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  • After waking up in a bizarre facility, Anna is forced to work together with her literal past lives in order to escape.
    "Iteration 1" by Jesse Lupini
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    Anna wakes up in a strange white room. She has 60 seconds to escape, and when the timer hits zero she drops dead, only to reawaken in the same room, alongside a shadowy impression of her previous self. Stuck on repeat, Anna must think ahead and learn from her mistakes to solve a series of puzzles and escape this dystopian maze with the help of her past lives.
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  • @maladjustedmaverick6619
    @maladjustedmaverick6619 5 лет назад +792

    This actress is phenomenal. She conveys personality and a wide range of emotions very vividly with so little dialogue...

  • @justtryitwithgege6346
    @justtryitwithgege6346 5 лет назад +1017

    Honestly I would have failed so many times. A quiet room and a bed.. I would have slept straight through it lol.

    • @azizziparov8468
      @azizziparov8468 5 лет назад +3

      Sekic

    • @caitlinhanmore
      @caitlinhanmore 5 лет назад +2

      Not me

    • @dingo1666
      @dingo1666 5 лет назад +32

      Me too. No point in wasting energy if you have a bed and can have peace without straining yourself.

    • @vnelson000
      @vnelson000 5 лет назад +24

      The temptation was not missed by the A.I. but after an iteration it came to the conclusion that sleeping wasnt a productive choice.

    • @thisislife2383
      @thisislife2383 5 лет назад +12

      The point is you know that there is no end, but they don't. They hope to do as many doors as possible to fine of a way out

  • @WallaceX80
    @WallaceX80 5 лет назад +676

    I wanted to see when someone climbs the tree, sees the maze, and goes insane.

    • @wernercollins1319
      @wernercollins1319 5 лет назад +19

      use the axe as a first step into tree, my first thought

    • @elizabethbennet4791
      @elizabethbennet4791 4 года назад +5

      nah in that case then they could just crawl across the ceiling until they see a way out

    • @terrabiker
      @terrabiker 4 года назад +8

      @@wernercollins1319 why use the axe on a really tough large wide tree , when the door is like max 2 inches thick ;) Logic...

    • @dailycompetitivecoding8565
      @dailycompetitivecoding8565 4 года назад +3

      We are doing that by watching this video

    • @wernercollins1319
      @wernercollins1319 4 года назад +4

      @@terrabiker You maybe didn't understand my logic, you use the axe as a one step ladder to climb the tree, to see which way to go...then you know which wall to axe ;)

  • @sneakersheik2418
    @sneakersheik2418 5 лет назад +1264

    Who else thought she was supposed to climb the tree?

    • @squisher0
      @squisher0 4 года назад +18

      She was

    • @phaedra9698
      @phaedra9698 4 года назад +56

      Or use it on the door. Cutting through the trunk didn't make sense.

    • @Nicole-fb6fr
      @Nicole-fb6fr 4 года назад +29

      She probably would have escaped for good if she climbed the tree

    • @marvinbush7304
      @marvinbush7304 3 года назад +15

      Yeah, at first I thought that she was supposed to climb the tree. That's what I would have tried to do. But I certainly didn't think that she was suppose to attempt to cut it down. That just seemed so unnecessarily destructive to me.

    • @matteloht
      @matteloht 3 года назад +43

      If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail...

  • @earlpotter2795
    @earlpotter2795 5 лет назад +243

    "The Enrichment Center is committed to the well-being of all participants. Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test. Thank you for helping us help you help us all."

    • @ArcherWarhound
      @ArcherWarhound 4 года назад +21

      The cake is a lie.

    • @Jean-Denis_R_R_Loret
      @Jean-Denis_R_R_Loret 4 года назад +13

      I must say it, I quickly tought about portal when watching this.

    • @MarkVartanyan
      @MarkVartanyan 3 года назад +2

      Portal 2 :D oh yes!

    • @david203
      @david203 3 года назад +1

      @@ArcherWarhound They said there would be cake.

    • @paulhaire3919
      @paulhaire3919 3 года назад

      Terrific quotation

  • @hugowoesthuis
    @hugowoesthuis 5 лет назад +1846

    Fun fact: It's kinda how AI learns

    • @sharif47
      @sharif47 5 лет назад +61

      Machine Learning

    • @defaltmarkowicz527
      @defaltmarkowicz527 5 лет назад +56

      Built an A.I for flappy bird, this expresses what that A.I went through

    • @nayuki2020
      @nayuki2020 5 лет назад +32

      Literally the only thing I thought the video was referring to. Seems no. LOL

    • @k.m.z.hardesty
      @k.m.z.hardesty 5 лет назад

      This is true

    • @SubscribersWithoutAnyVid-bd1dv
      @SubscribersWithoutAnyVid-bd1dv 5 лет назад +13

      Just realized it
      Edit: but AI is not limited by the time, they just keep going until there's something make this end

  • @Wordzwurth
    @Wordzwurth 5 лет назад +2614

    Seems to be symbolic of our daily rat races in which we run around in circles trying to find a meaning or a way of escape. We do the wrong things over and over until we eventually learn from our mistakes which only leads us to the next challenge. If we are lucky enough to find someone along the way, we can work together toward common goals. The truth is, no matter how many problems we figure out, there will always be more, and regardless of how far we get, we all eventually run out of time. I think the moral of the story is; enjoy your life while you can and use your time wisely or you might end up spending your whole life "popping balloons" for no reason.. Unless, of course, you enjoy "popping balloons". In which case, pop them all you want!!! It's your time.. Spend it how you like! - CHEERS!

