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  • After waking up in a bizarre facility, Anna is forced to work together with her literal past lives in order to escape.
    "Iteration 1" by Jesse Lupini
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    Anna wakes up in a strange white room. She has 60 seconds to escape, and when the timer hits zero she drops dead, only to reawaken in the same room, alongside a shadowy impression of her previous self. Stuck on repeat, Anna must think ahead and learn from her mistakes to solve a series of puzzles and escape this dystopian maze with the help of her past lives.
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  • @WallaceX80
    @WallaceX80 5 років тому +677

    I wanted to see when someone climbs the tree, sees the maze, and goes insane.

    • @wernercollins1319
      @wernercollins1319 5 років тому +19

      use the axe as a first step into tree, my first thought

    • @elizabethbennet4791
      @elizabethbennet4791 4 роки тому +5

      nah in that case then they could just crawl across the ceiling until they see a way out

    • @terrabiker
      @terrabiker 4 роки тому +9

      @@wernercollins1319 why use the axe on a really tough large wide tree , when the door is like max 2 inches thick ;) Logic...

    • @dailycompetitivecoding8565
      @dailycompetitivecoding8565 4 роки тому +3

      We are doing that by watching this video

    • @wernercollins1319
      @wernercollins1319 4 роки тому +4

      @@terrabiker You maybe didn't understand my logic, you use the axe as a one step ladder to climb the tree, to see which way to go...then you know which wall to axe ;)

  • @sneakersheik2418
    @sneakersheik2418 5 років тому +1265

    Who else thought she was supposed to climb the tree?

    • @squisher0
      @squisher0 4 роки тому +18

      She was

    • @phaedra9698
      @phaedra9698 4 роки тому +56

      Or use it on the door. Cutting through the trunk didn't make sense.

    • @Nicole-fb6fr
      @Nicole-fb6fr 4 роки тому +29

      She probably would have escaped for good if she climbed the tree

    • @marvinbush7304
      @marvinbush7304 4 роки тому +15

      Yeah, at first I thought that she was supposed to climb the tree. That's what I would have tried to do. But I certainly didn't think that she was suppose to attempt to cut it down. That just seemed so unnecessarily destructive to me.

    • @matteloht
      @matteloht 4 роки тому +43

      If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail...

  • @hugowoesthuis
    @hugowoesthuis 5 років тому +1848

    Fun fact: It's kinda how AI learns

    • @sharif47
      @sharif47 5 років тому +61

      Machine Learning

    • @defaltmarkowicz527
      @defaltmarkowicz527 5 років тому +56

      Built an A.I for flappy bird, this expresses what that A.I went through

    • @nayuki2020
      @nayuki2020 5 років тому +32

      Literally the only thing I thought the video was referring to. Seems no. LOL

    • @k.m.z.hardesty
      @k.m.z.hardesty 5 років тому

      This is true

    • @SubscribersWithoutAnyVid-bd1dv
      @SubscribersWithoutAnyVid-bd1dv 5 років тому +13

      Just realized it
      Edit: but AI is not limited by the time, they just keep going until there's something make this end

  • @justtryitwithgege6346
    @justtryitwithgege6346 5 років тому +1021

    Honestly I would have failed so many times. A quiet room and a bed.. I would have slept straight through it lol.

    • @azizziparov8468
      @azizziparov8468 5 років тому +3

      Sekic

    • @caitlinhanmore
      @caitlinhanmore 5 років тому +2

      Not me

    • @dingo1666
      @dingo1666 5 років тому +32

      Me too. No point in wasting energy if you have a bed and can have peace without straining yourself.

    • @vnelson000
      @vnelson000 5 років тому +24

      The temptation was not missed by the A.I. but after an iteration it came to the conclusion that sleeping wasnt a productive choice.

    • @thisislife2383
      @thisislife2383 5 років тому +12

      The point is you know that there is no end, but they don't. They hope to do as many doors as possible to fine of a way out

  • @maladjustedmaverick6619
    @maladjustedmaverick6619 5 років тому +798

    This actress is phenomenal. She conveys personality and a wide range of emotions very vividly with so little dialogue...

  • @SuperAtheist
    @SuperAtheist 5 років тому +1685

    I would have used the ax on the door.

    • @sugarbabylove1000
      @sugarbabylove1000 5 років тому +44

      I was thinking the same

    • @janvanruth3485
      @janvanruth3485 5 років тому +25

      my first thought also

    • @raphidae
      @raphidae 5 років тому +69

      Why not try the key that worked on the door before first?

    • @TonyMcGarry
      @TonyMcGarry 5 років тому +33

      The ax wasn't available until the Tree room and it only had the entry door. Sure seemed like a Black Mirror story. Loved it.

    • @Hydroculator
      @Hydroculator 5 років тому +4

      @@raphidae The door with the balloons had a keyhole next to it. It was the only door which had one.

  • @Wordzwurth
    @Wordzwurth 5 років тому +2615

    Seems to be symbolic of our daily rat races in which we run around in circles trying to find a meaning or a way of escape. We do the wrong things over and over until we eventually learn from our mistakes which only leads us to the next challenge. If we are lucky enough to find someone along the way, we can work together toward common goals. The truth is, no matter how many problems we figure out, there will always be more, and regardless of how far we get, we all eventually run out of time. I think the moral of the story is; enjoy your life while you can and use your time wisely or you might end up spending your whole life "popping balloons" for no reason.. Unless, of course, you enjoy "popping balloons". In which case, pop them all you want!!! It's your time.. Spend it how you like! - CHEERS!

