Sci-Fi Short Film “Exit Strategy" | DUST
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Two brothers caught in a time loop must traverse a series of maze-like events in order to prevent a catastrophic fire from occurring.
"Exit Strategy" by Travis Bible
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I don't have the superlatives to adequately explain how highly I think of this film. All the pieces have come together to make something truly special, and I have been changed as a result.
The same here.
But I absolutely do enjoy, with a broad smile on my face, the really good, heartfelt intelligent stories like this one.
Well its Ground hogs day with poor acting. The lead has zero emotion... I wouldn't cast him to be a grip XD
@@Thomas-lh4hf I'm sorry you didn't like it, but you might be missing a point about the story. The lead character has been through the events as we see them unfold, many, many times. He's long past having any emotions about the things going on around him. All he wants to do is to save his brother, and he's devoted all this effort toward that one goal. It's his brother he's emotional about, and we see that only at the end, when he realizes the painful truth of the situation.
Now, the lead actor may or may not have done the best possible job of portraying that character, but a key part of the story is that he's so fixated on his mission that he hasn't got *time* for emotions.
Exactly, his experiences' are all he is thinking about and HAS to follow them to the second, his emotion finally comes and he experiences' the inevitable. His look is his final emotion. He did a good job all through from the beginning.
@@Thomas-lh4hf That was kind of the point. It is at the end he realizes there is nothing he can do about his brother dying on that day, so he's just going to use that last opportunity to speak to him. Also, he's a super-geek who discovered how to turn back time, so he actually played that part perfectly.
Watched for the second time. Love how he finally discovered whats truly important....to spend time with his brother. How many of us would go back knowing a loved one would pass.....to say our last goodbye?
The intensity in the acting skills of two leads is just amazing... such a huge and complex emotions delivered in pure form of acting...but nothing seems like it...these guys just lived their characters.... lotta respect to the entire crew all departments....
Oscar material, really. Thanks for your pristine production values as well.
You should watch Omeleto ‘ Frigid ’ Their acting is TOP notch!
Wait this didn't happen? Lol nah I agree such a sense of reality here
No
Same
Amazing how they created the Goundhog Day experience without the need to see the same day a million times repeated
Which scene? Give me the time
notsokewl time ?
Itachi Uchiha 0:00
Great writing and storytelling!! Top notch!!
Battery wasn't dead......js
Damn, man, that’s heartbreaking, but I love his persistence to save his brother.
Ancient Bloodline of Light : He's only considering time factor. But, you can't change fate. No matter how many times he goes back in time. It's simply his brothers time to die
Paul H Fleming You are right, Paul
@@paulhunter1525 Yeah, but what if his fate was to save his brother? For his brother to be saved? Maybe that is why he is in that loop.
@@paulhunter1525 fate is movie fiction, hard work always pays off
Only 390 tries? Try again.
Interesting take on time travel. It seems you can move the timeline out of place, but it inevitably reverts to the original course, preventing paradoxes.
he said it was a loop not time travel
@@lotussavage1283 same thing. You travel back in time enough times and it becomes a time loop. You can see that this "time loop" is something he created himself and can get out of it whenever he wants.
He died, once more unto the time loop
The Doctor: It was a fixed point in time, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry.
I can't stop crying. If only I had one last breakfast with my guy. Don't worry about what's going to happen later, enjoy the moment, it might be your last.
I cry for you too
Point taken man 👌
No, that is not the last moment. That is the 381st attempt. The guy who memorized 400 lines of code just to make a 6 grade kid happy can't let go of his brother, even if they only spoke twice in 4 years. He won't give up, he spent 380 days not giving up.
This time they are going to talk after the phone gets wet and well into the afternoon. Maybe, just maybe, this is the exit. If not, tomorrow it's the 382's day.
@@GandalfDeRomania. how do you know
@@GandalfDeRomania. you didn't understand it yet, he can still get a heartattack in the restaurant.. that's something his brother can't change.
He was destined to die but he tried anyway. Love
All it needs is two hours of mindless action and $100 million in pretty effects and it could be a Hollywood blockbuster. (Much better as it is, though. Kudos.)
a quick check of movie budgets vs box office return reveals --- a good story needs no money to validate itself. The sublime experience is typically personal, as was this one!
Cryptonymicus honestly, to me, it already is better. 15 minutes and it made me cry harder than I’ve ever cried for a movie... except maybe Big Hero 6 because that kid had been through too damn much ugh
This sort of thing (time looping) has been done but not with as much urgency. Well done.
