"Like Us" by was created by the talented Mikhail Saburov and his "out of this world" team. Be sure to check out Mikhail's Instagram and websites to keep up with the film and his other creative endeavors: instagram.com/michaeldsaburov/ www.msaburov.com/ www.likeusfilm.org/
So good. She did the kind thing, saving him from further suffering, and got killed for it. We ARE less developed beings when we will allow terminal human patients to suffer and die in distress or agony, and yet we will call the Vet to put our little darling animals to sleep under the same circumstances.
first law of self preservation first sign of something crashing to the ground report it to the police and stay well away and not not try to visit crash site
A point that has not been mentioned yet is, in my opinion, Jim was communicating with the alien. He asked her to end his life, and that kiss on the forehead was from Jim to Kathy.
I think so as well. But if Rogl had something like "Jim says he loves you, and goodbye" before the end it would have been a bit better rather than the sudden abrupt ending.
As someone who used to work in elder care, sometime you wonder if it’s inhumane to keep people alive in certain conditions, the worst I’ve seen is a room with two women, both paralyzed by hardened muscles laying in bed all day everyday, then I learnt they had been in that same room for 6 years, can’t communicate, severe Alzheimer’s/dementia, all they can do is scream when they’re cleaned or turned over from the either pain or fear who knows, no family or friends ever came. They had feeding tubes to administer medications and food, imagine being in that state for years, at least this man has company and external stimulation and is in his own home but the thought of existing in that state is horrifying to me.
"As someone who used to work in elder care, sometime you wonder if it’s inhumane to keep people alive in certain conditions..." You would not do that to your pets...
Powerful. The actors were phenomenal. My mother was a doctor and I am pretty certain she helped my father find peace when he died in 1992. He was extremely fit and had been diagnosed with cardiomyopathy in 1983, when he was given six months to live. He spent most of the next nine years in hospital but they kept inventing new drugs that kept him alive - but existing, not living. By the end had no quality of life at all - bed-ridden, weak, nauseated, in constant pain and so thirsty nothing would quench his thirst plus he couldn’t drink anyway because of all the diuretics. When a terminally ill person has no quality of life, no enjoyment, no pleasure and their existence is reduced to an endless torment of constant suffering and pain, euthanasia is an act of kindness.
I'm not sure if I'm naive, but from reading most of the comments, I didn't notice anyone commenting on the alien's tears in the end. She developed feelings or emotion, an indication that she started to become a human, just "Like Us". Bravo to the film maker.
There is a common danger of anthropomorphization. Humans are accustomed to interacting with humans and their brains are specialized in it to a degree that humans see a 'face' in two dots and a curved line. But the two dots and a curved line are NOT happy... that's what a HUMAN would feel. Humans do the same very regularly with animals, attributing human preferences and feelings to them that can sometimes result in horrific care for the animals which actually prefer very different situations but which humans refuse to accept or understand. This works both ways sometimes... cats only meow to humans and not each other because they learn that this tone (the exact tone of a human baby wailing) causes specific reactions in humans. In this situation, we see an alien shed a tear and look confused, but there could be any number of reasons why this might be, not the least of which is that it is an ALIEN and any number of things on this planet might be irritants to it. But for all we know these emotionless aliens also secrete tears to signal a 'job well done'. It would be strange if an alien found humans to be simultaneously primitive and hard to understand and yet they themselves were so transparent to us.
@@HerculesBallsInc No. If the script writer/ director had a scene in which the alien was tearing up, we can assume that they wish to convey exactly what the OP said. It would be silly to have the tears mean something completely foreign to the typical human experience. After all, they created the film short for HUMANS, not aliens. Sheesh, take a basic film course.
@johnconroy3078 go to any pub in Twerton, Bath, U.K. Perfect #1 location I swear you will not be disappointed 😊😅 Just follow the knuckle-drag marks on the road
It’s bizarre that we decide that certain types of life are too cruel for our pets, but not for people, yet our pets have proven over & over that they love, think, dream & hope.
Interesting that you would say that. I view everything through the perspective found in the Briefings from the Allies of Humanity and other works by the same author, and this was the most accurate of any I have seen, somehow just intuitively as correct as could be. Astonishing, really.
It also showed a bit of what id taking place now. When the alien said that they share no emotions with their children,just a donor so ta speak. That is what all this transhumanism is trying to push to today 2022. They want parents to be the breeders & creators yet let the state have them to raise as a society they want them,as of now,eventually all children will be grown eventually & the only procreation will be by these sick & twisted elites. Thats what i foumd that small little part to interpret.