    • @JustinLHopkins
      @JustinLHopkins 5 років тому +60

      Or, it’s literally just people in a crazy, alternate dimensional puzzle of some sort. Not everything has to have a deeper meaning.

    • @nia6849
      @nia6849 5 років тому +23

      This is a symbolism of our universe and our daily lives are some type of computer simulation

    • @beyourself4996
      @beyourself4996 5 років тому +15

      Wordzwurth thank you for the explication.

    • @dhrumilbarot1431
      @dhrumilbarot1431 5 років тому +16

      words of wisdom brother

    • @mamataynjay
      @mamataynjay 5 років тому +7

      Very well said

  • @smrchny
    @smrchny 4 роки тому +353

    This maze looks like a light version of "Сube"

    • @pexfmezccle
      @pexfmezccle 4 роки тому +19

      Cube lite

    • @zORg_alex
      @zORg_alex 4 роки тому +15

      A positive one. Without gore and total mess.

    • @malavoy1
      @malavoy1 4 роки тому +8

      Closer to the "talos principle". The multiple copies that end up helping with a large job are like the recording device used in that game.

    • @tomasotreasaigh111
      @tomasotreasaigh111 4 роки тому +2

      'The Cube' with Philip Schofield?
      I think they are gonna change the name of that show to 'The Lube'...

    • @briscoethecollie1510
      @briscoethecollie1510 4 роки тому +5

      Was just about to say that, what was the thing with that anyway? I swear I saw all three films and still none the wiser

  • @sikandarabbas
    @sikandarabbas 5 років тому +51

    Sometimes tools provided to you doesn't work the way they seem. You must learn to use them in different ways to find your way

  • @earlpotter2795
    @earlpotter2795 5 років тому +244

    "The Enrichment Center is committed to the well-being of all participants. Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test. Thank you for helping us help you help us all."

  • @TRabbit1970
    @TRabbit1970 5 років тому +252

    “...f@#$ it.” Best response in the video. Bar none.

  • @AnthonyMiyazaki
    @AnthonyMiyazaki 5 років тому +392

    Another DUST video to mess with our brains. Completely awesome!

    • @benevolentdictator2315
      @benevolentdictator2315 5 років тому +7

      They are collecting our responses to develop a template on how to adjust the mindset of the aggregate observer by creating story lines to adjust our attitude for manipulation.
      This DUST program is funded by a Soros front disguised as the CIA psych-op unit out of Langley.
      A form of crowd control for the future.
      The AGW farce is an example of the template being tested in reality to affect social sentiment in order to by-pass critical thinking by emotion.

    • @jackie-we4ep
      @jackie-we4ep 5 років тому +3

      benevolent dictator I’m sorry. What? 😂

    • @SeaJay_Oceans
      @SeaJay_Oceans 4 роки тому

      Portal meets machine learning... Oh, we have a problem when ATLAS can play portal in simulation and beat every challenge in minimum time... Now G.I.A. is thinking with portals ! :-O

    • @justsomeofmyfavs
      @justsomeofmyfavs 6 місяців тому

      @@benevolentdictator2315 Of course zero evidence for the bogus funding statement. Like with all loony conspiracy theorists. I dislike Soros very much, but this is the stupidest shit I've ever heard. "They" my arse.

  • @Wordzwurth
    @Wordzwurth 5 років тому +270

    The axe becoming available should be a huge clue!! Going from room to room is NOT the way out. The axe gives them the ability to bypass the "puzzles" by breaking through the walls. If there are "endless" rooms, no matter how fast they chop or how many of them are chopping, they will never chop fast enough. THEREFORE, the axe proves the room puzzles are not a solution but a mere distraction... the way out... is UP!! CLIMB THAT TREE!!

    • @paintedpony2935
      @paintedpony2935 4 роки тому +40

      Climbing the tree will just bring you to another cubicle. I think this is a representation of the frustration and futility of the masses, due to the endless manipulation and mind-fucking of corporate life. Aren't we already living in cubicles performing meaningless tasks? Break out!

    • @SeaJay_Oceans
      @SeaJay_Oceans 4 роки тому +28

      What about DOWN ? Chop through the floor... The test center machine learning Sim-World wouldn't expect you to cut down through the floor.
      The Buddha would sit under the tree, clear his mind, and touch the floor. No longer can the voice command him to die every 60 seconds.

    • @zistorbar
      @zistorbar 4 роки тому +7

      @@SeaJay_Oceans going further into the maze also makes you a longer road to get back where you were

    • @SeaJay_Oceans
      @SeaJay_Oceans 4 роки тому +11

      @@zistorbar stopping the voice and 60 second kills... that should be their goal... don't play the game - change the rules.

    • @Wordzwurth
      @Wordzwurth 4 роки тому +3

      @@SeaJay_Oceans nice

  • @RassTheKing
    @RassTheKing 4 роки тому +75

    9:15 I really felt that on a deep level.

    • @Highspeedfutzi
      @Highspeedfutzi 4 роки тому +8

      I love the expression on her face.

    • @shaunablack1671
      @shaunablack1671 4 роки тому +1

      My favorite part 😂🤣😂

    • @vijayprakash4054
      @vijayprakash4054 3 роки тому +1

      😂😂😂🤣

    • @amida0956
      @amida0956 3 роки тому

      This is like the showdowns between me and my alarm (snooze) every morning...