Like Edge of Tomorrow?
I think this actually happened. look for "Oblivion" 2013.
"I tried so hard, and got so far
But, in the end, it doesn't even matter"
That made me sadder than the movie.... RIP C.B.
Very underrated comment, even though it is the lyrics to ONE OF THE BEST SONGS EVERRRRRR!!!!!
Hi, do you have time to talk about our lord and the saviour, Nihilism
It sucks that I can "only" mark this one with a like. This is one of the best DUST shorts, no - one of the best "anythings" I've ever watched. Just shows that something doesn't need to be flashy or big budget in order to do a story well. And that's what this does.
Brilliantly done!
When you discover short films on youtube and binge watch DUST and OMELETO for four months, three years, and 21 days.
e: lol ppl super triggered abt the order of the dates. Dont think Americans should be saying anything about how to order dates hehehe
Love shorts ! And I would include Alter (although its horror based most are still well made and Screamfest posts a lot of award winners too.)
I already watched this one on omeleto uff
Thanks for the hint, didn't know Omeleto!
When u discover that omelets posted this exact same video almost two weeks before this channel did and are tricking their viewers even using the same name as the original
4321
A simple story but brilliantly exicuted
executed.
*Executed
*exit-cuted
Superbly amazing. He watched his brother die nearly 400 times over. His brother in the end said that "firemen don't run away from fires". All he wanted was to soend time with his brother. He finally let go and acceoted his brothers fate and allowed them to have this final bonding and human connection. That way, when the time comes he could say goodbye properly, and let his brother go out and save people with the remainder of the life he has left. His brother would not die in vain running away from danger but instead run full-tilt straight into the flames and rip other people, strangers out from it's grip. Everybody dies eventually, is it not noble to do so bravely and to make your last action something which helps your fellow humans?
What a fantastic film!
This short film was very thought provoking and deep . It hit a little close to home and made me cry but I loved it !
You're not alone with the tears
@@bugnfront Harry Chapin, but your point is still good :)
Hits me too close to the home too, what Pak De said also.
You should watch Omeleto, Their acting is TOP notch!
This needs millions views, i swear, as a fan of sci fi, i REALLY LOVE IT, thanks for giving this free!!
Wish the entire Internet saw this film - so good
Share it! And keep sharing it to ALLL your socials. I know I am.
Millions of people have seen it on the Omeleto channel. It is top notch.
I guess you can’t change fate! And my fate is to watch DUST!❤️
Agree wholeheartedly. For me, this is a must-have channel, Happy to have come across it.
Why do i keep seeing you in every comment section??!!
+Faizur Rahman Yamen
To whom is your question directed, and why?
246spyder What the hell are you talking about‼️. Do you understand English?
Quite well thank you.
A reasonable question.
Please note that I directed the query to Faizur.since their query came after my comment to you and the others.
This is the best of DUST videos. Not super CGI but amazing concepts that blow your mind!
This is truly awesome. I love short films where character is placed over special effects or even the core premise. I think at its heart, this story is about how love is communicated, and how trying to keep somebody around doesn't mean anything if the relationship isn't there. Seeing all the pains that he went through to keep his brother alive was really moving, and gave a heartbreaking clarity to the sterile and emotionless nature of the first half of the short film. 10/10, flipping excellent
my thoughts exactly !
Exceptional! This is why I watch Dust regularly. I don't always like what I see and that's okay. It's how I find gems like Exit Strategy. I love how this film extols the value and joy of spending time with family, those you love and love you, in such a unique, intriguing, suspenseful, exciting and vivid manner. Thank you. Adventure on, Phat
Absolutely Awesome! I feel privileged to of seen this...seriously...great story line, fantastic actors...great job all around! You all did a bang up job!
Thank you Melana
You guys are killing it on these shorts. They have more content than any Hollywood movie of the last 20 years. Outstanding work! Damn onion ninjas though. Sheesh.
Written, produced, directed and edited by the same guy?
You have a new fan, Travis Bible.
Everything about this was really well done.
Very talented filmmaker
You should watch Omeleto ‘ Frigid ’ It had Good imagery, Good acting, Well-imagined plot, The story is also based on a Real Mental disease usually affecting parents with their newborn babies
The time loop wasn't to find an exit strategy, it was a chance to spend some time with his brother before he died 🤦♂️
When time gives you nothing but sour lemons, just make lemonade.
Wrong. He was trying to save his brother but couldn't so in the end he stayed and died with his brother.
Ding ding ding ding someone gets it!
