STALLED | Omeleto

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A toxic executive goes to a public restroom -- and gets trapped in a time paradox.
STALLED is used with permission from Matt Black. Learn more at weekend.video.
Ruthlessly ambitious business executive Pete is on his way to an important meeting when he realizes he's running late. As he pops into the restroom, he's rude on the phone to his co-worker and he's short-tempered with the janitor, revealing cut-throat selfishness and entitlement.
When he's in the stall, he sees a strange message written on the toilet paper and then someone peeking into his stall. Investigating the sounds of a scuffle outside, he realizes he's been locked into the bathroom -- and realizes the person peeking into his stall was himself. And he can't escape... until he's unlocked to the temporal paradox he's found himself in. But doing that means confronting his worst enemy: himself.
Written and directed by Matt Black, this sci-fi short is essentially a puzzle operating on two levels: there's the straightening of twisted timelines as a man tries to escape the time loop he's found himself, which brings kinetic energy and suspense to the storytelling. But there's also an existential puzzle, as Pete must work with his past and future selves to figure it all out. But when you're an arrogant, selfish jerk, that process is a lot harder.
Shot with a lurid moodiness like a corporate thriller and scored with an anxious, dissonant electronic score, the film still finds a lot of fun and even insight in the set-up. Placing a time loop in a public restroom builds some quirkiness into the narrative from the beginning and contours the concept perfectly for the short format. And there's also some biting humor as Pete comes up against his own self, which he does again and again as he tries to figure out the paradox he's in but is hindered by his blowhard attitude.
Time traveling is a complicated idea and the fast pace and sharp dialogue lay it out quickly, but the mechanics don't have to be completely grasped to enjoy the film. Instead, the story smartly yokes the solving of the time travel puzzle to Pete's confrontation with himself. Actor Jacob Daniels' nimble performance as Pete proves to be the film's anchor through all the temporal madness, as his character slowly realizes that working with himself is the true nightmare. He sees the cost of his cut-throat, toxic attitude and treatment of others because the time loops force him to be the victim of it.
If Pete wants any chance to escape the temporal trap he's in, he's got to change his attitude fast -- or else risk being killed by his own desperate, cornered self. By the end of STALLED, he's a changed man, and that growth is hard-won. It's an eye-opening moment for Pete when the worst version of himself points a gun at himself and has no reservations about pulling the trigger. It's a riveting situation in a short full of such moments, but it also provokes some reflection on how we'd get along with ourselves at our worst, making for an unexpectedly thoughtful ending to a compelling wild ride of a film.

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@travkenn1019 8 ай бұрын

Tossing his tie, jacket, and watch in the trash was him killing his future. On the phone in the beginning he said nobody was going to take that account because it was his future. Giving up that future is what got him out of the paradox.

@kellymeaney716 5 ай бұрын

Omg this comment needs more recognition!!

@juls8664 5 ай бұрын

This 💯

@Grimmiges_Ranarrkraut 5 ай бұрын

Ehrm.. duh?

@NM-zb6pd 5 ай бұрын

@badasstorm 5 ай бұрын

thats why he can get out that bathroom

@jacobmatthewbrown8004 Жыл бұрын

So after escaping the time paradox he loses his job because he was late/quits because he wants to change his life. He becomes a janitor and grows old. One day he's cleaning the bathroom and sees his younger self walk in, realizing he is back in the paradox. He leaves himself a hint for how to escape, leaves the toilet paper on the counter, and walks out, leaving his younger self to his own devices. Genius writing.

@wiszak9370 Жыл бұрын

Agree. Most people wouldn't notice that.

@heffercan3216 Жыл бұрын

I liked your read on the story, so I watched closely a few times. The other party called him Pete during the call, and the name tag on the janitor read Janus. And the eye color is a bit different. So I can't conclude that your version is correct (but I kind of liked yours a bit better).

@robertm3762 Жыл бұрын

@@heffercan3216 That is the brilliance of this short. It is Janus himself sending him into the stall. He even calls him a 'bad person'. Janus is the Roman God of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings. Janus provides him the means to exit by figuring out his short comings.

@terrafirma9328 Жыл бұрын

The name tag is too small and even zoomed in it's blurry, could say James. If it does say Janus would think the writer would make it more readable/noticeable. I too had the thought of the janitor being him but can't be sure, that would be more poetic/artistic. Did you catch at the beginning he was already 20 min late as his phone was 310 as he was arguing on the phone his friend told him it was 330. The future he should have killed should have been the janitor, but he would have needed to go back in time prior too entering the first door to not be late, not shoot himself. The gun is a loose thread, it never shows where it came from in any timeline? 🤔

@Carter_the_Cryptid Жыл бұрын

@@terrafirma9328 It's said right in the story. Time travel is just the way it is, it's not a good idea to think about it too hard. Where did he get the gun? From himself.