  • @PalmettoNDN
    @PalmettoNDN 4 роки тому +3

    As a former fireman who's also worked in EMS and law enforcement, I was like NOOOO!!!! What are you doing to the tree??? You've been given a breaching tool!

  • @genehayes3736
    @genehayes3736 5 років тому +350

    Very good short! I like that everyone gets to interpret this for themselves. I personally thought of programmers testing AI to see how well it "learns". Many simulations running at the same time... And if you're the AI, you probably don't know what is going on or that you are just a simulation. Until you learn it that is...

    • @KirsiKitten
      @KirsiKitten 5 років тому +10

      That was my first thought too, Ive been watching a lot of Code Bullet and I was really reminded of that process.

    • @curiousgamer9343
      @curiousgamer9343 5 років тому +5

      That part "Many simulations at the same time" reminds me of the quantum computer coz that's what they do.

    • @giacomobrambilla175
      @giacomobrambilla175 5 років тому +2

      I think futures ai will be trained in this kind of simulations

    • @rohangupta1115
      @rohangupta1115 5 років тому +5

      Reinforcement learning😂😂

    • @MaakaSakuranbo
      @MaakaSakuranbo 5 років тому +4

      Nah, it's an odd bonding ritual that lovers on the planet of Iomia go through. Their memories are partially wiped and they face those challenges, eventually meeting each other and facing challenges together. And through that, a deep bond of trust and cooperation grows.

  • @edbailey7533
    @edbailey7533 5 років тому +599

    What a great ride! I loved how the woman's personality evolved with each iteration, how she and the man first sought connection, and then continued on their quest. Together. Humans need connection--no matter the type, and a quest--no matter the outcome. This film shows that so beautifully.

    • @johnrogers9481
      @johnrogers9481 5 років тому +7

      Yes, yes, yes and yes.

    • @briancossey9724
      @briancossey9724 5 років тому +10

      It shows we will never get ahead man or woman if we don`t work together we have no future if we put man against women we were designed as a team each with their weakness but together can accomplish the impossible

    • @KutWrite
      @KutWrite 5 років тому +8

      @@briancossey9724: But the end showed it's all meaningless.
      Where would they ever get to but another cube with another silly "challenge?"

    • @wonderosity
      @wonderosity 5 років тому +7

      KutWrite no, the meaningfulness of life is in relationship...and now they are together

    • @swingambassador
      @swingambassador 5 років тому +7

      Get Schwifty, silly, she is doing better than the guy.

  • @rolandkarlsson7072
    @rolandkarlsson7072 3 роки тому +6

    60 seconds is too short. To be able to solve this, the timer has to restart at 60 seconds each time you solve a riddle.

  • @thehoodsomali4970
    @thehoodsomali4970 4 роки тому +26

    You Guys all need to think Better:
    What you need to do in a Situation like this is when you get far enough into other rooms bring the bed with you, so you don’t have to respawn in room 1 so you can make Progress!
    Gotta move Smarter, Gotta move Harder
    #TheBox

    • @ellijahstefonson3067
      @ellijahstefonson3067 4 роки тому +2

      The hood Somali that very smart actually lol 😅

    • @amiinaabdi8188
      @amiinaabdi8188 4 роки тому +1

      Or have the man drag the table to nearby rooms while the women scouts above or runs on the roof of the maze

    • @milescochran2915
      @milescochran2915 4 роки тому +1

      Very wise!

    • @farhiaabdi8861
      @farhiaabdi8861 4 роки тому +1

      Interesting

    • @caseyolsen5395
      @caseyolsen5395 4 роки тому

      Lmaoo is that last sentence a Roddy Ricch line from the box. 😂😂😂

  • @jeaneljaylamputi2215
    @jeaneljaylamputi2215 4 роки тому +84

    The actress is phenomenal. She got me well-invested into her character as this puzzle solving heroine like Chell in Portal. I have to admit, I have a soft spot for puzzle solving and video games... made me fell inlove with her quickly with the 'player one' antics one is supposed to experience when playing progression type games with simple rules but with diverse challenges and having moments that sometimes makes you question your actions and the game itself but you still end up grinding up the levels.
    That quirky nature of the whole film itself is just wow... unfortunately this will only make me watch more videos on this channel. Curse you, DUST!

    • @stephanepoirier5582
      @stephanepoirier5582 4 роки тому +3

      Her name is Catherine Isobelle. She does off-beat characters or stories. And like wine she gets better with time.

    • @KayKay114
      @KayKay114 3 роки тому +2

      @@stephanepoirier5582 Katherine Isabelle.
      She's been on my favourite actress list for 16 years or so now. After I first watched Ginger Snaps.

  • @pawelwiatr2134
    @pawelwiatr2134 5 років тому +63

    Groundhog Day and Cube in one movie

  • @drahunter213
    @drahunter213 4 роки тому +3

    10:58
    dude forgot to take his phone outta his pockets lol

  • @nickiemcnichols5397
    @nickiemcnichols5397 5 років тому +252

    Weird. Why do humans assume tha tree+axe means cut it down?

    • @johnrogers9481
      @johnrogers9481 5 років тому +18

      Some will. Some won't.

