SHOEBOX | Omeleto
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- Опубліковано 18 лис 2019
- A young girl tries to find a role in her big family.
SHOEBOX is used with permission from Michael Killen. Learn more at animalmediagroup.com.
Five-year-old Beth is the youngest child of a large family, growing up on a family farm in 1980s Pennsylvania. Life on the farm is beautiful in many ways, with a sense of natural beauty and the space to explore.
But the farm can also be a harsh place, where animals that didn't serve their purpose did not survive. Little Beth struggles feeling like a small part of a large family with no role to play. So when she comes across four duck eggs, she designates their caretaker, and shepherds them to hatching into little ducklings.
But despite her efforts, the ducks can't quite escape the farm's unsentimental ethos, and Beth soon understands the full import and weight of her self-appointed role.
Writer/director Michael Killen -- along with co-writer Elisabeth Voltz, who adapted the script from her own book SHOEBOX FUNERAL -- unfurls its drama beautifully through gently poetic images and sensitively observed performances, creating a moving, meditative tale of innocence, wisdom and identity that is both simple and profound in feeling and execution.
The story is guided by a voiceover of an older Beth reflecting on this period in her childhood, as she tries to find her place in a large family, often lagging behind with no one seeming to wonder about her. Though there's clearly love and care in the group, she still often falls to the margins of such a large, busy family and can't help but draw parallels between herself and the small, weaker animals on the farm, and there's an ache and maturity in the voice and writing that sits in the liminal space between nostalgia and reflection.
The visuals, though, transmit young Beth's present-tense impressions, studying the world around her with wonderment and curiosity. Beautiful details of nature, a worn-in home and many, many animals fill the frame with loveliness and warmth, but the muted tones and colors keep the story from being too sentimental, adding instead an undertow of melancholy that suits this tale of deepening attunement with the realities of life. There's an omnipresence of low-level noise in the sound design as well, giving the sense of the contours of Beth's small yet rich world.
The spine of the film is young performer Maybrie Grace, who less plays a role than occupies a poetic space in the film's narrative with authenticity and vibrancy. She's wonderfully alive on screen, alert and responsive to the small details of the world around her. Her delight in discovering the eggs she later presides over is palpable, as is her devotion and attachment when the eggs become ducklings. She takes her role as carer for the weak and abandoned seriously, giving herself a purpose. But it also sets her up for heartbreak, when the inevitable happens and the fierce logic of nature takes its course.
SHOEBOX is a small, delicate marvel of a short, a film about childhood that evokes not just the pastoral innocence of Beth's life but her own sense of self. Gentle, straightforward and humble in tone and execution, its seeming modesty belies an immense richness of feeling and depth as it traces one girl's beginning in the search for wisdom and meaning. With heart-rending clarity, it takes on no less than the confrontation of the realities of life and death -- and takes your breath away with its generous heart and grace. - Фільми й анімація
My heart almost stopped when she was placing the ducks with the kittens.
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The way children handle animals gives me anxiety
I know! I saw a little boy tail a snake! He also held rats by their tails and rabbits by ears! I hated him!
And so is the girl so leave her too
My friend’s youngest sister killed 3 of my baby chickens
Kids don't really know any better but that's why we teach em on how to be better
Ola May YT your supposed to hold rabbits by their ears but gently and while supporting their butt
Her: "You better keep that eggs warm"
Chicken: _"Is that a threat?"_
You can't just make any chicken sit on eggs. the chicken has to be already 'broody' and sitting on her own eggs or an empty nest. Whoever wrote this has no idea about chickens
stitches it’s just a joke but thanks for the facts
iS iT a PeRsOnAl AtTaCk Or SoMeThInG?
Hahaha
am i a duck to you?
Ducky Drowns > Revives Ducky then puts it back in water.
Cynane Thats what I was thinking
Logic 100
Cynane peppa pig
@@plumsauce1080 damn
I am 666 like
That simple innocent, "'bye Jack" just blew me away.
Lol I'm surprised at the lack of empathy the siblings have... like does no one notice when their kin is missing???!!!!
I noticed that! The boys all dressed in their Sunday best, the girls wearing old clothes plaid shirts and hand me downs. Mother looked like a man when I 1st saw her.10 kids, never mention of a Dad... Humm. The guys should work on the farm not babies anymore :-)
As the youngest of 10 myself, it's so easy to be oblivious of someones presence or absence, especially if they're a quiet one.
