POOR TAX | Omeleto
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- A family plays a board game.
POOR TAX is used with permission from Oliver Salk and Alec Bewkes. Learn more at oliversalk.com and / coolhandbewk .
A family is gathering together, settling into their tradition of a friendly board game. They're playing the classic game Monopoly, but soon the game's objective of buying assets, charging rent and earning money opens up a can of worms: the differing political opinions of the father and his daughter.
What starts as a debate about policy and ethics devolves into personal attacks and snide remarks. And what should be a game turns into a litmus test -- not just of politics, but of the family's ability to stay close and loving despite differences in opinion.
Directed by Oliver Salk and Alex Bewkes from a script written by Bewkes, this short family comedy has a script that reels off political tidbits from both the left and right sides of the aisle. But while the dialogue is peppered with the typical contemporary political discourse you'd read on Facebook now, it's not a political film. It takes no sides, and balances arguments with counter-arguments. Instead, it's about how the divisiveness and rancor that characterizes today's often online discussions have bled into real-life relationships between friends, neighbors and families, fraying civil and close bonds and turning togetherness into a battleground.
Shot with a crisp, clear light within a well-off, comfortable family home, the narrative quickly establishes an arch tone, with grandiose flourishes of music over close-ups of Monopoly money. The storytelling moves quickly, establishing each member of the family and their general personalities. There's an irascible outspoken patriarch, a peacemaking mother who just wants to watch DOWNTON ABBEY, his "socialist" daughter Julia and two brothers who would rather just play the game.
Perhaps it's inevitable that father and daughter would clash, and their argument over their different takes on American life quickly turns heated. The film doesn't dwell on the issues very long, because what's fun about the storytelling is how the conflict and arguing uncover a funnier, knottier tangle of grievances, secrets and general dysfunction. The ensemble cast, lead by actor Circus Szalewski as Scott the father, plays off each other well, with everyone bubbling along with deft comic timing and yet playing genuine, grounded emotions amid the tumult. As shocking personal revelations come to the surface -- including someone's predilection for an "inflate-a-mate" and another sibling's questionable side hustle -- what's clear is that it's not just differences in opinion operating here, but how the members of the family just don't know one another at all anymore.
Being a smart comedy with a sense of equal opportunity irreverence, POOR TAX ends with a very well-constructed, final gambit, as Scott realizes how he's failed as a parent. He aims to teach his progeny a lesson, only to find himself at the mercy of chance. How the family handles this final situation is heart-warming, offering a middle ground for how two sides can come together. But it's also true to character, and in the end, it also hints that changing anyone's convictions, especially in this day and age, sadly might be an exercise in futility.
“Where did we go wrong in raising you to be capable adults?!”
“I went to law school!”
“I’m in college!”
“I… do stuff.”
All of the actors were amazing. It felt so real.
I thought they were all cliché stereotypes, which made the story unbearably superficial.
@@clasencoach Perhaps the characters are poor, but the actors were still good
This film had me captivated on just the dialogs alone.
It also has the potential of making it a successful dark comedy sitcom!
💯% 👊🧡👍
Yes 🖐️💯
You're right; it's a good premise.
Why dark comedy??!?
This family puts the 'fun' in dys'fun'ctional. Well done!
Your comment ... says it ALL.
I'm done 😂
I was waiting for the mom to confess her affair. 😆😆
hahhaa
😂
Monopoly, breaking up families for decades.. 😂😂
In our family (or what's left of it, lol) it was Risk.
@@nateg08 😄😄
The REAL reason they decided to bail him out in the game is because he said he would cut them off. And he knew that. Everyone in this family is a superficial jerk.
Cos they're white, right?
@@dannyarcher6370 What does their skin color have to do with it?
@@theeclectic2919 I was hoping to get an answer from you on that.
@@dannyarcher6370 You have to ask your question differently. I'm not sure what you're saying. Are you saying they are jerks because they are white, or are you saying the writer/director deliberately make them APPEAR as jerks because they are white?
By that reasoning everyone is a superficial jerk.
The holidays can bring families together. Or tear them apart. On Thanksgiving, the chances of being a victim of a crime perpetrated by a member of your own family or someone you know rise by more than 50%.
There are more inter family murders in America on Thanksgiving Day than any other day of the year.
And Christmas 🎁
I'm so glad we don't celebrate Thanksgiving day in England! 😝
Wow I did not know this. How sad and terrifying.
correct! - ALL holidays! Ssp Xmas! - Alcohol + forcing ppl togther + esp. when they are not keeping in touch regularly + big $$$-suck = Conflict.
@@LordSolidusI So when do you fight with family?
This is what an “all in the family” reboot would be like today!!
I’m a retired police officer. I worked the majority of my career on the evening shift and hated working family holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter) because it was guaranteed domestic violence call after domestic violence call. It really made me hate the holidays and I’m thankful I don’t have to deal with that crap anymore.
Thank you for your service to our country.