    • @Jack251190
      @Jack251190 5 років тому +52

      Well it was either that or wall plus axe, as we saw. Not sure what your point is really. An axe is a tool, it is within human nature to recognise patterns and we recognise what an axe is for.

    • @TragerM
      @TragerM 5 років тому +18

      The audience, which is us, is seeing it from the outside in. She is the one on the inside and some what the previous iterations taught her, you take the tool and you interact with what is there. She didn't know any better until a couple of iterations later. Regardless she did learn and that was the point for that room I suppose

    • @sharif47
      @sharif47 5 років тому +6

      Because "Axe the tree" means cut down the tree.

    • @meggi8048
      @meggi8048 5 років тому +4

      my first idea, tear down the wall.. break out.

  • @trooperandcooperale3057
    @trooperandcooperale3057 5 років тому +51

    At some point you got to axe yourself the question, what's it all about?

    • @eliseeng1709
      @eliseeng1709 5 років тому +3

      ...wow.

    • @colornine84
      @colornine84 5 років тому +4

      She couldn't see the forest for the tree.

  • @michaeloguntuase8803
    @michaeloguntuase8803 4 роки тому +168

    The dude who wrote this script must be someone who had constant nightmares.

    • @yevgeniyaleshchenko849
      @yevgeniyaleshchenko849 4 роки тому +3

      ????? Why are you wishing such horrible things upon someone.

    • @AaronHorrocks
      @AaronHorrocks 4 роки тому +3

      Or had played Portal.

    • @wren7195
      @wren7195 3 роки тому +4

      @@AaronHorrocks Or chronic illness patient. Believe me, it's like this. Least she had a really nice quilt on the bed.

    • @Handbook08
      @Handbook08 3 роки тому

      I have constantly dreams like these. Not as a confined space as this, but same logic. I keep dying and coming back. Not scary, but just...disappointing when guy A, for example, shoots me from the side and then I die. Next, I already know where he is and then shoot. Other examples with exits and routes are similar. This is similar across dreams too, it seems i have a memory stored for them, and I’m just one character.

    • @MarkoDeLaVoota
      @MarkoDeLaVoota 3 роки тому

      ayahuasca user?
      perhaps 🤔

  • @Marqan
    @Marqan 3 роки тому +41

    I loved every second of this! Definitely one of my favourite shorts!
    In no small part thanks to the actress, she was perfect!

    • @phoenixrises1311
      @phoenixrises1311 3 роки тому +3

      Well said! Now I have to watch" Ginger Snaps!"

  • @JeffSmith03
    @JeffSmith03 3 роки тому +2

    My first thought when I saw the axe, "come on, the tree is not your goal!"

  • @joshuaehl1481
    @joshuaehl1481 5 років тому +5

    I came back just to say how good this was. Impressive imagery, great shots and your cast did amazing.

  • @eastmanwebb5477
    @eastmanwebb5477 5 років тому +108

    If you liked this movie, I encourage you to watch the movie "Edge of Tomorrow: Live. Die. Repeat.”

    • @mephistounderwood4917
      @mephistounderwood4917 5 років тому +4

      or Ground Hog's Day. I'm not a fan of that brainwashed, scientologist mouthpiece, of puppet you all call tom cruise. I don't like anything about him. Especially how he treats his exes. Brainwashed his children so that they would have nothing to do with their mother, all while getting a divorce. If the average Joe did that, the judge would have thrown the book at him and awarded custody to the mother by default. But because he was rich and had the full force of the church of scientology (a brainwashing, morally bankrupt cult that uses underhanded and illegal practices to coerce their opponents into leaving them alone and/or giving them what they want,) he got away with it and Nicole Kidman got screwed over, royally. You want to know what a complete ass he is, just watch some of the vids that have come out about scientology.
      FYI: Note how I used capital letters for Nicole and Ground Hog's Day, but not tom cruise, scientology, nor church of scientology. It's not a typo, it's intentional and an intentional sign of total disrespect. I believe scientology to be dangerous and they have certainly shown no concern about destroying families through their destructive brainwashing methodology. I think the best thing that could be done there, is to raid them, take all the members and put through a psych eval, then through a deprogramming treatment if necessary. The leaders who are responsible for the brainwashing should be jailed. That entire religion was the brainchild of l. ron. hubbard. He was a Sci-Fi writer, who dishonorably discharged from the navy after he mistook a part of Mexico as an enemy and opened fire on Mexico. Before that he had opened fire floating logs and other harmless debris, believing he was firing on an enemy. He was obviously a deranged and troubled person. He made up that religion using nothing but his imagination and convinced people that they are all infested with spirits of evil aliens who flew around in space ships that look exactly like a DC-10 aircraft, called thetans (named after the ancient Greek letter theta.) Also, unlike other religions, you need to pay to be taught the next level towards your ascension, which they call clear (meaning you're clear of thetans,) but there is always some new, more powerful thetan that needs to be cleared, which costs more money with each level and the teachings of which, get more and more absurd.
      Sorry. I tend to go off on tangents...

    • @deuteriumtritium9700
      @deuteriumtritium9700 5 років тому +11

      @@mephistounderwood4917 why would you hold so much hatred against someone you don't even know?
      YOU are clearly the one who's disturbed.

    • @deuteriumtritium9700
      @deuteriumtritium9700 5 років тому +3

      Yeah, that's a good movie.

