FATHER FIGURINE | Omeleto
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- Опубликовано: 27 сен 2024
- A wealthy family loses its patriarch.
FATHER FIGURINE is used with permission from Matt Kazman. Learn more at mattkazman.com.
A wealthy family grapples with the sudden loss of Harold, the father and patriarch of the clan. At the reading of the will, however, they discover a strange clause in Harold's legal document: he wants his body to be stuffed and kept on display in the palatial family residence. If the family doesn't agree to these terms, then they get none of their inheritance.
The omnipresence of Harold's body exerts a strange presence as the family grapples with their loss and their unresolved feelings for him. With his dead body as the home's latest "furnishing," each family member comes to terms with Harold's presence in their life as they go through a strangely heightened process of grief.
Writer-director Matt Kazman's short takes the visual grammar of a wealthy family drama, applies an artful, darkly humorous lens upon it and renders a surprisingly meditative and emotionally rich meditation on family, grief and legacy, all while keeping an eye on how the machinations of wealth can affect the dynamics of love and bonding.
Visually, the film will read for many like a darker, more somber Wes Anderson or legendary Japanese director Yasuhiro Ozu, using formal, portrait-like visual compositions to emphasize the grand yet stilted tableaux the family exists within, whether it's the ornate family home or the sumptuous yet claustrophobic interiors.
Both luxurious and chilly, these images emphasize both the stifled atmosphere of the family as a whole, and the chilly formality in how its members relate to one another. To leaven the stiltedness, there's often a dark, deadpan humor in how the scenes are framed, using the vast spaces at the margin of images to hide ironic, humorous flourishes.
The impeccable craftsmanship and visuals emphasize a certain distance and formalism, the emotional territory mined by the film isn't played for dryness or irony. While there's a certain biting humor -- the kids say their father figurine looks like a "rapist," for example -- there's also genuine grappling with mortality, grief and unresolved feelings and regrets.
There's a certain stylized quality to the cast's collective performance, with a deliberate and even mannerist quality to the rhythms of the dialogue and delivery. But there are also precise, specific moments where genuine flickers of regret, sadness and uncertainty shine through, and their muted quality adds to their underlying heartbreak.
Harold's constant presence as a corpse reminds the family he left behind of how absent he was emotionally while he was alive, bringing up sadness and anger at the way Harold failed them as a father and husband, and the way he exerted control over them through his wealth, even in his death. It's this control that is ultimately his final legacy to his family, prompting a kind of unforgettable, hilarious and yet genuine cathartic release.
Despite the initial polish and almost uncanny elegance of its approach to craft, FATHER FIGURINE isn't afraid to go into raw emotional territory -- and indeed, its formalism and dark humor may indeed make such uncomfortable feelings easier to tiptoe into, for its characters and for the audience.
The anger and regret Harold's family feels is muted by the film's formal demands, but it is palpable -- and it's not unlike what many people feel when a family member with whom they have serious baggage passes away. That baggage doesn't go away with their death, of course. Instead, it becomes part of the larger inheritance they leave behind, and part of the process of grief is accepting these complex feelings and allowing space for them to exist and express themselves.
Only then can those they left behind truly move forward, and find an odd sense of wholeness, within themselves and as a family.
It's a weird thing, but by foisting his dead self on his family, the father gives each of them a kind of therapy for his neglect of them in life. Talking to the corpse gives both the kids a chance to express how they felt about their dad, to actually make peace with him, even have a kind of relationship. Talking to the corpse and beating the hell out of it also allows the wife to vent years of repressed anger and frustration. In the beginning, the wife and kids look like zombies. They move and talk like they're as dead as the stuffed dad. By the end, they're all happy and glowing with life and well-being. He may have been a horrible person in life, but he unintentionally gave them the best gift when he died.
Well said. I also think the damage each family member causes to the figure could represent how much anger they feel towards him. The son felt like he was a dog and never had a relationship with him so he broke the jaw, the daughters social life was ruined and no one wanted to come over so she broke his neck, and the wife had years of pent up anger towards him so she beat his face in.
edels I love people like you. Where you take the time to break down the video and explain them to people like me. I hope you live long and wealthy my good man
I get what you’re saying but I couldn’t do that for all the gold in China. It creeps me out. The last thing I want is my dead parents stuffed and staring at me. But like you said...I really think it was great therapy for them. Merry Christmas y’all from Texas. Have a safe and happy new year
its comedy and I never laughed like this by watching it
I couldn't agree more. Said the words right out my mouth.
i loved how their appetite increased as they got used to his company..