Doesn't something similar happen in 'The Time Machine'? The guys wife dies and no matter what he does to try to save her, she dies another way. When its your time, its your time.
@@terryd8692 Oh man, that terrible movie. Ever read/watched the original by Wells?
It's rare that you find something which brings tears to your eyes and yet puts a smile on your face.
-Love from a 16 year old physics Enthusiast.
lol "physics enthusiast", there is a reason this is called sci-fi, hate to tell you time travel will never be possible. it is impossible. Einstein couldn't solve his own equation for it, and nobody since then has either. The equation for time travel, theoretically speaking, is easier to solve than other equations that are much more difficult that have already been solved. so if time travel was a thing, it would already be possible and many, many people would be able to do it.
@@jessebrill145I'm a person who typically rolls eyes at time travel themes. I think you missed the point. He likes science. This short touched him emotionally.
End of story.
@@cdubbleyoo if it was so "emotional" which i'll say that i think that was the real point of the film, than it's irrelevant to state your interest in physics, bc time travel and physics don't go together, people have tried to say and prove otherwise, but no.
@Martyr4JesusTheChrist Time travel forward in time will be possible as soon as someone invents a way to put people in stasis, backward is unlikely to ever be possible though there are some parts of special relativity that may allow it but involve orbiting a supermassive spinning object at close to the speed of light so probably won't be tested this week.
@@jessebrill145 (sigh). It's irrelevant to try to judge the comment regardless. Obviously, it's science FICTION. The connection to science did something for them. There was no declaration of factuality of time travel. Science fiction is allowed to play with physics as much it is with any field. If your issue is with the piece, or even the subject, comment on that. You have your emotional response and let others have theirs. And, YES, I am commenting on the way humans should interact with each other on the interweebz.
"Exit Strategy" is the most wonderful, entertaining Sci-Fi short film I've ever seen in my entire life. Whoever created this should be commended greatly.
It's finny you should say that lol
How do you feel about the tv series Meet the Kardashians?? Bc the director/producer of Exit Strategy, Travis Bible, also produced like 5 episodes of MTK. IMDb, check it out, it's true.
A vast majority of all these Dust short films are created by people who have done major roles in the film industry. Don't believe me check out IMDb yourself lol. For all intents and purposes the Dust channel is an indie channel, not a fan-made channel. It's interesting how the "internet" will get in bed with anything simply bc it has the Fan-Made label slapped on it before actually trying it or watching it.
Side Note: I am in no way bagging on Dust, bc I absolutely love most of their short films.
@@hunterofendermen367 All that really displays is that the industry itself is at fault and not the individuals. If anything it gives me hope that those producing oversaturated mainstream media are capable of works of art like this too, let's hope they continue to do the latter.
Omeleto did oct 15 this was made November
I can't say that I watched many shorts, but I've watched a few. Most were a waste of time. This, however, deserves a high profile and real, professional awards. I hope you guys go pro because you deserve it.
That small part where he moves the phone so it'll be put of order after the clip where he notes 'No Phones'.
Shane loved his brother in his own way. He just had a different way of expressing it. For him, it was to do things for the other and for Matt, it was to spend time talking.
This is the most amazing short film I've ever watched I wish it was a full length featured film.
Absolutely brilliant, I love how it focuses on the emotional aspects and leaves the actually mechanics to the viewers imagination.
I have been a subscriber since the early days. I love Sci-Fi shorts. This is hands down the best one I have ever seen and it didn't even take aliens, spaceships, lasers or massive explosions. I have added it to my favorites and I as yet have no idea how many more times i will watch it, but I will.
every one of those clips has a subtle statement. it's incredible how pervasive those idealities get.
Netflix could make a new "Black Mirror: Bandersnatch" out of this...
Domme MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY
This is sadder since there's only one outcome no matter how you pick and change your options.
@@javier6465 That makes it better tho -- the inevitability of death no matter what you do or how much you try to stop it.
Why ask a giant to do something done so well by a smaller organisation? Let's support the entrepreneurs with solid talent, whether it pleases the masses and the corporate decision makers or not.
fluffyfour I agree with you
I’m really high right now....
and what I gathered from this is that happiness and being in the moment with positive energy and love can change the follow/state of time + destiny it’s self.
And a hero will risk his life and perhaps die being a HERO no matter what happens because that’s there destiny.
Wow, this by far has been the best Dust offering in the past year. Well acted, great camera, concept 100%. I hope Travis Bible goes a long way.