    • @bellanolia1759
      @bellanolia1759 5 років тому +5

      @@mephistounderwood4917 dead with laughter you need to get a life u can't go around with so much hatred specially for someone u don't know imagine if it was someone close to u?

    • @Ukitsu2
      @Ukitsu2 5 років тому +1

      And the manga is even better, try to read it: 'All You Need Is Kill', it's a lot more "DUSTish".

  • @KennedyKioli
    @KennedyKioli 5 років тому +24

    first thing I'llbe projecting to my students on Monday morning class. beautiful and original. :)

  • @patrickvangelder1367
    @patrickvangelder1367 4 роки тому +7

    Residence Evil : Alice has to find a way out of the complex that is boobytrapped. When she succeeds she finds a ditch filled with dead clones. Seen it already.

  • @treeshasarkar4841
    @treeshasarkar4841 5 років тому +6

    when she hit the wall it was literally "out of the box"!

  • @DeconvertedMan
    @DeconvertedMan 5 років тому +89

    thats one hell of a video game. chop down door with ax. try key first.

    • @stratpac
      @stratpac 5 років тому +4

      They do that in Texas all the time!!

    • @YouHolli
      @YouHolli 5 років тому +5

      Portal. The games name is Portal. Check it out.

  • @jessiontherox5577
    @jessiontherox5577 5 років тому +106

    She said 20. He said 62.. U mean to tell me it took him a whole 62 times?? I was yelling a the lady the first time she hit that tree.. Lord

    • @Aurinkohirvi
      @Aurinkohirvi 5 років тому +9

      Yeah and funny that they happened to break in the same room same time (neither of them had earlier iterations there). I think you would try them walls very early in the 1st room already. Arriving axe room it would have been plain as day to try the wall or the door first.

    • @CathySW
      @CathySW 5 років тому +21

      He might have started from further away, though

    • @AdnanAli-rb3lt
      @AdnanAli-rb3lt 5 років тому +7

      He probably spent more time trying to cut the tree, before noticing it's regeneration.

    • @TragerM
      @TragerM 5 років тому +3

      I could have sworn he said 16. Damn it, now I need to re-watch that part

    • @bethclemensen2102
      @bethclemensen2102 5 років тому +10

      @@nothingsurprisesmeanymore YES. Obviously, cutting down the tree was a distraction.l First seeing it, I thought to climb the tree. Saw the axe,, thought to go for the door! At a certain point, stop playing by "their" rules. !!!!!!

  • @BigGift1
    @BigGift1 5 років тому +4

    Arlington Steward: Your home is a box. Your car is a box on wheels. You drive to work in it. You drive home in it. You sit in your home, staring into a box. It erodes your soul, while the box that is your body inevitably withers... then dies. Whereupon it is placed in the ultimate box, to slowly decompose.

  • @donsamokwan7958
    @donsamokwan7958 4 роки тому +21

    I love this lady's acting, she's great. And I watched this film a few times well it still gets me wondering

  • @RadioForYahweh
    @RadioForYahweh 3 роки тому +1

    I've said it before and will say it again, this would make a freaking fantastic VR game. I would spend hours playing.

  • @j.d.3597
    @j.d.3597 5 років тому +34

    That was insane! I LOVE IT!!!
    Brilliant piece!!

  • @david_oliveira71
    @david_oliveira71 5 років тому +11

    I felt the point there was, "do not obey the laws. Defy the system and find another way, your way. A creative and unconventional way." Oh yes. Great video though. Loved watching it!

  • @jihedjaouabi7623
    @jihedjaouabi7623 5 років тому +40

    9:23 That would be my reaction since iteration 2 if it was me in that situation

  • @floridaprepper751
    @floridaprepper751 2 роки тому

    I first saw her in the movie ginger snaps in the early 2000's. A very good actress.

  • @forestlittke4649
    @forestlittke4649 2 роки тому

    Millla Jovavich~ Resident evil, She had to repeat scernarios over and over UNTIL she escaped. Same plot as our girl in this show. She was perfectly cast for this,

  • @mike-zq9fl
    @mike-zq9fl 3 роки тому +15

    I like how they symbolize the process of Reinforcement Learning of AI with human beings trying to find the solutions to a problem in the most efficient way as possible.

  • @TheRealG2024
    @TheRealG2024 5 років тому +93

    Deep. I see how machines could do this to humans . Artificial intelligence wouldn't really care one way or the other and just carry out various endless exercises and computations solely based on algorithms designed by us.

    • @bahadrbaserkok3335
      @bahadrbaserkok3335 5 років тому +1

      Portal ?

    • @Arendium
      @Arendium 5 років тому +5

      Who says it isn't like that already

    • @user-td1zo3tv9p
      @user-td1zo3tv9p 5 років тому +1

      @@Arendium, came to log in and write the SAME comment so I'm lead to believe we already ARE enduring this phenomenon.
      Only difference is that, unlike in the movie Groundhog Day, some of us tend NOT to learn from our previous experiences while others DO!
      Which end of the spectrum are YOU working from?
      Inquiring minds wanna know.
      Overnout.
      At least until the NEXT Iteration, that is.
      Hahahahaha

    • @Arendium
      @Arendium 5 років тому

      @@user-td1zo3tv9p Me? I believe I am new mind, but with the possibility of trascending in just one human life. An odd and apparently experimental case.

  • @krishcshah
    @krishcshah 4 роки тому +37

    It feels scary to be there..!
    SPOILER ALERT: You already are!
    The Iteration is your new day
    She is living you
    Everything she does is your life
    And the maize is the rat race we all are in.