@anishintre 4 ай бұрын

"53 missed calls from Christopher Nolan"

@revilo1340 3 ай бұрын

well yeah but no disrespect to nolan, i love every one of his films but i feel like he would take this put the scenes and put them out of order and never explain the overall storyline

@CarlosAM1 3 ай бұрын

@@revilo1340that is exactly what he would do

@yeetbro3659 3 ай бұрын

Christopher Nolan doesnt have a cell phone 😂

@brayaki3768 2 ай бұрын

@@yeetbro3659wait, really?

@anishintre 2 ай бұрын

@@brayaki3768 yep. He doesn't use a smartphone

@pankkmakesmusic 4 ай бұрын

This 20 minute video just felt like 3 hours of thinking

@baconpizzawcheese4506 Жыл бұрын

imagine being late and then trying to explain this to your boss

@brawnydasco 10 ай бұрын

This is my go-to response every time. "Sorry, boss. That whole doppelganger murder suicide thing again."

@senzayyy 9 ай бұрын

"Drug test him boyz"

@danturtle381 9 ай бұрын

Actually, he exited at around 10:30, which is exactly when his meeting was going to be if I understood it correctly.

@a.k.s7613 8 ай бұрын

Until his boss is....him.

@harrisonzhou4992 7 ай бұрын

that's what I said lol@@a.k.s7613

@Invictus22656 6 ай бұрын

One actor, one room, one script. One masterpiece

@RoamingAries 5 ай бұрын

I count 3 actors

@purujitparashar4642 5 ай бұрын

@@RoamingArieshow so

@wiawaysb 5 ай бұрын

@@purujitparashar4642 guy, janitor, guy on phone

@brodyquestionmark 5 ай бұрын

I count two because they’re twins

@me_dum5477 5 ай бұрын

@@purujitparashar4642the janitor, the guy on the phone, and the main guy

@alphaaxis64501 5 ай бұрын

the only film where the protagonist is also the side character and the antagonist at the same time, while also being background characters

@sam_claymore 16 күн бұрын

Triangle 2009

@Slackow 4 ай бұрын

My favorite part of this was the fight scene where it's unclear why he's fighting himself, and then he enters and exits the stall in the middle of a fight, that was really well done and unique.

@RandoMandom 28 күн бұрын

I feel like most people don’t understand that if if there’s a second version of him it’s bc it’s his future so he will go through that

@gex77777 Жыл бұрын

This is one of the reasons i avoid going to public restrooms

@Sport6000 Жыл бұрын

That made me laugh lmfao

@RobMacKendrick Жыл бұрын

Seriously. This is like the sixth movie I've seen where the men's room is a portal to something unpleasant.

@carthicss1 Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@JKRowl Жыл бұрын

HAHAHHAHAHHAHAA 😂😂😂😂😂

@ecbrown6151 Жыл бұрын

When the hand that grabs your ankle is your own…

@user-qj3cq5hr7l 6 ай бұрын

Respect to the camera man for avoiding being in mirror.

@Randomer231 5 ай бұрын

And for being immune to time paradox

@Tv_3Z 5 ай бұрын

@@Randomer231maybe the cameraman was the same guy just from the future recording it all

@yahyaalibrahim8013 5 ай бұрын

@@Tv_3Z😂😂😂😂😂

@rajmotta482 5 ай бұрын

There is no mirror

@user-qj3cq5hr7l 5 ай бұрын

@@rajmotta482 Actualy, I was wrong. We see him at 0:55

@maxwellboyle9065 3 ай бұрын

Something I want to take note of. The name tag that the janitor wears says Janus. In Roman myth, Janus is the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, frames, and endings. These themes are very much at play in this short, what with the time-traveling bathroom stalls that could be considered to be "gates." I have three possible interpretations for who the elderly janitor could be. 1. Janus the god himself, helping Pete become a better person via their domain. 2. A future version of Pete, representing a wiser and overall more peaceful self that he will eventually become. 3. Simply an unrelated elderly janitor, albeit one with an uncanny sense of wisdom regarding what will end up happening to Pete.

@RamBendrinx 3 ай бұрын

This comment right here is what I was looking for.

@elasticoeditzz5366 2 ай бұрын

The janitor is future Pete that lost his job because he was late, and later in life, becomes a janitor and sees himself walking in. That’s why he said you might get a good look at yourself. You might not be happy about it. Even when he escapes he is still in the paradox. Genius writing.

@jinsou 2 ай бұрын

Great thinking, though Pete has dark eyes and Janus has blue eyes.

@markusharroldhailey6688 Ай бұрын

"Janus" could be a previous "survivor" so thats how he know how this would played out since he already experienced it.

@sonny8599 Ай бұрын

I think he's older Pete. When Pete asks for paper towels, his expression looks like "ah shii here we go again". Then when the light flickers, it looked like he used it as a cue to leave the toilet paper and carry on or skidaddle to not get caught in the loop.