@@StinkyInky619 Ohhhhh I didn't know that but personality doesn't matter... like what if all of you were quite... The eldest is responsible for all but the adults have to be the most responsible actually.
It because in this video such a moment is highlighted but in reality with so many siblings. It is quite common. We cannot be in each others faces all the time. I was the quiet one.
@@ellamone9998
The reason people have that many children is the exact reason of having more helping hands for the farm.
This child is a wonderful actor. Her skills will further blossom with age.
Her acting was extremely natural. Kudos!
This was me as a kiddo. Still like this, really. I've always preferred the company of animals to people.
Same. I say this all the time
Sadly, I agree.
The only thing being bullied as a kid ever gave me I like
Same. I love animals, family and friends
No one cares
The little girl only saw through purity of the heart and got her's broken.
Ok omeleto where u find all these child actors they’re all so talented
Edit: tysm for all the likes also sorry about my grammar 💗
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SHES SOO STINKING CUTEEEE
I miss my sister being that age, watching this.
🤸♀️OMFG, She looks EXACTLY like me as a wee one (only difference is I was mad tiny & really petite - the runt!) But Duude, the freckles, her smile, the eyes, the strawberry blonde hair, and especially her love for all of the animals - it really was like seeing myself in an old video or something. Insane!!!
@@amiiketen will Our baby come out with orange/Red hair if we were to have a baby because I am Asian lol
Sho Lom, maybe a *Red Hen* is the best I can think of LMAO
Tita
The way she did mouth to mouth on a duck and it came back to life is so fricking cute edit thanks for 200 likes!!
uw PU
What does that mean???????
Ben Dodson she did WHAT?!
Wow😖
@@helloiamm.9855 mouth to mouth
This one made me tear up real badly. The little girl is absolutely amazing and precious. She conveys a lot without saying much.
The best things on youtube are these shortfilms 🖒
I really hope this COPPA thing going on, doesn't affect Omeleto :(
@@scribbleartie me too
Agreed
i started crying when jack stopped breathing and she gave him mouth to mouth and he started quaking again
I cried too .that short film was adorable !!! 😭😭😿😿😢😢
Ara bellA your name is Ara? 😳
Ara bella Thats my name toooo
How many of you buried dead animals and put crosses in childhood?
5 so far :(
Countless
never had an animal in the house so none
TREASA JANETTE i still do-
I have not but im happy i did not have to go through something like this
This was very touching to me; a sort of parallel to my own daughter who also has red hair except hers naturally coiled up into 'springs' and bounced when she ran.... My wife and I grew up in the country but moved to the city for work and that's where my daughter was born, but she certainly has the 'country' spirit. She has a love of all creatures great and small and somehow stray and abandoned animals seemed to find their way to our home where my daughter would instantly bond with them.
She would care for them often with great success but also learned that it was not possible to save them all, as such we had a 'pet cemetery' of sorts in our backyard. She was known in our neighborhood as someone who cared for animals.
One day we came home from grocery shopping to find a large paper bag sitting at our front door, it had six baby ducklings in it. We never found out who left them or where they were born, but I guess who ever left them figured they had the best chance at survival at our house. As reluctant as I was to keep them I was quickly out voted and they became part of our menagerie. Somehow they imprinted on my daughter and followed her literally EVERYWHERE she went, it was hilarious watching those ducks running behind her quacking frantically.
I bought a small wading pool for them to swim in as we had no pond, my daughter was sitting in the backyard watching the ducks swim when one of her friends called her from across the street. Without thinking she jumped up and ran across the street and as you might guess the ducks ran after her when a careless driver came around the corner and nearly wiped out the whole bunch of them, daughter and ducks included. It became obvious that the ducks could not live in our yard forever. There was a large pond in one of our city parks that had a population of ducks living there and although they were not accepting any new 'residents' I managed to bribe the caretaker with a case of his favorite beer to turn a blind eye; by then the ducks were fully grown and early one Sunday morning under cover of darkness with no one else around the ducks were relocated.
My daughter was sad to leave them but she knew they were truly in a better place. We would visit them often and bring large bags of popcorn to feed them all like many people did, and as time passed the ducks were seen with little ducklings of their own so I guess it really was a better place for them...….
