@@TVperson1 whether you believe it or not, every person on Earth has telepathic ABILITIES, it's not a 'power'. It's something the brain does all the time your entire life, day in day out. The reason everyone thinks telepathy is not real is because people are so distracted and disconnected from their own instincts and their own true self, almost completely disconnected from the rest of the people, both the entire human race and the few that are an intimate part of our lives! When someone's thoughts reach your mind, you hear them speak to you in the same voice you perceive to be your own, it's incredibly easy to just assume it's your own thought instead of someone else's. The trick is to know yourself well enough to easily determine if it's a thought from another or your own thought. The next time you have a strange feeling, the next time a thought feels so foreign to you the next one is questioning whether or not you would think like that, odds are you didn't. If you heard your mother's voice in your own head it would pretty easy to figure out that it wasn't your own thought, right? Sorry, it doesn't work that way, that's movie ridiculousness. The toughest part of telepathy is trying to figure out who sent thoughts to your mind. Imagine all 7 billion of us had the exact same sounding voice, that would make for a crazy world!!! Each and every one of us sends and receives thoughts from lots of people on a daily basis but almost everyone is so quick to deny this fact to the point of telepathy being put in the crazy person category, looked at like a mutation so you must have powers like the comic books. It's not a 'power', it's not make believe, it's not difficult to do, so many lies and myths!! One thing is true though, it's real easy to make someone do something you put in their head, to an extent of course. Stop being one of the herd and reclaim your own mind!!!! It's real and easier than you can imagine.
The quote, “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, surrounded by assholes” comes to mind. Great job!✨
"Even if one has no 'natural ability,' one can be a warrior." ~ paraphrased from Miyamoto Musashi No matter how strong the opponent, it is possible to rebel.
This is what I come to DUST for. This is great Sci-Fi, pointing out that even in a glittering, shining amazing future there will always be human tragedy. So well done!
To me this is the best short I have seen from Dust. It may be the best short i have seen in years. What makes it even better is that the message doesn't need a full length movie to get the point across. I would recommend this to everyone. "I already have value". Our society values that which you do; that which you contribute. No one who CAN contribute should be forbidden, even passively, from doing so. But our innate value comes from being human. And our very best trait as humans is measured in how well we value the humanity in others equally. This trait is revealed in how we acknowledge and accommodate those who cannot contribute or are limited in that ability. Having a disability, regardless of its source or severity should NEVER be assessed as lessening our value a s a person. Having a disability is not abnormal. A good portion of people will experience some disability in their lifetime.
Beautiful and terrible. As a disabled person in Australia I live the life already of such... A second class citizen, i call it, where people who have zero understanding of my illness, its rarity and its effects, make life and death decisions over my head, leaving me often with no right of reply, and as always, no choice bar that of die or struggle on in pain. I feel alot like this young woman in the film. I had reached an Olympic level in my field prior to becoming disabled, and I am still perfectly capable of teaching, tutoring and coaching in it, yet no one healthy will go near me when hiring, its like Im tainted somehow. So lack of work leaves me poverty stricken, and so I cant afford the treatment not covered by Medicare, so I get sicker and more disabled not less, and the cycle continues. Australias voluntary mental health wards are full to the brim with similar such cases. I will go in likely, give up life when i have no home due to needing my pension all for food and prescriptions, and have no rent money available. When i am left to choose betwen homelessness with my pets, who are the only thing keeping me going much of the day, or giving up, on life and beloved pets and trading it for a mental breakdown and a bed with regular meal in a psyc ward, though no privacy ever ever again. Well we beggars cant be choosers now can we? !!!
Alicia Manolas I'm in the USA it's so different here I work for people with disabilities you are brave and beautiful and in my thoughts love and hugs echo
To be successful in our world society one must live like a pirate. The free ones have mastered exploiting others. That is your only option, no matter where you live, if you want to share in the benefits of our great civilization. Look for success in this way if you want to change the slot laid out for you by those who have mastered how to exploit you.
Yup I had my own remodel business and had an accident at home. Now I'm SSD and with a TBI. They say life change in a split second and thats what happened. Not to be cold but don't just put your pets to the street. Give them to a no kill shelter. May we should have a no kill shelter also.
Alicia Manolas I feel humbled by your life experience. Many times, we humans use platitudes to describe what we "feel". I will abstain myself from that. I wish you good luck and all the well in the world, to find you.
A telepathic dystopia (for the "nons", anyway), presented in a disturbingly evocative way. The progression of the social changes is all the more wrenching for showing how the telepaths see it as logical and sensible, sidelining the nons without any conscious malice. Very well done.
@William Baric You are using the logical fallacy of equivocation to make it seem that opposing bad ideas is the same as opposing people for there intrinsic traits. They are not. Bad ideas can be abandoned. You are also invoking tu quoque (aka whataboutism) to justify the existence of atrocities. Your arguments are weak and show only a defense of bigotry. This is clear through the use of the term "virtue signal". This is simply a rebranding of "displaying virtue" to justify the lack of virtue as a positive. This is further equivocation of terms. Read up: yourlogicalfallacyis.com/
@William Baric Yes! Many have not heard of the Barbary Slave Trade, where 2.5 million white Europeans were taken from coastal villages. Or that the black slaves in America were worth twice as much as an Irishman. You are well-informed, sir.
That's the word, "evolving". Most of mankind has evolved to be telepaths while those who couldn't keep up are left behind. Evolution in progress: harsh but natural. But now the "good" news for us humans: as we already have suspended evolution among our own species, this scenario with actually useful mutations is never going to happen. Quite the opposite: that people who somehow rise above the lowest common denominator will be persecuted by the dumbed down majority is more likely to happen in the not too distant future.
Powerful and disturbing film. 10:54 A beautiful sign-off statement by the newscaster: "Where once there was violence, now it is silence, that adds deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars".
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I just went to cinema. I watched a scifi short film there. One without strange effects. One with a meaning. One without happy end. My cinema is DUST. DUST is my cinema!
@Chen Lee look around where do you see anything always ending happily ever 'aftery'. But there are lessons to be learned in despair that's how we get closer to those happy endings..... #foodforthought
WOW! So much to reflect on. From many different angles! Psychology, philosophy, evolution, human rights, transference, bigotry, racism... The writer(s) of this short deserve an award!
A very dark story indeed! Great acting! Usually, special powers in films are portrayed in a good way, making you wish you had them. In reality though, no one's life is perfect, whatever gifts they've been given. The film makers have done a great job of working out how the gift of telepathy could become a curse.
This is also a doomed society. Technological development and innovation depends upon independent thought and ideas. If everyone can be taught telepathically, then everyone will "know" what can't be done and can't work. There would be a brief boost of technological growth as the currently understood ideas are developed to fully mature technologies. Then, nothing. No independent thought, nobody doing something because they didn't know it couldn't be done. Everyone will "know" what is possible and not possible. This is more than just studying something and understanding it, the foreman stated that no-one creates blueprints, no-one explains anything. That means they communicate concepts rather than information. The 'receiver' has the same level of understanding as the 'transmitter'. Everything the 'transmitter' knows can and can't be done is now known by by the 'receiver'. A stagnant society going around in circles until ... nothing.
Telepathy would create the need for telepathy blockers or telepathy jammers. Nobody wants their mom beaming nagging thoughts and ideas into their heads all the time, do they?
