Brilliant. Probably the best ‘found footage’ film I have ever watched. And it says so much with so little. These two people go through all their (e)motions, which creates a lot of empathy and tenderness towards both of them.
@terryoquinn8199Ай бұрын
I had to watch this 4 times as I couldn’t see anything through my tears . I feel for the bride , she was forced into something she was unsure of and I don’t think it was what he wanted either . They obviously made it work out but it must have broken her heart to know how truly happy he was with Ella and was made to marry another woman . I could feel her heart breaking every time she rewound the tape to hear him tell her he loved her . Sincerely and from deep within his own heart . There is someone I’ve lost 3 times in 40 years in my life . We’ve known each other since our teens and I was her first , but she wanted to rush me into things I wasn’t quite ready for , and now she’s married again , to another man , again . The finality of the realization that it would never be is what hurts the most . I’ve accepted it and I truly wish THEM the very best , but it still is very painful for me . Take care all and appreciate what you have in life , it passes by so quickly . May God bless you if you read this far . May God bless you no matter what . Peace ☮️ .
@HookBeak_669 ай бұрын
Yesterday I went to the Global Buffet restaurant in Swindon, with multi cultural food: There were Chinese sat alongside Africans, Nepalese, Indian, white British were the minority but that meant nothing, because the food & the atmosphere was excellent.
@JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts9 ай бұрын
Very touching story. Religion, family, culture, etc. defines so much of who and what we are. Some of these are visible wile some are spiritual. ❤
@Prizzy9999 ай бұрын
Yeah, the three roots of all evil and human unhappiness and misery.
@harsha.0923 ай бұрын
Two of my best friends were in a relationship for almost 8 years and he had to marry another girl because of religion and family pressure, He was a muslim too. But she still stays single not able to find someone better than him. He was a nice guy, who loved his parents too much. And she, loved him more than her parents.
@rustyg.7143Ай бұрын
Really sad story of your friend…Maybe he didn’t love her as much as she loved and probably still love him; because letting the one go easy like that?? 🤨 for family and religion pressure???? I don’t think so… in real life is so hard finding someone who really love you with same intensity as you love her/him… :(
@SamEttleman9 ай бұрын
6:37 - "you seen the tape?" nice
@eugenetswong9 ай бұрын
Thank you for pointing that out!
@0230Raveena9 ай бұрын
I was atleast glad that it wasn't anything explicit where she would completely see him differently and their relationship would be changed forever.
@JosephSantaCruz9 ай бұрын
Beautiful & powerful film! Amazing work.
@wiwy269 ай бұрын
Man my heart aches now 😭😭😭 I know too many stories like that irl
@mrigankbaranwal7093 ай бұрын
Everyone has a past. But one should never let it spoil the present and the future. Bygones are bygones.
@celiajose28468 ай бұрын
This film is about appreciating all the relationships that come and go in one’s life…..its such a bittersweet feeling❤
@el_grecko_319 ай бұрын
I love how it starts. I'm a label puller myself. Kind of like pulling off a scab from a skinned elbow or knee. never know what's going to happen next.
@LiamWhoElse9 ай бұрын
Woah, what an amazing film. Very heart wrenching...
@sadhnaguptabrown1869 ай бұрын
Lovely story of life. Found myself smiling and with chills at the end.
@laurabenson12789 ай бұрын
Story of life? I have no idea what happened.
@Suzanna09879 ай бұрын
@@laurabenson1278Me neither. I'm reading the comments to get a clue.😂😂😂
@therealJamieJoy9 ай бұрын
It was an arranged marriage and they both had people they were in love with but had to leave due to their family's demands to marry.@@Suzanna0987
@Prizzy9999 ай бұрын
A horrible story of an arranged marriage more like.
@therealJamieJoy9 ай бұрын
@@Prizzy999 Bittersweet is a more apt description. "Horrible' to me would be more like violence, or misery, or extreme loneliness, complete lack of respect.
@slolerner73499 ай бұрын
Brilliant film. Thank you
@aliceandappetizersАй бұрын
This was beautiful
@yobiesaravanabavan23089 ай бұрын
Is the film a representation of arranged marriage?
@laurabenson12789 ай бұрын
I am completely lost here.
@0230Raveena9 ай бұрын
Yes!
@therealJamieJoy9 ай бұрын
yes
@Prizzy9999 ай бұрын
A sleazy representation of a miserable arranged marriage life yeah.
@tananario233 ай бұрын
No. Take your stereotypes and leave.
@amamasaeed42079 ай бұрын
Past never leaves you !
@umaralimp56529 ай бұрын
A masterpiece
@DestinyBrown-z8t9 ай бұрын
my 1st time watching your videos seems so good already keep it up this deserves 10M or more this too good.
@mz87557 ай бұрын
for a moment i thought the ending would be to accept and continue living like that, which felt like the most likely outcome.
@josephcoleman3635Ай бұрын
Those were some low quality tapes. Too cheap to buy new tapes? Just take still photos. Try to get them in focus and steady the lens if the moments have any meaning to you at all.
@pierredavis27638 ай бұрын
Why do the older version of them have a British accent.i like the plot, but the casting crew didnt do the best job. But i do notice after watching a few times that his ex did have an accent plus she used words like fancy. I still can't get over the fact that older sal looks 100% Caucasian,
@bamslerc9 ай бұрын
Powerful.
@asitkaushik25249 ай бұрын
It all happened in the past, so there’s really nothing to fret about. Technology has allowed us to store our memories on tape and celluloid which would have otherwise been safely ensconced in our mind’s eye.