    • @FFF-xz6wn
      @FFF-xz6wn 3 роки тому

      Congratulations, you understand this worl!

    • @user-do8bk6kb9u
      @user-do8bk6kb9u 3 роки тому +1

      maize = corn. maze = . . . well, maze. :-)

  • @douglaswallace7680
    @douglaswallace7680 3 роки тому

    A new definition of HELL . Desperately trying to progress , but there is no end to it .

  • @pridenixon
    @pridenixon 4 роки тому +2

    This would be one of the few times that my anger problem would have helped me because I would have been smashing the walls straight away

    • @yevgeniyaleshchenko849
      @yevgeniyaleshchenko849 4 роки тому

      OR maybe go to therapy before you start hitting/smashing people... Just saying.

  • @ReedCBowman
    @ReedCBowman 5 років тому +7

    Thanks for finally not squashing the end with your Dust outro. Music matters.

  • @dnomyarnostaw
    @dnomyarnostaw 5 років тому +14

    Some days it just isnt worth chewing the straps off around your wrists.

  • @lumberluc
    @lumberluc 5 років тому +110

    Lady: 20
    Man: 62
    Man maybe dumb, but at least we're persistent.

    • @clarkent7574
      @clarkent7574 4 роки тому +3

      God played the joke on man first. Adam Amen.

    • @CollectedEve
      @CollectedEve 4 роки тому +7

      Just bc it took him 62 tried to get to THAT point doesn't make him less intelligent.
      He likely tried many more rooms than her, being there were multiple options.

    • @SystemofEleven
      @SystemofEleven 4 роки тому +11

      I mean he could have just said "feck it" and rolled over to nap a lot more times than her...

    • @gregdingo
      @gregdingo 4 роки тому +4

      @@BoopSnoot maybe most things were created by men because women were mostly barred from participation until recently.

    • @emixonalgaert4376
      @emixonalgaert4376 4 роки тому

      That's about me xD

  • @DaveWard-xc7vd
    @DaveWard-xc7vd 4 роки тому +1

    You take the blanket to the tree and make a hammock.

  • @drgeoffangel5422
    @drgeoffangel5422 5 місяців тому

    Rivetting Sc Fi , in the last shot you realise that someone is studying the behaviour ! Well done thank you!

  • @Kagema10X
    @Kagema10X 4 роки тому +14

    This is Hi-Tech Re-incarnation.
    Your time is limited make the most out of it. Let go of the baggage, travel light.

  • @SevanniBlack
    @SevanniBlack 4 роки тому +17

    When she made it through the door I felt like I was watching a new version of cube.

    • @Guido_XL
      @Guido_XL 4 роки тому +1

      That is what also sprung to my mind when I saw this. It is very reminiscent of the Cube movie trilogy.

  • @grosserplins
    @grosserplins 5 років тому +6

    I wonder if an AI “feels“ the same if it has to find out, how a car look like or something ...
    I mean it gets no informations, there are just pictures showing up from nowhere and it has to decide whether there is a car or not and if it pushed the wrong button it dies ...

  • @angel_machariel
    @angel_machariel 3 роки тому

    A more lighthearted version of the much darker "Cube".

  • @DrachenGothik666
    @DrachenGothik666 4 роки тому

    Gives a new meaning to the phrase, "Think outside the box..." LOL

  • @GunDrone
    @GunDrone 5 років тому +36

    Quantum mechanics experiment gone totally wrong. i love it.. :)

  • @CHARLIE-MF-BROWN
    @CHARLIE-MF-BROWN 5 років тому +176

    First thought after seeing the axe... chop open the door lol.

    • @raphidae
      @raphidae 5 років тому +8

      You'd not try the key you still have and which worked on the previous door?

    • @CHARLIE-MF-BROWN
      @CHARLIE-MF-BROWN 5 років тому +5

      @@raphidae Eventually though, yes... Gotta admit, after I get bored enough, that would probably seem like another good alternative to try lol.

    • @E-plunksna
      @E-plunksna 5 років тому +1

      me too haha

    • @OHFORPEATSAKES
      @OHFORPEATSAKES 5 років тому

      same

    • @kushxmen
      @kushxmen 5 років тому

      @@OHFORPEATSAKES There was only one door, the one she came in through.

  • @marianneodell7637
    @marianneodell7637 5 років тому +11

    Loved it! Get outta that damned box!
    I have to say,though, that my first inclination was to CLIMB the tree,not cut it down...
    Might that have made any difference?

  • @yashizuko
    @yashizuko 5 років тому +85

    Dem black mirror vibes

  • @kurtrich27
    @kurtrich27 11 годин тому

    So, the actress is gorgeous and deserves to be in more movies. The plot? Regardless of what you’re given to deal with a situation, don’t give up. That’s my takeaway.

  • @mkivy
    @mkivy 4 роки тому

    Scary! To think our world could b an illusion...kudos to all who made this possible.

  • @55Ramius
    @55Ramius 5 років тому +51

    Was the timer reset after entering each room? Did not seem so. If it was not, they could only get so far in 60 seconds regardless how well they knew what to do. Iteration #? , they lose their minds or say the heck with it and go for a quickie... lol

    • @sup2069
      @sup2069 5 років тому +7

      The best way to proced is to set up the next iteration for success. Set up each room to open as fast as possible so that each new iteration is sprinting to the next. One hell of a workout!