The alien seemed to think that she helped her. Anyway, she said she would help her. In an emotionless civilization, the death of a person like Jim is the final solution to a problem. On the other hand, just before the alien broke Jim's neck, his gaze and the way he closed his eyes, did they say he was ready to die? Who is in a more difficult situation, a woman left behind by her daughter and completely alone after her husband's death, or her husband paralyzed but surrounded by care and love? It is complicated and raises many questions about humanity that the alien did not know and understand, even though she tried.
I think when she cried that tear in the end, she did.. remember she said, language is easy? I think she easily could read his thoughts and he begged her to die. And she did what he asked of her. And I think she was at least trying to understand and change, where Kathy was not.
No matter how great the love and care is, freedom is always above all. I think he also loved her so much just like she did but was unable to show it. He was stucked into his paralyzed body for forever. It was just as painful to him to see his loved one suffer everyday but can't do anything to support her. The alien girl just wanted to help and he begged her to let him free and she did what she thought is logical. Her intentions were just to help and maybe it was not the correct way for his wife. She couldn't believe that his love died. The most painful thing ever. But in order to keep his love close she ignored his freedom. In between love and freedom, what humans mostly choose?
@@mrsprite399 "In order to keep his love close she ignored his freedom." Damn, that's well put. And strikes *very* close to home for me... quite literally. That *hurt* to read but thank you for saying it. You're right. I know I'd rather be dead than hopeless.
Maybe his death will initiate her daughter's return. Maybe daughter couldn't handle seeing her dad incapacitated, with his suffering ended maybe her relationship with daughter can be restored.
I really enjoyed this short video! I admit, when I saw the craft crashing I assumed aliens would heal Jim. Cliche'. Then, after observing the alien for a while it crossed my mind that she might terminate him. Based on her culture that made sense. Even so I was surprised when she actually broke his neck. The alien certainly learned love, she simply expressed it based on her values and culture. Well done!
Sweden just legalized euthanasia capsules. Lie down, push button, pleasant eternal sleep. Capsule is flooded with nitrogen. Without CO2 there's no sense of suffocation, you just fade out. Correction: Make that Switzerland, not Sweden. My bad!
While life seems to not be a choice of our own, the decision to end it and the manner we choose should be up to us. To interfere or suggest a lack of mental fitness is belittling and begs the answer to who does our lives actually belong to? IMO
We have it in Canada. It's called "Medical Assistance in Dying"; known as MAID for short. I know people who have chosen the exit to their life; to end with dignity and on their own time.
In the back of my “open end’ mind I am hoping the “drip” sound was just after she shut off the tap to give her the water, even just to ask her why, or not be alone. I know how difficult that type of care can be and, well~ found this profound and sadly beautiful in it’s own rights. Sometimes we need that strength, and someone to decide the proper path for us. GREAT ACTING! You could see it in his eyes.
Poor old Jimmy. Had a friend with throat cancer who had a feeding tube (and no Oesophagus) but used to miss the process of eating so much he’d make me bring him takeaway food so he could enjoy the taste. He’d chew it up and spit it out (he couldn’t swallow) just to taste something.
Let see if i got it right. The first one is stuck with a half-dead husband and an absent daughter, the second is stuck in a body that no longer works and the third is stuck on an alien planet far from home. They all got some kind of deliverance.
For the first part… Been faced with many a helpless animal or birds in various settings and you do learn “cruel to be kind” is the only way to go especially in the times before mobile phones. For the second part… Well… ya just can’t survive without… “WATER”! Well deserving of a very big 👍
We are given many stories, some in the form of videos. When a story invokes powerful emotions and teaches us it has done its job. This story "Like Us" is a powerful story. Among other things it teaches us love, compassion and mercy. We have been edified by a master story teller. Thank you.
A lot of comments say they wanted more, but i think it was just right. One thing i like is the trope of somebody going out into a field to investigate a crashed ship, i mean, imma outta there quick fast lol
Wow this was really good. I love the emotions this filmed stirred in me. It really makes you ponder the meaning of life and love. In these modern times it is more important than ever to create art that reflects possible futures at us. Thanks to all involved in creating this wonderful film I really enjoyed!
When you are a self professed "higher lifeform" you do not have the need to communicate important matters to" lower lifeforms", even when the matter in question is entirely their's, and not your's. A masterpiece of Libtardation, indeed!
Excellent! Humans profess that life is scared and must be saved at all costs but millions are dying in hideous ways in the world as I write this and we do not suffer for them. It is more accurate to say life must be maintained if we have the connection of love with the dying person which then makes it all about us and not the dying person at all. When Kathy killed the alien she proved that.
That was riveting the whole way through. That was excellent I cannot say enough I would love to have seen 10 more minutes of it hell I would have liked to watch the full-length feature this really does have a great storyline
Nice. The evil of "suffocating love". Topical with all the euthanasia debate around when life is too cruel and without dignity and death becomes the proper merciful option that so many people are just petrified of admitting. A big part of not letting people go is the excruciating pain of grief... but it's pure selfishness to hold on.