Ya know what’s worse? BEING RAISED in a physically and emotionally violent home like that, so maybe instead of WAH WAH WAH whining…..be a little grateful you’ve had such a quiet normal life and that you can just whine about it online 🙄😮💨🤡
@@S.Waters.ummmmm excuse me WTF?! I get you’re brainwashed and programmed but you better get an update cuz he said he’s a COP….not military. So I’d LOVE to know how a cop serves the country, seriously? 😂🤣🤷🏼♀️ But yea…..o and both are JOBS…..people get paid to do BOTH. And it’s not the most dangerous job either they just like to pretend it 🙄 They’re literally like 10 (!!!!) on the list of dangerous jobs…..
@@6Haunted-Days I believe you're the one whining online.
This could be a whole series i have never been more invested in a short before.
Absolutely brilliant! Used to play Monopoly a lot when I was very young, and remember that something always came up as in the short, leading to comic sketches like this one 😂😂
Sometimes someone flipped the table.. 😂 I refuse to play any games with my best friend, she's the worst loser... I've been thrown with a deck of cards.. never again.
they should have played uno...
wait, things would have been worse
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Well, to be fair, it wouldn't be family game night without the passive and overt aggressiveness, shouting matches, and occasional bloody nose. It par the course for monopoly really.
This is hysterical. Maybe that's why "The Ref" with Dennis Leary is my favorite Christmas movie.
This is my second bottle of wine today..
lol who ever wrote this script was spying on my family playing scrabble, different game same result, kudos!
Such a realistic comedy, guess it must go on in most families ...
I would watch this show. It's funny, touching, and just a rollercoaster of a ride.
Fantastic job all.
Show???!!?
@@clasencoach it isn't yet, but it should be.
@@nikytamayo I really hope not.
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I mean, they're playing monopoly, OF COURSE it's going to go wrong
Oh my God this is hilarious!! The dad is the funniest: "So we're anti-retrd now?" "Nobody wants to buy THIS?" He's seriously impressed with the realism of the doll I take it!
I would TOTALLY watch this as a sitcom! THis is basically the opposite of 'Family Ties' from the 1980s!
The math at the end frustrates me, he wouldn't need the loan
The dad is right about the BLM co founder.
Exactly
I don't know if this is true but so what if it is him being a criminal in noway negates the message
I once went to an old friend's house for a cookout and some games, this is what exactly happened at his house. Went from fun to mayhem real fast.
This looks like an average middle class family in America. 😂😂😂
This is middle class? They seem RICH
*upper middle class
Ha ha - yeah, nothing like a rabid-R dad. They shoulda just watched Downton Abbey.
Outstanding writing, directing and especially the acting. A cute enjoyable watch.
funny as hell while disturbingly monstrous.
Erm actually, loaning money in Monopoly is against the game rules 🤓
Nerdge
Apparently, to survive it in this world some rules need to be broken.
@@801oap Indeed, they are called Social Norms and Taboos.
They giving the money though not loaning it
No matter what, you can tell they really love each other and are there for each other.
Who needs sensational when you have dysfunctional. Great flick. Cheers!
But IS it dysfunctional when it's probably 80 percent of every family out there?
I've never heard of monopoly as the "plain yogurt" of board games. Lol.
The closing track is dope!
Love how the girl wearing the “defund the police” shirt doesn’t like it when she herself is threatened to be defunded 😂
Welllll she’s not a massive power structure that can and usually does kill and destroy innocent lives soooo there’s a little difference! 😂🙄
Monopoly was invented to critique the tenant-landlord system by a pseudocommunist, so really this is exactly the spirit of the game.
I love how it was so satirically dark i thought it was going be flip the bored over but some how the game kept them together. I really enjoyed this short film as a person that just causually watches short films this one is very good.
"Defund the police"
Her: I'm locked in a trunk and you guys are the only ppl I can for help..
911: sorry mam we don't have enough funds.
Exactly... literally makes no sense why people keep chanting " defined the police" 🚨 🙄, those same people will complain when there's not enough police around 🤷♀️.
Anyone getting married should play monopoly with members of *both* families. Take this advice from an old woman, you can learn *SO* much in just a few games! And if you're smart, you'll know who is who and in the end, you will win. Not the game but what counts in life.
Pam
Yarp, should have watched Downton Abbey instead...😅
Osage County, the short film remake
Family reunions unexpectedly can be a powder keg.
Love this family truth day! "Using me as a Get Out of Jail Card", most excellent!
Holy crap this was the funniest short I've seen in a couple of years at least!
Awesome work! Great little story about dysfunctional normalcy.
I was expecting someone sci fi but social distortiondramedy is really entertaining. Thank you
This might be my favourite yet
Monopoly is NEVER a friendly board game. Never.
I was waiting for someone to say, "If we bail out the big company, that will somehow improve the economy and we'll all benefit!"
I love how everyone was up to current events! I'd watch this also if it was a full length film 😄.
Nah monopoly ain’t no joke. Used to play with my brother n 2 cousins. Changed the rules to make things go faster. Tears were shed we were ruthless. And the banker always seemed to win
As Police Chief Wiggum so eloquently put it: "How do those Parker Brothers sleep at night?!"