Because it became normal for them.
Nah they just got really hungry whenever they saw him, must mean they just wanted to eat him the whole time.
They put a lot more effort into details in the mini movies.... they’re so gooooodddd
You just get used to things and you learn to adapt to the situation...
Well, one has to eat no?
I love the subtle message that the more they physically destroyed the dad, the less they needed him after the damage was done, as their "therapy" sessions progressed. Brilliant directing!
I noticed this too and its genius
I love how the sister and mother are so honest with the son whenever he asks a question.
I know it's both so funny and refreshing 😭
Notice everytime their at the dining room table you can hear every crunch of food and every swallow..representing the silence they have in their lives towards one another. Especially when the daughter says "its nice to have someone to talk to" and she stares into her mother's eyes. Their happier and happier each meal because they finally get to tell their dad how they've felt and the wife gets to express her feelings towards her husband. This is creepy but clever and I love it.
I couldn't read anything after the misspelt "their" instead of the correct "they are at the dining room.." sentence.
"Phace the fare and doo it enywhey!"@@slavaavals2245
Until you have to live it in real life .
Also , spelling counts but everyone understood what you meant .
The mom's deadpan was spot on
They look like they haven't slept for 1 year.
Well I look like that every day so, ...
I couldn't sleep well in the house with mumia too.
Anja Todorcevic when u cry or so sad that happens
they did at the beginning. By the end, they looked relatively healthy & happy. He didn't look so good.
Exactly
little boy: “but i’m not a dog, i’m a person. una persona.” *stares* “you do look like a rapist” continues to take dads jaw off 🤣🤣
Hilarious
The screaming afterwards though
Love the conversations his son is having with him....and his daughter, wow, resentment.... because they never knew him....and now that he's dead, he is finally with them all the time.... metaphorical.
So, in death he did more for them then he did when he was alive. They could talk to him, break his jaw, take his head off or beat the crap out of him, with no fear of jail time. Releasing years of hate and anger then get on with their lives like everyday super wealthy people do. Exactly how was this worded in his last will and testament? Was it mandatory for him to be visible all the time? Take part in daily life routines? Or what? Very interesting, but not surprised because when they have that kind of money, their abnormalities, oddities, eccentricities are considered NORMAL(for them anyway).
breaking his jaw and taking off his head were accidents. They probably should have had tjhe taxidermist make repairs. The repairs were too obvious and amateurish. Why they were moving him aound anyway? They should have stuck him in a chair and left him in the livingroom or something.
Right on, also, in the end, it is shown that he is a 'broken man'. He was probably aware of this and wanted to be better in death I suppose.
I also thought he should have been placed in a chair, in a (locked) closet. The will was vague on this aspect.
But.
That wouldn't have been the therapy these people needed.
Stuff him, find a closet put him in it, toss a blanket over him and lock the door and get on with your lives.
The female child gives me Christina Ricci Wednesday Addams Vibes♥️🙂
I was thinking the same thing
I know right
She's stunning and has a very unique look.
@Digby Dooright No, she is Amy Landecker.
I thought she looked just like Nicole Furgere as Wednesday from the 90’s TV version!
When she got on top, I was like wait a minute, wait a minute, what's happening? what's happening? what are you doing? I thought that was going in a TOTALLY different direction 😬😌
You and me both...Sabrina. I thought she was gonna reconcile like the kids, and was prepared for the "breaking point". I give the writer props for that misdirection.
Yep, that's what I was thinking, too. So glad I was wrong!
@@Gallop4Me I'm sad
Omg me too I was like aaaahhhh nooooooo
Me too. I was afraid his.... would break inside her. That's gross.
since it didnt' say "prominent" display, I'd have put his ass out in the garden for the crows..
I wondered if there were more specific instructions that just weren't talked about. Either way, at the very least, I would put a blanket over him.
I thought about a glass case with curtains. Only to be opened on his birthday
@@briggyb yep.. at least cover up his buggy eyeballs.. LOL
It also didn’t say, for how long to keep him stuffed and/or displayed did it? So, 10 minutes in the living room, then off he goes into the crematorium. Stuffed or unstuffed.
brigmund freud Even if there were, so what, who cares. Would he come back to haunt them? Only in one of these short stories maybe.
"It's nice to have someone to talk to." That's a pretty damning accusation in front of the mother from the daughter.