Yeah i was thinking along those lines. This one like So many here on this channel could easily be turned into a multi part series at minimal. Loved the Alien's look with the eyes
OMG, this is an amazing good story with good actors! The end, I have never expect that, that end is for me double: - 1. That pathetic totally paralyzed husband of hers has been put out of his misery by that human-looking alien to give that woman a new finer life (with her hopefully now returning daughter)! - 2. But that woman shoots that alien because she killed her husband and she finds that terrible because she loves her husband and wants to take care of him! But what happend next?! Is that woman going to let that injured alien heal herself again by letting her drink water again?! .... To really have someone to be with again, to be able to talk and share things together.... That is the open question that remains for the viewer and his or her fantasy, and I always think that is extra cool for an end of a movie!
Her husband was far from being pathetic. He was paralyzed, but he was able to communicate with the alien. His eyes spoke volumes when he looked towards Rogl before she snapped his neck. I also argue that he had strength that many of us could not fathom due to being forced to live in that condition. What the wife did by shooting Rogl was understandable, but it opened up a question. The question is, is it really love to force someone to live in that kind of state as opposed to letting that person go when it's time? The husband was still alive with a feeding tube, but the wife didn't seem to acknowledge that perhaps her husband wanted to go.
@@cafemochavibe: yes, I know he is but in spite of that everything is possible! My vision and your vision! Nothing is wrong or good, nothing is true or falsehood! It is all about how you look at things, how you think and feel about things: no more, no less, and that is what I mean by my above standing respons! And that's what this end makes an open end, for me anyway! Everyone can fill the end by his or her own way! The most important thing of this short SF film, I find, is that it is a good one with good acting!
wow this was really great I wish more movies made you think about how life and death isn't so black and white. sometimes people living like, death is a release. alien did it to release Kathy from her pain as she would never be able to let her husband go. great work!
Wow, I’m just cleaning my face dry. The emotions and acting was spot on. The open ending leaves me wanting this to be a series and learn more on Ro’s kind.
Great short. I expected she was going to use her recuperative abilities to save him. I didn't understand why Rogl started to leave when she discovered she was crying.
She left because she knew Cathy was angry and didn't want her there. She left because nothing had ever moved her to cry a tear before, and I think she started to understand that she overstepped her place, and even though what she did, in her eyes was helping them both, she didn't know human beings enough to understand that we are extremely complex creatures. Just because we are sad doesmt mean we want someone to come in and take it all away. Ro didn't understand that until that teat fell. But, she didn't believe she would let her die either. Who knows if she did. That's the beauty of the ending. 💧💔
Wow. Every moment of this film, was absolutely brilliant. Absolutely nothing less than a truly perfect film. I couldn't find one flaw.. the thing that was startling was, the alien species learned how to he more human, but as humans, the lesser developed of the 2, the human woman could not see her husband begging her to let him go, with those eyes.. Ro did. And it's an innate flaw we have as humans... to hold on as long as we can, even when they are suffering... because we don't feel like it's our place to end their suffering... because.. we are human and have empathy.. but in the higher species, empathy would mean letting them go, and ending their suffering. . It's a beautiful heartbreaking conundrum. Sorry. Just a very emotional film.
Perhaps killing the alien and then withholding water to allow her to die was ALSO a mercy killing since the alien never answered how she'd be able to get home!!!
You know something - this was a helluva movie with some really great moments that the viewing audience clearly picked up on. Sorry for you grammarians I ended the sentence with a preposition. Ole Mrs. Gillespie from 9th grade English would shoot me for this! Enough said!
Gee that was fun. And predictable just about from the first frame on. I love to see paralyzed people get their necks broken and entirely sympathetic young women characters I've been manipulated into caring about get shot in the back, who then suffer their last moments horribly. Now I can carry on my day with a light and joyful heart. Thanks!
Interesting concept. Could she actually communicate with him? Or was it just her alien emotional lack that allowed her to see that he was suffering, not living. His wife was too close. Holding on to hope where there was none. But like a typical human, she lashed out in anger & revenge & wouldn’t undo that damage, even when she could.
I was ready to say I didn't like it, then I read some comments and re-watched it. Viewing in the context of "a dignified end/quality of life" perspective I get it now. My hats off to cast and crew. Thank you for a creative way to deliver a difficult perspective.
WTF??? 😳 this was soo good, literally had me shedding a few tears but the ending threw me for a loop. I see how it could be interpreted a few different ways, but OUCH!! That ending!!!!