Sounds like a Luddite argument against the internet. If anything, the increase in communicative availability creates MORE division and strife. It's created independent thought to such a degree that people are starting to think the world is FLAT again. You can make a newspaper as easy as designing a webpage now, and yet... people still somehow find the need for newspapers.
@@Ayelis I see your point. It depends upon what type/level of communication. The image of the husband and wife telepathic argument supports your idea of conflict still being possible. The idea that blueprints are not required implies a deep level of communication where the two people completely understand the information. I think opinions would be different, but facts would be accepted. So flat Earthers would not exist as any telepathic communication could convey all of the knowledge leading up to that deduction. However there still would be a disagreement on abortion, as that is an ethical rather than scientific debate. The reason I think technological development would slow or stop is because once the facts are "known", no-one will think they are wrong and try to disprove it. Flat Earthers actually have a role in society. They question known things. In this case they are just wrong, but in other fields this idea of not accepting known facts can lead to new discoveries.
@@Ayelis I think the flat earth, and other conspiratorial nonsense, is more a case of every villages idiot now having a platform to form their own virtual village of idiots, and the voice to pester more than just the people around them with their nonsense.
Another thing the short kinda ignore is that there would be also a lot of hate in between telepaths, people would only hang out with people who they agree with, they would have the perfect place in their mind to plot against each other and nobody would know.
Have you found the channel called Omeleto???? Same as dust, just better films and no shameless dust plugs after every single film you watch!!! Haha, "dust plugs" sounds weird and also sounds naughty! HA!
This short film encompassed so many great themes worth thinking about. There's the "bigotry toward minorities" angle. But there's also the inherent fear that you aren't safe in your own head. Or that our interconnected lives are also in some ways more isolating and lonely. Or confronting the way in which human beings would be relegated in the face of something "superior" to us (machines/automation). This was very well done.
Excellent, most excellent. It struck me enough to provoke a visceral fight reaction: when the slumming stringie was reading the guitar guy's mind I was thinking "ohhhh, I'd give that douchebag a skullfsckin' he'd never forget." Top-notch writing, world-building, dialog, and great performances by the two leads. The bit where she holds and comforts her after helping the other authorities take her daughter away was wonderful Ratched-level sociopathic vileness. Well-done Mr. Cairns and everyone else on the project.
Actually I think she used the past perfect tense "had", because she was referring to her daughter and the fact that she was taken from her - and thus her value was. Though to be perfectly fair here: as heartbreaking as this might be, in that kind of dystopian society her daughter probably was better off in the city or something, because she is a telepath. Still... I can understand that many parents might see their children as their greatest accomplishment.
“The real hopeless victims of mental illness can be found among those who appear most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence. Because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in the absolute sense of the word, they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. The millions of abnormally normal people living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not be adjusted.” -AldousHuxley 🏹🏴🎯
I'm a retired physician due to heath issues. I also have ADHD and suffered a brain injury 2 1/2 years ago. I hate the use of the word "normal". Normality and abnormality should just be different ways of saying "average" and "non-average". The problem is that we have given "abnormal" such a negative slant that it no longer describes one of many differences between people. Just because we are not like the average "joe", doesn't mean that there is something wrong with us. Of course, since being like the rest is a desired trait in society, those outside the "norm" are viewed as "weirdos".
This makes me think strongly of the Australian Aboriginal people, especially around the time of the stolen generation. Though to some extent it is still happening, just more quietly, to this day.
I totally agree. Its totally still happening as well, just think of the northern territory intervention and the repercussions of that action that are still felt today and don't seem to be ending any time soon.
This truly breaks my heart, because I was once overly addicted to drugs and suffered from substance induced schizophrenia and paranoia and people I trusted malformed my mental capacity and i honestly believe my mind is being read... I honest to God hate it more than I could ever physically Express. This short mortified and scared the living hell out of me, I would never wish this on someone. Ever.
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This was a great film. Watching this i thought the film argues what do we actually need for empathy. Some people might think an ability like telepathy would make us more emphatic. They are wrong. We would be most possibly like the telepaths in this film. Because it would be so easy. Because there would be no reason for making effort to understand what someone feels or what someone thinks. Empathy isn't about knowing what someone thinks or feels. It's about "understanding" them. And we wouldn't try to understand what we think we already know.
RED redstar ... A sweeping judgement on humanity, assuming that all are somehow racist or discriminatory. Somehow lacking in qualities that would make us a satisfactory human? A bit like something I just watched. No, humanity is not all like that.
@@drispyify I suggest you pull your head out of the sand and really look at what's happening around us. Those who refuse to see and those who refuse to speak out are as guilty as those who are racists and bigots.
@Your Majesty thats in our animal nature, to opose to others not in our pac. And way to hold our identity as "not being that other". There is "US" and there is "NOT US" But we are not on animal level anymore...also we should feel our identity and real worth so we are not "endangered" by those we percive as others Feeling that unrational danger from others is normal (animalistic), its our level of consciousness that takes us to level of accepting others "World peace will come only by some kind of massive universal enlightment" - Nikola Tesla. With that also will come accepting of others...well...its either that or big wars among nations (and people being strangers to eachother while competing and destroying in everydays life)
One of science fiction's roles is to use an imagined future to reflect issues in our world today. This film does that brilliantly. It's sad, even painful, and if it doesn't make you think, then I'm afraid there's no hope for you.
This one is one of the best on the DUST list of films. And I have watched many already and keep watching everyday... Almost all are good and some - like this one are amazing! Thank you and all the creators.
This Short-Film shows us, how humans act and how we evolve due to our environment. It's of course not everyone, but it's most of us. This movie is a Mirror to each one of us, to think about how we behave, how we think and act towards other people or even towards animals. We have zoos where we imprisioned animals, we even had Lilliputians until 1996 in Europe (Holiday Park in Germany) as an attraction. Before the owners opened that park, they traveled around Europe with their Lilliputians as an attraction and people paid for it... Or the "Freak Shows"... It's how most of us are, how most of us think and act and how people try to raise themselfs about others. It has been like this since humanity exists. Slavery, torture, violence, war etc. That's what we are.
Nothing like waking up, watching a Sci-Fi film that makes you want to slit your wrist,, then having coffee and going to work fully and completely suicidal.
A good metaphor of what it feels to be different. An example of today´s prejudices and discrimination. Good sci fi is not about green cratures from outer space or flying saucers. Good sci fi reflects us with images of a possible future.
Even if it's not as bad as in this short, it makes you think about how our society deals with non-valid people. EDIT: it appears that using "non-valid people" is wrong for talking about disabled (or differently-abled, apparently) people. I'm sorry! You know the saying: "From birth to death, you never stop learning"* ... I can assure you that's more than true about foreign languages. *Yeah, I know, I probably made up that saying. But I like it. :P
@@bobiboulon Ah, that makes sense. Disabled and handicapped are the terms we would use, though some respectfully say 'differently-abled' or 'handi-capable'. Invalid (rhymes with chrysalid) is a term I've heard most often in spoken English, but rarely in written English as it can be often confused with the other meaning of invalid (rhymes with ballad). Non-valid (synonymous with invalid(rhymes-with-ballad)) is incorrect English for this term, and would only be used for access-restriction in things like passports or software authentication.