The mom swallowing was crazy loud. And Fork clanking on her teeth
Reminds me of ASMR....It’s a thing! I stumbled upon it in the RUclips rabbit hole
I actually loved this short film! It's a dark humor, however their individual time with the "father" was therapeutic! Also, it is no different then when people go to the graveyard to talk to the deceased either way once death comes there is no rewind on time.
i nearly choke on my food when his jaw broke off!
LMFAOO he said *Gasp* ........AHHHHGHGHHGHHHGHHHHHHHHHHHHHGHHH😂😂😂I said oH mY gOd💀
Hilarious, then I felt bad for laughing.
... chin up, old boy !
When he grabbed his face I already knew what was coming. I just looked away and listen for the sound
I dropped my iphone😭😭😭
This could have easily been made into something spooky - but the non-horrific path it took transformed this short film into something unsettling nevertheless. Bravo! - 2 NOV 2019
I hate to be that person but, it's December today.
@@HNBTNewtonHNBT yep
@@HNBTNewtonHNBT LMAO
i really love how everything was so perfectly centered. like the house and the candles behind the mom. everything was just so symmetrical, i loved it
and the punchline is their last name: Addams.
Last name is Venson but Addams would have been better.
But the husband in the addams was the nicest. They were like the healthiest couple ever
Lmao when they are eating It's so silent I can hear them swallowing and it sounds freaking weird lol
Yeah the sound of eating and drinking , swallowing made me gag..yuck
Me too hate that sound
asmr
It was more annoying than weird...
It was definitely enhanced for pain or blech... pleasure.
In the end, it was a gift. They were able to work through their pain and grief.
The children play their roles amazingly, props to them
The stuffed guy looks as if he's sapped the souls out of his living family.
Him laying in that bed with his feet in the air lol
patrick Clark
I was cracking up!😆😆😆
I was thinking the same. Some Wes detailing for sure, but absolutely unique as the same time.
It's nice to have someone to talk to.
The look on mom was great.
cristina Fultz did you count? 7 seconds of WTF on her face. I died 😂
@@ayorkii she's been out dun by a DEAD guy.
You see the full extent of that frustration in the bedroom😅
u mean the same look shes had the entire film lol
My parents have died, my mother about seven years ago and my dad about a year and a half ago. My mom was an angel. She came down with cancer and the chemo changed her personality for the worse. Sometimes I wonder whether she became unpleasant just to make her passing easier on us, so that we wouldn't miss her too much. My dad and I had a very difficult relationship for a long time. We got along much better the last ten years of his life. I was there when he died. While I took both of them for granted while they were alive, I have an intense sense of gratitude to them now that they are gone. No stuffed corpses necessary! That was a great short film, a great story. The message? Money can't buy you love.
Why that boy look like Mark Zuckerberg? 💀💀
AuRa_Pulze was thinking the same lol
nah, zuckerberg has that dead-eyed look of the father.
But that girl looks like a ghost, a real one.
Exactly
The girl looks like Brooke Shields
When the movie started they looked like ghosts or zombies
That jaw coming off low key scared me a little😂
I was almost choked by my cheese cake.
@Connor Reitz😂😂😂😂😂😂
This channel should have an award.
it does
Just take the money and move into another house where he isn't displayed
I'm three minutes in and I'm thinking ok, just " display" him in the basement 🤣
@@desosmom1 Or, put a cover over him and only remove the cover when people come to the house.
Love the ending scene where the father is the statue but the others are slightly moving, as to say that "Look, we are still alive and happy while you're just a dead figurine".
The family now has a relationship with him that they never were allowed to have when he was alive. Anger and regret surface.
Did you say "Stuffed?" "Like a Turkey?" Lol
Children learn by what their parents do...their son wants to get stuffed. Omgosh! Too funny.
"Did you stay stuffed?"
"Like a turkey ?"
😂😂😂😂👌🏼
@@laiatezenas3300 tis the season.
Probably everyone stays stuffed once stuffed.
@@MothaLuva
Yeah, probs.
i get weird vibes off this whole video...
Same bro 😂😂😂 it got weird vibes!!! af
@@krishchopra2475 ik bro
a dead body being stuffed and kept around gives you weird wibes? YOU DONT SAY
@@insanezombieman753 HAHHAHAA
I do believe that it was the intent of the movie makers
This is fantastic. The music choices were as perfect as the casting. The deadpan mom was so fun to watch make something so unfunny into something so hysterical with barely emoting at all. Good work to all involved.
The daughter is such a good actress! She’s definitely going places
As strange as it is, but these children will probably self-therapy their daddy issues out of them this way. Not saying they won't get any other issues :):)
The mom looks like Kristen Wiig, the daughter a young Cara Delevingne, and the son Mark Zuckerberg.