That got dark fast.............hearing the dripping water at the end tells me she got the water.....but then again, I'm a half glass full kinda guy....
She was investigating primitive, developing lifeforms. Stupid, emotional woman, the wife, is incapable of processing anything beyond her tiny myopic world, the outcome of which she kills the alien, and is now completely alone (not at all surprising the daughter left as soon as possible). Sadly, the visiting alien proved her point, this really is an undeveloped, primitive lifeform, prone to irrational (and violent) thought processes. The takeaway here, humanoids here are still too backward and primitive to have any real interaction with alien lifeforms. As for the production itself, very well done and thought provoking, among the better examples of the artform DUST has presented.
What I don't get is why there was always so many dishes to wash. And how the alien had such a brilliant command of the English language, put had no idea what emotions even were. That said, it was a decent short film, better than most that Dust puts out, and the 'open' ending was ok for once.
She'd been observing humans, so she was probably studying our languages via transmissions. Emotions are hard to understand when your culture doesn't have them.
@@johnforensicman6179 They know that because it was clearly explained by the story. If you are too irrational to hold an adult conversation then I suggest you refrain from trying to start them.
OMG I did not see that coming :( so I'm really dismayed by ending. But amazing actress played Kathie and she was compelling to watch. And here's just an off the wall interpretation of film - Kathie is hallucinating the whole alien encounter, after all it is just wild that 'Ro' is about same age and size as daughter, Kathie's daughter who is 'alienated' from family - yes I said it :)
This was beautiful! It opens up a host of questions about life, death, and how we perceive our loved ones' needs. It also asks the question, are we truly doing what is best for our loved ones during their suffering or are we thinking more about our needs?
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Where was this filmed? Beautiful scenery.
So good. She did the kind thing, saving him from further suffering, and got killed for it. We ARE less developed beings when we will allow terminal human patients to suffer and die in distress or agony, and yet we will call the Vet to put our little darling animals to sleep under the same circumstances.
first law of self preservation first sign of something crashing to the ground report it to the police and stay well away and not not try to visit crash site
I just don't like the ending. I heard the water drip. Incomplete film. It's a good story but the ending, Welp.... It's incomplete. Just my thoughts.
A point that has not been mentioned yet is, in my opinion, Jim was communicating with the alien. He asked her to end his life, and that kiss on the forehead was from Jim to Kathy.
Excellent read and thank you for mentioning it.
Sounds good your explaination
I think so as well. But if Rogl had something like "Jim says he loves you, and goodbye" before the end it would have been a bit better rather than the sudden abrupt ending.
yes definitely, so it’s good that Rogl entered into their lives, because Kathy would never have been able to let Jim go which is what he needed
@@alo5301 agree,I was thinking the same thing. He wanted piece "
As someone who used to work in elder care, sometime you wonder if it’s inhumane to keep people alive in certain conditions, the worst I’ve seen is a room with two women, both paralyzed by hardened muscles laying in bed all day everyday, then I learnt they had been in that same room for 6 years, can’t communicate, severe Alzheimer’s/dementia, all they can do is scream when they’re cleaned or turned over from the either pain or fear who knows, no family or friends ever came. They had feeding tubes to administer medications and food, imagine being in that state for years, at least this man has company and external stimulation and is in his own home but the thought of existing in that state is horrifying to me.
You described the hell. Its not the place where we go after, its the place where we life, until we find our freedom in the dead.
@@BeautyOfGaia
Exactly. Hell is on Earth.
'Locked in' syndrome... Terrible, horrifying and actually quite common (in varying degrees)...
Scares the hell out of me, I know that...
"As someone who used to work in elder care, sometime you wonder if it’s inhumane to keep people alive in certain conditions..."
You would not do that to your pets...
@@rztrzt If you did that to your pets you would be arrwsted.
Powerful. The actors were phenomenal.
My mother was a doctor and I am pretty certain she helped my father find peace when he died in 1992.
He was extremely fit and had been diagnosed with cardiomyopathy in 1983, when he was given six months to live. He spent most of the next nine years in hospital but they kept inventing new drugs that kept him alive - but existing, not living. By the end had no quality of life at all - bed-ridden, weak, nauseated, in constant pain and so thirsty nothing would quench his thirst plus he couldn’t drink anyway because of all the diuretics.
When a terminally ill person has no quality of life, no enjoyment, no pleasure and their existence is reduced to an endless torment of constant suffering and pain, euthanasia is an act of kindness.
I'm not sure if I'm naive, but from reading most of the comments, I didn't notice anyone commenting on the alien's tears in the end. She developed feelings or emotion, an indication that she started to become a human, just "Like Us". Bravo to the film maker.