Great story and wonderful child
@Vie Anggara… Thank you. Yes she is the apple of my eye, my only child. She's all grown up now married with children of her own; and she is still looking out for sick or injured animals. In fact I have a three legged cat living with me at my house now thanks to her, the cat lives with me because she has a dog that hates cats, but that's a whole other story. My granddaughters come to my house to visit 'their' cat every Sunday so it works out well for every one......
That was such a sweet little story to read, thank you for sharing your memory with us!
@Schroppcom.... Thank you... The video hit home in a way I never expected....
What a lovely story, I am a mom and I learnt something from you today.. To be sensitive to our childrens desires and support them, not push our own thoughts on them. Thank you!
I’m sorry but I honestly thought the cats would eat the ducklings 😂
They're just kittens
Sameeee
I did to
banana ;D sameee
I have chickens and a dog... they play with each other it's cute! Raise them when they are young
Even the weakest of a species can be very strong. Very cute kid
As a animal lover,I felt it for her loss of Jack💔
The cat at the end was beautiful
I expected her to say the weak must learn to take care of themselves because they might not want to be helped, therefore she'd learn to help herself.
She wasn't a pragmatist. She was quite transparent. 😇
but what's wrong with helping the weak, still a good moral lesson regardless.
@@somkeshav4143 I don't think there's anything wrong with helping the weak
Altough I don't like the term 'weak people' as though you can clearly identify who fall under the strong and who fall under 'the weak'
@@BrianDagame oh okay. I also agree that strong and weak are ambiguous terms. But at least, it's not like many people support a Darwinian view of people as we live in a civilized world.
the music is so hauntingly beautiful
My heart 💔❣ She picked up the little lost kitty without hesitation!
Why does Jack always have to die ??!!😂😭
(Mind the Titanic reference🚢)
R.I.P little Jack🙏
@@Ethan-lm1nm F
also This is Us...
Stop you're scaring me because Xiaojun once referred to himself as Jack of the titanic.
Jack- A star is born
Jack- This is us
I sort of expected her to put a lot of work into raising Jack then one day when he was grown up her family would eat Jack. Didn't know this was taking a Titanic route
"I sort of expected her to put a lot of work into raising Jack then one day when he was grown up her family would eat Jack." Me too
She is soooo talented. It’s insane how this little girl exudes so much emotion
I literally almost cried when the cat was following her. IDK WHY! I'M JUST WEAK
Edit: Yes I liked my own comment.
No, I'm not ashamed
IS NO ONE GONNA TALK ABOUT HOW FRICKIN CUTE THIS LITTLE GIRL IS OMG
This actually made me 😭 cry
Two years ago my four year old brother named Jack died. Wachting this Made me cry, because I miss him. But it’s alright.
The girl character in this movie is 4 yr old, what a coincidence
It's incredible how they can make such emotional films in such a short time! Only 12 minutes!?!?
That cat at the end is jack ! He came back.. 😅😂
"YOU BETTER KEEEP THOSE EGGS WARM"!!!!
I think trhe duck came back as a cat
this is by far probably one of the most personal hitting short films i’ve ever seen in my life. when i was a child i was exactly like this girl, but imagine this girl with this heart in a broken home, that was me. i was abused, and i knew how it felt to be constantly deemed as worthless, to feel worthless, so whenever i saw smth as small as a lady bug flipped over on the grass or an animal in pain, my empathy extended, i KNEW how that felt, so i wanted to help! and so helping people has been my passion, i’ve been selfless my entire life so far, i’ve always loved everyone and everything deeply, tenderly, gently, while being utterly broken myself. im 18 now, and i’ve learned the heart doesnt change. last year i got into a relationship with someone i loved more than life, and it reminds me a lot of jack. i cared for this human so much, never ever wanted to hurt them, but i wasn’t okay, i saw them as my everyrhing! there happiness was key. when they told me they felt sad or were struggling with eating and depression and i couldn’t take away their pain i would sob in private, scream cry and yank my hair, i just wanted them to be happy, to take away all of their pain, to heal. we loved each other a lot but i was struggling terribly at the time, i didn’t open up to them about my insecurities or fears or trauma bc i feared i would push them away, but i did open up to them about the active mental illness symptoms i had such as panic attacks which happened daily and they would often help me calm down. i learned recently that they felt overwhelmed by my pain and apparently i was in some ways making them worse but they didn’t tell me, i did not know. any ways, one day i ended things with them bc of this fear i developed from my childhood that loving people makes them leave, i ended things bc i loved and cared so deeply but feared one day i’d lose them, and after i ended things they ghosted me, i felt devastated.