@SparrowKnightx9 ай бұрын
Another comment pointed out what was significant about the film. It was not simply about an ex girlfriend. Both of them left someone outside their race and possibly religion due to cultural and religious pressure.
@asitkaushik25249 ай бұрын
@@SparrowKnightx Yes that too is a very significant perspective!
@therealJamieJoy9 ай бұрын
It was an arranged marriage and they both had people they were in love with but had to leave due to their family's demands to marry.
@asitkaushik25249 ай бұрын
@@therealJamieJoy Its extremely sad if they had to sacrifice their love for the sake of religious boundaries or their family's whims.
@therealJamieJoy9 ай бұрын
@@asitkaushik2524 Yes, very sad. :(
@atdivolta9 ай бұрын
why was the guy at the end different
@laurabenson12789 ай бұрын
I think that was the "older" Sal.
@hank15199 ай бұрын
This was before his marriage?
@geoben98019 ай бұрын
@@laurabenson1278 That's what I think too.👍🤔
@geoben98019 ай бұрын
@@hank1519 Yeah, everything on the tape is before he married Aisha.
@hank15199 ай бұрын
@@geoben9801 Thanks a lot!
@nicholasvanorton78409 ай бұрын
It appears Aisha also had some skeletons in her closet also, at least one named Jack. Now and then "the yawn of familiarity?" 🤨
@0230Raveena9 ай бұрын
Yes, it seems that she also loved someone else but was forced to marry. She and her husband has the same history likely.
@abraxasjinx52078 ай бұрын
How did they stage the footage of them looking younger? Aisha especially is really well done. Oh, they used younger actors.
@pauldavey9 ай бұрын
So different. Curiosity killed the cat so they say. However in this case I'm not so sure but the past is the past and you have to let the past go no matter how difficult.
@terryoquinn8199Ай бұрын
You never truly let go of the past , ever . You may however , learn to live with it . I think that is the best we can hope for .
@birtneyspearschristmas.sum88259 ай бұрын
now and then
@czechmydubs93798 ай бұрын
So true
@RamadhanuAjie8 ай бұрын
Is it based on the true? How lucky the blonde,because she became a moslem ever. Very enlightening story
@mlbonfox81999 ай бұрын
Oh damn… freaking awesome I have so many weapons now; Ty
@laurabenson12789 ай бұрын
So....a wife finds some old tapes and sees her husband's former girlfriend. Why is this a big deal? What have I missed?
@0230Raveena9 ай бұрын
He loved someone else but was "forced" to marry someone of his own religion, someone his family choose for him. He did what what culturally right but is it right? He wife recognized a sort of sacrifice he made for family by choosing her out of lots of girls that his family has showed him. And then she showed him her diary, she also loved someone else outside of her race and her religion. That is something they had in common; a common past that they had to leave behind because of cultural and religious expectations.
@durasaxon51319 ай бұрын
@@0230Raveena Well said and well conveyed/ written. _____
@rustyg.7143Ай бұрын
That’s kind of f@&& up isn’t .. are they ever going to be completely happy in their life always?? wondering how their life was going to be like with their real love one ? ???
@northerners28289 ай бұрын
An indian drama story..
@-svet-ka-9 ай бұрын
Indeed. But unlike many couples who were in love when they got married, they respected each other the whole life. I admire that.
@Prizzy9999 ай бұрын
@@-svet-ka-Yeah, miserable and unhappy but respecting each other. How soothing.
@-svet-ka-9 ай бұрын
@@Prizzy999 I am not saying that arranged marriages are better, I am for freedom of personal choice. But the couple in this short are not at each other's throat, they don't shout at each other, don't abuse each other physically or verbally; when the truth came out they comforted each other instead of fighting - would you agree? I personally know several couples who married out of love but few years later were so miserable and unhappy that became aggressive - clearly they had many feelings towards their partners except respect. Life in such toxic relationships makes people much more miserable and unhappy than the couple in this short.
@anuraggdeshpande2869 ай бұрын
It's the last beatles song
@panikkkaaaa9 ай бұрын
omg
@000aleph9 ай бұрын
A tender film, but also somewhat of a snoozefest. And I don't understand why we constantly have to see those empathetic approaches to other cultures to the almost complete exclusion of the grave problems some of those cultures bring into our countries. When will we see the story of a Rotherham girl or of the corrosive effect of No-Go areas or of the tragic loss of one's deep sense of identification with one's home country by its being continually filled up with unfamiliar people with unfamiliar values?
@Prizzy9999 ай бұрын
Totally agree with you. Political correctness at its finest, or should I say its lowest?
@caimanaraujo4799 ай бұрын
To be honest, all I know about Muslims marriage culture is bad, terrible. Why can't I have contact with a couple that succeded even under a flawed marriage system? Why does it always need to be Romeo and Juliet?
@000aleph9 ай бұрын
@@caimanaraujo479 It doesn't. There's nothing wrong with this film showing what it does. My objection addresses the massive anti-white and anti-Western bias that becomes visible when looking at short films as a whole. I'm asking why large parts of today's realities are never shown, e.g. the suffering that immigrants from Muslim countries inflict on the native white population of Europe. Or the abusive behaviors of women, which are as prevalent as those of men. In general, there is a lot of sympathy for women and non-whites, and very little for men and whites.
@slolerner73499 ай бұрын
@@000aleph Maybe because White Men have had 400 years to make the world a better place, but if you're being honest, we've kinda fu ked it up.