I’m grateful to have been a part of this short film (nurse Emilia). And it’s so moving reading the comments of people who this has impacted. Thanks Omeleto 🙏🏼
You didn't have any lines, but you remained in character and projected. Thank you! Seriously, I do appreciate your contribution. This is such a sad story.
that's living Hell...remembering just enough to experience the pain of the loss... living a life of a 5 min loop can be traumatic enough, her mother makes the sacrifice to keep the pain of the loss and give a more ''bearable'' loop to her daughter to live... [based to a personal experience I know that if the memories don't come back the next months...they never will... thankfully I didn't lost anybody in my accident...] Great performance everybody... on a such sensitive subject... and you Natalie(?) in 8:43 you nailed it!... nurses are the only ones of the hospital personnel alluded to empathize, the doctors are supposed to keep a distance...
This is brilliant, all of it, from script to finished product! So realistic in that it could be me or my own loved one, and I felt it as deeply as if it were. Incredibly brilliant, thankyou for creating and sharing, I'll be looking out for more of your work! Do you have other other works here on Omeleto for me to watch?
Exact thing happened to my grandma. She kept asking for her son. He had died a few months earlier. When we told her he died, she cried, but then forgot within two minutes. We ended up not telling her the truth anymore so she wouldn’t be stressed anymore
My Mum keep asking how uncle Charlie was, he was like her father to her. Mum died in 2009 at 99 years of age. Uncle Charlie died in 1927. We stopped telling her he died years ago as it would upset her so much we would say he's coming to see her soon.
I met a woman in a nursing home where my parents lived back in 2015. She'd been there since the 1990s. In fact, she'd been in the same nursing home with my grandmother Marie. In 2015, I popped into her room and introduced myself and said I was Marie's grandson. She asked how she was and I told her she'd passed away a few years earlier. The woman burst into tears and I felt awful and stood there feeling awkward. After about a minute, she stopped crying and asked who I was. A bit startled I said, "I'm Marie's grandson." She asked how she was - and I said, "She's doing fine." She smiled and I left the room.
That was the most authentic crying scene I've ever watched in a film. And the poor mom grieving as she's comforting her daughter, only to realize her daughter's pain vanishes when her short-term memory fizzles out. Powerful film. Really makes you appreciate what you have and how easy it is to lose it.
I was a trucker, and was in a roll-over. I dont remember anything of the accident, and i dont remember about half of my life before. Sometimes I have memories but they’re disconnected and feel odd, like i dreamed them. I forget things easily now, too. It’s like i got instant old-timers disease. The first two years after the accident, i had no awareness of anything around me. I had to be told to eat, sleep, use the bathroom, etc, and when i wasnt doing what i was told, i just sat, apparently smiling (I only know about this because i was told later when i was able to begin retaining memory again.). I did recover, to a point, but never fully. For me, tech is a life-saver, because i can use it to supplement my memory, and help me to have a regulated life.
@@jennhoff03there is. If the words aren't typed to perfect it means you just wanna gloat and be mean cuz you have nothing else better to do. Meanwhile people are actually suffering from this disease.
I don’t think anyone has ever said that you need big name actors “to make a video.” In fact, I think that’s my first correction I’d like to make: you probably meant film. The second correction I’d like to make is to your allusion that there is this belief you need big names to make a great film. I think many filmmakers would agree with you that isn’t required. However, where this belief comes from is it is almost a guaranteed fact, that you do need recognizable names to make lots of money behind your film. Would you have paid for this? You saw this for free on UA-cam, where I get to point the silliness of your comment. Yes great films can be made without big name actors. It certainly helps when trying to put butts in seats.
Someone in my neighborhood went through the same thing. He sustained a head injury and lost part of his memory. Every morning he asks his daughter where his mother is and she tells him she died years ago. He's totally floored by this and demands to know why nobody told him until now, and is overcome with grief. By the next morning he's completely forgotten and asks his daughter again where his mother is. He'll probably have to go through this every morning for the rest of his life.
Maybe they should just tell him she's gone to her mother's for the weekend and will be back? If he will only remember until the next day, why ruin every day for him?