@victorjun2421 4 ай бұрын

Apparently each door had a different effect: 1st door: sends you to a different place in time (large time difference) 2nd door: it's only used once by survivor Pete at 7:06 3rd door: sends you to a different place in time (short time difference) 4th door: sends you back in the past Survivor Pete used the 1st door to escape bloody Pete at 16:42 and goes back to 14:16 and uses the 3rd door to quickly go back to future bloody Pete, he pushes him into the 1st door and sends him back to past bloody Pete exactly when he shoots the door. The only thing that's been left a mystery is when jacketless Pete from 7:06 came from. This implies that this is where the time paradox was first broken, in the original paradox he was supposed to repeat this dialogue and bloody Pete would enter the first stall, but since he refused that erased the point of origin from survivor Pete. Brilliant writing, very subtle detail.

@killjoy1435 4 ай бұрын

Thank you dude now i get it

@noelhenio1150 3 ай бұрын

Dude wow thank you

@mohitjain5552 3 ай бұрын

Your comment made me understand the whole thing. Thanks man.

@sirprizemothafuga 3 ай бұрын

Nice analysis

@CarlosAM1 3 ай бұрын

ooooh thank you

@compositestechbb9087 10 ай бұрын

When you remember that's just one guy acting in an empty room it's mind blowing. Well done sir 👏

@OptimusGPrime 9 ай бұрын

2 guys. The janitor was there as well. (3 if you count the guy on the phone).

@XandreNx 9 ай бұрын

@@OptimusGPrimethe Janitor is him from the future...so probably CGI...and I wouldn't be surprised if he's the one on the phone

@thegoodwolf4255 9 ай бұрын

I just finished watching it, now i gotta watch it again, wow!

@unoriginalname4321 9 ай бұрын

No, all clones

@dude-man 9 ай бұрын

and a pretty nifty editing guy also...

@slotery13 10 ай бұрын

What's funny to me, is that final survivor isn't the one we followed from the start, he is a remnant of a time line that shouldn't exist, a possibility, the possibility of a version of him that realizes he is a bad person, the only version of him that survived isn't connected by causality to the one that went in. Brilliant writing.

@AndyHappyGuy 10 ай бұрын

Well he is. He is the one who went in that stall, the only thing that separated the "worst" version of Pete from the "best" version was Pete refusing to go into the stall at 8:08.

@jacobgray3112 9 ай бұрын

@@AndyHappyGuy I picked up on that too. Its really a great use of the butterfly effect to make the point in the narrative. Really intriguing.

@geminirox8635 9 ай бұрын

@@AndyHappyGuy the guy that refused to enter the stall at 8:08 is not the guy that made it out.

@AndyHappyGuy 9 ай бұрын

@@geminirox8635 exactly!

@chuunikyou557 9 ай бұрын

@@AndyHappyGuyI think he meant narratively. The jacketless guy became the protagonist in the middle of the story and the protagonist we were following from the start turned into the antagonist.

@shadowstrider42 3 ай бұрын

This strangely ends up working by just being plain about the fact it shouldn't be working and it doesn't make sense and just roll with it. It's generally the attempt at explaining why time travel and paradoxes happen that ends up causing inconsistencies, and that doesn't happen here. The character at the end is just as confused as the one at the beginning, even his escape involves preparing the next loop and leaving with the assumption that that pocket of time will probably happen over and over eternally. Even having lived through it, knowing all the steps, he still leaves himself the same vague clue, maybe to keep the loop intact, maybe knowing the event changed him and he wants to leave the lesson for himself. Very well made.

@okboomer8444 5 ай бұрын

The world building within a bathroom was incredible regardless of it being a closed space you made it feel like an open world with more to it despite not actually changing locations but by including later and past versions of yourself as signs of progression and change truly amazing

@fonzaug3355 Ай бұрын

so true. It is fascinating to think about how time changes space. :)

@kamlapiano Жыл бұрын

Absolute genius. 'Surrounded by Morons ' deserves an Oscar

@einienj3281 Жыл бұрын

I call myself a moron all the time 😄

@km077 Жыл бұрын

@einienj3281 Same, whenever I pass myself in public I always shout: "you fcking moron!"... and the other me does the same. -He's- I'm just like me omg!

@stevejobs8406 Жыл бұрын

And at the Oscars Ceremony he will be surrounded by even more morons!

@kyrohowe3156 Жыл бұрын

Definitely meme material

@julianr8544 6 ай бұрын

17:18 Him closing the door so that the bullet his bad self shot at 16:43 ends up killing his bad self was one of the sickest things I've seen done with time travel. Really well done concept.

@boooooo8376 5 ай бұрын

so what happened to 16:43 him? just dont exist anymore?

@stickyy_fingaas 5 ай бұрын

@@boooooo8376thats why its a paradox. Theres this paradox called "the grandfather paradox", you have a mission to go back in time and kill your grand dad, but if you kill your grand dad, your dad doesnt exist, so you dont exist either, so who killed your grand dad or id he dead or alive in the end

@evileye4832 5 ай бұрын

@@boooooo8376I think, All of them came from the same point but they have different futures so if you kill one it doesn't effect your own.