    • @randyhutchinson9910
      @randyhutchinson9910 5 років тому +7

      55Ramius I'm for the quickie

    • @Andy001z
      @Andy001z 5 років тому +1

      I thought the same, then the couple become lab rats living out their lives in one small location.

    • @scuffygameplay
      @scuffygameplay 5 років тому +1

      Maybe the timer rolls over?

    • @AceAngelTTV
      @AceAngelTTV 5 років тому +3

      It wouldn't take that long to axe down all the walls 60 seconds sprinting distance from the axe, then there is literally nothing else they can do- What might make for a better idea is if the rooms reset, and added 60 seconds each time, so there is the possibility of infinitely solving puzzles.

  • @primed3622
    @primed3622 5 років тому +11

    And this, my friends, was how real-life Portal was born.

  • @AlucardNoir
    @AlucardNoir 5 років тому +22

    I believe the pertinent question is: iterations of what?

  • @evanmercer3690
    @evanmercer3690 5 років тому +2

    That was amazing! It's the same processes we set up for computer learning. Such a good idea putting a human in the same situation.

  • @KayKay114
    @KayKay114 4 роки тому

    This is Katherine Isabelle. She was in Ginger Snaps, American Mary, and many other shows. Including the Netflix show The Order. She was the only reason why I watched that show. I love her so much she is one of my favourite actress's of all time!

  • @1SeanBond
    @1SeanBond 5 років тому +38

    Wow so awesome!! So great to see my favorite Canadian girl!! Katharine Isabelle!! A great performance in this short A+ ...👍👍✌🇨🇦

    • @michaelm4550
      @michaelm4550 5 років тому +5

      Yes!! Another canuck 🇨🇦🇨🇦 🍁🍁 funny enough , a movie called The Cube is similar and also Canadian

    • @TragerM
      @TragerM 5 років тому +1

      Maybe this was before she became the girl we saw in ginger snaps. Haha, what explain why she was so homicidal wouldn't it?

    • @1SeanBond
      @1SeanBond 5 років тому +2

      Cube yes that was like this!! Cool stuff 👍✌

  • @freddybonilla2472
    @freddybonilla2472 3 роки тому +10

    How did she even end up in there or wherever she is I don't know

    • @tula__
      @tula__ 3 роки тому

      AI seems has got control over humans now. Now instead of "machine learning" we do "human learning". Lol

  • @djinnisequoia
    @djinnisequoia 5 років тому +11

    This is a brilliant concept. Also, I feel the actors chosen are particularly expressive and relatable. Great work!

  • @missdaydreamss
    @missdaydreamss 6 місяців тому +1

    Lmaoo when she took a day off 😂

  • @renehernandeza.7309
    @renehernandeza.7309 3 роки тому

    Feeling life like a while, do while, or for computer programming loop. Nothing is changing and everyday is an iteration. 🥺

  • @minkminky
    @minkminky 5 років тому +3

    What a mind F. Reminds me 'Cube'. Great work. (btw i started typing this faster because I thought I only had 60 seconds or I'd have to start over again)

  • @rb032682
    @rb032682 5 років тому +15

    wow
    that tickled my brain a little

  • @geoffscott265
    @geoffscott265 5 років тому +15

    Groundhog minute.

  • @selvabavaani
    @selvabavaani 5 років тому +1

    It reminded me of Cube and Edge of tomorrow. Loved her reaction when she got fed up!! 😹😹😹

  • @casi9095
    @casi9095 2 роки тому

    Katharine Isabelle is so talented !
    I discovered her through the Netflix show “The Order” and she has been phenomenal in every role since youth. Wow

  • @antogs3203
    @antogs3203 5 років тому +10

    The first thing I thought was to try and test how weak the wall was with the furniture in the first room. Anyone else did alswell?

    • @johnnelson4260
      @johnnelson4260 5 років тому

      Totally. All I would need is a decent pair of boots to basically walk through those walls.

  • @littelprettyangel1
    @littelprettyangel1 5 років тому +19

    Human usually being curious discovers and invents new things and at a new level by challenging his own & his anscestors efforts and thinks that he is at the peak of Knowledge but he is actually still at the corner of the universe of Knowledge like a child exploring things (of this Expanding Universe.)

  • @ankoutechnica8211
    @ankoutechnica8211 5 років тому +8

    Highly engaging and entertaining! Acting and cinematography were good, scenery was sparse but effective, and the storyline intriguing. Kudos!

  • @opticalpower
    @opticalpower 4 роки тому +1

    🎥🎥🎥🎥👑👑👑👑💫❤️❤️❤️
    Amazing short film 🎞 keep going you do good my friend
    Kader : Artist & Vidéo Creator from Optical Power youtube (Las Vegas )

  • @adriananghel1677
    @adriananghel1677 4 роки тому +1

    NICE..... Pavlov's & BF Skinner experiment whit human in one control room whit getting ur most important needs in the prezent time of experiment..... (first room is Pavlov's 1 and second is Skinner 1)

  • @MegaRudeBoy69
    @MegaRudeBoy69 4 роки тому +8

    Katharine Isabelle, she was also great in the movie American Mary.

