Symbolism explained: we all have our own views on afterlife. That is why the man is unable to accpet that he is dead when he landed in a mundane, office-like setting waiting in a queue. He is stuck because of the mistakes he made in his life: he was a narcissist. Hence to atone for it, he is made to help people. The person who he will replace is also waiting for 600 years for someone who will request a cheese steak. He accepts the offer. Because he is horrified by the other option: to go into oblivion (when he tries to run away and opens the door, this is what he faces: darkness and nothingness). He is a narcissist so he will never accept being nothing. He wants to matter and do something. Hence he takes the position. There is a bag which he opens at the end. This will be his offering (like cheese steak was for the person who retired) he will wait for hundreds of years for someone to arrive and ask for it. Then only can he leave. The person who retired says that he "did not choose". 600 years ago he received a similar contract and he did not choose. It took him 600 years to make a decision: he chose to go into oblivion. He was such a bad person that even after being made to help people for 600 years, he hates this work. He left without even greeting his collegeas for the last time. From one narcissist to another.

This is a great short. I had a story idea many years ago about purgatory being an actual waiting room, and this just hits the nail. I think this could be expanded to either additional chapters or a longer feature. Good work 👏

This is a great short. I had a story idea many years ago about purgatory being an actual waiting room, and this just hits the nail. I think this could be expanded to either additional chapters or a longer feature. Good work 👏

Great work. Thanks for sharing. Would love to know what you're working on now. I've got a complementary pilot for a 30 min dramedy with a Fleabag x After Life vibe. Here's the pitch: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnvLhoGQZbVld9E

Writer had lunch with a friend who said "I'ld sell my soul for a philly cheese steak right now."

Plague Doctor goes uncredited!

Dorian is a natural, gifted actor who held this film together and grounded it. Interesting examination of eternity, ambition and motivation, as well as the temporal.

is that lavendar town for the credits

👏🏻enjoyed this parody, ending up in a purgatory like that office, cannot think of anything worse 😂 Death seems quite a taboo subject .Im speaking from experience, having a terminal cancer, being close to death myself with palliative care.Its an ingenious approach , not only to death but to how we really spend our days whilst we are living and well.Congratulations.

Guess I'm lucky living near Philly Had a cheese steak for lunch today

I know this sounds strange, but my final impression of this movie is the taste of a bit of aluminum foil in a crude sandwich. So unappetizing! Is that the way those things really look? Yuck!!!

Excellent short film. However, I've watched several of these wonderful brief films now and I've noticed that with THIS ONE in addition to many others, when 'closed captions' is activated, the 'cc' sentences that appear below have similar meaning, but many words are completely different than the spoken dialog in the film. Check it out.

Hate to tell you friends, but there is no purgatory and the office clerk chose hell. Only two choices hell for eternity of eternity in the Kingdom of God with Jesus. Chose Jesus.

The phone ringing was IRRITATING! Hard to keep watching.

The premise of this is really close to "A Pure Formality", with Depardieu and Polanski. Huge recommendation.

Really surprising incredible

I need to know what was in the bag that made him chuckle? I’m surprised that that wasn’t everyone’s first question. It looks like a baby gift, maybe his wife had just given birth? Very interesting! Glad I hit PLAY!

who da heck wrote the cc lines- are your ears oaky [not to mention the mind...]?

Lol passing into the spirit world is so not like this.

I never finished breaking bad 😂😂

Thank you

The opening scene made me think of _Beetlejuice._ Good plot well acted and thanks for uploading!

Brilliant.

Thoroughly enjoyed this amazing video. Creates a whole new spin on things.

This a fun and quirky film. I loved it!

Great work there! I also made a short-film which premiered at a local cinema. I would love to get some opinions of you guys on it! <3 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGa3ZoqMoap8p9E&ab_channel=AmorFatiFilms

OK, but if an ambidextrous person got two pens and signed both contracts at the same time, would their soul take a screenshot?

At last something different, although I didn't get it wholly,ha ha (English is not my mother language :-))

Oh my God this was good but terrible you get me.

Absolutely perfect. Such a unique concept, so drawing and surprisingly emotional. Simply perfect in every aspect. The fullest compliments to the creator, this one is a must see 👏🏼

I would chose never existing.

I love thissss..... Totally kept the attention on weird guy in the house meanwhile foreshadowing the one who was in fact the kind of an antagonist... ahhh and the direction, love those colour combinations and the precise mirror reflection when the guy enters the house... Really love your work..

06:46 Hebrews 11:3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. 2 Corinthians 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal. Proverbs 14:32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death. John 14:23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. 1 Corinthians 2:9 But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. 10 But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. The only bible I read 1611 King James Bible www.purebiblesearch.com Blog: mzwa1611kjb.wordpress.com/blog/

06:33 Luke 12:15 And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. 16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: 17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits? 18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry. 20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided? 21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. Psalms 49:6 They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches; 7 None of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give to God a ransom for him: 8 (For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:) 9 That he should still live for ever, and not see corruption. 10 For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others. 11 Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names. 12 Nevertheless man being in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts that perish. 13 This their way is their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah. 14 Like sheep they are laid in the grave; death shall feed on them; and the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their beauty shall consume in the grave from their dwelling. 15 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah. 16 Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased; 17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him. Proverbs 23:4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom. Ecclesiastes 7:12 For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it. Job 28:28 And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding. 1 Corinthians 1:21 For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. Revelation 19:13 And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. John 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent. Luke 16:19 ¶ There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: 20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores, 21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; 23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame. 25 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. 26 And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. 27 Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: 28 For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. 29 Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them. 30 And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent. 31 And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead. Hebrews 12:25 See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven: 26 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. 27 And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. 28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 29 For our God is a consuming fire. The only bible I read 1611 King James Bible www.purebiblesearch.com Blog: mzwa1611kjb.wordpress.com/blog/

Will he ever get to watch Breaking bad? 😂

ending makes no sense

This is from my short film, Smokey Jack! You can watch the full 5 minute short here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGXUaHSio755ias

Best short film ever!

Wow! I could definitely watch a feature-long film on this concept!

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What is a title of that movie?

but what was in the bag??????

i absolutely love how their idea of hell is a corporate office.

This is a clip from my last short film, Death and Faxes. Available here on KZbin: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nl6wfYmGgsqsiqc

Mm.

What show or movie is This

Who else thought that Jim's first client would be his wife?

Just saw the main actor in an Amazon commercial!! This is so cool!!!

11:31 I want to know what was in the bag?

The Good Place Spinoff! I love it