Episode 5 | The Watercooler
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2016
- nil
Written & Directed by Adrian Bliss and Will Darbyshire
Produced by Harry Hitchens
Starring: Rosalind Adler, Frank Bourke, Dominic Geraghty, Arden Rose and Lewis Georgeson
Set design and build: Phil Creates Studio
Sound: Tom Bartlett
Hair & Makeup: Silvija Vil
Runners: Ewan McIntosh and Olly Craig
Lighting and Camera Assembly: Ciaran O’Brien
Grade: Greg McCahon
Intro jingle: Tom Rosenthal
With thanks to UA-cam Space London (Kelly, Charlie, Suzanne + team!) - Комедії
and this is why absurdism is brilliant
it makes no sense, but also lots of sense
accurate
how are you this smart its actually bugs me how everything is so thought through and planned so precisely everything just falls in place perfectly. well done boys im impressed very impressed
it was shit
I thought it was incredible, speak for yourself
idk if im over analyzing but i think it's interesting how anything related to hands is in every episode. the first episode, there's the weird close up of bill's hand. second episode, arden's characters hand gets stepped on, close up of that as well and the boss asking if she "needed a hand". third episode, another close up bill's weird hand motions and the boss saying her "hands are tied". fourth ep, of arden's broken hand, and a close up of the boss turning on the stereo. then at the end of the fourth ep we see a quick foreshadowing of what will happen in the fifth ep, and in that shot, there is blood in bills hands. yet, weirdly enough, the last episode, we only see feet. the boss's feet, and bill and johns feet chained to the wall. also, note the to get water from the cooler, you have to use your hands. not quite sure if this means anything, but it's something i noticed. there is a lot of repetition in this series. the hand motif, how the main characters wear the same outfit everyday. maybe this represents how people may not realize it, but their lives turn into a routine, where nothing ever changes. the only way you can change is if you realize this and do something about it. but these characters never get to; they are literally, at the end, chained to the wall. they even try to escape their lives-asking their boss to quit, but she says no. so they kill her, thinking they can escape with her dead. but nope. they are chained to the office. they're forever locked inside their own minds, dreaming of an escape that will never happen.
Megan Bartlett Thank you. Now that you mentioned it, it's impossible for me to believe that the hands dont mean anything in this series. It's details like these that tell us what this series possibly could be about.
Great criticism! I’ve only found this gem from a link on Adrian Bliss’ channel.
@@dantesinferno1258 same haha
@@dantesinferno1258 lol same
@@dantesinferno1258 samee
I have no idea what I just watched for the past 11 minutes and 14 seconds .. but I enjoyed every obscure moment of it! BRAVO!
i love that you took the effort to calculate the time
This is giving me intense don't hug me in scared meets the office vibes
nailed it
This is one of those series of films where you know they're all absolutely ingenious but you don't quite know why. They're brilliant! Everything from the acting to the cinematography is so meticulously carried out.
And I love how there is this one drip of blood on the glasses 👓😂
In the description of each episode, there is a day and time. In the description of this episode, it says 'nil.'
'nil:' n. 1. nothing; naught; zero. adj. 2. having no value or existence. Very Camus/Kierkegaard...
So well-articulated and an outstanding economy of language. Congrats to Will and Adrian.
For those confused, the point of this series is to represent how people cannot escape the monotony of their miserable lives (or that the only thing stopping them is themselves, not their boss).
"employee of month" will forever be stuck in my head.
Are they chained to the perpetual work day, is it a loop, did she really die??! Need...more...episodes.
Also, Arden's acting skillz, yaasss girl!
TWO TALENTED PEOPLE MADE IT SO IM GUESSING IT'S GREAT BUT I COULD ALSO BE GETTING TROLLED
I hate how well this works, I hate this is so good, I hate that this makes sense to me despite the entire series being absurdist art.
Ok cool, this is my favorite kind of vanilla now.
