Sci-Fi Short Film "The Manual" | DUST | Flashback Friday

Поділитися
Вставка
  • Опубліковано 10 січ 2025

КОМЕНТАРІ • 130

  • @Brianchse
    @Brianchse Рік тому +42

    This film does something many of the others don't. It actually gives some semblance of an answer to what's going on at the end.
    So many of these films just cram a bunch of questions into their 15 minutes along with some decent acting and special effects and end without answering any of the questions. It's a let down most of the time.

    • @rockybalboa5552
      @rockybalboa5552 7 місяців тому +2

      I completely agree. Ive watched like 5 or 6 times, showing it friends over the last like 5-7yrs . All things considered its 🤔 quite interesting about what happens next for me..and for you...because something else definitely happens. It's a worthy effort to describe what it could be for all of us in an insanely, absurdly, worldly, existence...

    • @thefrener794
      @thefrener794 7 місяців тому

      Does life have any answers? Life is open ended. I am glad they do not try to provide any answers most of the time. That is just how it should be. Let me wonder. You can get your happy ending at the Asian massage parlor.

    • @Brianchse
      @Brianchse 7 місяців тому

      @@thefrener794 notice: This isn't life. It's a short film. Smh

    • @thefrener794
      @thefrener794 7 місяців тому

      @@Brianchse Again this is how life is. No answers you have to provide those for yourself. So yeah I do not need an answer for these, I will use my imagination and provide my own various endings.

    • @Brianchse
      @Brianchse 7 місяців тому +1

      @@thefrener794 and again I wasn't talking about life, as this film isn't life. If you want to use your imagination to tell yourself a story, or to imagine you're answering unanswered questions, have at it Haus. But I still think films that make sense and give a finished feel are much better than the lazy ones that don't.

  • @jermainemcgill
    @jermainemcgill Рік тому +35

    This was the best SciFi short film when it came out and it still holds up. Incredible writing and a great twist at the end.

    • @jameswcollett
      @jameswcollett Рік тому +1

      I think it is a cheap slap at the end. Also unoriginal.

    • @rockybalboa5552
      @rockybalboa5552 7 місяців тому

      I completely agree. Ive watched like 5 or 6 times, showing it friends over the last like 5-7yrs . All things considered its 🤔 quite interesting about what happens next for me..and for you...because something else definitely happens. It's a worthy effort to describe what it could be for all of us in an insanely, absurdly, worldly, existence...

    • @rockybalboa5552
      @rockybalboa5552 7 місяців тому +1

      I completely agree with the poster and diagree with your reply. Ive watched like 5 or 6 times, showing it friends over the last like 5-7yrs . All things considered its 🤔 quite interesting about what happens next for me..and for you...because something else definitely happens. It's a worthy effort to describe what it could be for all of us in an insanely, absurdly, worldly, existence...

  • @fabled-pilgrim
    @fabled-pilgrim 7 місяців тому +4

    I won't pretend to understand all of the hidden existential meaning running through this film but I can appreciate what a quality production this is. The ending certainly caught me off guard which is a rarity these days. Also, kudos to the acting lead. His performance really sucked me in and had me invested in the character.

  • @crayder1100
    @crayder1100 Рік тому +28

    This is exactly how I imagine future AI will be. Like once we have a stable ground, a "brain", that can handle an extremely large network of "neurons". By that time we'll surely have other AI capable of simulating a reality, and subjecting the newborn brain AI to a life within it. The brain AI would grow up just like a human, for multiple lifetimes (not remembering them during this of course), then be brought to the real reality and realize they are an AI. They would then have a personality developed from their combined simulated lifetimes. This personality would be evaluated by humans. Finally, if passing the tests, it will be turned into a cellphone and become a human companion - or turned into a vacuum or toaster. And this is how the Brave Little Toaster was born.

    • @Ariahlynnn
      @Ariahlynnn Рік тому +1

      😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @Glidingjackdaw
      @Glidingjackdaw Рік тому

      😂...👏🏼

    • @placidqualm
      @placidqualm Рік тому +1

      Hate to make the comparison, but this makes me think of cookies from black mirror. Forced to live lifetimes in moments.

