ANIMUS | Omeleto
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- Опубліковано 25 лис 2024
- A woman explains her husband's death.
ANIMUS is used with permission from Delaney Bishop. Learn more at bishoptakesque....
Melissa is a physicist and wife facing a police interrogation. Her third husband is dead, and she is suspected of murder. As Sarafina, the detective, probes her, she recounts her history with each one. Each marriage was different: one husband was a sadist who punished her, and another was controlling under the guise of being in love. And the latest has fallen to his death.
Melissa explains each death, though Sarafina is increasingly skeptical. She links each death together, offering a very novel -- or very delusional -- defense. She thinks each dead husband's energy entered into the next spouse, linked with certain phrases and symbols that keep repeating. Sarafina is not convinced. But when Melissa is offered the chance to break the pattern, the resulting events test the boundaries of belief for both Melissa and Sarafina.
Directed by Delaney Bishop from a script written by Ron Osborn, this stylishly crafted short drama-thriller uses a premise out of film noir -- a potential femme fatale with a string of dead husbands -- to explore patterns of abuse and trauma. The polished writing uses the structure of a crime interrogation to flesh out Melissa's story, setting up fascinating questions of not just her potential guilt, but how she finds herself, again and again, in these relationships.
Gleaming with strong, bold images and elegant camerawork, the film is visually polished and rarified, hinting at the upscale milieu that Melissa lives and works within. Yet Melissa's intellect and wealth cannot insulate her from finding herself in a series of toxic marriages. We only see hints of her dynamic with each husband, but Sarafina's investigation fills in the background information and a dissonant, dynamic musical score by System of a Down's Serj Tankian imbues the visual artfulness with uneasiness and dread.
Each small scene with Melissa's first two husbands portrays different types of cruelty and control, but they also hint at the strange parallels between each husband, linked most directly by the notion of "ying and yang" brought up by each husband. Actor Angela Sarafyan offers a hypnotic performance as Melissa, playing a wan, almost affectless demeanor that conceals a growing, worn-down brokenness with each troubled relationship. As Sarafina, actor Nancy Travis is the audience proxy as the tough and skeptical detective, yet she's not unsympathetic to Melissa's history.
Melissa's explanation is seemingly outlandish, like a strange, convoluted riff on reincarnation. And yet as ANIMUS builds up to Melissa's climactic decision -- one that may liberate her from the cycle -- it becomes a potent exploration of dangerous relationship patterns, underscored by the film's segue into an almost supernatural dimension at the end. We're left with a sense of disquiet: did Melissa truly break the pattern? Escape is never easy, freedom is hard-won and sometimes costly and the nightmare is sometimes not as far as one would hope.
I loved her role on Westworld and she continues to impress!
Great acting all around!
I didn't recognize Nancy Travis!!! I guess it's been awhile since I've seen her work. Angela Sarafyan has really hypnotizing eyes that I can't look away from. She has a very charismatic on-screen presence.
She played Maral in "the promess" as the planned wife of Mikael
Yeah she does ❤.Be good brudda.
Nancy looked more like Carie Fisher to me..
Very ironic to hear Nancy Travis start naming off dead husbands killed by their wife after her role in "So I Married an Axe Murderer." LOL!
@@vanrose9857 that is Right!!!
This is a compelling watch which had me gripped throughout. A strange, possibly supernatural, take on an all too familiar situation for so many in today's world. Well done on a great piece of work.
Brilliantly well done film about the nature of the cycle of abuse and its effects! It drew me in from the very first scene and held me until the end! Absolutely incredible job by all involved! Congratulations on an amazing film! 🎉🎊🍾🥂
She is a Host of Westworld
The disrespect and hatred each partner begins to feel leads to more and more emotional abuse and to each partner justifying inappropriate, even destructive, behaviour.
Victims hope the abuser will change one day....bares fact that the victim is afraid of their Abuser...
Victims 'Blame Themselves', but fall into a trap with successive partners....breaking the cycle of repeated psychological destruction is difficult.
some people have all the luck . . . and all the pain . . .
Wow I love Nancy Travis as a actress! Well done! I just wish you would have given us a more of a ending to the story! 😁💜💯
This girls face and eyes are so captivating on the screen.
Brilliant making and performances!
As long as number 3 is vegetative alive, there won't be a number 4.
SERJ TANKIAN did the SCORE for this film! 🎼🎵🎶
It felt phrygian lol.
For me, this is one of the most gorgeous woman there is
The cop or the killer?
Anger is not the strongest emotion. Love is. Set your hate aside, but it can be difficult. Sometimes very difficult.
Love never dies. You have to kill it. And that can be near impossible.
Ooof… that is deep and very true. It is better to have never loved than to have loved and lost - in my opinion. Because it is the strongest emotion. Anger:rage, second.
Why there is a fine like between love and hate.
BUT, the opposite of love is indifference.
😇
Also, maybe… the people you love the most can bring out the most anger?
This does not condone murder, etc…
But just to say, love and hate are extreme emotions, like horror and comedy-but they are both similar-they are exaggerated emotions.