@@bobiboulon - All things considered, your mistake in using "non-valid" feels much more true than it should be. I'm disabled and even the services that are supposed to be provided for me seem like they'd rather sweep me under the rug and forget about me. And I'm not the only one. We slip through the cracks all too easily, and the cracks are huge.
This was absolutely gorgeous and done so well. And also made me so so mad because it was basically a flashback and gave absolutely no resolution or progress of any kind. So I am mad, sad, and in awe. Damnit.
A very moving, realistic look at a dystopian world that gives us a glimpse at an all to possible future. Not perhaps one where people communicate telepathically, but instead through electronics and social media platforms, which link the " in crowd" with those who would rather be more of what they feel that the world was intended to be like, ie, more old fashioned, considered luddites. This film can be compared to many of the earlier cautionary tales of the sixties and perhaps early seventies. Very nicely done, even though it looks simple, it was produced and edited seemlessly, which is an indication of just how great of a job the editors did.
Another horrid example of a government enforcing their will upon the people because the government knows what's best for the people. The "haves" and "have-nots". Very sad but nicely done film.
OK, but when you write "government" don't forget where government comes from. It comes from us --- our selfishness, our ignorance, our gullibility, our apathy.
@BLAIR M Schirmer - actually it's the poor who dictates the state because the federal government grows bigger under the poor, because they become willing slaves of the big federal government. The big federal government needs the poor, the poor need the state. The rich want freedom and pay for it.
im a non telepath and can relate to this in many ways, i remember the fear and uncomfort to learn the world i really live in is completely different to what i thought it was. still never really feel safe since then....
Some people are very serious about 'reality' though the thing that always remains and lives is 'truth'. Reality changes over time and based on condition, but truth will always be the same. The truth is, no one have right to separate a mother from her child, except the fact that she is harmful to her child and threaten her child's life. If a mother and her child are both happy together, that's enough.
Great commentary on human nature... these stories are a great reminder that no matter what era you're in the same old story will always apply: people can't help but discriminate against others on some level because of our differences. Whether its issues like race, religion or politics to potential future issues like telepathy, cybernetic enhancement or biological enhancements, people will continue these cycles. History has (sadly) shown us that the only times we are able to come together as a society is when we are able to focus our hatred or judgement on an outward antagonist of some kind, but in times of peace our societies generally tend to suffer from inner strife and prejudice as a result of an exterior foe to focus on. Hopefully some day we can figure out a way to co-exist with each other on a macro scale.
Comparing this to the "ideal human society" from Roddenberry's Star Trek makes the disparity so much more nuanced, although aliens were used as the allegories for; racism, xenophobia, sexual discrimination/identity, or even communism the fact that both the allegory of telepathy for both racism and ability/disability makes this feel even weirder. I don't want to praise the idea of a telepathic society being a "boon" for society, but when people on the Autism Spectrum are "rated" based on their "functioning" compared to others it would ease the attempts to communicate with those who are non-communicative as well as "normal" mute or speech-impaired individuals
Here we learn that even in the distant future, those who don't fit the social norm will be ostracized and kicked to the curb at the whim of others. Not to make it political but this video visually demonstrates PRECISELY WHY we (in the USA at least) should NEVER give up our 2nd Amendment Rights! NOT to bring harm to others but to PREVENT others from bringing HARM to US whenever they feel the need. Back on topic, this is an excellent film. It evokes a guttural and visceral feeling about having the most important thing(s) you have ripped from your grasp and having NO way of preventing it! In the words once spoken during a tumultuous period, "Can't we get along?" Thank you for this video. God Bless and.... Overnout
Never related to anything more than when I got fired from a job because I was oblivious to my social behavior. I did the job just fine but apparently I was being "combative". It was supposed to be my career, I was told "You could really have dealt with that for more than a few months?" and well I loved doing it. The pay was just enough, I was living better, and everything was better. For me the price of a little bit of sanity was equal to what I was gaining from it. If you're a little socially inept, please keep getting better. Be confident, focus, work on every little bit of your life. "You're brain is different, maybe you can't sense as much" There's a push and a pull, I sense just as much just not from all of the same "outputs". It's nothing telepathic ofcourse but as much as I'm told that I look sad or mad people look sarcastic or frustrated. When I focus I can sense the social web, one after the other, pros and cons. We all are on the same wave band length but some people have easier access to one frequency than the other.
Perhaps among the most compelling productions yet offered on DUST. For many years I have pondered the concept of telepathy becoming "common", perhaps through implant tech or genetics, what the potential consequences of that paradigm might become. Even as of this writing, "artificial telepathy" is becoming the emergent new thing, as a potential business model (read Mark Zuckerberg) . . . at some point, this may well become the new norm, for some. Kudos to this production, very well crafted story.
This is a well done depiction of what can happen when one portion of society becomes dominant over another. Ultimately, the Alpha's goal would be to eliminate the others by denying them what's needed for basic survival. In cases like this, for both species to survive, segregation is necessary.
Great movie, but nothing replaces the power of the spoken word!!!!Lastly, thank GOD we can't read each others thoughts; otherwise we'd all walk around embarrassed as hell sometimes(^_^)
They wouldn't even have to waste gas when they can just go 'inside' someone's head & make them bash their skull like they made that guy bash his guitar.
Nah, too much efforts. Easier just wait a little keeping safe distance and outdated branch of evolution will extinct itself "Where once there was violence, now it is silence"
This felt like a modernized "Eye of the Beholder" from The Twilight Zone. Of course, I mean this as a compliment. 🙂 It was unexpectedly heartwrenching when Sofia told her Mom that she's always sad when the thinks about Grandma and Grandpa. Such a small scene, but what an impact. It may have played out in other ways, but by the way she reacted to Sofia asking about her Father makes it seem like she was raped by a telepath. She obviously loves Sofia and doesn't want her to feel all the pain and fear she went through when it happened. And what did the councilor project into her mind at the end? I think again of the ending of "Eye of the Beholder." Excellent film!
Comparing it to 'Eye of the Beholder" wasn't something that crossed my mind, but it sounds like an apt description given how the non-telepaths are essentially rejected for their lack of a T-Rating. Focusing on the line; "when did the minority become the majority" makes it seem like this entire thing happened in the blink of an eye as the sudden shift in non-telepaths becoming the minority upended society practically overnight
Very thought provoking. All one has to do is to dehumanize any strata or type of individual, based upon race, religion, or economic status, and these things begin to take shape in any human society. We all see it every day, and become desensitized to it all, numb if you will, as the majority rules on such matters, and to avoid rejection by others in society, one conforms to such behavior, as in this short film. Well done, and good work. I hope more people get it, and make their decisions on their own, to not conform to such treatment of fellow human beings. One can hope...
That was so sad, throughout history we have taken children away from parents "for their own good", indigenous children & those from poor families. So I can see something like this happening. Well acted, beautifully filmed & a good plot.