That's why you wanted to know how to make fake blood
This is what I personally got out of this series. The boss reflects society. She's in the top level of hierarchy in the office, because technically we're all UNDER the rules of society. This makes society (rules, crimes, evil) above us. No matter what we do, we can't get rid of it. The steak she ate represents highness. The employees represent servants (US) when they were praising her. We are the servants of society. People are always caught up in evil... When they killed her, it reflects people trying to ESCAPE from the pains of society. Even if people try to, in the end they'll always come back to their same old routine. They were chained, because they realized that it wasn't the boss that was stopping them from leaving... But it was them, themselves.
hmmmm
literally my thoughts haha
never been more confused in my entire life
holy shit im actually really impressed. im now going to contemplate all possible meanings behind this for the rest of my life bye
This reminds me so much of a Wes Anderson film, with it's pleasant pastel setting and extremely dark underlining. I loved it:)
The next 'Don't hug me I'm scared'
Ok I have a theory but I'm not sure if it's true.
I feel like it's linked to social media. I mean at first they're there at the start talking and being boring, just following along( how we follow trends on social media, follow blindly , believe blindly) and the boss lady is like social media. She wins, she controls. And the workers they want to leave but they can't because they're addicted. And even when they leave they can't because they're addicted. So then the workers finally decide since they can't quit, they'll just "delete the site" and then the boss lady gets killed. But in the end it wasn't really the boss's fault it was their fault because they're just addicted and still stuck, even if "deleting the app" means killing the boss, they're still back to square one, addicted to social media/apps again. Idk it may sound wrong but that's what I got. Anyone feels the same or any other theories?
lavendercurrent09 your theory really makes sense ! But I think the watercooler was made to make people think that's why there's so many comments saying : "that's weird ", or "it makes me feel some way but i can't describe it". People don't get it but they still think about it. So this is why you can have so many point of view about it, for me it doesn't have a real and unique meaning but as many ones as there is people who watch this. Modern art.
Btw sorry for my english i'm french ;)
I feel like the social media theory is very likely to be true. However I feel like them killing the boss is like mean comments and saying mean things behind a keyboard. Them killing her is what they comment, but them going back to the same thing in real life because they never do what they comment, if you get what I'm saying. I didn't give it much thought but I read your comment and then watched again and that's what I thought of. You're theory tho is great!!
delphinasummer yes i think you're right, I really cant totally describe it. You're English is amazing, dont worry about it :)
Evan Myers wow, i really didn't think about the "comments", a really good perspective on how you see this. I hope they release the actual meaning of this short film
that's some me! me! me! hidden message shit
I loved this. Very Camus-esque.
Omg I can't I am literally subscribed to you and you show up here? Wow that is crazy lol!
SO MANY METAPHORS MY BRAIN IS MELTING
I think this is a bit controversial or rather up for discussion but I feel as if the water cooler symbolized the people working. When Bill and John stood together in the beginning, the substance inside was water, something clear and pure. The boss on the other hand, had a black substance which connoted evil and darkness which fit her persona. At the end, when Bill committed the murder and John was present, the water cooler was filled with blood, implying murder and impurity which was different than in the beginning. Also, the frames were pretty apparent all throughout the episodes because they were upright and jolly in the beginning and upside down and frightened towards the end which kind of gave this an eery, doomed effect. Overall, I thought it was a great series. It is sort of confusing for the wide audience I think but I think it's just enough confusion and lack of plot to give the audience their own version of the story. It's a bit like a descriptive sketch but in video form.
this needs to be explained in Will's channel plzzzz #Q&A
Don't hug me I'm scared vibes anyone ?
Brilliant, reminded me so much of David Lynch's extraordinary work.
Did you hear about the Twin Peaks return?