@@bailey1493 Thanks for your thoughts. Despite the losses, I cannot imagine having lived without love. To have deeply loved my partners (not many, 3) and to have deeply loved my children (despite loss) seems irreplaceable to me. Just my $0.02.
A work of art really, thank you !
she's got killer eyes
★★★★☆☆☆
Brilliantly acted, perfectly-timed storytelling, perfect camera work and visuals, cool score. Two major issues though: W(tf) is the message? (The end is very illogical to me). And given the violence - physical as well as psychological - the film should be in the password-requiring 18+ section.
For once it mattered less that there are no subtitles, as the actors enunciate so well that even these auto captions were accurate. But do consider that not everyone can hear well. So subtitles ought to be a no-brainer default when you publish a film. We live in 2024.
Excellent work.
She's like a black widow 😮
2:15. Ouch
No. Black Widows kill because they can. She’s a woman defending herself from repeated abuse. There is a night and day difference between the two.
you got serj tankian for the music!!!
i did not know he made such chill and ambient music.
Wow, this got real dark, real fast...
In plain sight,
I don't understand the second one
they don't show why she couldn't adopt and he didn't show any aggression at the table when she said no to kids
if he was like a best friend, why would he abuse?
Apparently because the energy of her first husband entered his body and he became abusive over sudden. I too don't understand what her inability to have kids has to do with him abusing her.
@@-svet-ka- It didn't have anything to do with kids... it was the whole going on about destiny and fated to be together forever etc. that was the warning sign. It didn't come off as endearing, but rather creepy and possessive.
@@auzieten And the third husband - why would he get a yin-yang tattoo and show it to her when he knows she has a history and trauma surrounding it?
@@anonymouslearner2454 so, the evil from the first husband keeps transferring to anyone she marries?
@@BenniRocco36 not sure - by her physics explanation it seemed like she believed in something else
You're new. Not much of a rind on you.
☯️ that's enigmatic
Death becomes her.
Brilliantly acted
Ms Sarafyan is a decidedly lovely woman, and from what I've seen, a fine actor. In an alternate universe, I'm thirty years younger, met her by chance, fell in love, and married her. I hope we had a long life together.
I noticed there are a lot of Armenians associated with this film.
What if?
Well done.
Yes, her beauty
is exceptional.
To die for?
No.
_____
Who’s the guy in the coma? So confused
Her third husband. The guy at the beginning, laying in a puddle of blood.
@@rudylikestowatch ohhhhhhh
Thanks. Sooooo, did the film make sense to you all?
@@BenniRocco36 No. I really don’t get th punchline. Everything up to there was brilliant though. The acting, the visual, the score, the tempo of the storytelling.
You're supposed to be confused. How else could it be "arty"?
@@abraxasjinx5207 😄
7:53 why do they allow this woman to decide the destiny of her victim ? She shall be in jail not in hospital
She wasn't tried or convicted of any crime, so as his wife she would make decisions about his care.
Ran into the main character lady at Ralph's , we literally almost ran into each other!!😂
Cool
Creepy 😮😢
Maybe keep Ying and Yang seperate.
That's it? No conclusion? And not even in the "intentionally unended so the audience can decide" way? Ok, you're the "filmmaker".
that's homegirl from westworld i know those eyes and that bird-like? face
Wow, loved that, I would marry her!
So she is the female version of Joe off of “You.”
I ❤ here😅
😍" Angela Is So Gorgeous!!♥️💕 💯 😘😘😘
clementine!
Who wrote this? x'D
That was nothing.
The story was quite engaging but I was expecting an Omeleto style twist in the end but there wasn't sadly.
Yes, I was expecting the investigster and her to fall for each other 😊
There is no Omeleto style. It is an anthology of different films from different filmmakers.
Every film on Omeleto is created by different people. Omeleto is a channel that showcases the best short films created. Omeleto does not create any of the films.
OR women just drive us CRAZY.
Kaden Underpass
Brilliantly acted, filmed and executed💯That being said, for those you single guys out there looking to settle down, marry and have a family: DON'T DO IT🙅♂️Women are beautiful creatures, but DEADLY🖤Just have the best one night stand🍆💋🍑of your lives, and move on🤔If it goes wrong, you will NEVER RECOVER🤕
Don't make life decisions based on horror films.
@@rudylikestowatch I'm pretty sure he made his decision long before this film was ever made.
@@rudylikestowatch- Many relationship decisions lead to horror filled lives.
@@rudylikestowatch Horror??!?
I think you need some counseling, bub.
riding a pale white horse
7 khoon maaf
😂
males? interchangeable...
Started good.
Got ruined by MUH DIVERSITAH in the end.
Is that how you hire actors? Need one of each race to get funding or something?
Incredible you even notice. That says more about you, doesn’t it? I honestly did not even think about it.
@@clasencoach No, it says more about you that you do not notice it anymore.
Noticing such things is a natural state.
Not noticing = a natural state has been changed.
@@Rorschach1488_ Stupidity is also a natural state.