37 THINGS | Omeleto
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- A man only remembers 37 things.
37 THINGS is used with permission from Zane Roach. Learn more at / 37thingsmovie .
Timothy Owen has a unique brain: he can only remember 37 things at a time. As a result, he often has a hard time recalling important things because they're often muscled out by useless data, and his life often feels tenuous and uncertain.
He fights to hold onto his most precious memory: that of a woman named Emily, whom he loved. But as the world gets denser with information, his hold onto Emily's memory is challenged.
Both gently satirical and melancholic at once, this short, quietly surreal comedy short -- written and directed by Zane Roach -- has a sci-fi premise, philosophical bent and cheeky humor. But most of all, it has a subdued recognition of the role that memory plays in our identity and happiness, and how the most important moments of our life are often the most ineffable.
Shot in both luminous black and white and expressionistic color, the film has a free-wheeling style that keeps interest constantly engaged and compelling. A sense of playfulness animates everything from the rhythms of the editing to its use of old-fashioned visual effects.
But its guiding hallmark is the well-written, witty voiceover that pulls us through the story, allowing it to traverse unusually ambitious, eccentric thematic terrain. It captures how the world is dense with information about anything and everything: celebrity culture, allergies, memories of people, slang, local news reports, road safety rules, TV shows and more.
But it also captures the difficulty of Timothy's condition, and how Timothy must carefully curate the flow of this information into his head. Actor Scott Marcus plays both the humor and pathos of this condition, and walks the line between an almost old-fashioned clownishness and a genuinely desperate man struggling to keep his mind free of useless information. But keeping his mind uncluttered is a hard task in a world full of constant visual and informational stimulation, and he faces an uphill battle.
37 THINGS will resonate with fans of Charlie Kaufman and Terry Gilliam, both of whom also traffic in a surreal playfulness in their storytelling. It's a fitting approach to a story about information overload and its existential costs, and it pokes great fun at the uselessness of much of the data that surrounds us. But the film also builds to a genuinely moving, thought-provoking conclusion, with both hilarity and wistfulness spanning the poles of modern existence in all its struggle and silliness.
GENIUS!!! I was drawn right in, I was rooting for him.the whole movie, talking to my screen, giving him advice, so drawn in was I. What a wonderful and tragic piece of cinema. The story, the style, I loved it all.. but not more than he loved Emily!!
It's times like this people like me think...... You need to get out more,.. Connet to us other humans, and stop talking to your TV,.. X
This is definitely a story that does more by telling less. It's infuriating how much I want to know what really happened to Emily. The information is teased to us, but not explicit.
I also loved the humor and style. A+ short film!
I bet the letter said, "You're so forgetful. I can't be with you anymore, Tim. Good bye forever. Love, Emily"
LMAO
@@cahidijoyoraharjo7833 If you pause it at the exact frame (around 10:13) the letter says:
Dear Timothy,
I'm so sorry
I can't do this anymore
Please remember to forget
Love Emily xx
@@jeromeglick Well spotted! The note can also be translated if you are fluent in Wingdings :)
@@CurtainBoy LOL
@@jeromeglick Wow, I thought you were kidding, till I did it after trying 37 times...
The note said:
''Dear Timothy,
I'm so sorry I can't do this anymore Please remember to forget me
Love Emily''
And the street sign said: Dtmped St
I believe i'm correct. Great little detail hidden in the movie
Great movie, incredible ideia
One of those films where you don't know whether to laugh or cry so I did both! 🤣😥
It's so sad and depressing at the same time
Extraordinary film. Thematically, reminiscent of "Memento," but much less disturbing. Cinematography is superb. Well done.
my thoughts exactly!
I love how this movie is exactly 15 mins
I think I would have kept memory journals. Diaries. So at least my memories were captured... But then again I'd have to remember to write in them.
This is depressing, how our life became this superficial giving value to all the wrong things. We don't even know that emily is gone.
I hope i never get that forgettful , poor Timothy what a terrible tragic outcome.
In the end, that is about how much everything we did here is simply left behind as we move on.
Love the style this was shot in and how generic everything in his world had become; sad yet quirky. At least he went out laughing.
This is pretty close to what its like after a brain injury that affects memory, recall and the frontal lobe
Must be a nightmare trying to function after something so horrific
The story is supossed to be ironic - like how the "37 things" in his brain are not symmetrical or contain equal amount of information at all.
And yet it still manages to be so sad and depressing.
Man, that was a brutal accident! Great short, I really enjoyed it, both the story and the style of the film. 😎
But quite sad when you think of real life, what we forget as the normal 'minor' daily stresses push aside the good memories. I guess it's called becoming 'cynical'!