i then went to therapy nd learned a lot about myself, that i’m actually a good person, a great person, a human with a heart so big that has been conditioned to believe other wise. i learned a lot about my irrational fears ans that i had gone through trauma, and i wanted to open up then and share with my love what i’d learn, confide, be transparent from my heart and possibly if anything save my relationship, but i was rejected upon every try of communicating, and out of fear of pushing them away more i didn’t speak.
a year has passed and i still think of this perosn everyday, i still desire so badly to speak to them and share with them my side and what i have learned. one day they unblocked me and told me that they loved me sm but were focussing a lot on my problems (i had panic attacks often and didn’t eat and would often feel very sad which was out of my control) ans it made them worse, i didn’t know this. they hadn’t told me before. i wanted to then share with them my side, my trauma and how little i knew, how much i struggled and how much i cared for this person, but upon learning i made them feel that way all i could do was offer deep compassionate apologies and fill with self hate, shame that they ever met me in the first place. and so it is, that i struggle with this same struggle of this little girl, having the purest intentions and purest heart, but sometimes making a mistake, or having someone else interpret your intentions as bad and suddenly it changes how we see ourselves, see ourselves as bad. she didn’t mean for jack to get sick, she wanted to give him the best experience of swimming, i didnt know i was overwhelming my jack, i just gave the person all of me and loved so hard while being broken, and a lot of my intentions were misinterpreted , and while i should remain confident in the goodness of me, i feel in a constant state of the opposite. still haven’t moved on. i am still hoping and praying that someday very soon a miracle will happen and i will be able to speak to them and tell them my side and truth, bc it has been heavy on my heart and very painful. this person has apparently called me toxic and made many mean comments without ever understanding or trying to understand my side, without asking a question, and out of my humble as and bc i always se thingd through the purity of my heart i haven’t said anything, i haven’t even talked about them and the relationship ending to anyone but God and a bit to one friend. and it makes me feel very overwhelmed and troubled :( but i’m hoping and having faith. if u read this thank u :-), it must feel very hard for u to understand completely and weird, or like a form of over sharing that does not correlate to the film as i left out a lot but i mostly wrote this for myself, i have never seen a more accurate representation of childhood-18 year old me jow without the trauma and it means a lot, explains a lot, validates a lot. the painful reality of caring and loving and empathizIng so much. but if u understand, hello :), thank u, and i’m sorry if this made anyone that understands sad!
This seems like such a genuine family - all the actors are so authentic. Also, "Got you, mister!!" cracked me up.
I fuel my depressing state by watching stuff like this on repeat
Ray I think you’re pretty great.
I was the youngest in my family too. It's a very special place.
Yes, my youngest sister was a deity unto herself. Much adored.
This was so heartwarming. Tears
A little empath 😊 reminds me of me, when I was that age..wanted to save and rescue every living being ..took it so close to the heart when things, beings died...Still do.. I love this 💙
Wow that is exactly how I feel about my place in the world- rescuing and adopting the weakest animals even if it means I face more grief in the long run
who els thinks that when the duck stops brething and the girl starts doing brething CPR is so cute.
this was so cute
Ooo that “bye jack” hit me good. 😕😢
My heart broke when the limping cat appeared at the end 💔
This is the best one I've seen. I almost cried
Whenever I need a good cry I come to this Chanel 😂
Those adorable little freckles!
I cried my eyes out as I love animals and the story-telling was heart-wrenching another amazing short film!
Who else is up 2am Watching Omeleto films? Only me? Okay
1 CrimeDrama_Girl I’m up at 5 am rn
2:26 a.m.
I love everything about this film...script, music, videography, direction. Brilliant!
