMareQ

3 жыл бұрын

This has happened to me once. It took me 2 hours to get good random values and survive.

@jesseallen3109

2 жыл бұрын

not the way I play. I play for hours and forget to save.. then I fuck up and dye due to mistimed healing or low mana, or what have you.. realize my mistake.. and put the game down for a day or so... longer if the fault was game crash.

OMG what an ending!!!!!! Laughing and crying at the same time!

@ralphlopez2677

3 жыл бұрын

Me too ! My heart cryed out in horror as it was simultaneously set free

@bisleyblackhawk1288

3 жыл бұрын

Amen!

OMFG, this was the best thing I've seen in a long, long while. That ending! Wow, congrats!

The banter between the two was excellent. So much chemistry

This was really good. The moral of these great shorts is, there is no shortage of great writing and acting, when you don’t have to bow to large studios.

@MegaLokopo

8 ай бұрын

And you don't need hundreds of millions of dollars to make a good movie.

@vovahimself

8 ай бұрын

The complexity of keeping the story together grows non-linearly with its length, though, so it’s not like making a 120-minute movie is *just* 6 times more difficult than a 20-minute one.

Imagine if a baby pushed it then lived life as normal until they died of old age...

@thebossthusiast1960

3 жыл бұрын

Interesting idea. They might never even realize what was going on, and would go through life feeling a lot of deja vu and a sense that they've seen it all before.

@klefromyoutube9953

3 жыл бұрын

the baby will be genius in the next life

@sydneywest7082

3 жыл бұрын

6:35 it only works for him

@RachaelClag

3 жыл бұрын

@QuantumRat2005 then everyone will want one! Also... we do not know the effect on other individuals. Would it mean that the baby's parents exist only in their interactions with the baby the second time around?!

@tenid4824

3 жыл бұрын

maybe the cube can only work if it is around you, you can't maybe designate it to someone else's gnome and then lock it away in a vault half way around the world. maybe the cube needs to always be in proximity to you for it to work (think of a blackhole/whitehole event, you got to be in that location at the same time).

this is actually really really good, i just randomly clicked expecting some dumb sci fi film but this actually had me questioning my own decisions

This is one of the best youtube video i have ever watched. It kept me all the way to the end and the last part was just.. another level of comedy. loved it! thank you for sharing!

What an amazing display of talent; acting, comic timing, direction, editing, set design, soundtrack... Great things evidently can come in small packages. Thanks to all involved, a credit to the entertainment industry.

11:34 - He knew, without knowing, just how it would all end...! Poor bloke.

@BQwain

3 жыл бұрын

I had to watch it again, and then you totally blew my mind. It stuck in my craw but I hadn't placed it together yet. You totally called that he totally called it!! Excellent.

@Candy_Gal

3 жыл бұрын

Cuan Hundermark Good catch! I missed that! 😃

@cuanhundermark4107

3 жыл бұрын

@How Not To, compare 11:34 - 12:00 and 20:20 to the end - exactly what he had said COULD happen to someone, happened in the exact same way to him :)

OMG that ending!!!!! This is SERIOUSLY good short sci-fi

The fact that the ending was foreshadowed makes the while thing soo great.

He's a kind of character who you would love, hate, get angry on, impressed by, frustrated by, scared by and feel every other emotion for him. So you decide to better stay away ! P.S - I would rather choose death even if I knew it beforehand over asking out a girl 4875 times for f's sake !

@anonymouslearner2454

Жыл бұрын

4795

I agree with so many other comments here, THIS has to have been one of the BEST short films I've ever watched. it captured the imagination right from the onset and continued its intriguing whimsical plot, to the most amazingly and humorous of conclusions! BRAVO @DUST 👍❤

such a genius short, especially the ending; well done james.

That ending is just existentially brutal 😅 damn

I saw this at the Independent Film Festival Boston a few years back, and it was my favorite short film of the whole festival. I'm so glad it's on DUST and KZread to see again :)

@jameskennedy5811

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for checking it out in Boston and also thank you for watching it again!

@3moirai

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely my pleasure. You might have to sue Rick & Morty for stealing your idea, lol. Any new films you've been working on?

@jamesoldhamdop

3 жыл бұрын

@@3moirai We have a couple of things in the pipeline! Stay in touch on our CTRL Z Short Film facebook! :)

@tammiejade1155

3 жыл бұрын

The bloke is cycic

@vishank7

3 жыл бұрын

@@jameskennedy5811 Keep up the good work man! This was such a masterpiece! Absolutely beautiful😄💎👌

I like how he just leaned into it at the end, resigned to always being hit by the bus. Lucky he didn't die slowly and in agony at the end. Still, if he contorts his body in different shapes in the last second he has, he'll find one where he lives even if he's all banged up.