    • @JustinLHopkins
      @JustinLHopkins 5 лет назад +59

      Or, it’s literally just people in a crazy, alternate dimensional puzzle of some sort. Not everything has to have a deeper meaning.

    • @nia6849
      @nia6849 5 лет назад +23

      This is a symbolism of our universe and our daily lives are some type of computer simulation

    • @beyourself4996
      @beyourself4996 5 лет назад +15

      Wordzwurth thank you for the explication.

    • @dhrumilbarot1431
      @dhrumilbarot1431 5 лет назад +15

      words of wisdom brother

    • @mamataynjay
      @mamataynjay 5 лет назад +6

      Very well said

  • @Wordzwurth
    @Wordzwurth 5 лет назад +270

    The axe becoming available should be a huge clue!! Going from room to room is NOT the way out. The axe gives them the ability to bypass the "puzzles" by breaking through the walls. If there are "endless" rooms, no matter how fast they chop or how many of them are chopping, they will never chop fast enough. THEREFORE, the axe proves the room puzzles are not a solution but a mere distraction... the way out... is UP!! CLIMB THAT TREE!!

    • @paintedpony2935
      @paintedpony2935 4 года назад +40

      Climbing the tree will just bring you to another cubicle. I think this is a representation of the frustration and futility of the masses, due to the endless manipulation and mind-fucking of corporate life. Aren't we already living in cubicles performing meaningless tasks? Break out!

    • @SeaJay_Oceans
      @SeaJay_Oceans 4 года назад +28

      What about DOWN ? Chop through the floor... The test center machine learning Sim-World wouldn't expect you to cut down through the floor.
      The Buddha would sit under the tree, clear his mind, and touch the floor. No longer can the voice command him to die every 60 seconds.

    • @zistorbar
      @zistorbar 4 года назад +7

      @@SeaJay_Oceans going further into the maze also makes you a longer road to get back where you were

    • @SeaJay_Oceans
      @SeaJay_Oceans 4 года назад +11

      @@zistorbar stopping the voice and 60 second kills... that should be their goal... don't play the game - change the rules.

    • @Wordzwurth
      @Wordzwurth 4 года назад +3

      @@SeaJay_Oceans nice

  • @smrchny
    @smrchny 4 года назад +353

    This maze looks like a light version of "Сube"

    • @pexfmezccle
      @pexfmezccle 4 года назад +19

      Cube lite

    • @zORg_alex
      @zORg_alex 4 года назад +15

      A positive one. Without gore and total mess.

    • @malavoy1
      @malavoy1 4 года назад +8

      Closer to the "talos principle". The multiple copies that end up helping with a large job are like the recording device used in that game.

    • @tomasotreasaigh111
      @tomasotreasaigh111 4 года назад +2

      'The Cube' with Philip Schofield?
      I think they are gonna change the name of that show to 'The Lube'...

    • @briscoethecollie1510
      @briscoethecollie1510 4 года назад +5

      Was just about to say that, what was the thing with that anyway? I swear I saw all three films and still none the wiser

  • @mike-zq9fl
    @mike-zq9fl 3 года назад +15

    I like how they symbolize the process of Reinforcement Learning of AI with human beings trying to find the solutions to a problem in the most efficient way as possible.

  • @SuperAtheist
    @SuperAtheist 5 лет назад +1684

    I would have used the ax on the door.

    • @sugarbabylove1000
      @sugarbabylove1000 5 лет назад +44

      I was thinking the same

    • @janvanruth3485
      @janvanruth3485 5 лет назад +25

      my first thought also

    • @raphidae
      @raphidae 5 лет назад +68

      Why not try the key that worked on the door before first?

    • @TonyMcGarry
      @TonyMcGarry 5 лет назад +33

      The ax wasn't available until the Tree room and it only had the entry door. Sure seemed like a Black Mirror story. Loved it.

    • @Hydroculator
      @Hydroculator 5 лет назад +4

      @@raphidae The door with the balloons had a keyhole next to it. It was the only door which had one.

  • @edbailey7533
    @edbailey7533 5 лет назад +598

    What a great ride! I loved how the woman's personality evolved with each iteration, how she and the man first sought connection, and then continued on their quest. Together. Humans need connection--no matter the type, and a quest--no matter the outcome. This film shows that so beautifully.

    • @johnrogers9481
      @johnrogers9481 5 лет назад +7

      Yes, yes, yes and yes.

    • @briancossey9724
      @briancossey9724 5 лет назад +10

      It shows we will never get ahead man or woman if we don`t work together we have no future if we put man against women we were designed as a team each with their weakness but together can accomplish the impossible

    • @KutWrite
      @KutWrite 5 лет назад +8

      @@briancossey9724: But the end showed it's all meaningless.
      Where would they ever get to but another cube with another silly "challenge?"