I was hoping for some kind of happy ending but not to be. A reality that hopefully is a very long time in coming - a world without emotions/feelings would not be good for a heart like mine. I am guessing she possibly took her own way out of that world. Great short that has left me with much to ponder - Thanks
A movie about disabilities. Interesting appraoch, reminding me also on GATTACA. Good actors, good dialogs, the state not being cruel - just rational, egoistic and with limited resources. This is also a possible aspect of real future, be it on telepathy, genetic inability to embrace new technologies or to accept genetic enhacement. This is a very, very real possibility about the future, even more probable as the opposite. To handle it the pattern already set is the one of normal disabilities. But here we are talking about something much more severe, so we sould compare it with a total disability like a complete paralysis or deaf-blindeness (pardon my English if I make mistakes, not my mother tongue). How would we handle those people, who cannot actually contribute to society, but have humanr rights? First, Sophie: Taking away a child is inacceptable if not for the protection of the child. So - the mother should be allowed to keep the child AS LONG AS she does NOT try to "disable" her. Which is exactly what she is doing in the movie... but maybe because she knows that the child will be otherwise taken away. Chicken and egg. The compromise here is evident - we don't take away a child from a deaf-blind *if* it can take care of it and does not prevent it from developing "normally". Second, job discrimination: This is sad but natural and unavoidable. Nobody expects the NASA to accept a deaf-blind as candidate to be astronaut. Companies have a duty to be efficient towards their stakeholders (*especially* public companies whose stakeholders are the taxpayers). However, if we would have enough deaf-blind to build a society... why not allow them to? This is where the lack of resources and humanity of the society in the movie truly fails. A society of telepaths, so advanced and productive, cannot provide the non-T community enough resources for them to build even a primitive but rich society? I envision something like the Indian reserves - poor compared with the rest, but not compared with their own past. They would create their own jobs and activities inside their own economy (of course supported by the state). They would take care of disabled children (this probably still happens). They would have their own arts, care about pre-T art, just BE diverse and by that be subject of studies (anthropology, for example). They would have a role. Not a big one, not a powerful one, but a role. Until, of course, the last of them dies. Everything has an end. Also the telepaths will be substituted in some moment in the future. There is no shame on that if we leave our legacy to the next species.
I guess telepathy is the 'next step' -- the logical advance from 'Smart Phones' - people seemingly talking to themselves on city streets, oblivious to so much happening around them. Soon, we won't need 'phones' at all. The 'new, improved technology' - - Telepathy..... (Thanks for a most thoughtful film.)
market has already created a world that people take as acceptable reality, where they thrive to succeed, compete and move around with sense of telepathic gratitude
Or race, or social class, or religion, etc. etc. etc. It's a tale as old as time and it's still happening today. That's exactly why it was so challenging to watch.
Jo Gordon Or when the State decides that gifted children should be raised for the benefit of all. From 1st through 4th grade I had to hide my intelligence so the atheists wouldn't take me from my parents in Cuba. I grew up called mongo, and now I see socialist envy on the rise again. As a child I feared what that girl went through, what my cousin went through, for the good intentions of the atheists. It happens now in Germany and some other countries where the State takes children from home schooling believers. This is not the future. This is my past. This is the globalist present. This is the worship of Government.
JR Rodriguez Sad story you have, yet when you blame atheism, like it was a religion, for anything immoral then it's even sadder. Don't mess up atheism with Marxism or Bolshevism.
While theoretically socialism and atheism are separable, and there are many atheists who are extremely opposed to socialism such as Sargon of Akkad that I enjoy listening to, historically since the French revolution they have always walked together. In addition, we have the anarchists, completely opposed to socialism which are extremely violent historically. The anarchists have never put a coherent Government together of more than a few months for rather obvious reasons. There has never been a time where atheism has openly controlled a Government where a bloodbath has not immediately ensued, not once. By this I do not mean secularists (separation of religion and state), nor agnostics. Tell me of just one Government that is openly atheist that has gone well an I will seriously consider changing my mind. Until then I will follow the unanimous evidence of history. There have been horrible religious Governments and some not so horrible.
This is an example of what good Science Fiction is suppose to be. Thought provoking. Good plot. Good script. Good acting. Do more please!
Most like pessimistic nonsense.
@Chen Lee I know right, it's like a pessimistic view of people. Telepathic powers turn you into a sociopath.
nah
Yeah, they caused us to become very angry. smh - I guess that means they did a good job. :-\
@@TVperson1 whether you believe it or not, every person on Earth has telepathic ABILITIES, it's not a 'power'. It's something the brain does all the time your entire life, day in day out. The reason everyone thinks telepathy is not real is because people are so distracted and disconnected from their own instincts and their own true self, almost completely disconnected from the rest of the people, both the entire human race and the few that are an intimate part of our lives! When someone's thoughts reach your mind, you hear them speak to you in the same voice you perceive to be your own, it's incredibly easy to just assume it's your own thought instead of someone else's. The trick is to know yourself well enough to easily determine if it's a thought from another or your own thought. The next time you have a strange feeling, the next time a thought feels so foreign to you the next one is questioning whether or not you would think like that, odds are you didn't. If you heard your mother's voice in your own head it would pretty easy to figure out that it wasn't your own thought, right? Sorry, it doesn't work that way, that's movie ridiculousness. The toughest part of telepathy is trying to figure out who sent thoughts to your mind. Imagine all 7 billion of us had the exact same sounding voice, that would make for a crazy world!!! Each and every one of us sends and receives thoughts from lots of people on a daily basis but almost everyone is so quick to deny this fact to the point of telepathy being put in the crazy person category, looked at like a mutation so you must have powers like the comic books. It's not a 'power', it's not make believe, it's not difficult to do, so many lies and myths!! One thing is true though, it's real easy to make someone do something you put in their head, to an extent of course. Stop being one of the herd and reclaim your own mind!!!! It's real and easier than you can imagine.
The quote, “Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, surrounded by assholes” comes to mind. Great job!✨
This is the saddest short so far. Mostly because it shows just how cruel humans can be to one another. Very well done!
Very sad, and true for the most part.
Happening today only it's discrimination against the "uninoculated"
"Even if one has no 'natural ability,' one can be a warrior." ~ paraphrased from Miyamoto Musashi
No matter how strong the opponent, it is possible to rebel.
17:05 - "It's not about right."
The motto of every immoral act.
This is what I come to DUST for. This is great Sci-Fi, pointing out that even in a glittering, shining amazing future there will always be human tragedy. So well done!
To me this is the best short I have seen from Dust. It may be the best short i have seen in years. What makes it even better is that the message doesn't need a full length movie to get the point across. I would recommend this to everyone.
"I already have value". Our society values that which you do; that which you contribute. No one who CAN contribute should be forbidden, even passively, from doing so. But our innate value comes from being human. And our very best trait as humans is measured in how well we value the humanity in others equally. This trait is revealed in how we acknowledge and accommodate those who cannot contribute or are limited in that ability.
Having a disability, regardless of its source or severity should NEVER be assessed as lessening our value a s a person. Having a disability is not abnormal. A good portion of people will experience some disability in their lifetime.
Beautiful and terrible. As a disabled person in Australia I live the life already of such...
A second class citizen, i call it, where people who have zero understanding of my illness, its rarity and its effects, make life and death decisions over my head, leaving me often with no right of reply, and as always, no choice bar that of die or struggle on in pain.
I feel alot like this young woman in the film. I had reached an Olympic level in my field prior to becoming disabled, and I am still perfectly capable of teaching, tutoring and coaching in it, yet no one healthy will go near me when hiring, its like Im tainted somehow. So lack of work leaves me poverty stricken, and so I cant afford the treatment not covered by Medicare, so I get sicker and more disabled not less, and the cycle continues.