This looks really familiar, sadly, but true.
Loved it!! The dad reminds me of David Strathairn. The Isabela line made me crack up 👍👍
It looks like the mom might buy Isabelle. To help her son out, of course.
Serious about this who would kickstart an entire series based around this?
Somebody needs - NEEDS - to do that.
Dads right they all are against him till they need money
Thanks for reminding me why I left my family
Ha Ha Ha. I luv it. Whoever put this together, THANK YOU so very much. Partially even believable cause Family gatherings can so suck.
Monopoly is a great game, but I would never loan anyone money. We're all on our own here, folks.🎲🎎🥇🎖🏅
Me and my friends play monopoly every week and we track the winners recently. Out of the past 9 games I've won once and it's solely due to the fact that I loan out money to keep people in the game and make it interesting
@@joshkeller2671 Wise choice. It's not the destination but the journey that matters most.
lol! and i thought my fam had issues! and ftr, i’ve never played where we can bail out someone! 😂
Monopoly is a terrible game created over 90 years ago. There have been thousands of boardgames created since then that are far better.
@@AndyBerman Part of the attraction of the Monopoly board game may be its connection to the modus operandi of the sinister, nefarious, hidden SYSTEM, which owns, controls and rules the whole world, according to documented evidence that can be found online. The global, corporate SYSTEM destroys competition.
"Friendly board game"
Video starts with Monopoly
You ain't fooling me
5:49 - the funny kicks in..
"WHAT THE F**K MAN" - hilarious
"I'm a paralegal dad.." - funny a.f.
This is a nice look into how every family is comfortable & uncomfortable in different aspects of life.
Also - "if i win, your all cut off"..
😂 no but what kind of dumba** bails out the person trying to ruin them??? 😂😂😂 I'm with dad on that one!
I'm with the Mom. Watch Downton Abbey!! 😆
And with the second bottle of wine
This movie is as sharp as it is funny. Worth watching for the end credits alone!
Loved it 😂
This would make a HELLUVA sitcom. Like, seriously.
OMFG brilliant what a concept well played
just brilliant - and timely
This is the funniest Omeleto comedy film to me (I watch all of them)
I can't relate. Good video but no where near my Thanksgiving.
He was right about the mansions, though.
NOTE: As the saying goes. "You can Pick Your Friends, But You Can't Pick Your Family! Lol! Cheers.
I feel like playing Monopoly now....
Would have been better if they were playing something like Ticket to Ride or Catan or Carcassonne. I was impressed, though, that no one flipped the table; that showed great restraint.
Kudos!
Wife and i lived in Atlantic City, on which the game is based. Always has a special meaning to us.
Now, that was RICH. Great little film, I was engrossed the whole time.
ey thats true.
I side with dad.
Oh my goodness, so well done. great job.
This is every family only exaggerated
Don't forget to bring a towel
This was a good quirky scenario of a middle-class family bringing up current events during a game of Monopoly, a game that has had its own shaky rules for decades!!
NOT middle class. Definitely upper middle -- big difference
@@therealJamieJoy OK, well, that depends on what area you live in. 50k gets you a good 3-bed house in rural KY, but living on Ramen noodles in NYC.
@@viktorwolfe8333 based on the three kids all at University on the parent's dime, plus income for all three, plus the look of the home, decor, demeanor of the parents I'm going with 200K - 400K a year.
@@therealJamieJoy OK, upper middle class. You win. Touche. Plus, I don't think their board came from wal-mart, with its fancy compartments and such. lol
@@viktorwolfe8333 oooh, good catch! :)
Brilliant! And a true testament to the average mindset of the young and foolish in today's messed-up world.
Brilliant hw you miss the point so blatantly you just blatantly 'side with 1 of the family-members
Your truly the fooll you think others aree; loveeel
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe taken to a new and comedic level!
My family plays Monopoly, UNO, Scrabble, Gin Rummy, etc to the death!! 5 years old to 105 -- better know the rules and save those tears! 😅😂🎉❤
Sad, but true.
That was funny
They should have watched Downtown Abbey
Based Dad.
Lovely!!!
i love this film.
Hahaha! Hilarious!
So... who played Isabelle?
Family gatherings are not so different for every race huh
I agree with the dad🙂
me too 👴
The dad's a nut
Cool then you are brainwashed too
The only sane one in the room....
I agree with him, to a certain extent.
Father is right !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Lo mejor que eh visto 👍🏻👍🏾👍🏿
Haha wow I thought this was really great. Some good snarky energy, so funny! A little different I loved it!
as a republican,facist,conservative,capitalist i approve this message
That was great.
That was perfection. 😂❤✌️
What everyone else said except; winner!
Damn, The dad only sane one in this madhouse. And anyone tell the kids at 10:19 that dad just got screwed by what is a mandate tax beyond his control? Nothing do with his skill or free trade.
That end was hilarious. Why would you dumasses help the person whos going to cut you off!😂😂😂