Hi@@Irish_Georgia_Girl Head Way is a charity group for people and their cares who live with a brain injury. Princess Ann is the head of it, Before her it was Princess Diana. They helped my husband and I.
Hits too close to home for those of us with relatives that have dementia. My Dad passed two years ago, I still tell my Mom he is at work or out grocery shopping. 😢
I'm very sorry to hear that. My condolences to you. I took care of a male patient with dementia once and it was sad to see, he could barely recognize his wife or his sons.
After recognizing that she could not retain the memory of the crash and the aftermath I would have not told her again what really happened. The acting from the patient and mother was outstanding! I can not imagine how painful it must have been.
A beautiful short with superb acting, well done. As a nurse, ive met people like this. I soon learnt to be economical with the truth as, in this case, thry relive the pain over and over again. Not just the pain but the true intensity of when you first find out someone vet dear to thrm has died. Why torture that person? What is to gain?
Exactly. And mom quickly figures out the loving thing to do for daughter, which means mom lives with all the loss of the granddaughters herself, plus the loss of much of her daugher. Who else could bear that burden for a loved one?
In 2009 my mom got cancer and by 2010 it had spread to her brain. I went through this. I cannot begin to describe what kind of Hell it's like to see the most important person in your life in this condition. I left the hospital, came home, immediately got drunk and cried for...it must have been hours. Like the movie they did surgery to alleviate the swelling in her brain and...it was a success! She (obviously) didn't remember the past two weeks, but she remembered everything else in her life. I used to tease her about things she "said" while in that condition. Three months later she passed in my house with me (her only child) and her beloved dog at her side.
The mother understands. It's a lot kinder to do what she does. I would do the same thing. What's the point of traumatizing her every 5 minutes! My father suffered many strokes and he believed he was 20 yo during the war. I went along with his belief. My 80 yo mother kept telling him she was his wife. He thought she was crazy!
Brilliant actor. How her eyes helplessly looks at her mom in the 2nd time doctor shows up. In real life when we are stressed we look at the most familiar face first.
Yes it is. I was in a coma in 2017 and when it was explained to me I couldn't believe it because I couldn't remember anything. It feels like your brain has been robbed.
This was so good! I use to work with patients that could remember things in the past long ago, more than day to day remembering. In their minds what they were thinking was very real to them and just stay like this mom ended up quickly learning, I knew it was alright to let them live their days as they were living it in their minds. If someone tried to correct them, it caused them to get very upset and hurt them more than just allowing them to be happy in the way they thought. These were patients in a nursing home, who had Alzheimer's, years ago. I'm not sure how things are done now, but this mom just really impressed upon me, how emotionally strong she was needing to be, to keep her daughter from being upset over and over, just as if she were hearing of her daughters deaths. I really thought that was just like a mom, to pull yourself together as much as possible, at least while with her daughter, and I'm sure have a lot of good cries later to herself. Everyone in this film really did a wonderful job of acting their parts! I think I've also heard of someone having this kind of memory loss as a young person from an accident, not sure if there's a name for it, but it would be very difficult to deal with, for both the patient and loved ones. I didn't want it to end! ❤👍🏽
I froze in place after realizing she could no longer make memories. I know the chances of something like this are rare, but not zero. I can’t think of anything worse than not knowing your children are dead or alive. Wait….guess I did-learning they died over and over and over again….everyday…every hour….every minute….every 30 seconds. To me, that’s the scariest, most nightmarish, and torturous life you could experience-as close to hell as you get here on earth.
Thanks @rgarlinyc, yeah our cinematographer had to work within the confines of my small living room, which we turned into a hospital room. He did a great job.
@@alexsalam1436 Wow, great production design too - very convincing as a hospital! I find that too often we concentrate on the actors and forget to appreciate the crew - I mean, in words; we do appreciate everyone, but rarely acknowledge it. Roger
This was exactly my brother who was in motorcycle accident and we later found he had a brain tumor. He had his long term memory b4 2010, but anything after no. When my daughter was born in 2011 , he kept asking whose that baby? It was hard on the family, but we embraced his memory loss and every moment was a new day.. We even told him he quit smoking & marijuana was banned, even though its legal here in Canada. Its been 10yrs since his passing and we know he's in a good place, riding his motorcycle or gone fishing❤😊❤
My brother smoked cigarettes&weed for over 30yrs. When we found out about the brain tumor and having short term memory loss, we helped him with his health issues. He had type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and a kidney stone. Giving him a cigarette or weed was not on my elderly parents mind. Going to his doctor appointments was. @@rickeymickeyii4166
Thanks @Hallirune1. A really tough role for Marie Everett, who played the role of the woman with memory loss. If she hadn't done such a great job, we wouldn't have had a film.