I cried in the middle of class my teacher was weird about it
Why?🤨
This hit home 😔
This makes me really sad for the duckling Jack and it makes me want to cry
I'm the 8th child out of 11 and I absolutely love animals and I whould help them whenever they need help
Aww.. I really enjoyed this...she's brave gentle with care
I know how it feels to be an animal lover. Animals are better human than us and they can magically vanish all the pain burried in us
Is true
I wouldn't say animals are better than us
@@TIM123451ERR no problem
Everybody has their own perspectives
Why did i ever stop watching this channel?
I’m still crying from when one of the ducks died
Made me cry! I get emotional when I watch animal movies.
I'm glad in the end she said that she would never let that happen again because as a cat lover when I saw her pick up the cat, I thought "oh no!" But that cat had nothing wrong with it and was quite healthy. It just wanted a home.❤
Omg! The little girl is so adorable! Like, her strawberry red hair is so cute, and her frees are adorable, AND HER STYLE!? What the heck, it’s better than mine!
ME: dont cry dont cry dont cry
ME: breaths in
*crys like a water fall coming out of me*
ME: waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Very beautiful and sad at the same time! I too love animals very much and look after them and protect them in any way I can. I love them more than humans.
I've realized these films are
STARTING POINTS..thank you.
I pet sit and I remember the first time an animal died under my care. It was my bro-in-law's lifelong best friend, a 19 year old Calico named Baby Kitty. She was already very sick and she died in my arms. 2 years later my own lifelong best friend, a nearly 13 year old Nova Scotia/Beagle mix named Sophie died in my arms a month after I turned 18. This August it will have been 2 years since she drew her last breath and I still cry every single day.
I loved this. Her gentle soul learning about life.
The song at 7:07 -Alice bowman-waiting
For anyone wondering
Hey do you which one the song at the end is?
ALIF DINAR F Reincarnation- Susanne sundfor
Honestly the story line was amazing, I’m crying
10:35-11:00 made me cry a lot because it reminds me of my cat who is lost
how did Jack start breathing again with the way she was holing him?!
Melanie Jaramillo she just revived him for a little while. It died cause the mouth to mouth didn’t get water out, it just brought the duck back
@@chasington5102 yeah I get that but look at how the neck is being held the air shouldn't have been received
Melanie Jaramillo I see what you mean, I think it might just be a gentle hold. If not your totally right
exactly my point lmao
That was sweet when she gave the baby duck mouth to mouth. Lovely short ❤.
this made me cry..
Animals are special .God created animals for a reason. We should respect anmals , be kind to them, loving caring and forgiving to them.
And we should eat some of them. Because some of them are quite tasty.
Pues muy poca gente les cuida , generalmente les maltratan .
In my opinion this pretty girl is a shining star!!!
I was trying to YOLD my tears for the duck and then when I see jack alive I was so happy!
She has more sense than 29 years old me.
I still don’t know my purpose in life.
I wish I would live like that. Having a farm, running free all the time with your siblings and taking care of beautiful animals. 😔❤
Really feel this channel needs more views
You better keep those eggs warm.
MAKE THIS A FULL LENGTH MOVIE I CANT GET ENOUGH
Such a beautiful, wholesome, simple film. Really enjoyed
This made me cry so much
Fantastic. Had the same experiences in my solitary childhood 🐈🐣🌱
The best story I’ve ever watched.
I'm into three minutes in the film and the actress who's playing the little girl character is so brave y'all !!
this made me cry 😭
My anxiety skyrocketed when she put the ducks with the cats!
Kittens and chicks. They're still young after all so I doubt anything would've happened
that part when the chick died im like ohh noooo :(
This is a special movie-short. Thank you for sharing.
I didn’t realize someone made a short movie about my life!! She’ll save many, many animals and humans throughout her journey!! 🥰❤️
9:10 my rosters hopper had a bad foot, his toes wouldn't uncurl. He lived to be fully grown and only died when a desperate raccoon came out during the day and attacked him. He was the sweetest bird ive ever met, always coming to greet us and you could hold and cuddle him as long as you did it properly.
I love her personality no matter what in the world was wrong with the animal she would love it no matter what♥️♥️
3:32 YOU BETTER KEEP THOSE EGGS WARM...
I feel bad for laughing when the rooster slaps her face with its wings
Such a beautiful yet sad story.
The child carried the ducks so VIOLENTLY,
i understand her so well. i am the youngest and only daughter after 4 sons. this really hit me in the chest
Omg! I live on a farm and I see myself as this little girl, this is my role too
She's so adorable!