There is a common danger of anthropomorphization. Humans are accustomed to interacting with humans and their brains are specialized in it to a degree that humans see a 'face' in two dots and a curved line. But the two dots and a curved line are NOT happy... that's what a HUMAN would feel. Humans do the same very regularly with animals, attributing human preferences and feelings to them that can sometimes result in horrific care for the animals which actually prefer very different situations but which humans refuse to accept or understand. This works both ways sometimes... cats only meow to humans and not each other because they learn that this tone (the exact tone of a human baby wailing) causes specific reactions in humans. In this situation, we see an alien shed a tear and look confused, but there could be any number of reasons why this might be, not the least of which is that it is an ALIEN and any number of things on this planet might be irritants to it. But for all we know these emotionless aliens also secrete tears to signal a 'job well done'. It would be strange if an alien found humans to be simultaneously primitive and hard to understand and yet they themselves were so transparent to us.
@@HerculesBallsInc No. If the script writer/ director had a scene in which the alien was tearing up, we can assume that they wish to convey exactly what the OP said. It would be silly to have the tears mean something completely foreign to the typical human experience. After all, they created the film short for HUMANS, not aliens. Sheesh, take a basic film course.
"Why are you here?"
"I was researching less developed lifeforms"
I really must use that line sometime, possibly not in a city centre pub though.
And yet a pub in the rough part of town would be the ideal location for such a line 🤣
😂😂😂😂
@johnconroy3078 go to any pub in Twerton, Bath, U.K.
Perfect #1 location I swear you will not be disappointed 😊😅
Just follow the knuckle-drag marks on the road
"What did you do, Ro?!?"
"In my planet we call it 'euthanasia'. You're welcome, Kathy."
Light years of travel, conceivably trillions of miles…and it’s that LAST mile that always gets these alien spacecrafts.
The landing gear seems to be screwed up in almost every alien movie.
That last mile is where all of the human-caused space debris is.
It’s bizarre that we decide that certain types of life are too cruel for our pets, but not for people, yet our pets have proven over & over that they love, think, dream & hope.
I love that lady is so chill about meeting an actual alien. Refreshing
The most unique type of alien I have ever seen. Fabulous plot. Excellent punch line
Interesting that you would say that. I view everything through the perspective found in the Briefings from the Allies of Humanity and other works by the same author, and this was the most accurate of any I have seen, somehow just intuitively as correct as could be. Astonishing, really.
It also showed a bit of what id taking place now. When the alien said that they share no emotions with their children,just a donor so ta speak. That is what all this transhumanism is trying to push to today 2022. They want parents to be the breeders & creators yet let the state have them to raise as a society they want them,as of now,eventually all children will be grown eventually & the only procreation will be by these sick & twisted elites. Thats what i foumd that small little part to interpret.
@@marysagar Then you need a good psychiatrist.
The alien seemed to think that she helped her. Anyway, she said she would help her. In an emotionless civilization, the death of a person like Jim is the final solution to a problem. On the other hand, just before the alien broke Jim's neck, his gaze and the way he closed his eyes, did they say he was ready to die? Who is in a more difficult situation, a woman left behind by her daughter and completely alone after her husband's death, or her husband paralyzed but surrounded by care and love? It is complicated and raises many questions about humanity that the alien did not know and understand, even though she tried.
I think when she cried that tear in the end, she did.. remember she said, language is easy? I think she easily could read his thoughts and he begged her to die. And she did what he asked of her. And I think she was at least trying to understand and change, where Kathy was not.
No matter how great the love and care is, freedom is always above all. I think he also loved her so much just like she did but was unable to show it. He was stucked into his paralyzed body for forever. It was just as painful to him to see his loved one suffer everyday but can't do anything to support her. The alien girl just wanted to help and he begged her to let him free and she did what she thought is logical. Her intentions were just to help and maybe it was not the correct way for his wife. She couldn't believe that his love died. The most painful thing ever. But in order to keep his love close she ignored his freedom.
In between love and freedom, what humans mostly choose?
@@mrsprite399 "In order to keep his love close she ignored his freedom."
Damn, that's well put. And strikes *very* close to home for me... quite literally. That *hurt* to read but thank you for saying it. You're right. I know I'd rather be dead than hopeless.
It seemed he was asking to be allowed to die. The alien could sense this somehow. If only she would have explained it to the wife first
Maybe his death will initiate her daughter's return. Maybe daughter couldn't handle seeing her dad incapacitated, with his suffering ended maybe her relationship with daughter can be restored.
I really enjoyed this short video! I admit, when I saw the craft crashing I assumed aliens would heal Jim. Cliche'. Then, after observing the alien for a while it crossed my mind that she might terminate him. Based on her culture that made sense. Even so I was surprised when she actually broke his neck. The alien certainly learned love, she simply expressed it based on her values and culture. Well done!