My father (who recovered) lost about 3 weeks of memory while he was in the oncology ward for brain cancer. He was absolutely out of it. I told my sibs that I could hold it together enough to tell him he had brain cancer and was 50/50 to last a year. Once. But that if I had to do it every day I would break. Fortunately he brought it up to my sister "I think i had a stroke or something" and when she blurted "daddy, you have brain cancer!" he gave this expression of doubt , like "I dunno, feels kind of like a stroke" A few weeks later he came back with just a 3 week blank spot.
I was completely absorbed with this short film. So much going on in the enclosed setting - Grief, Trauma etc, which was handled extremely well by all the actors. Omeleto at it's best.
I'm thinking after emergency brain surgery and in a coma, daughter would be in ICU for sure. Beyond that, bravo! Great script, superb acting and directing, kudos all around! Thanks, Omeleto, good pick!
@MisterG2323 ~ You're right. When I was in a coma I was in the ICU. But it was a private room that looked like a regular hospital room, just a lot more equipment and such. So technically this could have been the ICU.
Well, that and that the surgeons would have had to wade through a mass of long hair to perform a brain operation on her. None of that spoiled this for me at all, not taking everything literally is part of viewing any performance.
Thanks @MisterG2323! Yeah, realistically she would be in an ICU and intubated etc. But we filmed this in my living room, and recreating an ICU and how a patient would actually wake up etc was out of bounds.
Wonderful film. I’ve thought about this situation before-how utterly heartbreaking it would be to relive the worst moment of your life over and over again. Just a constant loop of pain.
RIP HM and the few unfortunates like you. This is a real thing, though a person isn't able to hold it together even quite long enough to piece together a narrative of this length. What an absolute hell to live in. (Nothing against the medical staff or the people who care for and love the folks affected by this type of memory loss, of course).
The neurosurgeon and the neurologist should of been there as soon as she woke up. And after brain surgery, accident and being in the coma she would of been in ICU being monitored, not in a ward room. The main girl is a brilliant actor though.
Yes according to guidelines but this is a short film they don't have the money for an ICU unit.. I even doubt the peeping is real as if you inhance the image it is stationary not even working
Highly specialized doctors are not going to be immediately available for every patient who wakes from a coma as soon as it happens. They aren't doing rounds at the hospital
Such a heartbreaking scenario, excellent performance on all parts. I’m so thankful for the ending and the patient’s mother lying instead of re-traumatizing her daughter and herself again with the truth.
It is so so touching to see all the responses to this film & it's subject-matter. It was an honour to play Brigitte & work with Marie, Naomi & Natalie. Thankyou to our writer/director Alex, our casting director Fiona Cross, all at XFilm & everyone else involved in our lovely shoot. And thankyou to everyone who has watched & shared this story. Thanks Omeleto. xx
What a devastating new reality. All I can think how it's also so traumatizing for those repeating what happened and, in the end, her mom finally decided it was better to not to again.
Okay, I seriously was not ready for this film. Wow. Now I'm crying. The tragedy itself is something I don't think I could cope with at all. It's the most awful thing. Some people manage it somehow; manage the impossible. Yet then to not be able to move on from the worst moment of your life... it's inconceivable cruelty. Everyone did such a good job in conveying this. Now excuse me while I try to put my heart back in my chest.
WOW. That was so intense. I haven't seen something that heart breaking since I can't remember when what incredible acting WOW this was a good one it's gonna stay with me for awhile! Oh my God I couldn't imagine anyone going through that over and over again!?
Growing up, my parents owned an old folks home. It was a very eye opening experience for me to see what essentially became the friends i was playing cards and watch tv with forget who i was. It was like going through grief similar to going through a death, but they were here. I believe it helped me become a better listener and be more in tune with the present when another person is there.