@darrinsiberia

3 ай бұрын

He could throw the box on the ground so it gets shattered by the bus as he dies therefore he would really die and not respawn also.

@rodjacksonx

3 ай бұрын

That's actually a viable way out, but unfortunately, I doubt he'd have time to do that. That loop is like a second long.

@jetboy531

2 ай бұрын

better than dying forever, and he can free the universe@@darrinsiberia

Holy crap that ending came so sudden and is so brutal, the ways he tries to Avoid in diffrent games. That is phenomenal

This is a masterpiece. I love it, even with the disturbing ending. It really makes you think about patterns in life, how all decisions are life changing and death. It is a tragedy comedy.

Actually, he does not lose his memories so after many thousands tries he might figure it out.

@Mawzeen

3 жыл бұрын

Or go mad

@david203

3 жыл бұрын

"after many thousands tries he might figure it out.": The Groundhog Day effect. Very frequent plot in science fiction.

@wingedstring

3 жыл бұрын

He's gotta learn ultra instinct

6:16 The waitress fainting had me in pieces! 😂

@jsteel89

3 жыл бұрын

"you should see your faces" lmaoooo

bahaha this one was just amazing i love the dark humor you put in this so much

absolutely incredible, loved every second of it

The ending is brilliant. He created a restore point now that he's gotten the girl of his dream, thinking he can always go back to this moment should the future turns awry. Fate intervenes and has him killed immediately right after he sets the restore point, causing a causality loop that goes on for eternity. Causality loop is one of the best plot devices in time travel stories. The origin story of Hodor is the best use of causality loop.

@nic8671

2 жыл бұрын

Nope. The ending ruined it. Cliche' AF.

@stdev.

2 жыл бұрын

@@nic8671 I'm going to hound you and ask you to reconsider. lol

@nic8671

2 жыл бұрын

@@stdev. waste of time

@jesseallen3109

2 жыл бұрын

the stupidity of setting a restore point.. is he was going to DESTROY the device.. So why make the restore point? For the punch line of the ending. Which is either comdeic genius or pure horror. I mean.. I'm assuming it's warping time all over for it to work..

@ericredbear425

2 жыл бұрын

Are you throwing out this spoiler for the people who have already seen it and know what happened or just because you are a jerk?

Great short! When I realized that this was another "save point" story, I didn't have high expectations, but I really enjoyed everything about this film. The writing, the acting, the cinematography... And that ending really took me by surprise. Great job!

Actually so amazing! I’m dying laughing at the end! He just accepts it and starts laughing 😂

So technically the whole world is stuck in that loop along with him.

“this is completely...probably safe.”

😂every cut the box is moved somewhere else

@cactusbro1527

3 жыл бұрын

and after a while also the french fries

@codyg.4767

3 жыл бұрын

This bothered me an unreasonable amount.

Why does it always the SHORT films are the BEST ONES out there. Man.. I WISH this was in a movie. But ofc, you need a good script too.

The craziest stuff I ever watched😂 funny yet meaningful. Great job whole team❤️

and now hes stuck in a perpetual loop

@Genkuro

3 жыл бұрын

Now he needs a reset. CTRL-ALT-DEL? 😆

@rahilj

3 жыл бұрын

@@Genkuro yea lol

@carbon60unit

3 жыл бұрын

@@Genkuro In Unix/Linux terms it would be CTRL/C to interrupt the process.

@carbon60unit

3 жыл бұрын

and he probably took all of reality along for the (bus) ride. So for hundreds of years, reality kept repeating that second plus interval until the plutonium in his device decayed to the point where it stopped working. He was not saved and the rest of the universe went on its way, unaware of the repetition. Excellent Dust short! Humor, romance, tragedy - well done[Just accidentally selected and erased the prior text - had to hit CTRL/Z to bring it back :) ]!

@rahilj

3 жыл бұрын

@@carbon60unit yea

"You can't make an omelette without breaking a f..." "-few nuclear conventions!"

@EmmanuelDufour

2 жыл бұрын

THAT was a line! 😂

This felt like Black Mirror if they went in a full comedy direction. Great stuff!

I've never had my mind blown while laughing uproariously - thank you! Oh, and my compliments to the marketing genius from Quint's diner.

I think Carrie was cast brilliantly. I want to have tea with that character. :)

Now I've stopped watching other KZread videos and I just watch this video over and over and over... so ...Thank you !!!

2 years of constant dieing. Oh man, if only he put an option to have multiple saves...

The ending is so perfect Could only see it when he said your shoelaces are untied It's brilliant