Wow... It's so much like the Tuesday episode of supernatural.... Sam always trying to save his brother Dean....
I was looking for someone to comment this!
Always happy to find a SPN fan!!!! 😁
The best time-travel idea I've seen for a long time. Very well executed in every way. Excellent.
I LOVE This, powerful! There's a time to live and a time to die and no man can control the out come. The ending is beautiful after all the trying to save his brother he realized that it's more important to just spend some time with his brother.
Congratulations on such a powerful statement!
Excellent! Time loops are trippy...
Tricky 🤔
This went on the time theory of A leads to B always leads to C, which means one action (His brother becoming a fire fighter) always leads to him dying. The middle event (entering the fire, or running from the fire) doesn't matter.
That means leave life the way it is...! It is what it is at the end. We just learn to live the moment, not the past, not the future. Remember that. Seize the day!
I would do the same for my brother!
Mainpulate time and space - he's worth it.
I love the way DUST portrays scientist's as smart people who have special abilities after they have tapped the power of science.
Wow best time loop short film i've ever seen
period!!!
Just wait till the next time you watch it.
I'm not crying... There is just something in my eye :'(
Beautifully done, as a sibling myself I would do anything to try and save them. The world has a way of making the time, the time... Again concept is done beautifully, I loved this.
Outstanding !!! I watch a lot of these shorts but every now and then a classic stands out. The cast, dialogue and story were so perfect. Thanks for a great movie experience. 😁👍
This is criminally under viewed. Great short film.
Simply put... I really like stories like this..
In my opinion, one of the best of all time short films from DUST. I'd put it up against any other and still get compromise. Look forward to more films from this group. Thank you
I'm just in love with your movies. Most Science fiction short films get caught up in the technicalities so much that emotion is lost. You guy do a superb job. Keep it up!
Ol boy is a hero in every way shape and form.
Ask him to go into that fire 100 times to save a life and you will get an affirmative every single goddamned time.
That's the pinnacle of existence right there.
Loosely similar to "The Butterfly Effect" with Ashton Kutcher. The protagonist kept using his time-traveling ability to try to avert a negative outcome. But no matter what he did, the outcome was always negative. Only in the end when he gave up on his goals and gave up on trying to create a positive outcome for himself, did the outcome actually become positive.
@Pierre LeDouche Groundhog Day wasn't first, timeloop movies are as old as cinema and science fiction. Of course it depends how much we're willing to torture the definition of which plot is and which isn't similar enough :)
Final Destination. Cant beat Destiny
he didn't tho?
There is an ending in which he suffocates himself in the womb. Director's cut.
He can only make less negative effect.
this is actually really cool, he tried to save his brother from any danger possibility.
Wow... Just wow. That was really heartbreaking though... But amazing!
One of the better DUST shorts I've seen. Excellent !
EXCELLENT AND CAPTIVATING
A poignent remider to cherish the moments we have with those we love.
Final Destination meets Groundhog Day - simply brilliant!!!
After all is said and done, he just wanted to have some quality time with his big bro...you know, before he died on that morning like any other. :) What a great story! Took me on a real Sci-Fi Adventure... Very well written and produced.
After trying a couple dozen iterations, you'd think he'd start to wonder why the universe wants to specifically kill his brother
Amazing, fantastic and a keeper. I know I'll watch it again. So many well-executed themes. Bravo!
these short clips are better then movies
One of the best masterpieces I have ever had the privilege to watch. Thank you, Travis, for sharing your talent with us. Thank you as well to the whole crew and the stellar actors.
Well said
great flim showing true craftmanship .i was thinking about this for hours afterwards. and will never forget it.
One of the best short movies. Perfect actors, perfect filming. Perfect narrative. You deserve the very best.
👏 👏
I usually don't like time-travel related stories, but this one is really good.
the best independent film ever reposted by dust.
Is Dust all reposts, then?
only found the dust short sci fi movies last night...… absolutely wonderful
If his battery was dead , his vehical wouldn't turn over. Over all way good!
And sound designing it to be so wont take much effort. Disconnecting battery to record key turning sound and slow down engine turning sound for low battery effect, if you cant find low voltage battery to record it properly.
@@Hellsong89 - I'm sure there is some stock recordings of dead battery vehicles out there. Not sure why they didn't use it.
@@Hellsong89 I get the feeling it wasn't supposed to be a dead battery, but something else that's easily fixed. Shane didn't want his brother driving that car because he dies for some reason. Maybe Shane disconnected a fuel line before going into the diner, and didn't want Matt looking under the hood.