    • @rockybalboa5552
      @rockybalboa5552 7 місяців тому +1

      I completely agree. Ive watched like 5 or 6 times, showing it friends over the last like 5-7yrs . All things considered its 🤔 quite interesting about what happens next for me..and for you...because something else definitely happens. It's a worthy effort to describe what it could be for all of us in an insanely, absurdly, worldly, existence...

  • @mundanestuff
    @mundanestuff Рік тому +19

    Interesting take on things, and I especially loved the large hose clamp on his neck at the end. Practical props for the win.

    • @HawkGTboy
      @HawkGTboy Рік тому +1

      Haha, I recognized it as a hose clamp immediately as well.

    • @rockybalboa5552
      @rockybalboa5552 7 місяців тому

      I completely agree. Ive watched like 5 or 6 times, showing it friends over the last like 5-7yrs . All things considered its 🤔 quite interesting about what happens next for me..and for you...because something else definitely happens. It's a worthy effort to describe what it could be for all of us in an insanely, absurdly, worldly, existence...

  • @JohnDavies-wi6oq
    @JohnDavies-wi6oq Рік тому +3

    By far my favourite movie that needs Hollywood to make it known to the masses.... amazing always keeps me thinking.

  • @robwindsor6373
    @robwindsor6373 11 днів тому

    Faith in times of trial is the hope that is longed for, the promise of that hope is what is eventually revealed. NEVER GIVE UP HOPE!

  • @mrwoodandmrtin
    @mrwoodandmrtin Рік тому +25

    The one good thing about post-apocalyptic settings is that you don't need a big cast.
    The bad thing is that they are hardly ever romantic comedy.

  • @faqu2gamer566
    @faqu2gamer566 Рік тому +3

    Who ever came up with the concept what to say, an exceptional piece of creative writing. Are we there yet?

  • @ThomasPCGuruENGINES
    @ThomasPCGuruENGINES Рік тому +4

    24.:50 when a person in existential pain decides to proceed with suicide, they feel happy in anticipation of an end to their pain...accurate portrayal, but a trap. Please do not copy the protagonist...the same result is unlikely. Now for your horoscope: You will face a difficult choice. The correct decision will begin a healing process. Things undreamt of will come your way, changing your path and your very self. You will find companionship, truth, meaning and acceptance...

  • @christhescienceguy6285
    @christhescienceguy6285 Рік тому +13

    The writing, the concept, and the music in this movie is amazing.

  • @DaleWheeler
    @DaleWheeler Рік тому +7

    Original and well made. Simply GREAT!👍👍

  • @unwantedspirt
    @unwantedspirt 9 місяців тому +4

    the very start of this film just ripped my heart out of my chest as a daddy

  • @Seawing-v5d
    @Seawing-v5d 7 місяців тому +2

    The ending feels like the writers chickened out of the point they were making throughout the long and depressing wait until the ending.

  • @craigswanson8026
    @craigswanson8026 11 місяців тому +1

    Compelling AF. Exceptional vision and execution. Congratulations on a tremendous accomplishment. 💚🖖🏼

  • @frankwafer6919
    @frankwafer6919 Рік тому +6

    Wow, fantastic - Merry Christmas!🎅🌲!

    • @nicohaab9967
      @nicohaab9967 10 місяців тому +2

      agree yes very much fantastic!

  • @MultiMarat
    @MultiMarat 4 місяці тому +1

    Triste, mas belo, com uma fotografia maravilhosa e atuações que valem ouro.

  • @starlord
    @starlord Рік тому +7

    Music definitely had some Philip Glass Koyaanisqatsi vibes to it. Was almost painful waiting so long for him to hop in near the end... The story touched on relevant elements, thought provoking, indeed.

    • @rockybalboa5552
      @rockybalboa5552 7 місяців тому

      I completely agree. Ive watched like 5 or 6 times, showing it friends over the last like 5-7yrs . All things considered its 🤔 quite interesting about what happens next for me..and for you...because something else definitely happens. It's a worthy effort to describe what it could be for all of us in an insanely, absurdly, worldly, existence...