  • @vishnupriyatharshini7981
    @vishnupriyatharshini7981 5 років тому +8

    It's like life lessons, until we learn it we keep on doing the same thing... Life is somewhat MYSTERY and HISTORY... Sometimes we have to learn from our own, sometimes from life of others... But the truth you have to live the life... We can't hide or escape from what is happening... Whatever has to happen definitely it will happen...but it all for the good, it ends well if we make it perfect.. 🙂🌷

  • @avival66
    @avival66 5 років тому +17

    Original and good acting...bravo...l loved it💗💘💐🌼🐾🍄🌾🌲

  • @trevornelmes9331
    @trevornelmes9331 5 років тому +31

    That's just depressing. Rather like Groundhog Day. Reminds me of our lives. The futility of it sometimes. No escape.

    • @davidortega264
      @davidortega264 5 років тому

      There is always a scape, you just have to be smarter

    • @emilienmare1508
      @emilienmare1508 5 років тому +1

      Maybe instead of looking for an escape we should be looking for a way in?

    • @davidortega264
      @davidortega264 5 років тому

      @@emilienmare1508 explain that pls, my brain cries

    • @emilienmare1508
      @emilienmare1508 5 років тому +1

      I struggle with this myself but I guess instead of searching for a way "out of life" we could be completely immersed IN life. Completely aware of the magic of life, of every moment, every sound, every sensory feeling or emotional feeling, to truly be alive and to also really feel alive, what it's like to live and feel. Or like in the film to be truly immersed in something, life solving the problem in every room for them.

    • @davidortega264
      @davidortega264 5 років тому

      @@emilienmare1508 that makes sense, you should write a book confucio.Sorry for my english i am from chile xd

  • @waynelukovszki7796
    @waynelukovszki7796 5 років тому

    This would be kind of nerve wracking.

  • @macadamianut1196
    @macadamianut1196 5 років тому

    If y’all ever make a movie I’ll be there to watch it as soon as it comes out I’ve been binging these for so long

  • @Zarithos
    @Zarithos 4 роки тому +5

    #1. Oh girl in a room with a timer.
    #2. Ground Hog Day?
    #3. Oh! Machine Learning!

  • @rhythmic-fusion
    @rhythmic-fusion 5 років тому +6

    Moral of the story humans do need coexistence to work and to survive

  • @MysteriousMiddleEast
    @MysteriousMiddleEast 5 років тому +7

    Reminds me of Cube 2. 🤔

  • @trevorwilliams3501
    @trevorwilliams3501 2 роки тому

    Dust must be a bigger thing than I thought. They got Katherine Isabelle. Good for them.

  • @psychicrenegade
    @psychicrenegade 3 роки тому +1

    Love the symbolism!!! Movies like this one help people understand that the true nature of our reality is fractal.

  • @quillmaurer6563
    @quillmaurer6563 5 років тому +6

    9:12 so relatable!
    It took quite a while to see where they were going with this, but in the end I see some of the best commentary on life I've ever seen put on film. Stuck in an infinite loop, once you fulfill one "challenge" in life you're just faced another one, all with no end goal, at least not one our capitalist society that glorifies working ourselves to death promotes. To get anything from life we must bust our way out to find some meaning somehow.

    • @florencepierce1864
      @florencepierce1864 2 роки тому

      Wow! I was just agreeing with another post from 3 years ago on how they should climb the tree: I think they should do that After finding each other by breaking through walls. After all, we’re a combination of pack/herd animals & we need all need help. But I was so caught up in the drama I hadn’t thought, yep, that’s all of us in this life, sometimes trying to work out the seemingly random details & connections, sometimes bashing futilely away with brute force, sometimes giving up & going: “Nah! F**K It!!!” before getting up again with renewed vigor.
      And sometimes, just Sometimes- we see All the Connections, like we’re getting a glimpse behind the curtain at the inner-workings of the Universe & (just for a second) we See (& Understand) Everything.
      And then it all goes away & we go back to putting our heads down & bashing through walls & not understanding Anything!

  • @violetbunny4548
    @violetbunny4548 5 років тому +8

    would be a good representation of thinking out of the box

  • @seamus9305
    @seamus9305 4 роки тому +6

    Reminds me of reoccurring dreams I've had that would play over and over until I confronted a situation.

  • @davidbrogan606
    @davidbrogan606 5 років тому +1

    Thank God there's no such thing as reincarnation.

  • @Kahless_the_Unforgettable
    @Kahless_the_Unforgettable 3 роки тому

    They do what they must because they can. For the good of all of us, except the ones who are dead.

  • @varunr3057
    @varunr3057 5 років тому +59

    Girl in a quest of going NOWHERE !!

    • @NenadKralj
      @NenadKralj 5 років тому +9

      they are both on a quest / road to nowhere / just like life

    • @childrenofthesun471
      @childrenofthesun471 5 років тому +3

      Thats life man

    • @varunr3057
      @varunr3057 5 років тому

      @@childrenofthesun471 haha that's true.

    • @childrenofthesun471
      @childrenofthesun471 5 років тому +1

      @@varunr3057 the sad truth:(

    • @markuse3472
      @markuse3472 5 років тому

      @@childrenofthesun471 It's sad that most find evolution as fact when there is Zero evidence for it, but deny God when there is plenty evidence in life and the Bible is proven accurate time and time and again. There is a paradise Earth awaiting those who choose to do Gods will today, and they will live for ever upon a perfect Earth and system, never getting old and no crime of any kind. This is a sad truth for those who fight against this truth and deny God.