One of the best I've seen yet. Hoping to see a follow up. The director? looked worried looking around as if something was watching her. Well written and acted. Great story for a full length feature or a series.
Very good film, dark and edgy with an actual plot. Who watches the watchers? The lead actor, Wayne Roberts, did a great job. To me at least, his performance was totally believable. I looked him up on IMDB. I think he is woefully underused by the film and TV industries. -dave
Nice premise for a story where banned books are forced to be dealt like drugs. Question...How was the Wayne Roberts character able to track the young man to the restaurant using his personal computer?
(1) The dear boss lady of whatever National Security office that is needs a good supply of terrorists, because without terrorists, her job is redundant (2) the whole adventure was basically a "we need more money here!" ploy from within the anti-terrorism guys: they orchestrated to have one of their own caught with a bomb, and then they can go: "look, Evil Terrorists managed to infiltrated us, _obviously_ we need more funding to prevent that!"
I watched it for the second time I was excited because I got it The funny thing is. This is already happening. It's everywhere. Even on my phone as I type. On water tower's in towns and cities. Everything we do is being monitored
Can we get one film where the lead isn't beating around the bush and just comes right out with the details of concern? (This is not directly directed towards this film. Just saying. If I truly cared about someone I would just be honest no matter the cost)
Easy to say "I'd totally be honest", kind of hard to do it when the honest truth includes "my job is sitting at a desk and killing some of your friends from a safe distance".
Having a baby crying in the background for more than 2 seconds adds nothing to the movie. It's just irritating. I turned it off around the 11 minute mark.
So what was all that crap about books? Books are illegal in this film, yet you can see hundreds of them all over the place, with people reading them openly in public? And in any case, if books WERE made illegal tomorrow, who in our current society would care?
In the film, it seems books in general are still legal, but a large number of titles have been "redacted", presumably any with ideas that threaten whoever's in power.
@@hugojames85 Other than referring to banned books as "redacted", it's not. This is a society in transition to an authoritarian sci-fi dystopia. There are still some elements of democracy, but it's not going to last much longer. A crucial goal of any authoritarian is having full control of the speech and thoughts of that general public. This usually starts by banning any media that criticizes it. Existing books that pose no obvious ideological threat are still legal, but the blacklist tends to grow until only material produced by the authoritarians are allowed.
Excellent! Got lost in it thinking I was watching a feature length. Lovely tempo to it. Fantastic production all around
One of the very very few SciFi shorts that is EXCELLENT!!!
eerie ending! Excellent!
Absolutely brilliant. Well directed, with a chilling back story. Love the surprise ending!
Brilliant; to be continued, i hope.
One of the best I've seen yet. Hoping to see a follow up. The director? looked worried looking around as if something was watching her. Well written and acted. Great story for a full length feature or a series.
Well done - and frighteningly possible.
Very much so.
Awesome watch
Excellent Short!
Great Short Film 😎
Wow!!! That was heavy.
This was awesome!!!!
Well done!
WOW, Amazing job.....Peace
Very interesting movie. Could be a feature length film.
very good, congratulations
very nice!
Just why don't they make shorts, long. This one is really good
Awesome! I'm glad I found this short before it found me.
Well done.
Very good film, dark and edgy with an actual plot. Who watches the watchers? The lead actor, Wayne Roberts, did a great job. To me at least, his performance was totally believable. I looked him up on IMDB. I think he is woefully underused by the film and TV industries.
-dave
I agree. Thanks.
Brilliant
Boom 🎉
Nice.
great film. why so few views? where have you promoted this?
I don't understand the plot. Is the lady boss a corrupt government official and if so what is she up to?
Nice premise for a story where banned books are forced to be dealt like drugs. Question...How was the Wayne Roberts character able to track the young man to the restaurant using his personal computer?
Somebody explain this ending to me. DID I MISS SOMETHING?
The watcher is being watched ;) Tiers of surveillance...
NWO...after bsCovid
(1) The dear boss lady of whatever National Security office that is needs a good supply of terrorists, because without terrorists, her job is redundant
(2) the whole adventure was basically a "we need more money here!" ploy from within the anti-terrorism guys: they orchestrated to have one of their own caught with a bomb, and then they can go: "look, Evil Terrorists managed to infiltrated us, _obviously_ we need more funding to prevent that!"
I watched it for the second time
I was excited because I got it
The funny thing is. This is already happening. It's everywhere. Even on my phone as I type. On water tower's in towns and cities. Everything we do is being monitored
@@coldawson8486 Bad in the US. Much worse in China.
Can we get one film where the lead isn't beating around the bush and just comes right out with the details of concern?
(This is not directly directed towards this film. Just saying. If I truly cared about someone I would just be honest no matter the cost)
Easy to say "I'd totally be honest", kind of hard to do it when the honest truth includes "my job is sitting at a desk and killing some of your friends from a safe distance".
The only person you can trust in this world is the only person you can trust.
pnatokotic manuscripts
I didn't get this at all.
Where is the ending ?
@19:05
:)
Having a baby crying in the background for more than 2 seconds adds nothing to the movie. It's just irritating. I turned it off around the 11 minute mark.
Amazing. All white people tho. I guess its feature here but the theme in youtube suggestions is, 😮
So what was all that crap about books? Books are illegal in this film, yet you can see hundreds of them all over the place, with people reading them openly in public? And in any case, if books WERE made illegal tomorrow, who in our current society would care?
In the film, it seems books in general are still legal, but a large number of titles have been "redacted", presumably any with ideas that threaten whoever's in power.
@@rayxtime Where is that made clear?
@@hugojames85 Other than referring to banned books as "redacted", it's not. This is a society in transition to an authoritarian sci-fi dystopia. There are still some elements of democracy, but it's not going to last much longer. A crucial goal of any authoritarian is having full control of the speech and thoughts of that general public. This usually starts by banning any media that criticizes it. Existing books that pose no obvious ideological threat are still legal, but the blacklist tends to grow until only material produced by the authoritarians are allowed.
@@hugojames85 perhaps when "illegal" books are mentioned. Gave me the notion that some books are not allowed, while others are.
Netflix is so stupid...