Yesssss, spot on!!! I was trying to figure out who the mother reminded me of and it is definitely Kristen Wiig ☺️
@@les_5184 She's from Transparent.
They didn't have to put it in the dining room tho 😅
“i hate this house, i wish i was homeless”
LMAOOOOOOO
4:58
- didn’t think i’d get this many likes, thx for 299!!!
I love your username!
Spoken like a true rich snob living in their money isolated fantasy land.
neverthesame lol thanks
Lol yeah rich people don’t appreciate what they have
Now 399
"And now everyone just says they're sorry like they actually feel bad but, I know that they don't." I relate so much to that lol.
The boy is the star of this imo. I love that the mom is vaping in bed 😂
Morbid , dark, Adams Family-esque and just bloody funny!! The dead pan looks are brilliant! Well done.
The little girl in this has beautiful bone structure. She's going to be gorgeous when she's all grown up. .
She looks like a young Brooke Shields
How and where did you learn about this?
@@Bangy ?
@@amethystrain2513 What an unusual observation 🤔
@@Bangy what is your problem?
I'd do it. What does "on display" mean, legally. I'd dress him up for the holidays and always say "hello" when I passed by.
Halloween would be FUN
Dress him up in a leather slave costume and send a picture to all his awful friends
I really enjoyed this film. The woman and the daughter were beautiful while the son looked sharp.
I reeeeeally wish she would have said, “in an oven.......like a turkey”
One of the best and most creative short films I've seen. When he realized his time was short, he started thinking how bad he has been to his family, how his family was affected because of his absence. It was because of this that he started to take interest in stuffing himself like an animal. He recognized each of their revolt and anger.
Since, he was old he might have seen so many deaths in his life. He knew how difficult it was going to be for the family, how lifeless they had become-maybe his father was like that too. It was the realization of him nearing his death made him take this decision which worked out pretty well.
The wife and children who were emotionless at the beginning started to grieve and let out their emotions (grieving doesn't mean crying). Because he was dead, they could express their themselves openly without causing any complications in the family. So, it worked out pretty well!
In the end you could see the CRACKS in their relationship appear? Also was I the only one to laugh watching the mother stay sain?and each trying to cope . so funny
Out of all the Omeleto binging this is one of my favorites and I don’t know why
Can Lie , I Have Laughed My Depression Away. 😂😂
Brother talks to father: jaw falls off. Daughter talks to father: head falls off. Mother talks to husband: bashes his head in. Me: um..are these people okay? I kinda feel bad for the stuffed dude..
Lmao little Charles was amazing!!! What a great cast and storyline 😄
😂😂😂 im cracking up so bad evertime they break somthing of the body😂😂
Love this short movie! Narcissist even after death. Showed the negative impact it left on others. Dark dry comedy, i love it!
The writer obviously has a deliciously morbid mind. I love it ! Grieving, for the family members has never been so cathartic.
The person playing the dead dad is a very good actor I wonder how hard is roll must be
0:26 so aint no one gonna talk about that huge mansion
Ok, Let just called this one what it is “CREEPY!!”
If the Will didn’t specified where in the house 🏠... Give him his own room locked and sealed!!! This way he can fall apart there!!
They keep breaking him!!! Lol
yeah to get closer they break him but at the same time they break down their own faults and walls and move on
I thought about a glass case with curtains. Only to be opened on his birthday
as someone with old taxidermied stuff, its easier than you think! Any of the bendy areas!
OMG thank you for making my day. My stomach is hurting from laughing so hard. You guys out did yourself on this one. Now I need to watch all your stuff. I'm 55 years old and loved going to the library to read Alfred Hitchcock short stories. This reminds me of those days. Great imagination and craft!
How did the kids small touches snap him like a twig but she literally got on top of him and nothing happened
The wife looked tired and depressed the whole video but mama was snatched for the family photos 🔥
This is so Wes Anderson XD
Beren Torwal I was thinking the same thing! With a pinch of Tim Burton
@@justestankaityte5208 _Yeess!!_
It really is. The symmetrical shots, the sharp use of dramatic violin, the dysfunctional but oddly prominent family, the lack of emotion presented in the cast. The only thing this is missing is the use of miniatures for the environment and the book-card narration. Otherwise this would be another The Royal Tenenbaums with a somehow less estranged father.
