GOOD DAUGHTER | Omeleto
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- Опубліковано 25 лис 2024
- A woman cons dementia patients.
GOOD DAUGHTER is used with permission from Rachel Annette Helson. Learn more at / rachelannettehelson .
Rebecca is a small-time con artist who targets elderly dementia patients living in nursing homes. She poses as their daughter, assuming elaborate identities to visit targets and steal money and valuables from their rooms. She then sells the goods to a pawn shop and diligently adds the money to her growing pile, saving money while still living modestly.
During one of these visits, her target passes away in her presence, rattling Rebecca into making some mistakes. The con may finally catch up to her, but a turning point takes it in a different direction.
Directed by Rachel Annette Helson from a script written by Jesse Harris, this unexpected Oscar-longlisted dramatic short captures the machinations of a con artist, just as her scheme begins to fall apart at the seams. The premise sounds like a straightforward character-based drama about someone "bad" getting their comeuppance. But as the storytelling unfurls, it reveals a subtle sense of humor and a more sophisticated narrative that upends our understanding of Rebecca and blurs the lines between right and wrong.
We first meet Rebecca with her "father" at his bedside, in a scene that fits a tender emotional family drama. But the storytelling quickly eschews that perception as Rebecca marches out into the parking lot, all pretense of being a dutiful, caring daughter thrown out the window. There's a humor underlying the sharp contrast, parsing the gap between Rebecca's caring demeanor and her seemingly callous moral compass.
In naturalistic, composed camerawork and cinematography, the film then takes some time to elaborate just how efficiently she goes about her deceptions. Rebecca goes from one home to another, visiting "parents" and taking advantage of their dementia to steal from them. Then she goes home to her drab living quarters, living in isolation and loneliness as she calculates her next day's scheme and figures out how much more cash she needs. The film has some "crime caper" moments as Rebecca goes about with her charade, but we're set up to see Rebecca as a morally dubious character and wonder how she'll get caught and brought to justice.
But when one of her targets dies in her presence, it's a pivot point for both the film and the character, discomfiting Rebecca and forcing her to confront what it means to sit at someone's bedside and be there at the end of their lives. The emotional ramifications hit her, and her careful control over her scheme falters. The con seems to be up, but ultimately not how Rebecca expects.
GOOD DAUGHTER reveals why Rebecca has been working such an elaborate con, and it's heartbreaking and deeply ironic, especially considering the build-up and the film's title. It also reveals how layered and nuanced lead actor Samantha Sloyan's performance is, serving the lighter moments of humor, the different characters she assumes during her con jobs and Rebecca's carefully concealed emotional reality. As it turns out, Rebecca's cons not only fooled her targets but perhaps kept a painful reality at bay. But that truth catches up to Rebecca, who is at the mercy of larger pressures -- and we're left wondering who's being taken advantage of in the end.
Hi everyone! I'm Rachel, the filmmaker. Thank you for watching!
Congratulations, great success on further projects.
@@RibsTouching Thank you for the well wishes! I appreciate you taking the time to watch the film. Have a wonderful day!
I knew you before you were a STAR! Congratulations!
Great film well up to the expected high standards from Omeleto...Well done
That was so brilliant, well done. A unique movie ❤
She is so good at these controversial roles.
Wasn't expecting that end. Powerful little film.
Also...I'm old. I know exactly who Lee Majors is. 😅
Yeah, the responses almost made no sense to me. I thought that most people continued to know whom he is.
At first, though, I thought that they were referring to another person, because I hadn't heard that name in a while.
I watched the end again, and I feel like the film didn't fully explain her motives. Maybe the film didn't need to.
I'm talking about the watch. I got the impression that she took it simply because she liked it.
Colonel Steve Austin!!!! Also The Fall Guy! We have the technology...Majors was a hero of 80s TV!
@@eugenetswong I end up explaining these plots to you every time. .............
A PROFESSIONAL DAUGHTER
Very nice work Rachel! Yes, your actress has pulled off a wonderful job of fleshing out the role, but it was you who were in charge of plotting out the storyline and making the film believable.
At no point did you falter. Thank you for a great piece. Filmmakers need as much praise the actors who are seen in their films.
Thank you so much! That means a lot!
Oh wow this brought me to tears. I would have done anything and everything up to and beyond this to see my momma before she passed. I just didn’t know it was coming.
Beautiful work. I wish the world would discover Samantha Sloyan; she's utterly flawless.
When both my folks died, none of my bros and sises showed up until they crossed over. I used all my vacation to be with both of them.
U shud be proud of urself for being the gud kid.
When my grandparents died my cousins posted it on FB. When they lived, they never visited them.
This is absolutely brilliant and kudos to the actors for bringing in sich a charm to the film. I loved how the film touched on such a deep aspect of contemporary lives with such lightness, sometimes even bordering on the comic. Wonderful to watch! Congratulations
Beautifully written, acted, and directed ❤
So well done. Inspiring. The character is a sinner and a Saint! Although a fraud she brought a positive to the final days of those people. Thought provoking
She was doing it all to pay for her own mother's hospice.
