BATTERY LIFE | Omeleto Sci-Fi
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- A young woman is addicted to her phone.
BATTERY LIFE is used with permission from Hugo Keijzer. Learn more at hugokeijzer.com.
A young woman is going about her life in South Korea, walking in the streets on her way somewhere, when she discovered a catastrophe about to happen: her phone is about to run out of battery power, and she's in the middle of a phone chat party.
Desperate to maintain her lifeline to her digital life -- which has become entangled with her own survival as a human being -- she roams the city, trying to find some kind of recharging station or area to charge her phone. But her small tasks turn into a strange journey into ultra-modernity, revealing just how tethered she is to her connection to it.
Writer-director Hugo Keijzer's sci-fi short has themes of technology, digital life and mobile devices at its core, but it also has a tongue-in-cheek sense of satire as well as a sharp eye for the dazzling yet melancholic surfaces of modern life, filled as they are with digital images and the constant flow of information.
Visually, the film is a marvel, with kinetic, powerful camerawork that feels as fluid and fast-moving as electricity, and a sense of color and light that gleams with the seductive coolness of the ultra-contemporary. The main character's world is saturated with screens and moving images, full of information and movement. She's often shot in wider shots from below, emphasizing her smallness as a human being within this digital cityscape.
As a piece of storytelling, the narrative is simple, but the film's command of craft nimbly elevates the main character's search for a charger into the realm of the action-thriller, adding a pulse of excitement as well as a level of the absurd, even satirical. The editing and pacing all build up to a crescendo of energy and suspense that wouldn't be out of place in a blockbuster action film -- but it's all over a phone with a dying battery.
The elements all combine in BATTERY LIFE with a propulsive power, pulling viewers into the experience with the energy of a lightning bolt -- but the bravura editing, pacing and camerawork are all over a phone with a dying battery, a fact that is both wryly hilarious and slyly ridiculous. Our heroine reaches the end of her quest on an almost operatic note, which also straddles the line between funny and absurd. But though it feels outlandishly emotional, it's also prescient, considering just how attached we are to our devices and to constant digital stimulation -- not to mention pretty relatable, if we're being honest with ourselves.
Thumbs up if you're watching this on your phone lol
😂😂😂
I’m on my iPad
I finally realized it.People are the prisoners of their phones, that's why they are called"cell"phones.
good one 💪
Whoaaaa
@@iluvkpoplol3059 it's called a joke
@@iluvkpoplol3059 yes, CELL phone, it's a joke
@@iluvkpoplol3059 it is very funny play on words
Checking the battery level on my phone now. 82% Phew! Safe.
Hahaha 😂😂😂
A Dexter fan??
Dexxter I’m at 16% 😬😬😬
24%
My phone is right now also at 82%
Surprised she doesn't have a half dozen of power banks for backup?
Yeah
She used them all
That would of never happened in the first place if she stuck with an Android instead. Lol
Props to that random good guy for saving her life.
Looks like he knew exactly what to do in the situation....He's dealt with people like her before. It
looked dramatic, but it wasn't. Just drag her to the charger, and she'll be fine :)))
The twist is there is no connection whatsoever. It's just a panic attack. The guy who saved her has seen it time and again. He knows exactly what to do. So she's not the only one. Sad.
i'd die bc i'm too damn lazy to charge my phone before it dies
People Nowadays are prisoners by their phone 📱
Great social commentary. My sixteen year old acts just as dramatic when I have grounded her from her "beloved right hand."
He???, sucky shiz if she drops the phone and the battery pops out
Buying an iPhone under such circumstances is a very bad idea. I would go for the energizer phone under such situations 😁
Lmaoo but it was never existed in the first place
step 1 : get a samsung
The funniest part is that half the video is just of her dying
Overly dramatized video of a panic attack experienced by people who suffer anxiety when losing cell phone power or connections. The panic does happen but never so hard as to be crippling or deathly. This video also speaks on how we've become in part a weak people reliant on technology, even for emotional support like real people would serve or even as pets or even stuffed animals would serve. This is a sad and unfortunate commentary as to where we're headed in terms of being made into weaker people to our greater progress in life. What to do, what to do???
Exactly.
@@diannh2894 We just have to see after ourselves as best we can. Big companies want us to buy into their money making deals and technology. I need my cell phone and computer but not every single minute I live. ...My best to you. You're somebody who will be OK.
@@curtischildress9580 same to you!
Oh no guys I only have 2% left
Why the dislikes
I love the feelin of plugging in my phone at the last percent and I survive watch it creep back up little by little.
Nice
Someone didn't know about airplane mode...
Her: na just wait
People: run home to get your battery
Dónde puedo buscar la película completa
This is how Apple gets us with that damned proprietary Lightning connector... the aftermarket adapter sales are gonna spike...
Now that was kool
Ironically my phone is currently at 1% while watc...
Lol. Mine is 3%... But im charging🤣🤣🤣
A-A Ron Snow come now, this is no place to die.
wait so it saying if your phone is charged you could live forever :l
She definitely should carry a portable charger 🔌 next time 🧐🤝😇🦾🦾✨👸🏻🙏🏽⚡️
Her: nah I'll just wait
People on the other side:
Sorry just accidentally click Summit
I'm at 63%. What about you?
The tragedy.Separate from your phone once in a while.
I never let my phone drop below 50%.
Props for girl acting like it got attacked by anxienty
95 I’ll be ok
This is true...
Others : Phone
Me : *Smartphone* 😎
But the more smart a phone is, the more the owner will be dumber 🙃
Steeve Job's wet dream