Talk about a TWIST! Dust never disappoints. Thank you Mr. Saburov!!
Yeah that twist almost made me jump out of my chair from the Quality sound effects, Was Not expecting that for a plot twist at all.
🤦🏻♂️
In this period in Italy a law is being discussed to make euthanasia legal. This film deals with the subject in a very original way.
I loved it!
Sweden just legalized euthanasia capsules. Lie down, push button, pleasant eternal sleep.
Capsule is flooded with nitrogen. Without CO2 there's no sense of suffocation, you just fade out.
Correction: Make that Switzerland, not Sweden. My bad!
@@ArtII2Long Switzerland. Not Sweden.
While life seems to not be a choice of our own, the decision to end it and the manner we choose should be up to us. To interfere or suggest a lack of mental fitness is belittling and begs the answer to who does our lives actually belong to? IMO
We have it in Canada. It's called "Medical Assistance in Dying"; known as MAID for short. I know people who have chosen the exit to their life; to end with dignity and on their own time.
How the hell does having control over your life have to be legalized?
Great to see good acting and good CHARACTERS in something like this!
In the back of my “open end’ mind I am hoping the “drip” sound was just after she shut off the tap to give her the water, even just to ask her why, or not be alone. I know how difficult that type of care can be and, well~ found this profound and sadly beautiful in it’s own rights. Sometimes we need that strength, and someone to decide the proper path for us. GREAT ACTING! You could see it in his eyes.
Poor old Jimmy. Had a friend with throat cancer who had a feeding tube (and no Oesophagus) but used to miss the process of eating so much he’d make me bring him takeaway food so he could enjoy the taste. He’d chew it up and spit it out (he couldn’t swallow) just to taste something.
Let see if i got it right. The first one is stuck with a half-dead husband and an absent daughter, the second is stuck in a body that no longer works and the third is stuck on an alien planet far from home. They all got some kind of deliverance.
For the first part… Been faced with many a helpless animal or birds in various settings and you do learn “cruel to be kind” is the only way to go especially in the times before mobile phones.
For the second part… Well… ya just can’t survive without… “WATER”!
Well deserving of a very big 👍
It's been a short while since one of these made me well up. This was incredible. Louise Martin - take a bow. What an amazing performance.
Now you know why they say... NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED!
We are given many stories, some in the form of videos. When a story invokes powerful emotions and teaches us it has done its job. This story "Like Us" is a powerful story. Among other things it teaches us love, compassion and mercy.
We have been edified by a master story teller.
Thank you.
Well done!
Hey, she was just trying to help - both of them.
Logic vs Emotion, the eternal battle.
A lot of comments say they wanted more, but i think it was just right. One thing i like is the trope of somebody going out into a field to investigate a crashed ship, i mean, imma outta there quick fast lol
I love the ending where Kathy goes out and gives Rogl water and then they get married. Best dust short
Wow, nice one. Cold and logic, pure reason.
Twist at the end. Can't believe the droid snapped his neck. How rude.
Sadness.... always sadness.
Wow this was really good. I love the emotions this filmed stirred in me. It really makes you ponder the meaning of life and love. In these modern times it is more important than ever to create art that reflects possible futures at us. Thanks to all involved in creating this wonderful film I really enjoyed!
Love tends to give us license to do strange things and even with best intent, a selfish reason turns into a painful prison.
Total masterpiece. Every single second. When it ended I was too disappointed, I wished it would continue as a feature film! Great job everyone! ✨💧🪐💧✨
When you are a self professed "higher lifeform" you do not have the need to communicate important matters to" lower lifeforms", even when the matter in question is entirely their's, and not your's. A masterpiece of Libtardation, indeed!
I just had to watch this again. i wish more shows and movies were as moving and thought provoking as this in today film industry.
Well done. A great movie. Well written , well acted . Everything that a short film should be. Thank You
Excellent! Humans profess that life is scared and must be saved at all costs but millions are dying in hideous ways in the world as I write this and we do not suffer for them. It is more accurate to say life must be maintained if we have the connection of love with the dying person which then makes it all about us and not the dying person at all. When Kathy killed the alien she proved that.
The alien woman will self heal, report back that our species are aggressive and ignorant. The invasion begins.
Totally awesome movie. If it doesn't grab you ,your not human!!
That was riveting the whole way through. That was excellent I cannot say enough I would love to have seen 10 more minutes of it hell I would have liked to watch the full-length feature this really does have a great storyline
This is why i subscribed to DUST👍
Second best Dust short I've ever watched. I'm not a fan of open-ended ambiguous ends but this is really good.