Bingo, @@kirbs0001 ... if he'd said, "it won't start," Matt might've kept trying.
@@kirbs0001
Fair enough... Except that anyone who's had to deal with cheap used cars and many car problems gets distracted by the contradiction. Would have been better to say 'It won't start. Just keeps turning over. That's why I rented...'
Otherwise, excellent clip!
One more comment saying "What a great short!" probably won't make any kind of impression, but this was such a great short film that I HAD to say something!
Frikkin brilliant! A masterpiece - technically, artistically and conceptually. Thank you.
If I was stuck and couldn't find a way a person I loved to save I will make sure they go out with a blast so everyone admires them.
Excellent time loop short film Travis B. i would love to see this as a mini series or a extended film . Props.
Mini series would be a great idea. But I can only imagine it would be the same ending every time till the end episode, unless it's a story about how you can't change fate
wow. what was packed hier in not even 15 minutes is jaw dropping. this feeling at the end is something i didnt get from any big movie in years. great cinematagrophy, great acting, great writing. the two leads had great chemistry. i hope you dust guys someday take over hollywood
Working on it :)
Why are people dwelling on the damn battery? It's not that serious. Amazing short film to say the least.
This is my favorite dust short film yet
Really, really good work here. So much packed into 15 minutes. OK, 14:55.
These short films are extremely good! Waw! I'm hooked! The acting is superb, the settings are perfect, the dialogue. It's all awesome! WOW! Thank you for these gems of pure art!
You should do a sequel where he can't decide how many last breakfasts to have with his brother before he terminates the time loop and continues with his life
That would be really good actually!! Like, it starts off on day "871" and its "killing" him having to watch his brother die every day, but he just can't let go.
In the end, he learned what's truly valuable. What a blessing!
This is sci fic but it is emotional as well, it is something human which touches heart and makes you crying. Nobody can't change the destiny. But a brother for love tries again and again
I've watched a zillion of these DUST shorts but I thought this one was particularly good.
Great movie! (minor hitch: 2:55 if a car's battery is dead, the engine wouldn't turn)
LoL, you beat me to it... interior light came on and that engine spun very quickly, there was plenty of juice left in that battery...
I don't think it was meant to be a dead battery. I think Shane didn't want matt driving that car, because he either dies or hears about the fire in it. I get the feeling Shane did something simple like disconnect a fuel line, and didn't want Matt looking under the hood
@@kirbs0001 >> Yeah... except for he actually said, "Your battery's dead..."
@@juangama1850 I believe he said that to stop Matt from looking in the engine bay. Matt clearly doesn't know what a dead battery sounds like, and probably doesn't know how to fix it.
Saying something like "I pulled a fuel line off your car" would be too suspicious.
@@kirbs0001>> I think your battery's dead...
This should be the most subscribed channel on UA-cam.
Wow, this reminded me of "Time Machine" everytime he went back to save his fiance, she died.
Or Edge of Tomorrow.
@Mohsen Raghian indeed! i read the book!
Classics are eternal
Ahhh, I managed to break out of my time loop for 15 minutes. Thank you Dust!
I think it was Matt's birthday as well as he says "I am 28" but Shane doesn't remember it. I like to think that Shane ultimately remembered his birthday and they did some liitle celebrations before Matt dies
Interesting head cannon, but this was right after the line "You don't know how old your brother is." To me he's just answering the unasked question. Definitely could be though, no doubt.
Battery wasn't dead. That being said. Love it.
This gives me Arrival vides.
*I love it.*
Simple concept but magnificent in every way. Pacing, acting, writing, filming. Amazing.
At the top of my list. Not a wasted second! So well done.
Amazing short in every aspect made me drop a few tears...
Wow! Stunningly well done.
Id like to think when he actually took that chance to spend time with his brother, that was the real exit strategy and his brother lived.
This week, I've watched a few of these short films. Dozens. This is better than many full length feature films I've seen. Fantastic storytelling.
same here .... I'm hooked.
@@warrenford2597 Totally....
I Concur
That Denim and red shirt he's wearing is Dynamite
Great film!
Excelente corto, y como dice el dicho: cuando te toca morir ni aunque te quites, cuando no te toca morir ni aunque te pongas. La muerte es hací, es lo único que no podemos controlar.
Great short film! And good production value!
Wow, this film is so good on so many levels. There are lessons on lessons here, but I think the big one is never take a moment for granted...
Wow. A sc-fi film with no CG, just great writing & acting. Travis should do more.
FINALLY a DUST short that isn't creepy