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I’m grateful to have been a part of this short film (nurse Emilia). And it’s so moving reading the comments of people who this has impacted. Thanks Omeleto 🙏🏼
Good job everyone
Great job!
You didn't have any lines, but you remained in character and projected. Thank you!
Seriously, I do appreciate your contribution. This is such a sad story.
@NatalieKingMusic Great superb excellent film ma'am! You are so lucky!
that's living Hell...remembering just enough to experience the pain of the loss... living a life of a 5 min loop can be traumatic enough, her mother makes the sacrifice to keep the pain of the loss and give a more ''bearable'' loop to her daughter to live... [based to a personal experience I know that if the memories don't come back the next months...they never will... thankfully I didn't lost anybody in my accident...]
Great performance everybody... on a such sensitive subject... and you Natalie(?) in 8:43 you nailed it!... nurses are the only ones of the hospital personnel alluded to empathize, the doctors are supposed to keep a distance...
I’m so proud to have to have written, directed, and starred in this little production! Thanks for all the support! You can ask me anything!
This was powerful
This is brilliant, all of it, from script to finished product! So realistic in that it could be me or my own loved one, and I felt it as deeply as if it were. Incredibly brilliant, thankyou for creating and sharing, I'll be looking out for more of your work! Do you have other other works here on Omeleto for me to watch?
This is one of the best shorts I've ever seen! Congratulations!
Great job all! Cheers!
well done. I just wonder----does she live forever in the same pattern the rest of her life?
Exact thing happened to my grandma. She kept asking for her son. He had died a few months earlier. When we told her he died, she cried, but then forgot within two minutes. We ended up not telling her the truth anymore so she wouldn’t be stressed anymore
My Mum keep asking how uncle Charlie was, he was like her father to her. Mum died in 2009 at 99 years of age. Uncle Charlie died in 1927. We stopped telling her he died years ago as it would upset her so much we would say he's coming to see her soon.
Same thing with my mom. Dad died two years ago, I still tell her he is at work or out grocery shopping.
I met a woman in a nursing home where my parents lived back in 2015. She'd been there since the 1990s. In fact, she'd been in the same nursing home with my grandmother Marie. In 2015, I popped into her room and introduced myself and said I was Marie's grandson. She asked how she was and I told her she'd passed away a few years earlier. The woman burst into tears and I felt awful and stood there feeling awkward. After about a minute, she stopped crying and asked who I was. A bit startled I said, "I'm Marie's grandson." She asked how she was - and I said, "She's doing fine." She smiled and I left the room.
@@DannBP1
Wow. That's a powerfully poignant anecdote. Hope she was contented in her moment to moment life.
That was the most authentic crying scene I've ever watched in a film. And the poor mom grieving as she's comforting her daughter, only to realize her daughter's pain vanishes when her short-term memory fizzles out. Powerful film. Really makes you appreciate what you have and how easy it is to lose it.
Yes, Marie Everett, the actress had a hard job to do, switching from crying to appearing confused and disorientated at exactly the right cue.
Moms are the best people in the world.
She deserves more than an Oscar
What a nightmare. To keep reliving it, for mom.
true that
Cried. The fact that people actually go through this is terrifying.
It is the actual definition of a living hell.
Just awful & sad, it's like she's reliving the trauma over and over again.
I was a trucker, and was in a roll-over. I dont remember anything of the accident, and i dont remember about half of my life before. Sometimes I have memories but they’re disconnected and feel odd, like i dreamed them. I forget things easily now, too. It’s like i got instant old-timers disease. The first two years after the accident, i had no awareness of anything around me. I had to be told to eat, sleep, use the bathroom, etc, and when i wasnt doing what i was told, i just sat, apparently smiling (I only know about this because i was told later when i was able to begin retaining memory again.). I did recover, to a point, but never fully. For me, tech is a life-saver, because i can use it to supplement my memory, and help me to have a regulated life.
Thank you for sharing.
I'm sure you meant Altzeimers. There's no such thing as "Old-timers" disease.