Australias voluntary mental health wards are full to the brim with similar such cases. I will go in likely, give up life when i have no home due to needing my pension all for food and prescriptions, and have no rent money available. When i am left to choose betwen homelessness with my pets, who are the only thing keeping me going much of the day, or giving up, on life and beloved pets and trading it for a mental breakdown and a bed with regular meal in a psyc ward, though no privacy ever ever again. Well we beggars cant be choosers now can we? !!!
Alicia Manolas I'm in the USA it's so different here I work for people with disabilities you are brave and beautiful and in my thoughts love and hugs echo
Stay strong, you are one of the gifted ones!!
To be successful in our world society one must live like a pirate. The free ones have mastered exploiting others. That is your only option, no matter where you live, if you want to share in the benefits of our great civilization. Look for success in this way if you want to change the slot laid out for you by those who have mastered how to exploit you.
Yup I had my own remodel business and had an accident at home. Now I'm SSD and with a TBI. They say life change in a split second and thats what happened. Not to be cold but don't just put your pets to the street. Give them to a no kill shelter. May we should have a no kill shelter also.
Alicia Manolas
I feel humbled by your life experience. Many times, we humans use platitudes to describe what we "feel". I will abstain myself from that. I wish you good luck and all the well in the world, to find you.
A telepathic dystopia (for the "nons", anyway), presented in a disturbingly evocative way. The progression of the social changes is all the more wrenching for showing how the telepaths see it as logical and sensible, sidelining the nons without any conscious malice. Very well done.
Could not agree more, and I love how the spoken language of the telepath's was weighted when speaking about non-telepath's as well.
I agree.
@William Baric are you saying people shouldn't feel contempt for the values of Nazis and slavers?
@William Baric You are using the logical fallacy of equivocation to make it seem that opposing bad ideas is the same as opposing people for there intrinsic traits. They are not. Bad ideas can be abandoned.
You are also invoking tu quoque (aka whataboutism) to justify the existence of atrocities.
Your arguments are weak and show only a defense of bigotry. This is clear through the use of the term "virtue signal". This is simply a rebranding of "displaying virtue" to justify the lack of virtue as a positive. This is further equivocation of terms.
Read up: yourlogicalfallacyis.com/
@William Baric Yes! Many have not heard of the Barbary Slave Trade, where 2.5 million white Europeans were taken from coastal villages. Or that the black slaves in America were worth twice as much as an Irishman. You are well-informed, sir.
That was harsh but excellently acted, I could have seen this story evolving. A great job.
That's the word, "evolving". Most of mankind has evolved to be telepaths while those who couldn't keep up are left behind. Evolution in progress: harsh but natural.
But now the "good" news for us humans: as we already have suspended evolution among our own species, this scenario with actually useful mutations is never going to happen. Quite the opposite: that people who somehow rise above the lowest common denominator will be persecuted by the dumbed down majority is more likely to happen in the not too distant future.
Vlad Dracul it’s already happening though...
These kinds of videos reminds u of true human value, true pure human nature, the art of communication, the art of living
Powerful and disturbing film. 10:54 A beautiful sign-off statement by the newscaster: "Where once there was violence, now it is silence, that adds deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars".
Definitely one of the very best short films I've ever seen. Scary as hell ,because so close to the truth
Precies! Toedeloe’s & Cheers!
That was a hard one to watch. Not because it was bad, though...
I agree. Very sad, and believable. There is no way out for her. No happy ending.
Mistreatment of people can be hard to watch in general
Linguistic platforms (radio, TV, internet) will no longer be supported. Future updates will be restricted to Psi-Doors7™ or above. Terms and conditions apply to latent telepaths and those rated P1 or above. Mundanes need not apply. "The Corpse is Mother. The Corpse is Father" [Babylon 5's Psi-Corpse motto]
@@differous01 Corps. A corpse is a dead body.
@@HalianTheProtogen it could be he was actually talking about zombies. lol
I just went to cinema. I watched a scifi short film there. One without strange effects. One with a meaning. One without happy end. My cinema is DUST. DUST is my cinema!
While extremely well done, I found it somewhat depressing I think primarily because the story can be applied to various life situations of today
Check out Never Let Me Go. Talk about depressing.
The purpose of most shorts like this is to be thought provoking. If you can apply the narrative to other parts of your life then it's done its job.
@Chen Lee,
To learn something, that's why. Whether it's about yourself, about others, or about the whole world.
To learn is to grow.
Been/am there...
@Chen Lee look around where do you see anything always ending happily ever 'aftery'. But there are lessons to be learned in despair that's how we get closer to those happy endings..... #foodforthought
WOW! So much to reflect on. From many different angles! Psychology, philosophy, evolution, human rights, transference, bigotry, racism... The writer(s) of this short deserve an award!
It is funny how many videos you will find in the "most terrifying" lists which aren't a scary as being in this poor woman's shoes
Quite an intense presentation of the metaphorical "truth" regarding
"violence replaced by silence."
The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. Again, an excellent film on many levels.
A very dark story indeed! Great acting! Usually, special powers in films are portrayed in a good way, making you wish you had them. In reality though, no one's life is perfect, whatever gifts they've been given. The film makers have done a great job of working out how the gift of telepathy could become a curse.
Beautiful and deep story, beautiful and competent leading lady.
Great movie, deserving a true Oscar. I'll be back and watch again.
This is also a doomed society. Technological development and innovation depends upon independent thought and ideas. If everyone can be taught telepathically, then everyone will "know" what can't be done and can't work. There would be a brief boost of technological growth as the currently understood ideas are developed to fully mature technologies. Then, nothing. No independent thought, nobody doing something because they didn't know it couldn't be done. Everyone will "know" what is possible and not possible. This is more than just studying something and understanding it, the foreman stated that no-one creates blueprints, no-one explains anything. That means they communicate concepts rather than information. The 'receiver' has the same level of understanding as the 'transmitter'. Everything the 'transmitter' knows can and can't be done is now known by by the 'receiver'. A stagnant society going around in circles until ... nothing.
Telepathy would create the need for telepathy blockers or telepathy jammers. Nobody wants their mom beaming nagging thoughts and ideas into their heads all the time, do they?
Sounds like a Luddite argument against the internet. If anything, the increase in communicative availability creates MORE division and strife. It's created independent thought to such a degree that people are starting to think the world is FLAT again. You can make a newspaper as easy as designing a webpage now, and yet... people still somehow find the need for newspapers.
@@Ayelis I see your point. It depends upon what type/level of communication. The image of the husband and wife telepathic argument supports your idea of conflict still being possible. The idea that blueprints are not required implies a deep level of communication where the two people completely understand the information. I think opinions would be different, but facts would be accepted. So flat Earthers would not exist as any telepathic communication could convey all of the knowledge leading up to that deduction. However there still would be a disagreement on abortion, as that is an ethical rather than scientific debate. The reason I think technological development would slow or stop is because once the facts are "known", no-one will think they are wrong and try to disprove it. Flat Earthers actually have a role in society. They question known things. In this case they are just wrong, but in other fields this idea of not accepting known facts can lead to new discoveries.