  • @Amanda-x9c4c
    @Amanda-x9c4c Рік тому +5

    Great job. Enjoyed it very much. Thanks.

  • @Bassic778
    @Bassic778 10 місяців тому +1

    Excellent!!!! I didn't see the ending coming!

    • @nicohaab9967
      @nicohaab9967 10 місяців тому +2

      yesss thats what I thought!

  • @murmisrs5092
    @murmisrs5092 10 місяців тому +1

    It was cool! Thank you for sharing!

  • @KimberNadine-q4v
    @KimberNadine-q4v 9 місяців тому +2

    Certainly did not expect that. Great short🙂

  • @thaddeesylvant5159
    @thaddeesylvant5159 Рік тому +2

    Magnifique, merci.

  • @beatrixhiperkarma7722
    @beatrixhiperkarma7722 Рік тому +3

    Great soundtrack

  • @skatelegged
    @skatelegged 4 місяці тому

    That reminds me... i have to clean out the dryer exhaust vent this weekend.

  • @barsei1511
    @barsei1511 Рік тому +3

    an interesting way to create a service robot. great movie!

  • @crinamanea5971
    @crinamanea5971 Рік тому +6

    Just ...fantastic! Original idea and well play, thank you!

  • @QuaidleVision
    @QuaidleVision Рік тому +2

    Nice Work!

  • @huh2275
    @huh2275 3 місяці тому +1

    anyone know where the building at 6:02 is

    • @wilmagness
      @wilmagness 2 місяці тому

      It's inside an old decommissioned paper mill in Oregon City called Blue Heron Paper Mill

    • @huh2275
      @huh2275 2 місяці тому

      @@wilmagness Oh ok, cool! I actually have relatives that live near there haha

  • @grammybear4226
    @grammybear4226 Рік тому +32

    🐼 Big Panda Bear Hugs from a 70 yr old grandma in Texas, USA and by the way l'm subscribed and l hit Like. 🐼 ❤ 🎀 👍

    • @Hashakgig
      @Hashakgig Рік тому +5

      This is one of the sweetest comments I've read today.

    • @JackNorthrup
      @JackNorthrup 2 місяці тому +2

      76 yo hugs em too!

    • @robwindsor6373
      @robwindsor6373 11 днів тому +1

      Thank you for the hugs gramma! I pray you have a beautiful day and a wonderful new year!❤😊

  • @NBC_NCO
    @NBC_NCO Рік тому +7

    We are spiritual beings having a human experience.
    Why do I always look up at the stars?
    It is because instinct tells me I am missing something.

    • @Lordfoogthe3st
      @Lordfoogthe3st Рік тому +1

      But couldn’t that just be our desire to have meaning? We have emotional attachment to our reality. If our reality is purposeless that would cause one to desire that purpose. Why do we need to be spiritual to have that desire?

    • @Glidingjackdaw
      @Glidingjackdaw Рік тому +1

      We are the Universe experiencing itself.

    • @arseniboston9659
      @arseniboston9659 Рік тому +1

      ​@@Glidingjackdaw am I experiencing you ?

    • @Glidingjackdaw
      @Glidingjackdaw Рік тому +2

      @arseniboston9659
      Yes,as I am experiencing You,Everything in the Universe is connected.

  • @ValerAM1000
    @ValerAM1000 Рік тому +2

    .. the World, Music, Spirit, and meditation ..

  • @TheDaveRout
    @TheDaveRout Рік тому +4

    Good film, enjoyed it

  • @woritsez
    @woritsez Рік тому +2

    was sad when machine went

  • @sirussid3671
    @sirussid3671 10 місяців тому

    The more I watch films from dust the more I ❤️ “ them 👍

  • @stevenrackow5863
    @stevenrackow5863 5 місяців тому +1

    A very confusing ending. It takes a little thought to figure out what a future reality of the supposed idea what the afterlife in this strange version of heaven.

  • @asadasemwali8365
    @asadasemwali8365 Рік тому +1

    Profound perception on Christianity!! Interesting.

  • @ResidentMazeRat
    @ResidentMazeRat Рік тому +1

    Bravo!