Only having a short term memory must make life incredibly confusing and scary, especially when everyone closest to you become strangers.
Interesting take on the memory bank. To a degree a concept I've been agreeing with lately. We only have so much space for memories. Funny & sad.
What a accurate combination of storytelling, cinematography and editing. Pleasure to watch! Kudos to the team🙏
It even said "my dad had brain problems too".
Such a simple man.
Wonderful film. Thank you for sharing this one.
This is why I use my cell phone to write out what I plan to buy before leaving the house. I’d never remember otherwise. Great film.
lol he came for milk but never came back
his son: am i a joke to you?
Again Omeleto takes me by surprise but I ain't complaining😍
Love it, the effects and twistedness of the story, brilliant. Bravo!
so stylized. I love it.
If the periodic table of elements counts as one thing, one could argue that everything in the Universe counts as one thing. So not a big problem to know 37.
Yes, the argument is pretty week since if you only know 37 things you don't really know anything. However, this was more of an allegory than anything else
Could you explain to me what the word allegory means? I’ve heard it before and can make out what it may mean with context clues, but I’m not entirely certain.
Isn’t the Periodic Table more than 37 Elements? (That part is a little confusing, especially for a person who can only know 37 things)
My thoughts exactly. Quite useless to him as well.
It doesn't matter how many distractions this often confusing world bombards us with the only thing that really matters are the ones we love, it's all we need to keep us focused and moving in the right direction
If cannibalism were allowed, a single serving of a royal baby could feed over 50 billion people and leave absolutely no room for dessert.
YIKES! What does this information has to do with the story? That's so random.
If you become friends with the right political people and vaca at the right island you can eat kids with little concern if that's your thing.
@@cahidijoyoraharjo7833 someone didn't watch the film close enough...
You read the article????
@@IHavAnAkimbonr Oh, it's in the story? I skipped some parts.
Enjoyable and illustrates just how much useless information we consume daily.
Not sure which is scarier condition. Memento or this. I actually got scared for him when he had no milk.
I would have had dry cereal...
I bet the creators will be reading the first few comments - so hi there! Awesome editing on this, have a beer on me - from NZ with love
Appreciated :)
Hey, its Emily 😂
I like it. That was really well done.
The Kardashian show is lethal to him! It rots his brain! LOL
Out of the box staff, Thanks!
But How come he noticed/ knew what the funny shape of the cloud is? Did the writer FORGOT .....?
It's bad enough that I can't remember what I read a few seconds after reading it. Pop quizzes in school were my downfall. Glad to see that someone else had it worse.
If he can only remember 37 things then how can he remember English 🤔. It has more than 37 words.
And the periodic table.
I guess the whole language of English counts as just 1 thing?
@@abbiereynolds8016 Yeh
Did you watch until the end?
@@womaninthewave yes
After he looses his memory how does he remember the shape of the cloud is of?
Very good story! I loved it, you did a wonderful job of story telling.
I can relate in so many ways. I don't see a cloud shaped that way though, I see politicians shaped that way, oh, but they have no " BALLS ". Truly a strange world I'm in.
Do you know what’s even stranger @James Smith? This is your future self talking to you! Also I’m the dude holding the mobile on the left in the last scene. (& I made the truck/cliff model). Go check the credits 😁
@@jamessmith5666 what's happened here?
2:22
That’s enough for the brain capacity 😅
Okay, that was amazing! Both heart-warming, yet also heart-breaking. Love how even though he has such a rare condition, the truth is, so many are so distracted these days, they might as well have the same thing. Better than any full length movie I've seen lately for sure 👍👏
I am over 60, actually forgetting things and it's awful 😢
I'm also over 60 and............what was it you were saying ?
The main character is so hot. 😍
this was AMAZING
Brilliant! It brought me to tears but Brilliant!
Timothy looked like a 37 year old man, when this story was narrated to us, and when he died...
An Australian rewrite of Memento and My Name Is Earl !!
That was quite interesting and humorous. I want to say more but I've forgotten what I wanted to say.
What was quite interesting and humorous?
@@clasencoach Yes! That was it! Thank you.
Super creative!!
6:01 how to ruin the joy of what one imagines
has eternal sunshine of the spotless mind vibes with a comedic twist ;Z) love it
This is one of my favorites!
How does he know what milk is if he can’t rember it, but still good
This story has more holes than plot, which is unfortunate with the amount of effort and skill etc. invested in it.