@BAnnanaJuicee 5 ай бұрын

I gasped when this happened! This video is a masterpiece

@takahisavalarien1274 5 ай бұрын

Looper

@Conundrum191 5 ай бұрын

One man, one set, and more entertaining than a lot of what Hollywood has put out in the last few years. Good job on this one.

@madelinelove5150 3 ай бұрын

What about the janitor? Is he the same actor?

@twistertornado677 Ай бұрын

@@madelinelove5150nah but the character is

@skeytermen 3 ай бұрын

It is a journey through the different moods of the same person, as he jumps between paradoxes, making each mood lead him through different situations of each paradox. Excellent script.

@dustlessbard007 10 ай бұрын

I like how the Janitors name is Janus, janus is roman god of gateways, door, transition - time and choices, So he himself played the time game with Pete

@nicholasfactor 10 ай бұрын

Sure, Janus

@spawnpoint111 10 ай бұрын

@@nicholasfactorhuh

@marcusbergman6116 9 ай бұрын

I think it was himself as an old man, back in the paradox.

@yoursleepparalysisdemon1828 9 ай бұрын

@@marcusbergman6116not in the paradox, just happened to be there

@youmad7068 9 ай бұрын

He is the Janitor, the guy in the suit.

@arthurchen6464 Жыл бұрын

The "essence" of the skit is actually quite simple. If you just ignore all the technical stuff about the paradox, and just look at the two main copies of the character, you have one who has realized (and said as much) that he is a bad person, but resolves to change for the better, while the other one cynically embraced his own selfishness and brutality. And the one who acknowledges his own character faults, but wants to be better comes out on top, while the one who is content with his darkness loses. It's the same person, but two* different future outlooks, and the one willing to change wins out.

@einienj3281 Жыл бұрын

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.

@MGrey-qb5xz Жыл бұрын

@@einienj3281 Compromise , relish , destroy

@raezor82 Жыл бұрын

Quantum…selection?

@himiracle Жыл бұрын

they are even dressed differently the one in the suit being bad (black suit) and one with suit off being good (white shirt)

@trunkulent Жыл бұрын

What's interesting to me is that Corpo Guy _did_ change. He's the one we see, according to White Shirt, that first did something differently. Wonder if there's something there.

@kevinmelendez7738 5 ай бұрын

Not sure if it’s been mentioned yet, but at 6:05 the shot focuses on the broken watch of the corpse, the first time he sees it. But later on at 17:14 when it’s revealed that his evil version shot the bullet that kills his evil version; the camera focuses on the undamaged watch face, which remains to be undamaged in the panoramic shot do to the reflection of the smooth watch face at 17:57. Which makes me believe that the two corpses are from different timelines. The one with the broken watch is probably from the bad (broken) timeline, in which he doesn’t listen to his 2min future self. While the one with the unbroken watch is from the original (good) timeline which we don’t get to see, but from which the good version of himself, who listened to his 2min future self, is from. The one with the broken watch was probably the 2min future good version of the good version, from the original timeline that initially started the time paradox at 8:14 where the two timelines meet and simultaneously split off. The 2min future good version would’ve taken the good version’s jacket off to keep the time continuity of exiting the stall without a jacket. Then when the other past bad version of himself goes back to the stall to try again at 12:56 he is unaccounted for in the paradoxes, I think he most likely met up with the 2min future good version that took the other good version’s jacket and kills him in the stall to maybe try the time continuity angle since he believes that that future version of himself wouldn’t pull the trigger on himself, and believes that’s why he’s still stuck, so he gets his own hand dirty. That would put the corpse with the broken watch (aka the 2min future good version) in the timeline where he took “kill your future” literally. And since it didn’t work he pops back into the paradox as one of the others that keep popping up from his other failed attempts. Meanwhile the evil version that goes to check the corpse with the broken watch again at 13:12 goes through with the plan to return to the start of the paradox to return to the good timeline to close the loop with the unaccounted corpse, being his version of the corpse with the unbroken watch. The good version then sets up his clues to help his good version survive, while simultaneously leading the bad version of himself on to get the two timelines to meet and loop in on each other, to create the necessary scenario in which he can finally escape the paradox.

@Gamma69 2 ай бұрын

Bro, that was the long ass explanation but interesting

@norastorm99 Ай бұрын

😮😮😮

@ebrucan7161 3 ай бұрын

i love how this inserts paradoxes together, like the death being a variation of the grandfather paradox, and the gun being the bootstrap paradox. also, when he said "no", he broke time, thereby breaking the space-time continuum and causing the universe to collapse in on itself. I can barely explain it, but i love time loop movies because i love seeing people put in a difficult situation that they have never seen before, and then they adapt to it, and learn about it. i just love that.

@evangonzalez2245 Жыл бұрын

Paradoxes/time travel is my favorite form of fiction, but it's extremely rare to find a story so cohesive and well thought out. Bravo! This was a real treat 😍

@jacke3653 Жыл бұрын

Me too

@joeschroedernz Жыл бұрын

Watch coherence. Low budget but amazing time paradox movie.