Great plot, great acting. Well done all.
I Saw her on Midnight Mass Tv Show Brilliant actress❤❤
I did too! Her portrayal of Bev Keane is why I thought of her for this role. (Although it's a very different character.) She's phenomenal!
@@rachelannettehelson2023 Thank you for bring her to the short film and All the best to you for your future projects 💗
Thank was a fabulous show ❤
Above all, this film shows one thing very well, beyond its main statements: how much we as individuals overestimate our own knowledge and its importance (Lee Majors) in relation to the entirety of people.
I am a proud GenX that knows that Lee Majors was the "Six Million Dollar Man" main character in the famous (80's) TV show. Great film👍
Close, but The Six Million Dollar Man ran from 1974-1978 on ABC.
...I was way off. Ted D. WWF.
Loved watching this. Great work and enjoyed the Kentucky connection:)
I clicked so fast. The woman in the thumbnail is a powerforce!!
She really is!
Didn't see that coming, BRILLIANT plot twist. She's still going to hell.
edit - Cast & crew, good job and really creative plot.
Thank you - and thank you for watching!
Who sent you that memo @RPR?
Beautifully done. Both the acting and the story development. Good and evil blend in unique ways in each and everyone of us.
There was nothing evil… she was a visitor- and needed the items for her own mother’s care. 🙏
I didn't rly understand what happened can someone explain 😭
Hey Rach, amazing work. Good luck mate
Wishes from India
Thank you - and thanks for watching!
I finally got to watch this! o_o That was such a great short! And wow...sure gotta work hard to be THAT kinda criminal. Yeesh! I'm conflicted about how I feel towards the woman at the end...hmmm...
It's grief. Pure grief.
Wonderful. Superb. Acting had me TOTALMENTE Hooked!!!❤❤❤
This was beautiful Rachel! Markos
Wonderful film. Written by a young man from Harlan County, Ky. Jesse Harris. :)
Jesse is the BEST!
Stunning acting. Absolutely incredible.
She's really talented.
@@rachelannettehelson2023 Yes! I really appreciated her work in Haunting of Hill House and the other Mike Flanagan collabs. :)
Fine piece of work!
I'd watch a snail documentary to that music (or one about dumpsters that are black holes)
Yoooo the goat Penny Blake lol
Plot twist; emotional roller coaster. Well done.
I didn't catch what was going on.
I WAS NOT PREPARED
It was good
Penny we always love you
😔Never understood con artists like these, like you go through all that stuff and you're still poor like you would be making more money doing legitimate work then all this nonsense. I never understood that.
Some of them have something to say that is way more important than paper in the role of money.
Looks good so far
Robin Hood?
Brilliant and realistic - thank you
Thank you - and thank you for watching!
Greetings from Thistle, Utah!
Bravo!!! I love a pinot g in a solo cup.
HAH! This made me laugh. Thanks for watching Cate Bo! ❣
Greetings from Germany
Hi, from Canada.
Hi, Israel is here 🇮🇱
New Orleans here -- howdy!
I remember watching it on the train ride through Spain
Like it was on the train tv
Like this channel. Interesting vignettes
This kind of reminded me of the movie “I Care For You “.
i think you mean "I care a lot" it stars Rosamund Pike!
Is that Samantha Sloyan?
Read the credits, and let us know.
18:54
I don't know how to Feel...😞
Earliest I've ever been🔥
Beverly Keane !!!!
An inconsistency that distracted me: in an attempt to make the scenes seem “medical,” the beepiing of the pulse-ox is present even in the absence of a monitor or oximeter.
probably not a mistake, but a choice to make us understand that he was dead.
Where there is a will?,
there is a way.
One of the finer short films
I've seen in a while with an advanced plot
and excellent acting.
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I don't think that's what you were supposed to take from this short... Plus, will alone sometimes is not enough and does not lead to any ''way'' (not like it was a good way in the film either)
Can you make turkish subtittle pls (ı can't understand very well)
McGlynn Plain
Hot Damn 🔥
I really hate everyone in the comments that needs to point out that there’s a plot twist or how they didn’t expect the ending shut upppppp
I've no idea what's going on 🏴🤔😅
I commented that I didn't expect the end...because I DIDN'T. I was beginning to despise this thief...then felt sorry for her when I discovered why she needed the money.
What's wrong with that?!
Or you just like to tell strangers to shut up?!
While we're at it, I would appreciate it if Omeleto would quit spoiling the films. I didn't realize that she was conning until it was revealed as such. If I had read the description, then the early part of the film would have been spoiled.
Omeleto is the worst at keeping secrets.
@@MaryBeth1965 Good points!
@@IhaveMy0pinion nor have I. I k ow who Lee Majors is and that’s about it!
I am Thumbs Up # 54 lol
Firsttt
Another inconsistency: the car around 12:30 lacks license plates.
🙄🙄😔
One fact you can’t deny, whoever produces / directs these films are genius 👌👍🫶