The concept is great and the actors were too. But that will is kinda sad and dark. He is being the patriarch even after his death. He still has the control over them as they were given the choice to either accept him and take the inheritence or deny the will and lose the inheritence. Wow, such a clever man.
The family members have more human interaction with his dead body than the living ones.
At least, i think it's about a dead father trying to make mend, to be with his loved ones, weirdly, creepily, desperately.
@@nightsage217 yup! You're right... its kinda sad how you were not beside your loved ones although you were living under the same roof.
@@hirrafa But yea... The dark humour of the dead controls the living is extremely potent throughout the scenes, the father really do not deserve it, as the mother puts it. He is a statue either way.
@@nightsage217 I have an *innocent* question for you. Everytime they break some part of him I begin laughing. Am I an idiot? 😟
@@hirrafa It's designed to be humour, I would be concerned if someone didn't laugh at it. cheers.
(It can mean a dysfunctional relationship, more breaking of him might mean a much honest, true and healthier human relationship, and the family may finally accept it, smile, *laugh* and taking a new family photo. They look happy in it at least.
but anything I say within bracket is literally pulling out of my fart brain alrdy)
The anachronisms with the hoverboard, e-cig and posters were great. I like how they subtly set the mood of the film. Just small bits of details that injects humour in small doses, as we figure out what is happening and we get a feel for what this film is about.
16:27 Modern Adams family lol
Gloriously funny! Deadpan was spot on!
One critique: Volume needs to be fixed! During dialogue, one strains to hear. During music, one rips out ear buds while ears bleed.
Without any specifics in the well I would’ve had him on display in a vacant room that house is big enough to have at least one vacant room, sure as hell wouldn’t of been at the dinner table.
This is so funny because I actually,yes for real told my ex partner and my family that I wanted to either be stuffed or turned into a lamp so that I could forever light up their life 😆 🤣 lol
these kids should appear in more movies, they are extremely talented. All actors were crazy good including the lawyer too! the mimic, the movements, etc
At last they had a chance to tell him everything what made their soul heavy during he was alive...
One of THE creepiest and funny flicks I've ever viewed. Good show!
when the movie started they look like zombies...creepy and weird
louie joice martinez that’s the point of the joke. They become livelier after confronting his remain as if he was here, which they could never do while he was living.
Those kids were fantastic! Especially the daughter. Superb. I’d like to see them in other stuff as well
all i could think was that a good lawyer could get rid of this problem.
I sometimes think that some moments in my life can make a great omeleto film. I really enjoy watching these short films, i’m hooked and can’t seem to stop. Kuddos to all the team of omeleto!
I really love how this is filmed and acted almost like a Wes Anderson film. Even the sense of humour is Wes Anderson-esque.
that girl is for sure gonna be a supermodel in the next 5-10 years
A hoverboard in 2019?
that's quite rare my dude
Bader Alsafadi strange but you’re right...was going to get one for my kid then I thought the same 🤣
And I thought Weekend at Bernie's was twisted. I was wrong.
See, buying plates and having an extra room to see the plates flying is therapeutic.
This scenario is unheard of, in my opinion. I just cannot imagine stuffing a family member, rather than burying or cremating.
how could this have so many downvotes!? In the first two minutes i was in love with the concept and writing. Shits hilarious!
I don't understand it either, this is hands down one of my favorites!!
Daughter: I've decided to become an organ donor.
Me: So when are you gonna start donating?
The mom just looks so fed up
The stuffed dad looks the spitting image of the queens husband lol
Ah yes. Budget Wes Anderson.
I think ill pull a prank in my will, like make my family go on a quest or something.
I've watched about 30 of these great Omeleto shorts during quarantine and this is the first time I've laughed so hard. SO good.
I thought that was Jared Leto in the thumbnail😂
Sledge Hammer as a lawyer lol.
Very original, creepy and funny at the same time !!! I give this one a 10 out of 10 !!!!!!
Yes, the attorney is Sledge Hammer. One of the strangest parts was at the end when the wife moves her head in what I thought was the picture just taken.
i worked as a taxidermist for 20 years in florida. only 3 woman came in to have their husbands stuffed.i kindly said no, because it is against the law. i love the story u wrote-if only this was a 2hour movie! epic!
with the amount of times the guy said to sign at the start you'd think he was asking her to write the whole bloody contract
This was interesting,I’m a retired Funeral Director/ embalmer. In my 25 years I never heard of anyone being stuffed. I don’t know what I would of said if someone asked me to arrange that very odd
Theres always a first for everything lmao,eventually someone will do it,if they havent already