@evangonzalez2245 Жыл бұрын

I believe it's already on my watch later list, thanks for the endorsement 😁

@ameerak Жыл бұрын

watch "Maanaadu (2021)"

@theoneandonlymr.l1719 Жыл бұрын

Another thing is that if he wasn't so stuck on that part that he has to kill his future self, he would have thought to just shoot the door handle of the exit considering he had unlimited bullets

@Kovaelin Жыл бұрын

Gotta love the number of ways they used to try to give viewers visual clues to help keep track. The toilet paper on the foot was simple and effective, and I liked that a lot.

@RaptorFromWeegee Жыл бұрын

I'm going to start going into mens rooms wt black magic marker and writing "Don't panic" on toilet paper rolls

@poxachlys1112 Жыл бұрын

@@RaptorFromWeegee please do thats hilarious

@malikkelly 11 ай бұрын

@@RaptorFromWeegee Write it and walk out and now you're trapped in a paradox and THAT is how all of it starts

@julianr8544 3 ай бұрын

@@malikkelly oh damn, that actually got me hyped lmao😂

@UndeadPlayer1 4 ай бұрын

One of the most well made and well choreographed time paradox/horror films I've seen, loved the character development. Pete's only enemy was himself the whole time and realizing he really was a bad person. I loved the small details and themes such as Pete with the jacket on and Pete without the jacket on having contrasting motives and personalities, showing his good and bad side. Ultimately his good side won, he killed his future, he went through the door.

@fabiofanf3e813 3 ай бұрын

the whole 16:40 section was easily the coolest thing ive ever seen in any fiction. jumping to the past to scape the present just to then jump in the future and use the bullet from the present is CRAZY and EPIC 19:55 ? just perfect

@humanzbornfresh Жыл бұрын

i was really expecting him to end up becoming the janitor from the start, and his sort of cosmic punishment would be that he has to grow old in the bathroom and watch the behaviour that made him the man he is.

@4pmj Жыл бұрын

dats what I thought

@scottcupp8129 Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same

@zem0ku605 Жыл бұрын

it might be him. perhaps after he left the bathroom, he continued to his meeting, lived his early life (whether good or bad), and then at the end somehow became a janitor for that specific moment. Therefore, this was the initial part before the time paradox. that's my theory, idk how much sense it is tho since im not sure time travel wise, it's even remotely accurate or close hahaha

@Lliamhd Жыл бұрын

The janitor has the same very blue eyes he does, but maybe coincidence.

@abubaseet Жыл бұрын

Interesting. I hadn't thought of that.

@jakebiddulph3540 Жыл бұрын

One of my favorite things about this is how the gun just exists. That's something I've always wondered about regarding time travel and paradoxes. Once as a kid I even tried to create a time machine by telling myself if I hide it in a certain spot at a predetermined time in the future then it should already be waiting there for me whereever I willed it to be. Didn't work...

@Adam_Wilde Жыл бұрын

I leave my wallet, keys, and phone in the same spot every night. Then, when I travel into the future, my past self has already set up my things right where I need them to be. Past me is very thoughtful for future me.

@nateeaton7729 Жыл бұрын

I just tried to set a reminder on my phone for 50 years in the future for myself to go back to my room and wait but google didn’t let me set it that far :( I’ll find a way.

@d.a_roiceclips7946 Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣 You guys are terrible 🤣🤣🤣 You had me sarcastically hyped👍👍👍🤣🤣🤣

@magus1d14 Жыл бұрын

Or you know, it did work but just not for this version of you lawl

@Fastlan3 Жыл бұрын

One could hypothesize that if such was possible and every person did this, someone who actually creates such would then find it.

@NorMAL-100 3 ай бұрын

This film had a GENIUS writing, genius edition and cool scenes. All of this is pure GOLD. WELL DONE 👌

@DannyAaronsVsJackDoherty 3 ай бұрын

This is absolutely the best representation and media about time-travel I have ever seen. Everybody I know needs to see thiss

@akashkundu952 5 ай бұрын

Watching it for a lot of times made me realize an important detail. There was this without jacket Pete who had no idea what was happening. Yet that Pete would be facing the Bloody Pete, a couple of minutes later. The only clue he was given was by future Pete who said, "Last requests" before closing the door. Giving him the clue to get inside the stall and close it when he's asked the "Any last requests?" Question. This pete helps the other pete out too by putting that "last requests" clue before he goes back to finish the story. Brilliant writing where everything comes full circle and all the technical details make sense.

@softwarelivre2389 5 ай бұрын

And Bloody Pete never saw that because he was from another timeline. Brilliant.

@ioma7072 5 ай бұрын

And how did that Pete know what was the right clue?

@user-ek7jm2fv4f 5 ай бұрын

@@ioma7072because that also happened to that pete

@muslimbekabduganiev7483 5 ай бұрын

There is one technical detail that does not make sense, where did the gun come from???