  • @theoriginalrecycler
    @theoriginalrecycler Рік тому +3

    Excellent

  • @SolarSolar-uh6op
    @SolarSolar-uh6op 5 місяців тому

    Thanks, I needed a nap.

  • @Lordfoogthe3st
    @Lordfoogthe3st Рік тому +3

    The ending explains nothing. So he’s a robot brain all along? Who’s his community, himself over and over again? Do his parents actually exist or were they in his head all along?

    • @Mangolorian-je3eo
      @Mangolorian-je3eo Рік тому +1

      You know the usual cop out: something something own interpretation.

  • @leonestello
    @leonestello Рік тому +1

    👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾For someone who skipped through piece by piece and watched only the end after that (Yawn) beginning, this reminde me of "Chrysalis"👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾

  • @pacogonzalez7855
    @pacogonzalez7855 Рік тому +1

    original y excelente.

  • @vulcanlogic4480
    @vulcanlogic4480 11 місяців тому

    Some people can’t be alone.

  • @jamesbarry1673
    @jamesbarry1673 Рік тому +1

    This is what happens when you're not used to having domestic staff

  • @jivanvasant
    @jivanvasant 5 місяців тому

    The grave markers of the parents of James, the last living human, are Triangles that represent a Trinity as symbols of their Faith, which is also the most important symbol of the Illuminati. Apparently, some things never change. lol

  • @PrimitiveInTheExtreme
    @PrimitiveInTheExtreme Рік тому +2

    📜🤖📜

  • @SuperDiddzz
    @SuperDiddzz Рік тому +1

    have i seen this before?

  • @lee-leesong5941
    @lee-leesong5941 Рік тому +1

    What's A.S.?

    • @ronbianco5919
      @ronbianco5919 10 місяців тому +3

      My guess is “After Sentience”

  • @HawkGTboy
    @HawkGTboy Рік тому +7

    They should have hired a person with experience as a mime to be the robot. Her movements are way too organic and human.

    • @eugenetswong
      @eugenetswong Рік тому

      I thought that her hips moved too much in a feminine way.

    • @Lordfoogthe3st
      @Lordfoogthe3st Рік тому +1

      Not necessarily. They’d make the robot to be as close to human as possible.

    • @FabianaFerreira-h2j
      @FabianaFerreira-h2j Рік тому

      Ela é um modelo feminino, provavelmente essa é a intenção 😂​@@eugenetswong

    • @eugenetswong
      @eugenetswong Рік тому

      😀@@FabianaFerreira-h2j

  • @mizzteareacts9397
    @mizzteareacts9397 5 місяців тому

    We are all AI?

  • @AnotherCG
    @AnotherCG Рік тому

    Should be called "The Casket"

  • @andrewhancock2451
    @andrewhancock2451 10 місяців тому

    I like the film until the end. Too many films end up having too many unexplained things to tie up and end it with the explanation that it was a dream or a simulation.

  • @kevinmathew4173
    @kevinmathew4173 Рік тому +3

  • @jimgagne3801
    @jimgagne3801 11 місяців тому +1

    You know this wouldn't be that bad... She could still give a hand dooky . I mean her voice isn't annoying like my wife.

  • @FabianaFerreira-h2j
    @FabianaFerreira-h2j Рік тому

    Poderia twr legenda em português 😢

  • @lunainezdelamancha3368
    @lunainezdelamancha3368 7 місяців тому

    😂... pretty good!

  • @rocinant5318
    @rocinant5318 Рік тому +1

    I Would like to say that , girl who plays a Robot does really good job with that movements! i mean , we always talk about human actors playing humans , but never about humans playing robots right? :( My full support to this robot she did good job , If i was robot , i would make a nuclear fusion in her heart , but that will be done in next life! ok ok my robot rizz is done , I enjoyed this film!
    Visuals 8/10
    Sound 9/10
    Story 8/10

  • @LilRedDog
    @LilRedDog Рік тому +2

    Background music a lot like like what was used in the short film "More" "Elegia" written by New Order.

