THE NOTE | Omeleto

[@yourredhead]

it is so important to admire your friends for the friendship to become real and deep

[@takayalloyd]

Thanks everyone! Was a treat (and a challenge) filming this all in one take

[@JohnS-il1dr]

I was waiting for him to deliver the eulogy downstairs. I wish they had that missing scene.

[@slaymarie_rdh_2B]

This writing was amazing and the actors were soooo good. ❤

[@justlikeamovie]

That's a one long take short i have ever scene recently.. Very well made.. i wish there were some BTS for this shortfilm.. Loved it.

[@wolfhodgkinson6866]

It's not that we don't know how others see us until the moment of truth. It's that we don't even know what we think of others, and ourselves, ever. We don't want to know. But they are closely intertwined.

[@AW_7_7_7]

Omeleto ends the year 2024 with a good one. The part where they slided in the photo montage of the deceased shows that the deceased was a human life in 3D, a bit of contrast against how the three “friends “ are taking about him. I just lost a friend myself a few days ago, albeit one I was not very close to. He is middle-aged like me. It’s a strange feeling… I hope for a good 2025 for everyone. 🙏

[@walterprice8728]

I didn't know about funeral photomontages until I attended the funeral of a friend of nearly 50 years standing recently. The chapel had a screen (this is Llanelli, in South Wales) installed and various photographs were shown. Purely personal view was that the minister carried off the service extremely well, being Welsh-speaking and very sympathetic, although it was painfully clear that she didn't know my friend as he was not a regular chapel-goer, so I suppose it added that personal element that might otherwise feel absent. In the film the request to "say something" felt similar, both addressing the absence of religious observance nowadays in the UK. Appreciate it would be different in the US, and I look forward to remarks by other viewers with a different perspective.

[@francis342]

Powerful and Heartbreaking.

[@michaellambgelo]

Excellent storytelling. I think this would be an interesting double feature with the 2022 film AFTERSUN directed by Charlotte Wells

[@karoleforemancreator]

Incredible work! Congratulations everyone!

[@Henri377]

Amazing ! Everything ! Thank you !!

[@ChickenGeorgeClooney]

wish this had a letterboxd page, would love to rate it four stars

[@susanburgess820]

Wow. Just wow. 5 out of 5.

[@jake21st29]

This is amazing

[@nicholasvanorton7840]

And with that...🎈Happy 2025 🎉🥂

[@jamespaul2587]

Why are they yelling in his mother's home when guests are there? I'm sure everyone heard most of what they were saying

[@takayalloyd]

It does make things a little awkward…

[@Theguythatscreams]

I don't understand this ending Why did it end so abruptly? What's the conclusion?

[@davidg5898]

The conclusion is that life, friendships, and feelings are complex.

[@silvertip185]

The actors are rushing their lines, they are not reacting to each other. A director needs to see it all and tell the story. I think the actors have talent but needed guiding. It's about the story, the moment. It was like I could feel each actor had memorized their lines and said them when it was their "turn". Actors care so much about what they do, they want direction and will do what you ask. They want that flow with the other actors, it's one of the greatest feelings for them when they leave the production and are in the story, reacting as their character and the other actor doing the same until it takes off and it's powerful. Thank you for making the film.

[@janicemahan4772]

Excellent!

[@healthguy79]

Sometime tell me the big idea on New Year's Eve 2025

[@landru27]

It's a poignant film about a very real, very current issue. The overwhelming theme from John's note is the absence of true emotional support in his life, even from his closest friends. Ethan (the one who is staring into the mirror at the end) demonstrates all manner of emotional avoidance, even as he argues on and on about how wrong what John wrote in his note is. Ethan's arguments themselves prove him wrong about his own critique of John's note. At the end, we see a glimpse of a likely root cause of Ethan's emotionally distant / emotionally avoidant behavior : a deep-seated self-loathing. One wonders if there will soon be a funeral for Ethan, too. One can ask, "When and how does such a cycle end?"

[@takayalloyd]

@@landru27 Nailed it

[@ph03beuwu]

@@landru27 I feel like the ending isn't what you say it is, though it certainly could be. For me, it appeared as Ethan, being now alone, was given some time to truly realise that he did indeed cause his best friend to kill himself, and gives him time to be vulnerable in that moment. Most likely, he felt like he couldn't express any of those emotions with his friends, as what happened to the deceased (that being mocked, joked about, etc) also happened to him and so he felt he couldn't express himself in front of them, though this is most likely caused by the very real expectation for men to never show emotion, also emphasised by him saying "You won't cry down there".

[@Virtuous-q9u]

This was good

[@jessiequinton9974]

Film Rating ⭐/ 5 - Not worth the 11 minutes...Just a lot of rambling Just IMO

[@yolo6236]

Second

[@000aleph]

It seems mandatory in these films that the races are always nicely mixed, although I'm sure this doesn't represent reality. So why do it?

[@LiamMclain-q3r]

It really does not effect the overarching meaning of the film so why does it matter

[@qwertyuiop3838]

Perhaps the deceased didn't feel that he fit in anywhere at all so he was searching, which was discussed throughout the film and in the note.

[@davidg5898]

It represents reality just fine. My life involves a lot of different skin colors and nationalities, both personally and professionally. Maybe you just need to travel some and see more of America.

[@Justauri-asdfghjkl]

It doesn't reflect YOUR reality But plenty of people have mixed group of friends especially high school students who spend a ton of time in classrooms assigned at random

[@dubiousaurus]

You watched the video and this is what you came to the comment section to whine about?

[@OfficialSRuks]

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