@jamalbuddy181 5 ай бұрын

Yooo that was clean ngl😮

@gerardosanchez5850 10 ай бұрын

I like how every important version of himself has something identifiable, the one with the jacket, the one without the jacket, for some time the toilet paper in the foot, spots of blood. Everything is very well written and planned out.

@Bone_Incidents 2 ай бұрын

"Come on, the math test isn't that confusing!" The math test:

@AAvfx 5 ай бұрын

Amazing work indeed. Thanks for this. Everything was perfectly done. Acting, editing, photography. 10 / 10.

@ignaciodiaz919 11 ай бұрын

"And there's something about holding a piece of paper and pulling... a pencil through it" "We're doing 80s time travel" Genius writing

@og_dripj 10 ай бұрын

I barely understand that first line.

@ramifaroush1193 9 ай бұрын

Same can you explain ?

@macehilmatecilof4140 9 ай бұрын

@@og_dripj its a common trope in sci fi where a character folds a piece of paper in half to describe a wormhole. several movies and stuff use the same trope. It's basically saying instead of having to traverse the entire page of the piece of paper, a wormhole allows you to go to your destination by poking through the fabric of spacetime to get to the destination or time you want.

@user-js8oy7mq1y 8 ай бұрын

Inception and referenced in Thor love and and thunder

@invisiblemen304 8 ай бұрын

@@user-js8oy7mq1y you mean interstellar. not inception.

@SC-zq6cu Жыл бұрын

This was simply brilliant. I've never seen any time-travel video implement the bootstrap and grandpa paradox at the same time and have them make sense.

@catastropheintended88 Жыл бұрын

Wait people are able to understand it

@ggnova9851 Жыл бұрын

You should watch Doctor Who then

@treeofgrowth Жыл бұрын

@@ggnova9851 overrated. Try Primer.

@Aherea Жыл бұрын

Literally my only problem with this is the bullets. I'm willing to accept that the gun exists outside of time, and he gets it from himself. Classic bootstrap paradox stuff. But at what point does it get reloaded? He uses enough bullets in one or two loops to completely empty the magazine, and an empty gun would collapse the loop. So where are the bullets being resupplied from?

@socialyouniverse3086 Жыл бұрын

@@Aherea the bullets are trapped in a time paradox and asking themselves the same question 😃 😆

@lacklvster4512 2 ай бұрын

moral of the story: don't mess with janitors because they might actually be time wizards

@keebilavnder 3 ай бұрын

This is really good I wasn't expecting this to be so good, I love the concept of time travel and time paradoxes, they confuse the HELL out of me but they are so fascinating to me, which is why I LOVE all the little details and hints throughout this whole thing, well done I am honestly really really impressed in this!

@charleselmore4707 Жыл бұрын

You had me at "the writing's on the toilet paper."

@terrafirma9328 Жыл бұрын

Made me remember, "The writings on the wall" quote.

@kryptiqhiphop Жыл бұрын

I actually laughed at that!😂twas clever.

@X-SPONGED Жыл бұрын

I love how they never explained where the gun came from. It's as if the firearm materialized out of nowhere, like a paradoxical math problem with an added numerical value that suddenly got into the formula for some unexplainable reason.

@aelolul Жыл бұрын

Sometimes you just find a gun in a toilet stall. 🤷

@sxpdice9527 Жыл бұрын

Thats the thing with time travel problems/paradoxes. It is not necessarily about the how did he get the gun or where did it come from. Its more about WHEN did he obtain it, because technically it has always been there and at the same time it was never there at all.

@onedaya_martian1238 Жыл бұрын

Should have had the janitor leave it there. Would have completed the whole "spooky" reason the janitor seemed to know what was going to happen. Maybe they left that out in the editing.

@lukeflanagan1307 Жыл бұрын

It’s called the Bootstrap Paradox.

@wheelsndealz Жыл бұрын

@@onedaya_martian1238 was gonna say, the janitor should have been himself. Since they showed a close up of their eyes and the janitor had distinct blue eyes, maybe it was supposed to be that way.

@LeW_42 Ай бұрын

I love how this is complex, but sequenced in a way that is very intuitive to understand and isn't at all confusing.

@laurenbrown476 5 ай бұрын

Saw this on a reaction page and I had to come and watch it with no commentary! This is trippy and amazing work. Soon as I think I know what goes on next it flips…this is awesome.

@JoeEnglandShow Жыл бұрын

We really need to appreciate that visual effects artistry has advanced to the point where a short independent film with this premise can be made so seamlessly.

@RE-xv9fp Жыл бұрын

It depends, when its this high quality its often because a bigger production team is behind it.

@charliebrown76 Жыл бұрын

And not to mention the acting. Outstanding.

@jasartstudios 7 ай бұрын

This is one of the greatest "time travel" films I've ever seen - probably the best that was ever written. Masterfully crafted. it's structured in such a way that every detail matters, while at the same time, nothing really matters at all.

@eethhann 7 ай бұрын

very well said

@victora.3565 6 ай бұрын

You should watch 'primer'

@pance_9912 5 ай бұрын

Unless you were very specific in your usage of "film" and not just "story", you need to watch DARK before crowning this one the best out there.