@@MrRushepoo While that's true, there's also no such thing as "Altzheimers." So... potato potahto. ;'D
@@jennhoff03there is. If the words aren't typed to perfect it means you just wanna gloat and be mean cuz you have nothing else better to do. Meanwhile people are actually suffering from this disease.
@@quirogatnonerrat3214 well said!
As I have always said, you don't need big named actors to make a damn good video. Brilliant.
Thanks @catweasle5737, Marie Everett @marieeverett, @heathercoombsactor, @nataliespenceuk really delivered on the day.
I don’t think anyone has ever said that you need big name actors “to make a video.” In fact, I think that’s my first correction I’d like to make: you probably meant film.
The second correction I’d like to make is to your allusion that there is this belief you need big names to make a great film. I think many filmmakers would agree with you that isn’t required. However, where this belief comes from is it is almost a guaranteed fact, that you do need recognizable names to make lots of money behind your film.
Would you have paid for this? You saw this for free on UA-cam, where I get to point the silliness of your comment. Yes great films can be made without big name actors. It certainly helps when trying to put butts in seats.
@@alexsalam1436 I really appreciated the quality of this film. Thank you for sharing your work.
@catweasle5737 AFUCKINGMEN DUDE!!!
Thanks @@eugenetswong , really appreciate you taking the time to watch the film.
Someone in my neighborhood went through the same thing. He sustained a head injury and lost part of his memory. Every morning he asks his daughter where his mother is and she tells him she died years ago. He's totally floored by this and demands to know why nobody told him until now, and is overcome with grief. By the next morning he's completely forgotten and asks his daughter again where his mother is. He'll probably have to go through this every morning for the rest of his life.
Maybe they should just tell him she's gone to her mother's for the weekend and will be back? If he will only remember until the next day, why ruin every day for him?
Did the family ask Head Way for help.
@@badfairy9554What is Head Way?
Hi@@Irish_Georgia_Girl Head Way is a charity group for people and their cares who live with a brain injury. Princess Ann is the head of it, Before her it was Princess Diana. They helped my husband and I.
@@badfairy9554 Aww that's wonderful that someone is doing that. I hope you & your husband are doing better..
Hits too close to home for those of us with relatives that have dementia. My Dad passed two years ago, I still tell my Mom he is at work or out grocery shopping. 😢
I'm very sorry to hear that. My condolences to you. I took care of a male patient with dementia once and it was sad to see, he could barely recognize his wife or his sons.
That’s so hard. I’m sorry.
OOOOF.
That was good, great acting, very well made, hellish to watch as a parent. My poor heart!
Even the heart rate monitor so closely follows her emotional reactions….authentic to the details. Brilliant film. 🙏🏽 Omeleto
After recognizing that she could not retain the memory of the crash and the aftermath I would have not told her again what really happened. The acting from the patient and mother was outstanding! I can not imagine how painful it must have been.
A beautiful short with superb acting, well done. As a nurse, ive met people like this. I soon learnt to be economical with the truth as, in this case, thry relive the pain over and over again. Not just the pain but the true intensity of when you first find out someone vet dear to thrm has died. Why torture that person? What is to gain?
Thanks @lizziem.
Exactly. And mom quickly figures out the loving thing to do for daughter, which means mom lives with all the loss of the granddaughters herself, plus the loss of much of her daugher. Who else could bear that burden for a loved one?
In 2009 my mom got cancer and by 2010 it had spread to her brain. I went through this. I cannot begin to describe what kind of Hell it's like to see the most important person in your life in this condition. I left the hospital, came home, immediately got drunk and cried for...it must have been hours. Like the movie they did surgery to alleviate the swelling in her brain and...it was a success! She (obviously) didn't remember the past two weeks, but she remembered everything else in her life. I used to tease her about things she "said" while in that condition. Three months later she passed in my house with me (her only child) and her beloved dog at her side.
I’m so sorry. Similar circumstance with my grandma who had brain cancer. It’s so very hard. ❤️
50 First Dates, but make it horrifying.
This is hell on earth, for the patient and even more so for the caregivers. 😢
God bless all of those who have to go through this.
Moms always find the right words to say to their babies. Sometimes the truth is too much, too soon, too hurtful to bear. "Time heals all wounds."