Nice. The evil of "suffocating love". Topical with all the euthanasia debate around when life is too cruel and without dignity and death becomes the proper merciful option that so many people are just petrified of admitting. A big part of not letting people go is the excruciating pain of grief... but it's pure selfishness to hold on.
Excellent actors and beautifully crafted. I expected the husband would be healed but no such luck.
Yeah i was thinking along those lines. This one like So many here on this channel could easily be turned into a multi part series at minimal. Loved the Alien's look with the eyes
The wife is an amazing actress, this was just amazing to watch. Well done to the production team
OMG, this is an amazing good story with good actors!
The end, I have never expect that, that end is for me double:
- 1. That pathetic totally paralyzed husband of hers has been put out of his misery by that human-looking alien to give that woman a new finer life (with her hopefully now returning daughter)!
- 2. But that woman shoots that alien because she killed her husband and she finds that terrible because she loves her husband and wants to take care of him!
But what happend next?!
Is that woman going to let that injured alien heal herself again by letting her drink water again?! ....
To really have someone to be with again, to be able to talk and share things together....
That is the open question that remains for the viewer and his or her fantasy, and I always think that is extra cool for an end of a movie!
Her husband was far from being pathetic. He was paralyzed, but he was able to communicate with the alien. His eyes spoke volumes when he looked towards Rogl before she snapped his neck. I also argue that he had strength that many of us could not fathom due to being forced to live in that condition. What the wife did by shooting Rogl was understandable, but it opened up a question. The question is, is it really love to force someone to live in that kind of state as opposed to letting that person go when it's time? The husband was still alive with a feeding tube, but the wife didn't seem to acknowledge that perhaps her husband wanted to go.
@@cafemochavibe: yes, I know he is but in spite of that everything is possible!
My vision and your vision!
Nothing is wrong or good, nothing is true or falsehood!
It is all about how you look at things, how you think and feel about things: no more, no less, and that is what I mean by my above standing respons!
And that's what this end makes an open end, for me anyway!
Everyone can fill the end by his or her own way!
The most important thing of this short SF film, I find, is that it is a good one with good acting!
We love our kids as a survival adaptation. A child born into this world without loving parents...as all but doomed.
Excellent chiropractic technique
A total former soccer mom’s response to an AI dropping into their backyard. Captured perfectly.
Jim had it comin. You saw how he was lookin at that young extraterrestrial hussy
The detail of the hearthbeats, is really, REALLY clever.
🐼 Big Bear Hugs from a 68 yr old grandma in Kirby, Texas, USA 🐼 ❤ 🎀 ❤ 🎀
Ah, old time eye acting . What a beautiful short film .Thank you !
the saddest part for me was when the alien said that the daughter didn't love the mom ... it was sad to hear those words ..
Yep...."Aliens get away from this orbiting cesspool while you have the chance".
wow this was really great I wish more movies made you think about how life and death isn't so black and white. sometimes people living like, death is a release. alien did it to release Kathy from her pain as she would never be able to let her husband go. great work!
Wow, I’m just cleaning my face dry. The emotions and acting was spot on. The open ending leaves me wanting this to be a series and learn more on Ro’s kind.
Great short. I expected she was going to use her recuperative abilities to save him. I didn't understand why Rogl started to leave when she discovered she was crying.
She left because she knew Cathy was angry and didn't want her there. She left because nothing had ever moved her to cry a tear before, and I think she started to understand that she overstepped her place, and even though what she did, in her eyes was helping them both, she didn't know human beings enough to understand that we are extremely complex creatures. Just because we are sad doesmt mean we want someone to come in and take it all away. Ro didn't understand that until that teat fell. But, she didn't believe she would let her die either. Who knows if she did. That's the beauty of the ending. 💧💔
Wow. Every moment of this film, was absolutely brilliant. Absolutely nothing less than a truly perfect film. I couldn't find one flaw.. the thing that was startling was, the alien species learned how to he more human, but as humans, the lesser developed of the 2, the human woman could not see her husband begging her to let him go, with those eyes.. Ro did. And it's an innate flaw we have as humans... to hold on as long as we can, even when they are suffering... because we don't feel like it's our place to end their suffering... because.. we are human and have empathy.. but in the higher species, empathy would mean letting them go, and ending their suffering. . It's a beautiful heartbreaking conundrum. Sorry. Just a very emotional film.
So well summarised!
It was an amazing journey as a film.
Difficult but incredibly well crafted and the acting was outstanding.
Perhaps killing the alien and then withholding water to allow her to die was ALSO a mercy killing since the alien never answered how she'd be able to get home!!!
I'm with Jim...pull the plug.
It is a quality of life thing.
You are not alone- proceeds to leave her entirely alone. Oof.
Louise Martin is amazing in this piece.