@@Ayelis I think the flat earth, and other conspiratorial nonsense, is more a case of every villages idiot now having a platform to form their own virtual village of idiots, and the voice to pester more than just the people around them with their nonsense.
Another thing the short kinda ignore is that there would be also a lot of hate in between telepaths, people would only hang out with people who they agree with, they would have the perfect place in their mind to plot against each other and nobody would know.
One of the best Dust videos I've seen in a while! I'm pleased it's not another fighting or war theme. Well done!
Have you found the channel called Omeleto???? Same as dust, just better films and no shameless dust plugs after every single film you watch!!! Haha, "dust plugs" sounds weird and also sounds naughty! HA!
This short film encompassed so many great themes worth thinking about.
There's the "bigotry toward minorities" angle. But there's also the inherent fear that you aren't safe in your own head. Or that our interconnected lives are also in some ways more isolating and lonely. Or confronting the way in which human beings would be relegated in the face of something "superior" to us (machines/automation). This was very well done.
"When did we become a minority [in our own country]?" Interesting idea. The telepaths gained thought-transfer but lost their humanity, it seems.
Excellent, most excellent. It struck me enough to provoke a visceral fight reaction: when the slumming stringie was reading the guitar guy's mind I was thinking "ohhhh, I'd give that douchebag a skullfsckin' he'd never forget." Top-notch writing, world-building, dialog, and great performances by the two leads. The bit where she holds and comforts her after helping the other authorities take her daughter away was wonderful Ratched-level sociopathic vileness. Well-done Mr. Cairns and everyone else on the project.
Please for the love of gold, can someone with means please adopt this concept and run with it?
I'm amazed at the fact that this sci-fi piece was shot without any special effects and how it is so truly dramatic
More please. I need a series and movie or something. That was gooood
"I already have value"!
Actually I think she used the past perfect tense "had", because she was referring to her daughter and the fact that she was taken from her - and thus her value was. Though to be perfectly fair here: as heartbreaking as this might be, in that kind of dystopian society her daughter probably was better off in the city or something, because she is a telepath.
Still... I can understand that many parents might see their children as their greatest accomplishment.
I've missed Pia...
So great to see her still working and doing great work!.❤️
THANK YOU for all these AWESOME films.....Love DUST !
Sometimes mental illness is actually normal. Love this.
Just great.
“The real hopeless victims of mental illness can be found among those who appear most normal. Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence. Because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does. They are normal not in the absolute sense of the word, they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society.
Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness.
The millions of abnormally normal people living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not be adjusted.”
-AldousHuxley
🏹🏴🎯
"Normal" is relative just like there is no "box" to think outside of.
I'm a retired physician due to heath issues. I also have ADHD and suffered a brain injury 2 1/2 years ago. I hate the use of the word "normal". Normality and abnormality should just be different ways of saying "average" and "non-average". The problem is that we have given "abnormal" such a negative slant that it no longer describes one of many differences between people. Just because we are not like the average "joe", doesn't mean that there is something wrong with us. Of course, since being like the rest is a desired trait in society, those outside the "norm" are viewed as "weirdos".
When she told her daughter she wasn't allowed to use telepathy. It's like a deaf parent saying their children is not allowed to speak.
Man, that was heavy...
There's that word again - "heavy".
Why everything is so heavy in the future - is there any problem with the Earth gravitational pull?
This makes me think strongly of the Australian Aboriginal people, especially around the time of the stolen generation. Though to some extent it is still happening, just more quietly, to this day.
lol do your research,go visit them and maybe u will see some real truth
I have, and do.
I totally agree. Its totally still happening as well, just think of the northern territory intervention and the repercussions of that action that are still felt today and don't seem to be ending any time soon.
I love it how they built up two character as strong as they can be and fight.
Stunning! Good concept, well developed. Thanks for posting.
This truly breaks my heart, because I was once overly addicted to drugs and suffered from substance induced schizophrenia and paranoia and people I trusted malformed my mental capacity and i honestly believe my mind is being read... I honest to God hate it more than I could ever physically Express. This short mortified and scared the living hell out of me, I would never wish this on someone. Ever.
This was a great film. Watching this i thought the film argues what do we actually need for empathy. Some people might think an ability like telepathy would make us more emphatic. They are wrong. We would be most possibly like the telepaths in this film. Because it would be so easy. Because there would be no reason for making effort to understand what someone feels or what someone thinks. Empathy isn't about knowing what someone thinks or feels. It's about "understanding" them. And we wouldn't try to understand what we think we already know.
A cruel representation of who we are. Racists and discriminators who will always find loopholes in a person we do not like.
RED redstar ... A sweeping judgement on humanity, assuming that all are somehow racist or discriminatory. Somehow lacking in qualities that would make us a satisfactory human? A bit like something I just watched. No, humanity is not all like that.
@@drispyify I call B.S.
@@drispyify its an accurate generalisation that shows again and again throughout history and the present.
@@drispyify I suggest you pull your head out of the sand and really look at what's happening around us. Those who refuse to see and those who refuse to speak out are as guilty as those who are racists and bigots.
@Your Majesty thats in our animal nature, to opose to others not in our pac. And way to hold our identity as "not being that other". There is "US" and there is "NOT US"
But we are not on animal level anymore...also we should feel our identity and real worth so we are not "endangered" by those we percive as others
Feeling that unrational danger from others is normal (animalistic), its our level of consciousness that takes us to level of accepting others
"World peace will come only by some kind of massive universal enlightment" - Nikola Tesla. With that also will come accepting of others...well...its either that or big wars among nations (and people being strangers to eachother while competing and destroying in everydays life)
One of science fiction's roles is to use an imagined future to reflect issues in our world today. This film does that brilliantly. It's sad, even painful, and if it doesn't make you think, then I'm afraid there's no hope for you.
Do you guys like making me cry? Wonderfully directed, enacted and processed. Keep up the good work💚
This one is one of the best on the DUST list of films. And I have watched many already and keep watching everyday... Almost all are good and some - like this one are amazing! Thank you and all the creators.
The cello playing was heart wrenching and made the story so much more sad and poignant.
This Short-Film shows us, how humans act and how we evolve due to our environment.
It's of course not everyone, but it's most of us. This movie is a Mirror to each one of us, to think about how we behave, how we think and act towards other people or even towards animals. We have zoos where we imprisioned animals, we even had Lilliputians until 1996 in Europe (Holiday Park in Germany) as an attraction. Before the owners opened that park, they traveled around Europe with their Lilliputians as an attraction and people paid for it... Or the "Freak Shows"...
It's how most of us are, how most of us think and act and how people try to raise themselfs about others.
It has been like this since humanity exists. Slavery, torture, violence, war etc. That's what we are.
Nothing like waking up, watching a Sci-Fi film that makes you want to slit your wrist,, then having coffee and going to work fully and completely suicidal.
Let it come and let it go mate . Love you m7+1
A good metaphor of what it feels to be different. An example of today´s prejudices and discrimination. Good sci fi is not about green cratures from outer space or flying saucers.
Good sci fi reflects us with images of a possible future.
Even if it's not as bad as in this short, it makes you think about how our society deals with non-valid people.
EDIT: it appears that using "non-valid people" is wrong for talking about disabled (or differently-abled, apparently) people. I'm sorry! You know the saying: "From birth to death, you never stop learning"* ... I can assure you that's more than true about foreign languages.