Time absolutely does NOT heal all wounds.
That's a canard. Some wounds never heal.
This short term memor lusss thing hits close to home for me. Pointless going through the pain of the truth dozens of times a day forever
The mother understands. It's a lot kinder to do what she does. I would do the same thing. What's the point of traumatizing her every 5 minutes! My father suffered many strokes and he believed he was 20 yo during the war. I went along with his belief. My 80 yo mother kept telling him she was his wife. He thought she was crazy!
Brilliant actor.
How her eyes helplessly looks at her mom in the 2nd time doctor shows up. In real life when we are stressed we look at the most familiar face first.
She's great, eyes that communicate so much.
I’ve been through this (the brain injury). Waking up from a coma is terrifying, confusing and upsetting. The memory loss is the worse part.
Yes it is. I was in a coma in 2017 and when it was explained to me I couldn't believe it because I couldn't remember anything. It feels like your brain has been robbed.
Sorry to hear. I can imagine extremely unsettling and frightening.
Superb video !! Very creative! The moms acting was TOP NOTCH! Sharing!! One of Omeletos best yet!!
Thanks for sharing @briteeyes2133!
This was so good! I use to work with patients that could remember things in the past long ago, more than day to day remembering. In their minds what they were thinking was very real to them and just stay like this mom ended up quickly learning, I knew it was alright to let them live their days as they were living it in their minds. If someone tried to correct them, it caused them to get very upset and hurt them more than just allowing them to be happy in the way they thought. These were patients in a nursing home, who had Alzheimer's, years ago. I'm not sure how things are done now, but this mom just really impressed upon me, how emotionally strong she was needing to be, to keep her daughter from being upset over and over, just as if she were hearing of her daughters deaths. I really thought that was just like a mom, to pull yourself together as much as possible, at least while with her daughter, and I'm sure have a lot of good cries later to herself. Everyone in this film really did a wonderful job of acting their parts! I think I've also heard of someone having this kind of memory loss as a young person from an accident, not sure if there's a name for it, but it would be very difficult to deal with, for both the patient and loved ones. I didn't want it to end! ❤👍🏽
It’s called Traumatic Brain Injury, or TBI. I have it.
I did want the film to end. Hard to sit through. Hard to hear. Terrific acting.
Thank you for taking the time to watch @poppylove3673, and for sharing your experiences.
The story is tragically captivating and the film is incredibly well made for how little is shown. Fantastic job to the creators!
Thank you @shakewell42. It's thanks to the actors and crew who all worked their butts off that we got a film.
I froze in place after realizing she could no longer make memories. I know the chances of something like this are rare, but not zero. I can’t think of anything worse than not knowing your children are dead or alive. Wait….guess I did-learning they died over and over and over again….everyday…every hour….every minute….every 30 seconds. To me, that’s the scariest, most nightmarish, and torturous life you could experience-as close to hell as you get here on earth.
Great acting, directing - and cinematography especially. A tragic tale that I presume acts out every day all over the world...
Thanks @rgarlinyc, yeah our cinematographer had to work within the confines of my small living room, which we turned into a hospital room. He did a great job.
@@alexsalam1436 Wow, great production design too - very convincing as a hospital!
I find that too often we concentrate on the actors and forget to appreciate the crew - I mean, in words; we do appreciate everyone, but rarely acknowledge it.
Roger
This was exactly my brother who was in motorcycle accident and we later found he had a brain tumor. He had his long term memory b4 2010, but anything after no. When my daughter was born in 2011 , he kept asking whose that baby? It was hard on the family, but we embraced his memory loss and every moment was a new day.. We even told him he quit smoking & marijuana was banned, even though its legal here in Canada. Its been 10yrs since his passing and we know he's in a good place, riding his motorcycle or gone fishing❤😊❤
Sorry for your loss.
Damn couldn't even let the man smoke weed.
Y’all foul for lying about the weed, RIP
My brother smoked cigarettes&weed for over 30yrs. When we found out about the brain tumor and having short term memory loss, we helped him with his health issues. He had type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and a kidney stone. Giving him a cigarette or weed was not on my elderly parents mind. Going to his doctor appointments was. @@rickeymickeyii4166
@@Axusline27he smoke weed & cigarettes for over 30yrs. My elderly parents thought it was time to quit
Wow... just brilliant acting and writing 😢 bravo!