I'm all for you two making things!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yay
this series is absolutely genius
wait but im actually having an existential crisis right now i thought this was something weird and funny not psychological and mind bugging
oh my fucking jesus christ.
but also, this is amazing
I think the point of making this was to have people come together and theorize it's meaning, when in reality, maybe there is no true deeper meaning. I feel like the ample, obvious routine the characters present and how they succumb to the established "norm" is supposed to show ON of the most simplistic cores of our society; the idea of winners and losers, wherein Carol is the winner and her coworkers are the losers. When they kill her, it's symbolizing that we wish we could make our lives easier by eliminating competition, and being our best selves because there's no one else to be better than. To this idea, we are robots in society, disregarding actual conversation and ideas and replacing it with the emptiness of trying to fulfill ourselves. The end, I thought, was satisfying, because it shows that this whole time, Bill and John were imprisoned by the other competition (Carol), and even through eliminating said competition, they are still locked in, because without routine, we, as people, are still. I really enjoyed this, and I appreciate Will's work, along with all others involved. I hope they make more.
According to the pictures on the wall that would have been her lucky 13th employee of the month award.....
That is disturbing yet charming
Someone please explain
Yasmin Paul i think it'll be better if you try to make the connections yourself. maybe it means whatever you think it means.
IVN CLVRK it means nothing to me. Workers ready to end themselves end up mentally murdering their boss. That's it
Okay this escalated quickly 😳
Myrrha Tekya yes!
Myrrha Tekya I was waiting
so they got metaphorically put in prison at the end? is it about being trapped inside your own head? you know what i'm not even gonna try and figure it out
I think you might be on the right track. My guess is being chained to that place by the watercooler is how they actually got put into prison. Because they hated their jobs so much. It's more of a punishment that a prison though. And it's sort of an ironic ending that way. They tried to break free and just got chained to what they were trying to escape. But what's the moral of the story now? ;)
I regret watching this tbh
I just don't know what to think of it...
i cant believe there is so much in just 5 episodes! this is really amazing and mind blowing✨
probably gonna be the next don't hug me I'm scared videos
What I've taken from this is that, there trapped inside the office. They tried to resign and break free in one of the other episodes but there boss was keeping them there. So, they killed her but they realised that they can't just be free because in the real world, sometimes you can't just resign and get out of your regular schedule
That one drop of blood on the glasses will never not haunt me
BRILLIANT
honestly, not my style at all, but pretty cool that you guys made a series!
well done! so uncomfortable
ohmygod, the end! This is so bomb!
Woah I did not expect that. Super good series. Very proud.
this was excellent, it was dark but in a sneaky sort of way and it left me with so many questions
This entire thing was pure genius OMG!! I have no words other than I loved it!
That was an exhilarating 10 minutes!!!
amazing work! as a film student i admire the greatly executed storytelling techniques.
I thought this was gonna be a comedy but this is good too
omg! no words! You should for sure make more works like this!!
i think they summed it up best at the buffer festival that they realised near the end of the filming that this shouldn't be a thing
Yesss! I love this mini series. And the chains at the end? Amazing.
Tried to think of something witty to comment but I can't. I'm scared
This is one of my biggest fears, to become so monotone and never step out of my routines, to hate my job and not be able to quit or do anything about it because I have to provide for myself and my family.
This is pure genius... Very mad I decided to watch it at like 2am for the first time in the dark lmao
I love how literally they made "getting stepped on". Also I feel like the phone ringing has something behind it but i could be overanalyzing this lol
Absolutely BRILLIANT.
Liv Rylan i know hahah!!!!!!
This is the shit I live for, it resembles everything that rip wellard has ever been in apart from Tracy beaker and I couldn't ask for anythin to be g any more satirical and satisfying and amazing all at once
this reminded me of roy andersson's films! they have the same awakward characters and dialogues and the way they shot the scenes too you know just the whole vibe!
i really love this kind of comedy please keep doing what you're doing its great
Rana who It's Wes Anderson
NobeGaming NobeGaming roy andersson and wes anderson are two different directors look him up before correcting me
So good... so so good. That Adrian Bliss + Will Darbyshire combo created something really brilliant. Not gonna lie, I was kind of confused by the direction this was going in, but now I'm just blown away by how you guys made something so seemingly simple at the surface, whilst sneaking in little things to allude something much deeper. Loved it!