@acquel678 5 ай бұрын

You should watch "timecrimes"

@tbqhwyf 5 ай бұрын

Hey have you seen predestination?

@fromexoplanet21 5 ай бұрын

Dude this legit was better than most of the scifi movies I've seen in the last decade or so💖💕 very interesting and new concept and i genuinely felt scared at some points, this was reallly good, glad i clicked on it💖💕

@coolhomerjack 5 ай бұрын

One of the finest short films I've ever had the privilege of viewing.

@DGneoseeker1 5 ай бұрын

My god. He just came out of a toilet cubicle after crapping, DIDN'T WASH HIS HANDS, and then proceeded to touch both the door handle and his phone. Truly a monster.

@fishsticks6969 5 ай бұрын

We're men

@carolanestanley4030 4 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂👍

@annacroixx 4 ай бұрын

@@fishsticks6969 That’s no excuse.

@danrobins1030 4 ай бұрын

Plot twist: This was a public service announcement for hand hygiene the whole time.

@darlanbrandt 4 ай бұрын

That's why he got stuck in this time travel 😂

@benjidojo Жыл бұрын

Maybe I'm weird but I prefer to do my time travel in the privacy of my own bathroom at home.

@rullmourn1142 Жыл бұрын

😂🤣😅

@martw3240 Жыл бұрын

the only thing that is weird is that you think it is your bathroom

@400tenchu Жыл бұрын

At least in my bathroom, I time travel from full bowels to empty in no time flat. Especially if I where to dare eat something like taco bell.

@trublu2556 Жыл бұрын

Very true it's essential under the right pronoun...

@PFSTR Жыл бұрын

Not weird at all. I too prefer to do my time travel in the privacy of your bathroom.

@timmygregsonn 4 ай бұрын

This gives me Coherence vibes. Super simply shot yet such an intricate story and a great actor. Well done!!

@soerengerlach4932 5 ай бұрын

Typical consultant's behaviour: Even in a middle of a deadly running time paradoxon he uses a flip chart ,-)) Beside that, the short was a marvel and just insanly good played, filmed, cut and enhanced with top music - thanks for putting this on YT 😀

@cecej306 7 ай бұрын

I think the paradox started before he went into the bathroom. On the phone call the person says Pete is late. Pete looks at his watch and says it is 3:10 and the person responds that it is 3:30. Meaning that Pete is already 20 minutes into the paradox time loop. But the real tragedy, is he never washes his hands after using the bathroom the first time!!🤢🤢🤣🤣

@cortneyrichardson30 5 ай бұрын

Apparently he never wipes either😢😂

@pyongtaek1297 5 ай бұрын

😂

@ra_qab 5 ай бұрын

I think his watch was just stuck at this time because when he was sitting on the toilet it didn't change, I think it started once the janitor left because when he was in the bathroom with him there was a single in his phone, when the janitor left the signal stopped

@OtherPeople159 5 ай бұрын

why would the signal disappear later tho

@shane727 5 ай бұрын

He's a sales guy. They don't wash their hands

@DexorC Жыл бұрын

I would have paid to see something this good, so, here ya go!

@johannaappleforest7482 11 ай бұрын

Wow

@FunnyIvri 11 ай бұрын

you did

@Isaacmellojr 11 ай бұрын

This is the way economy shoud work

@badboymart1752 11 ай бұрын

@@FunnyIvri what

@faisal_malallah 11 ай бұрын

Thanks

@BeaconBlocker 2 ай бұрын

One of the most well written time paradox with great engagement i love this keep it up man keep it up

@thatgreenscorpion8221 20 күн бұрын

The Idea of Talking to Yourself, another conscience thats literally you and is able to think seperatley from you Is Both Wholesome and Schizophrenic.

@lindybeige Жыл бұрын

Good work! Time travel sci-fi never really works in the hard science making-sense way, but this turns it into a morality play, and it works.

@agreedydragon Жыл бұрын

Oh wow nice to see you here sir! Love your vids

@RaptorFromWeegee Жыл бұрын

I think traveling back in time will never be possible but it WILL be possible to travel forward in time, maybe. How? Just travel through space at speeds approaching the speed of light. For the people watching you through a telescope on Earth you'd appear to slow down until eventually you'd look frozen into a state of suspended imagination ala Rip Van Winkle. From YOUR perspective you'll see everything in the universe move faster and faster until its just a long blur of light. When you slow back down to normal speeds you'll be many years in the future, but with no way to get back, ever. Also gotta remember to consume no more than half your fuel for your acceleration phase because you'll need the other half of your fuel to decelerate. If you miscalculate you'll end up hurtling through space at near light speeds moving into the future forever and ever until the end of time.

@lukky6648 Жыл бұрын

@@RaptorFromWeegee nothing can move at the speed of light though , and there is no fuel that burn fast enough to support such speeds. Which means your theory is impossible to achieve and if it does happen , you'll eventually slow down on your own.... probably so....not till the end of time which is... probably never

@aleksitjvladica. 11 ай бұрын

Lindy!