Thanks @Hallirune1. A really tough role for Marie Everett, who played the role of the woman with memory loss. If she hadn't done such a great job, we wouldn't have had a film.
@alexsalam1436 Thank you for the information! I look forward to enjoying more of everyone's work.
My father (who recovered) lost about 3 weeks of memory while he was in the oncology ward for brain cancer. He was absolutely out of it. I told my sibs that I could hold it together enough to tell him he had brain cancer and was 50/50 to last a year. Once. But that if I had to do it every day I would break. Fortunately he brought it up to my sister "I think i had a stroke or something" and when she blurted "daddy, you have brain cancer!" he gave this expression of doubt , like "I dunno, feels kind of like a stroke" A few weeks later he came back with just a 3 week blank spot.
This was so powerful. Brilliant acting. I felt completely in the film and when it ended, I returned and would have clapped had it been on screen.
Thanks for the lovely comment @jazlasater2844
I was completely absorbed with this short film. So much going on in the enclosed setting - Grief, Trauma etc, which was handled extremely well by all the actors. Omeleto at it's best.
Thanks @honestg, glad it kept you hooked.
I'm thinking after emergency brain surgery and in a coma, daughter would be in ICU for sure. Beyond that, bravo! Great script, superb acting and directing, kudos all around! Thanks, Omeleto, good pick!
Maybe she went after that, who knows, the movie has an open end...
@MisterG2323 ~ You're right. When I was in a coma I was in the ICU. But it was a private room that looked like a regular hospital room, just a lot more equipment and such. So technically this could have been the ICU.
Well, that and that the surgeons would have had to wade through a mass of long hair to perform a brain operation on her.
None of that spoiled this for me at all, not taking everything literally is part of viewing any performance.
Thanks @MisterG2323! Yeah, realistically she would be in an ICU and intubated etc. But we filmed this in my living room, and recreating an ICU and how a patient would actually wake up etc was out of bounds.
@@alexsalam1436 That's cool that you filmed in a home. Thanks for sharing info.
Wonderful film. I’ve thought about this situation before-how utterly heartbreaking it would be to relive the worst moment of your life over and over again. Just a constant loop of pain.
Wow. Very fine acting all around.
Fantastic acting by all on this short, especially the lead and mom. Bravo! Thanks for bringing attention to this traumatic topic.
Heartwrenching, hard to bear. What can she expect from life. Poor mother in mamy ways. Gorgeous acting!
RIP HM and the few unfortunates like you. This is a real thing, though a person isn't able to hold it together even quite long enough to piece together a narrative of this length. What an absolute hell to live in.
(Nothing against the medical staff or the people who care for and love the folks affected by this type of memory loss, of course).
Kudos to the actresses who made me believe every second of this. It was very hard to watch
thanks @BatMite19, yeah they were ace.
The neurosurgeon and the neurologist should of been there as soon as she woke up. And after brain surgery, accident and being in the coma she would of been in ICU being monitored, not in a ward room.
The main girl is a brilliant actor though.
would have*
She could have been through all of that already
Yes according to guidelines but this is a short film they don't have the money for an ICU unit.. I even doubt the peeping is real as if you inhance the image it is stationary not even working
@@Treq4TrakWhat "peeping"?
Highly specialized doctors are not going to be immediately available for every patient who wakes from a coma as soon as it happens. They aren't doing rounds at the hospital
Beautifully rendered telling of an equisitelly tight story. Congrautualations to everyone involved!
Thank you @waynetbrown1121, thanks to all the cast and crew
At that point, just mention she tripped and everything is well 😐
Mom learned real quick what she had to do. 😔
Worst Groundhogs Day *EVER!!!*
A more realistic outcome than a Drew Barrymore & Adam Sandler plot point.
oh that plot twist was class
What plot twist
@@littlefrank90amnesia
I love that mom💕 my heart breaks for her daughter😓
Omeletto, it's just great!! Blessings
Such a heartbreaking scenario, excellent performance on all parts. I’m so thankful for the ending and the patient’s mother lying instead of re-traumatizing her daughter and herself again with the truth.