*Yeah, I know, I probably made up that saying. But I like it. :P
bobiboulon. non-valid people? What? Enjoy the dance.
Invalid? Disabled?
My english is not as good as I would like, sorry. I hope I offended no one.
@@bobiboulon Ah, that makes sense. Disabled and handicapped are the terms we would use, though some respectfully say 'differently-abled' or 'handi-capable'. Invalid (rhymes with chrysalid) is a term I've heard most often in spoken English, but rarely in written English as it can be often confused with the other meaning of invalid (rhymes with ballad). Non-valid (synonymous with invalid(rhymes-with-ballad)) is incorrect English for this term, and would only be used for access-restriction in things like passports or software authentication.
@@Ayelis Thank you very much for those explanations. :)
@@bobiboulon - All things considered, your mistake in using "non-valid" feels much more true than it should be. I'm disabled and even the services that are supposed to be provided for me seem like they'd rather sweep me under the rug and forget about me. And I'm not the only one. We slip through the cracks all too easily, and the cracks are huge.
This was absolutely gorgeous and done so well.
And also made me so so mad because it was basically a flashback and gave absolutely no resolution or progress of any kind.
So I am mad, sad, and in awe. Damnit.
A very moving, realistic look at a dystopian world that gives us a glimpse at an all to possible future. Not perhaps one where people communicate telepathically, but instead through electronics and social media platforms, which link the " in crowd" with those who would rather be more of what they feel that the world was intended to be like, ie, more old fashioned, considered luddites. This film can be compared to many of the earlier cautionary tales of the sixties and perhaps early seventies. Very nicely done, even though it looks simple, it was produced and edited seemlessly, which is an indication of just how great of a job the editors did.
Another horrid example of a government enforcing their will upon the people because the government knows what's best for the people. The "haves" and "have-nots". Very sad but nicely done film.
OK, but when you write "government" don't forget where government comes from. It comes from us --- our selfishness, our ignorance, our gullibility, our apathy.
@BLAIR M Schirmer - actually it's the poor who dictates the state because the federal government grows bigger under the poor, because they become willing slaves of the big federal government. The big federal government needs the poor, the poor need the state. The rich want freedom and pay for it.
@@danielmann5427 You have certainly swallowed the propaganda of the rich. How do those boots taste?
im a non telepath and can relate to this in many ways, i remember the fear and uncomfort to learn the world i really live in is completely different to what i thought it was. still never really feel safe since then....
Beautiful. As others stated, one of the finest sci-fi to be found, and I'm a heavy, chronic consumer of the category. ❤
Some people are very serious about 'reality' though the thing that always remains and lives is 'truth'. Reality changes over time and based on condition, but truth will always be the same. The truth is, no one have right to separate a mother from her child, except the fact that she is harmful to her child and threaten her child's life. If a mother and her child are both happy together, that's enough.
I have not been pulled in so many directions of thought from a movie in soooo long...well done.
The telepaths vs. The psychopaths. Fantastic, powerful and poignant. Thank you.
Whoa ! Killer plot and script! Acting and music on the money. Asks all the right questions.
A Ben ‘Whimpey’ Production. Luv it. Excellent acting AGAIN.
Great commentary on human nature... these stories are a great reminder that no matter what era you're in the same old story will always apply: people can't help but discriminate against others on some level because of our differences. Whether its issues like race, religion or politics to potential future issues like telepathy, cybernetic enhancement or biological enhancements, people will continue these cycles. History has (sadly) shown us that the only times we are able to come together as a society is when we are able to focus our hatred or judgement on an outward antagonist of some kind, but in times of peace our societies generally tend to suffer from inner strife and prejudice as a result of an exterior foe to focus on. Hopefully some day we can figure out a way to co-exist with each other on a macro scale.
Comparing this to the "ideal human society" from Roddenberry's Star Trek makes the disparity so much more nuanced, although aliens were used as the allegories for; racism, xenophobia, sexual discrimination/identity, or even communism the fact that both the allegory of telepathy for both racism and ability/disability makes this feel even weirder. I don't want to praise the idea of a telepathic society being a "boon" for society, but when people on the Autism Spectrum are "rated" based on their "functioning" compared to others it would ease the attempts to communicate with those who are non-communicative as well as "normal" mute or speech-impaired individuals
There was so much to digest in this! Amazingly well done!
In this film it shows how we treat people that one step ahead in our evolution and we treat them as if they were Monsters.
Here we learn that even in the distant future, those who don't fit the social norm will be ostracized and kicked to the curb at the whim of others.
Not to make it political but this video visually demonstrates PRECISELY WHY we (in the USA at least) should NEVER give up our 2nd Amendment Rights!
NOT to bring harm to others but to PREVENT others from bringing HARM to US whenever they feel the need.
Back on topic, this is an excellent film. It evokes a guttural and visceral feeling about having the most important thing(s) you have ripped from your grasp and having NO way of preventing it!
In the words once spoken during a tumultuous period, "Can't we get along?"
Thank you for this video.
God Bless and....
Overnout
we can only hope that those that needed to, recognized themselves.
Never related to anything more than when I got fired from a job because I was oblivious to my social behavior. I did the job just fine but apparently I was being "combative".
It was supposed to be my career, I was told "You could really have dealt with that for more than a few months?" and well I loved doing it. The pay was just enough, I was living better, and everything was better. For me the price of a little bit of sanity was equal to what I was gaining from it.
If you're a little socially inept, please keep getting better. Be confident, focus, work on every little bit of your life.
"You're brain is different, maybe you can't sense as much" There's a push and a pull, I sense just as much just not from all of the same "outputs". It's nothing telepathic ofcourse but as much as I'm told that I look sad or mad people look sarcastic or frustrated. When I focus I can sense the social web, one after the other, pros and cons. We all are on the same wave band length but some people have easier access to one frequency than the other.
How sad....doesn't just tug heart strings, it Yanks and tears.......awesome job!
This is one of the best. I wish they would make full films
One of the best Dust movies so far
so smartly done, I'm totally impressed. I loved it
Perhaps among the most compelling productions yet offered on DUST. For many years I have pondered the concept of telepathy becoming "common", perhaps through implant tech or genetics, what the potential consequences of that paradigm might become. Even as of this writing, "artificial telepathy" is becoming the emergent new thing, as a potential business model (read Mark Zuckerberg) . . . at some point, this may well become the new norm, for some.
Kudos to this production, very well crafted story.
I like the ambiguous way you can read your favourite moral outrage into this story.
This is a well done depiction of what can happen when one portion of society becomes dominant over another. Ultimately, the Alpha's goal would be to eliminate the others by denying them what's needed for basic survival. In cases like this, for both species to survive, segregation is necessary.
Great movie, but nothing replaces the power of the spoken word!!!!Lastly, thank GOD we can't read each others thoughts; otherwise we'd all walk around embarrassed as hell sometimes(^_^)
"Words are given us to conceal our thoughts."
watched this a second time, so well written and acted, i wish this was a feature length blockbuster budget.
I only wish these Dust films would end like most films. With a credit crawl and soundtrack, instead of the abrupt endings we're accustomed to.
This would make a great series, (better than neighbours and home and away)...lol.