@@daniellamcgee4251 Plot holes? 😆 It's short with a simple idea, it's not a scientific paper! The world doesn't turn black & white, the Brain isn't full of little circles, when you get crushed into a bloody mess by a truck, you don't get to smile and look up at the sky...!
@@JohnDoe-tx8lqThe circles of the brain were representative, not literal. The black and white represented existing compared to living. I have no issue with that. Nonetheless, it's difficult to suspend disbelief when constantly reminded of the nonsense of memory depicted in this short film. How did he remember dressing? Shaving? Etc. It's difficult to get lost in the fantasy/surreal when constantly reminded of the nonsensical premise.
@@daniellamcgee4251 oh my God! 😂
@@daniellamcgee4251 it's clearly an allegory. You're tKing it way too literally bro
This is a masterpiece... I cried then i laughed. Thank you for making this incredible thing
This is such a masterpiece. 🙌
Zane Roach - writer and Sasquatch. Brilliant.
Is that Zoe Deschenchal?
😭😭😭such a nice story
This is only a minor comical exaggeration of what it's like to live as someone with a hyper-conscious or hyper-analytical memory. The trick I've learned to managing it lies in how you categorize one "thing" from another. The more integrated your total paradigm of all possible things, the more you can hold all in mind together at once. Everything becomes branches of the same tree. It's virtually impossible to hold onto islands of disconnected information on their own. They just evaporate into nothingness.
If it seems like I'm struggling to remember if I've met you before, I probably am. Or maybe it's just your name or face I've forgotten, but not "you" as a concept. It's part of the reason I'm such a recluse and hate cities.
felt the same way once. Must have been the crack of dawn, one sprawling morning
Honestly, it would be a bit hard to enjoy this short film if you were a neuropsychologist.
Are you one? Would love to chat about few things
Omfg too good ❤️
Very creative
Weird and cool at the same time.
BRAVO 🙌
The cloud ending ruined everything....
What was on the note from Emily? Did she leave him because of his condition?
?remember to forget me, love Emily?
Special!
Similar to Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), when the man writes on the (small) letters thing's names, to remember...
Omeleto is my go to after hollywood died many years ago due to too many guns brutal violence and Woke nonsense. THANK YOU!!!
The capital of Iceland...the second president of Uganda...😩😂😂 As a Ugandan I found that such irrelevant info but also extremely funny.
Was so happy hearing uganda
For someone who has an extraordinary ability to retain useless trivia that is rewarded by free dinners and drinks for winning Trivia Nights, I think
Very well done
Lord HOW FRUSTR8ING 4 HIM AND 2 WATCH!
I KNEW HE WUD LOSE THAT PAPER HOW LOOSELY HE PUT IN HIS POCKET
Brilliant !!!!!
Happy Tim
Momento vibes 😶🌫
I like the sign @8:30
Very silly but I watched it to the end. Maybe I'm just silly, or maybe there is something profound in this tale that my limited store of clever neurons responded to.........no, I'm just silly.
BRILLIANT! 👏👏👏
Well done on every level❣️👏👏👏🌹
PLEASE Stay 'safe', everyone❣️
Blessed be ✨💫🌟🌛🌹🌜
I’m out because there are 26 effing letters in the alphabet! Throw in Mommy. Daddy. You’re DONE. I know it didn’t say 37 individual things…but it DID!
minimalist minds 🖤
Note Emily's wedding ring @12:25 :(
Then he forgot how to die, and the first zombie was created
I will always remember this movie 36 Thi
Pleasant is present❤️
🎼brilliant and meaningful plot extraordinarily well done
anyone know the piano sonata in the ending?
Please tell me he didn't die
I didn't like him being hit by that truck!!!😡😡😡😡😡
Turns video off! CLICK!!
He should have just put water on the cereal.
Sad ending. 😔
That's a great short! I didn't like the detailed view of the accident, that didn't fit to the style of the story.
I think it fit thematically. Even though his world seemed so dream-like because of his limited memory, his actions still had real consequences.
Completely balls!
Oh shame. Engrossingly deep.
This is literally ADHD :) And dyslexia :)
Beautiful
Can someone break this down? As far as the message
I think it's about realizing our priorities and about how we would spend our time if we acknowledge that it is finite. I think it's also about how in this age of internet and an overwhelming abundance of information, we sometimes feel like we are expected to know everything and that can take us too much out of the present. Timothy was very stressed the whole time and that was ultimately his downfall until, at the end, he was in the worst possible situation, but he was finally able to just be in the moment instead of clinging to the past, and that's when we finally see him really enjoy life.
wow
6:42 Russia getting sanctioned by Western countries:
Expelled