ON THE SECOND MONDAY THEY'RE CHAINED TO THE WALL WHAT DOES THIS MEEEEAAAAN
THESE WERE FANTASTIC HOLY CRAP! I just found this miniseries on accident and I loved it!!! Amazing work.
I will watch anything you do Will Darbyshire. I really really enjoyed this and can't wait to see more.
I guess it's really art cauz I don't understand at all
I have so many questions right now. When they relesead the trailer I was like nah this is not my style but I really like it. Good job guys. 👏🏼
Been waiting for this for so long! Very proud of you :')
Maybe when at the blood is cleared away and everything goes back to normal, it could be trying to insinuate that they never really killed the boss lady, but it was a weird fascination/desire they have because they're frustrated at their mundane lives.
i feel like this is some kind of a really deep metaphor about our society. or a 4:38-what-is-my-life idea
Honestly loved it. So many details yet you only had one scene. It's brilliant. Hope this channel gets regularly updated. :)))
OMFG THAT ENDING THO! Very well done! I loved this series so much!
this is supposed to have a deeper meaning?
The Last Bear which is?
+Alex Chamberlayne not sure maybe you can help me
It's that a 9-5 office job turns you into the mindless zombies that the main characters are, ruled by a powerful and scary dictator whilst being stuck in an endless cycle of repetitiveness, which shows them being literally chained to the job in the last shot.
+Spike Morgan thanks :)
Tysm
I've interpreted this whole sequence of videos as a metaphor for life. How people are passive and door mats to others who are cruel yet make you want them to like you. Also how we never make a move for our selves and the result of us being passive is a corrupted mind where we hold in all of our emotions and then we finally let it out and it's all a vicious cycle that keeps repeating it's self. However I haven't quite figured out yet if in this video in particular is to show that we explode in our minds from not being able to take it, or if we explode in real and take it out on people do bad things.
Omgg this is such an accurate representation of Will and Adrian as creatives. Awesome job. Love it
funny thing about our society these days when we like something but we don't know why.
This is the definition of American Smart Film (the genre).
It is as though the boss was a sacrifice made for the watercooler.
This series is nagging my brain but nagging in a good way
Great Job will And Adrian
the last "scene" they are connected to something in the wall i think they are machines . and i also think im traumatized tbh but its interesting how everyone in the comments has interpreted these mini series.
2:25 its chains. never mind what i said before.
Oh my god this whole thing was amazing, thank you Will and Adrian!
Will and Adrian, this is so cool, you guys sure know how to make people think! It is so disturbing yet so.. I don't even know how to describe it! This series really made me go "wtf" at first, but after letting it sink in it really just makes me think and question everything! Really smart
This little series is absolutely BRILLIANT! I love it!
I really like what you did! Probably only understand half of it (or none of it) but I really appreciate all details and the weird/absurd/whatever-you-wanna-call-it-theme!
This was so dark and dry and I loved it!!! I cannot wait to see what else you two geniuses create together!
I loved this! These characters are just amazing
this was so good,, but im confused
The acting and the cinematography and those elements of the water cooler are honestly insane, I have no idea how the actors managed to do that, but I have to say I don't understand at all what's going on! It was quite interesting though to watch anyway so thank you :)))
Why are they chained at the end? help
because they killed the lady ¿? IDK
HelloImElsa I think it's to represent the fact that they're stuck in their jobs like a prisoner to a jail...
HelloImElsa I believe it's because maybe they thought that by killing their boss they were gonna be free, but what was keeping them there was actually the routine or the repetitiveness of their lives? Something like that haha
whoahhhhhhhh that was unexpected but cool
THIS IS MIND-BLOWINGLY PERFECT! I'm so proud of you guys!
Just as confusing and fascinating as Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
Oh my god I love this so much. Great job, guys!
this is amazing. its well put together and very fascinating. will and adrian, you guys certainly did a great job!
So. Good. Congrats guys!!!
this was actually really cool and so well done congrats boys please please do another series like this omg
I love these
Kate Elise me too!
holy wowza that took an unexpected turn. well done!