It is so so touching to see all the responses to this film & it's subject-matter. It was an honour to play Brigitte & work with Marie, Naomi & Natalie. Thankyou to our writer/director Alex, our casting director Fiona Cross, all at XFilm & everyone else involved in our lovely shoot. And thankyou to everyone who has watched & shared this story. Thanks Omeleto. xx
You were amazing as always Heather - we at Inspiration Management are incredibly proud to represent you.
Thankyou as ever ! You rock Inspiration Management xx
Obviously we are huge fans of Heather Coombs work and he she goes again in a smashing film. Congrats everyone!
This was hard to watch. The one I feel for the most is the mother. She has the memories of what things used to be.
Brilliantly acted. Very well done.
Brilliant in every which way . Standing ovation 👏🏻
Great acting greaaaaat acting thank you guys ❤❤
What a devastating new reality. All I can think how it's also so traumatizing for those repeating what happened and, in the end, her mom finally decided it was better to not to again.
One of the best films I've seen on Omeleto, and that's saying something. Thank you to all involved.
Brilliant, heart aching
I would tell her she remembered wrong.
Stunning acting. Brilliant story.
Powerful film with raw emotion and a mother’s love beautifully portrayed ❤💔❤️🩹
A *very* moving short. One of the best I've seen for a while. Well done to all!
Such a sad story. Having the memories like a goldfish.... A neverending nightmare.....I feel sorry for the young woman.....Well done story.....
This one was so horrendous and so sad that it made me feel ill.
This is both beautiful and devastating.
So incredibly hard. Memory loss is a cruel illness. God Bless everyday whose lives are impacted so.
Wow. Absolutely heartbreaking .
Wow. Well bloody done. My goodness.
Reminds me of 50 First Dates.
Wow, the acting is amazing. I was so into this.
Okay, I seriously was not ready for this film. Wow. Now I'm crying.
The tragedy itself is something I don't think I could cope with at all. It's the most awful thing. Some people manage it somehow; manage the impossible. Yet then to not be able to move on from the worst moment of your life... it's inconceivable cruelty. Everyone did such a good job in conveying this. Now excuse me while I try to put my heart back in my chest.
This is scary close to how my family treated my grandma with dementia. We told conflicting lies to hide the pain, knowing she would ask again
Well done!
WoW....Incredibly powerful. Well done!
This is so well made. This is gut wrenchingly powerful.
WOW. That was so intense. I haven't seen something that heart breaking since I can't remember when what incredible acting WOW this was a good one it's gonna stay with me for awhile! Oh my God I couldn't imagine anyone going through that over and over again!?
Thanks for watching @nathanielball365 and for rating the actors.
Great acting by all......
My aunt has dementia and still asks about her two sons who were killed 30 years ago. Powerful film. Kudos to the cast and crew.
Growing up, my parents owned an old folks home.
It was a very eye opening experience for me to see what essentially became the friends i was playing cards and watch tv with forget who i was.
It was like going through grief similar to going through a death, but they were here.
I believe it helped me become a better listener and be more in tune with the present when another person is there.
Excellent plot with a twist and good acting. 🎖👍
What a horrible nightmare.
Thank you for the video, great job!!
Wonderful performances.
Damn…
(Excellently acted, very thought-provoking and powerful)
It's like 10 second Tom in 50 first dates.
The way I cried when the mom said “they’re at school”
I’m still crying
Man…..😢
Very real. The first two years are the hardist.
Thank you
That was so touching..What else can you do. 😢🕊️❤
So powerful. This should be nominated for an Oscar
Amazing actors.
I feel this very deeply.
The heart rate monitor increasing when she gets the bad news is a very nice touch.
Wow, that's a lot to take. Bravo!
A mother’s love is, A MOTHER’S LOVE. My God.
This was very well done.
Absolutely heartbreaking 😢
Loss of a loved one is very difficult to digest.
I usually always have a comment as to how some thing might have been better.
It's important to write things down for some people in such situations I think 🙏🙏
Incredible. Powerful, moving 12 minutes!