@SupremeCyril 11 ай бұрын

@@RaptorFromWeegeeif u can’t travel back in time 🕰️ then the future doesn’t exist.. it never will.

@doodleanimates8049 Жыл бұрын

I love the subtle foreshadowing in the beginning. Saying he’ll shoot someone in the head and his clock is actually 10:10 while everyone else’s is 10:30. Perfect.

@spawnpoint111 10 ай бұрын

And the fact that when everything ends, he’ll end up at 10:30.

@revolutionisme 5 ай бұрын

This was epic, so glad to have this on my timeline. Absolutely loved it ❤

@ZeChickenKing 4 ай бұрын

This was amazing. It had me constantly second-guessing first guessing triple guessing everything. The directing was spot on the acting was really cool. And when the old man said when the guy sees himself, he won’t like it he saw himself, and he didn’t like it.

@foogod4237 Жыл бұрын

The ultimate irony, to my mind, is that the last thing he does before leaving is to set up the paper towel roll that was there before he first entered the stall, which means that he is now leaving the bathroom at a time before he originally first entered it, _before he was late_ in the first place. If he actually wanted to, he could probably now make it to the meeting on time after all. Which, if he did that, would then mean there'd be no reason for the other guy to call him, so no angry conversation in front of the janitor, and likely no prompt for the time paradox to happen at all. It is ultimately his decision to be a changed person and blow off the meeting that caused the whole situation, and thus the change, in the first (last) place.

@mythyx8381 10 ай бұрын

thank you for that explanation i needed that

@BicycleFunk 10 ай бұрын

Good point!

@arstino 10 ай бұрын

Isnt that a paradox in itself? You stop a paradox from within the paradox so you wouldn't have stopped it at all because you never existed. A weird sort of Grandfather Paradox?

@bronvanhelderheid4237 10 ай бұрын

Are you sure about that? After all: the guy he was talking to on the telephone, in the beginning, said that it was already 3:30. And I think, that "Kill your future" meant that he should kill his future career at that network. So, what if being the janitor was his future career ...?

@bronvanhelderheid4237 10 ай бұрын

@@arstino I can recommend Chuck Palahniuk's novel "Rant"! In which he presents a very intriguing alternative for the Grandfather Paradox ...

@chuunikyou557 Жыл бұрын

It's interesting to know that they are the same person, yet their path diverge only because one guy trusted himself and the other don't.

@MrChuckleslol Жыл бұрын

AH-HA! That’s it! I was trying to figure out in a single sentence where and why they diverged. And you hit the nail on the head. Thank you.

@mufinboi975 Жыл бұрын

I feel like the path branched when like you said one trusted and the other didnt. Jacketless guy went into the stall and came out whilst jacket guy didnt go into a stall which made these 2 versions of himself to coexist in which they both fight for their existance. The guy who trusted was more calm and got a better look at himself and learned more because he saw the non trusting version of himself become more deranged. It was the fight of the selfish and self healing versions. Best way I could explain it

@Tasmanian-Rebel Жыл бұрын

It's crazy I thought the original guy was going to be the nice guy as I'm typing this I just realized the white shirt is the original guy because he came from the future 😂

@mahetaastitva4708 Жыл бұрын

@@mufinboi975 I don't get this point. When did the one virsion go one time, and other two time ? Can you explain ? I'm confused.

@teryomonteverde681 Жыл бұрын

@@Tasmanian-Rebel true.. when the guy refused to go in the stall that saved him lol

@Thomas384 3 ай бұрын

imagine if the door would be open all the time, but he did pull instead of push

@carbonwaifu 5 ай бұрын

this is geniunely one of the coolest things ive ever seen ever, all the comments are adding onto the lore too. masterpiece of a video

@gash8995 Жыл бұрын

There’s so many great things about this story. The fact that the gun just exists and we all accept it shows that the writing is so good that it has the right to just make up whatever it wants to. And the branch off into separate versions of himself being hinted at and then shown rather than just one version past and present is done so perfectly

@Friendly_G Жыл бұрын

That's exactly why it's a time paradox and not a time loop. If it were a time loop then the gun would HAVE to be accounted for

@theiaraine 11 ай бұрын

@@Friendly_G I like paradoxes because they're so much more wild than regular time travel/loops

@jgunther3398 11 ай бұрын

yes! it's so good it's bad!

@danekrack3307 11 ай бұрын

there's the possibility that the old janitor (the main character old, look at the eyes) could have added the gun to the equation when he enters the paradox in the future

@bryanfongo327 11 ай бұрын

@@Friendly_Gtime paradox and time loop are not mutually exclusive. The gun is an example of bootstrap paradox, for this paradox to exist it there has to be a time loop.

@silentro65 9 ай бұрын

absolutely brilliant how after realizing he's a bad person he stops trying to fight the timeline and resets the paradox to ensure he always ends up escaping at the end