"Well, I'm Kathie from... Arizona." Great line. :)
Great movie. Wish it was longer.
Water is Life
You know something - this was a helluva movie with some really great moments that the viewing audience clearly
picked up on. Sorry for you grammarians I ended the sentence with a preposition. Ole Mrs. Gillespie from 9th grade English would shoot me for this! Enough said!
Louise Martin is an incredible actress.
Gee that was fun. And predictable just about from the first frame on. I love to see paralyzed people get their necks broken and entirely sympathetic young women characters I've been manipulated into caring about get shot in the back, who then suffer their last moments horribly. Now I can carry on my day with a light and joyful heart. Thanks!
Thank you people from Dust, appreciate your beautiful work your make
Dust doesn't make these films. They just present the films, they are all made by different filmmakers around the world. Cheers!
The way the alien snapped dude's neck, then kissed that lady on the forehead.........LOL!
Interesting concept. Could she actually communicate with him? Or was it just her alien emotional lack that allowed her to see that he was suffering, not living. His wife was too close. Holding on to hope where there was none. But like a typical human, she lashed out in anger & revenge & wouldn’t undo that damage, even when she could.
Work of art, fantastically acted with a heart wrenching story. Bravo.
Jim looks like Al Bundy. Another Great short by Dust.
I like the ending. Does she save the alien to avoid loneliness?
I think she saves her, why else go directly over to the sink?
We are capable of beauty of the heart and mindless darkness with every triggering moment that comes our way.
Oh no... Suspens made my heart stopped. Genius
Sigrid Owen was amazing.
When the Alien said "You do not Know"
Like she was going to say "We all Come Back, you might not remember, but we never Die.
I was ready to say I didn't like it, then I read some comments and re-watched it.
Viewing in the context of "a dignified end/quality of life" perspective I get it now.
My hats off to cast and crew.
Thank you for a creative way to deliver a difficult perspective.
This is masterpiece and I Have no words to describe how i felt watching this short
WTF??? 😳 this was soo good, literally had me shedding a few tears but the ending threw me for a loop. I see how it could be interpreted a few different ways, but OUCH!! That ending!!!!
Several interesting twists
Thank you..
That was very touching and emotional
Loved it!
That got dark fast.............hearing the dripping water at the end tells me she got the water.....but then again, I'm a half glass full kinda guy....
She was investigating primitive, developing lifeforms. Stupid, emotional woman, the wife, is incapable of processing anything beyond her tiny myopic world, the outcome of which she kills the alien, and is now completely alone (not at all surprising the daughter left as soon as possible). Sadly, the visiting alien proved her point, this really is an undeveloped, primitive lifeform, prone to irrational (and violent) thought processes. The takeaway here, humanoids here are still too backward and primitive to have any real interaction with alien lifeforms.
As for the production itself, very well done and thought provoking, among the better examples of the artform DUST has presented.
Painful and wonderful at the same time.
Wow! Another excellent one.
How absolutely emblematic of the human condition. We are a doomed species
Certified Gold!!!!!
What I don't get is why there was always so many dishes to wash. And how the alien had such a brilliant command of the English language, put had no idea what emotions even were. That said, it was a decent short film, better than most that Dust puts out, and the 'open' ending was ok for once.
She'd been observing humans, so she was probably studying our languages via transmissions. Emotions are hard to understand when your culture doesn't have them.
@@zarasbazaar How do you know that? It wasn't real! It was a just a fictional story. You do get that don't you?
@@johnforensicman6179 They know that because it was clearly explained by the story. If you are too irrational to hold an adult conversation then I suggest you refrain from trying to start them.
OMG I did not see that coming :( so I'm really dismayed by ending. But amazing actress played Kathie and she was compelling to watch. And here's just an off the wall interpretation of film - Kathie is hallucinating the whole alien encounter, after all it is just wild that 'Ro' is about same age and size as daughter, Kathie's daughter who is 'alienated' from family - yes I said it :)
Very good!
Well done. Sadly shows humanity for what it is.
Incredible work! Well done!
OMG, that's a gut wrenching story!
At last there's something really awesome on Dust
Amazing story and beautifully filmed, it had me hooked from beginning to the very last drop at the end - wonderful! 🥰
I don't know what kind of problems the filmmakers have, but it would be nice to see something at least ONCE that has a happy ending. Really now ..
Not on Dust. Check out some of the other indie short-subject producers.
Astounding.
This was beautiful! It opens up a host of questions about life, death, and how we perceive our loved ones' needs. It also asks the question, are we truly doing what is best for our loved ones during their suffering or are we thinking more about our needs?
The alien did the only logical thing...putting them both out of misery
Good story!!! Great ending!! Unique! Lived it😁👍👍👍👍👍