Very good.
Great work! Loved this one! True realistic portrayal of an old sci-fi idea! Based on human history that continues to repeat itself!
This is a scary, scary, SCARY story!!! It's HARD and a TERRIFYING story! Will they start throwing non-telepath into ovens?
They wouldn't even have to waste gas when they can just go 'inside' someone's head & make them bash their skull like they made that guy bash his guitar.
Nah, too much efforts. Easier just wait a little keeping safe distance and outdated branch of evolution will extinct itself
"Where once there was violence, now it is silence"
what an excellent story
This puts such a twist on the normal superpower film you usually see. It really made me sad, beautiful film!
At 15:35 when they take the little girl from her mother, I was thinking, "Anyone tries to take my kid from me dies a gruesome death!"
This felt like a modernized "Eye of the Beholder" from The Twilight Zone. Of course, I mean this as a compliment. 🙂
It was unexpectedly heartwrenching when Sofia told her Mom that she's always sad when the thinks about Grandma and Grandpa. Such a small scene, but what an impact.
It may have played out in other ways, but by the way she reacted to Sofia asking about her Father makes it seem like she was raped by a telepath. She obviously loves Sofia and doesn't want her to feel all the pain and fear she went through when it happened.
And what did the councilor project into her mind at the end? I think again of the ending of "Eye of the Beholder."
Excellent film!
Comparing it to 'Eye of the Beholder" wasn't something that crossed my mind, but it sounds like an apt description given how the non-telepaths are essentially rejected for their lack of a T-Rating. Focusing on the line; "when did the minority become the majority" makes it seem like this entire thing happened in the blink of an eye as the sudden shift in non-telepaths becoming the minority upended society practically overnight
Very thought provoking. All one has to do is to dehumanize any strata or type of individual, based upon race, religion, or economic status, and these things begin to take shape in any human society. We all see it every day, and become desensitized to it all, numb if you will, as the majority rules on such matters, and to avoid rejection by others in society, one conforms to such behavior, as in this short film. Well done, and good work. I hope more people get it, and make their decisions on their own, to not conform to such treatment of fellow human beings. One can hope...
This needs to be made into a series
That was so sad, throughout history we have taken children away from parents "for their own good", indigenous children & those from poor families. So I can see something like this happening.
Well acted, beautifully filmed & a good plot.
I was hoping for some kind of happy ending but not to be. A reality that hopefully is a very long time in coming - a world without emotions/feelings would not be good for a heart like mine. I am guessing she possibly took her own way out of that world. Great short that has left me with much to ponder - Thanks
Not many of the Dust films have positive endings. Like their tagline, "Your future is Dust," there's tragedy built right in.
Excellent, everything about this was incredibly well done.
Heart-wrenching and disturbingly brilliant.
A movie about disabilities. Interesting appraoch, reminding me also on GATTACA. Good actors, good dialogs, the state not being cruel - just rational, egoistic and with limited resources.
This is also a possible aspect of real future, be it on telepathy, genetic inability to embrace new technologies or to accept genetic enhacement. This is a very, very real possibility about the future, even more probable as the opposite.
To handle it the pattern already set is the one of normal disabilities. But here we are talking about something much more severe, so we sould compare it with a total disability like a complete paralysis or deaf-blindeness (pardon my English if I make mistakes, not my mother tongue). How would we handle those people, who cannot actually contribute to society, but have humanr rights?
First, Sophie: Taking away a child is inacceptable if not for the protection of the child. So - the mother should be allowed to keep the child AS LONG AS she does NOT try to "disable" her. Which is exactly what she is doing in the movie... but maybe because she knows that the child will be otherwise taken away. Chicken and egg. The compromise here is evident - we don't take away a child from a deaf-blind *if* it can take care of it and does not prevent it from developing "normally".
Second, job discrimination: This is sad but natural and unavoidable. Nobody expects the NASA to accept a deaf-blind as candidate to be astronaut. Companies have a duty to be efficient towards their stakeholders (*especially* public companies whose stakeholders are the taxpayers). However, if we would have enough deaf-blind to build a society... why not allow them to? This is where the lack of resources and humanity of the society in the movie truly fails. A society of telepaths, so advanced and productive, cannot provide the non-T community enough resources for them to build even a primitive but rich society?
I envision something like the Indian reserves - poor compared with the rest, but not compared with their own past. They would create their own jobs and activities inside their own economy (of course supported by the state). They would take care of disabled children (this probably still happens). They would have their own arts, care about pre-T art, just BE diverse and by that be subject of studies (anthropology, for example). They would have a role. Not a big one, not a powerful one, but a role.
Until, of course, the last of them dies. Everything has an end. Also the telepaths will be substituted in some moment in the future. There is no shame on that if we leave our legacy to the next species.
Great on so many levels. Like the analogy of the racism towards telepathic and non! Part 2 pls!
Wow.... That hurts deep down. So well done. So meaningful.
Another awesome performance by our Aussie actress Pia Miranda.
Great movie concept too.
Genius premise and profound ideas. Beautiful and outstanding acting. Bravo.
This was brilliantly and painfully done.
I guess telepathy is the 'next step' -- the logical advance from 'Smart Phones' - people seemingly talking to themselves on city streets, oblivious to so much happening around them. Soon, we won't need 'phones' at all. The 'new, improved technology' - - Telepathy..... (Thanks for a most thoughtful film.)
I would watch any of Dust's full movies!
market has already created a world that people take as acceptable reality, where they thrive to succeed, compete and move around with sense of telepathic gratitude
Mmm its been a long time that i got a bit emotional from something like this and that alone makes it my favorite video yet.
What happens when the world becomes less and less compassionate and puts ones gifts above another's.
Or race, or social class, or religion, etc. etc. etc. It's a tale as old as time and it's still happening today. That's exactly why it was so challenging to watch.
Jo Gordon Or when the State decides that gifted children should be raised for the benefit of all. From 1st through 4th grade I had to hide my intelligence so the atheists wouldn't take me from my parents in Cuba. I grew up called mongo, and now I see socialist envy on the rise again. As a child I feared what that girl went through, what my cousin went through, for the good intentions of the atheists. It happens now in Germany and some other countries where the State takes children from home schooling believers. This is not the future. This is my past. This is the globalist present. This is the worship of Government.
JR Rodriguez Sad story you have, yet when you blame atheism, like it was a religion, for anything immoral then it's even sadder. Don't mess up atheism with Marxism or Bolshevism.
While theoretically socialism and atheism are separable, and there are many atheists who are extremely opposed to socialism such as Sargon of Akkad that I enjoy listening to, historically since the French revolution they have always walked together. In addition, we have the anarchists, completely opposed to socialism which are extremely violent historically. The anarchists have never put a coherent Government together of more than a few months for rather obvious reasons.
There has never been a time where atheism has openly controlled a Government where a bloodbath has not immediately ensued, not once. By this I do not mean secularists (separation of religion and state), nor agnostics. Tell me of just one Government that is openly atheist that has gone well an I will seriously consider changing my mind. Until then I will follow the unanimous evidence of history. There have been horrible religious Governments and some not so horrible.
@Jo Gordon: "What happens... ?" you ask! - we get 2018.
Such an impactful story and portrayal. Well done!
This is very good, great cast and plot. 💖💖💖