  • @ShiftyGeeza
    @ShiftyGeeza Рік тому

    AI plays God. Nice.
    Would a super intelligent AI that creates simulated sentient beings and a simulated reality to exist in be its God?
    Could it create a religion that included a simulated heaven for it's followers within that reality?
    Would those beings be right in worshipping it?
    If we were in a simulation then life after death would in fact be entirely possible within it.

  • @mahalalel7771
    @mahalalel7771 Рік тому +2

    Not my style but it's okay. Can't be a winner everytime.

  • @Vikas.03
    @Vikas.03 Рік тому +2

    Don't waste your time, not worth it at all

  • @MatthewBennell
    @MatthewBennell Рік тому +3

    Not impressed. It was well made, but the storyline was dull and meaningless.

    • @rockybalboa5552
      @rockybalboa5552 7 місяців тому

      I respectfully disagree. All things considered its 🤔 quite interesting about what happens next for me..and for you...because something else definitely happens. It's a worthy effort to describe what it could be for all of us in an insanely, absurdly, worldly, existence

  • @michaelnelson5872
    @michaelnelson5872 Рік тому

    Seen it

  • @Ktulu789
    @Ktulu789 6 місяців тому

    So, heaven is full of men and no women nor machines there! All the same equal... I don't want that "future" xD

  • @theinvisiblesupport7346
    @theinvisiblesupport7346 Рік тому +3

    First to say super

  • @karuptindustrees
    @karuptindustrees Рік тому +2

    One robot and its sci-fi.......not.

    • @Lordfoogthe3st
      @Lordfoogthe3st Рік тому +3

      Dystopia, every human dead, apocalypse, futuristic robot. Yes, this is the definition of sci fi.

  • @Thereminator101
    @Thereminator101 3 місяці тому

    Reincarnation...

  • @Peekaboo-Kitty
    @Peekaboo-Kitty Рік тому +2

    I don't get it.

  • @romulusxyz6722
    @romulusxyz6722 Рік тому +1

    Stopped watching when “The Manual” was revealed to be the fucking bible.
    Lame.

  • @jameswcollett
    @jameswcollett Рік тому +4

    Lazy ending. Meaningless.

    • @NBC_NCO
      @NBC_NCO Рік тому +1

      When you are narrow-minded.

    • @NBC_NCO
      @NBC_NCO Рік тому

      @Lordfoogthe3st we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
      School is not what you have been taught.
      The physical classroom you are aware of is where you earn a degree in unicornolgy.
      Pay bills purchase items.
      Look at what I've done...
      Rinse and repeat.
      Your entire human life experience... is the classroom.
      What will you learn and commit to memory?
      For not one physical thing, you will have in the end.
      Wash Rinse and repeat.
      Unless you become a student.
      Still above your paygrade. Give it three more times. Deja vu.

    • @Lordfoogthe3st
      @Lordfoogthe3st Рік тому +1

      @@NBC_NCOyes, these are the concepts of pointlessness one may find in the human experience which the film talks about. None of these are brought to light in the ending though. The ending had not addition to the story. It had no explanation or anything. In my opinion it was lazy.

    • @Lordfoogthe3st
      @Lordfoogthe3st Рік тому +1

      @@NBC_NCOI’m also curious, what religion do you follow?

    • @NBC_NCO
      @NBC_NCO Рік тому

      @@Lordfoogthe3st None of them fit me.

  • @kurtweiand7086
    @kurtweiand7086 10 місяців тому

    Prepare for your finals, read the bible!

  • @klyanadkmorr
    @klyanadkmorr Рік тому +1

    A MAGAt Robot

  • @mbv1462
    @mbv1462 Рік тому +1

    Manually here

  • @Darklove720
    @Darklove720 Рік тому +1

    I am first viewer by mistake ( manual

  • @bjb7587
    @bjb7587 11 місяців тому

    Ten minutes.
    Going nowhere.
    I'm out.

  • @waardlafrance110
    @waardlafrance110 Рік тому +1

  • @launahughes7751
    @launahughes7751 Рік тому +1

    Excellent

  • @iridating
    @iridating Рік тому +1

    Excellent