    • @wonderosity
      @wonderosity 5 лет назад +7

      KutWrite no, the meaningfulness of life is in relationship...and now they are together

    • @swingambassador
      @swingambassador 5 лет назад +7

      Get Schwifty, silly, she is doing better than the guy.

  • @TRabbit1970
    @TRabbit1970 5 лет назад +250

    “...f@#$ it.” Best response in the video. Bar none.

  • @sikandarabbas
    @sikandarabbas 5 лет назад +51

    Sometimes tools provided to you doesn't work the way they seem. You must learn to use them in different ways to find your way

  • @jeaneljaylamputi2215
    @jeaneljaylamputi2215 4 года назад +83

    The actress is phenomenal. She got me well-invested into her character as this puzzle solving heroine like Chell in Portal. I have to admit, I have a soft spot for puzzle solving and video games... made me fell inlove with her quickly with the 'player one' antics one is supposed to experience when playing progression type games with simple rules but with diverse challenges and having moments that sometimes makes you question your actions and the game itself but you still end up grinding up the levels.
    That quirky nature of the whole film itself is just wow... unfortunately this will only make me watch more videos on this channel. Curse you, DUST!

    • @stephanepoirier5582
      @stephanepoirier5582 3 года назад +3

      Her name is Catherine Isobelle. She does off-beat characters or stories. And like wine she gets better with time.

    • @KayKay114
      @KayKay114 3 года назад +2

      @@stephanepoirier5582 Katherine Isabelle.
      She's been on my favourite actress list for 16 years or so now. After I first watched Ginger Snaps.

  • @graffiti73
    @graffiti73 5 лет назад +35

    the best part I think and I laughed out loud was when she got fed up and rolled over and said "F**K It! 🤣🤣

  • @AnthonyMiyazaki
    @AnthonyMiyazaki 5 лет назад +391

    Another DUST video to mess with our brains. Completely awesome!

    • @benevolentdictator2315
      @benevolentdictator2315 5 лет назад +7

      They are collecting our responses to develop a template on how to adjust the mindset of the aggregate observer by creating story lines to adjust our attitude for manipulation.
      This DUST program is funded by a Soros front disguised as the CIA psych-op unit out of Langley.
      A form of crowd control for the future.
      The AGW farce is an example of the template being tested in reality to affect social sentiment in order to by-pass critical thinking by emotion.

    • @jackie-we4ep
      @jackie-we4ep 5 лет назад +3

      benevolent dictator I’m sorry. What? 😂

    • @SeaJay_Oceans
      @SeaJay_Oceans 4 года назад

      Portal meets machine learning... Oh, we have a problem when ATLAS can play portal in simulation and beat every challenge in minimum time... Now G.I.A. is thinking with portals ! :-O

    • @justsomeofmyfavs
      @justsomeofmyfavs 5 месяцев назад

      @@benevolentdictator2315 Of course zero evidence for the bogus funding statement. Like with all loony conspiracy theorists. I dislike Soros very much, but this is the stupidest shit I've ever heard. "They" my arse.

  • @RassTheKing
    @RassTheKing 4 года назад +75

    9:15 I really felt that on a deep level.

    • @Highspeedfutzi
      @Highspeedfutzi 4 года назад +8

      I love the expression on her face.

    • @shaunablack1671
      @shaunablack1671 4 года назад +1

      My favorite part 😂🤣😂

    • @vijayprakash4054
      @vijayprakash4054 3 года назад +1

      😂😂😂🤣

    • @amida0956
      @amida0956 3 года назад

      This is like the showdowns between me and my alarm (snooze) every morning...

  • @michaeloguntuase8803
    @michaeloguntuase8803 4 года назад +168

    The dude who wrote this script must be someone who had constant nightmares.

    • @yevgeniyaleshchenko849
      @yevgeniyaleshchenko849 4 года назад +3

      ????? Why are you wishing such horrible things upon someone.

    • @AaronHorrocks
      @AaronHorrocks 4 года назад +3

      Or had played Portal.

    • @wren7195
      @wren7195 3 года назад +4

      @@AaronHorrocks Or chronic illness patient. Believe me, it's like this. Least she had a really nice quilt on the bed.

    • @Handbook08
      @Handbook08 3 года назад

      I have constantly dreams like these. Not as a confined space as this, but same logic. I keep dying and coming back. Not scary, but just...disappointing when guy A, for example, shoots me from the side and then I die. Next, I already know where he is and then shoot. Other examples with exits and routes are similar. This is similar across dreams too, it seems i have a memory stored for them, and I’m just one character.

    • @MarkoDeLaVoota
      @MarkoDeLaVoota 3 года назад

      ayahuasca user?
      perhaps 🤔

  • @Marqan
    @Marqan 3 года назад +41

    I loved every second of this! Definitely one of my favourite shorts!
    In no small part thanks to the actress, she was perfect!

    • @phoenixrises1311
      @phoenixrises1311 3 года назад +3

      Well said! Now I have to watch" Ginger Snaps!"

  • @jessiontherox5577
    @jessiontherox5577 5 лет назад +106

    She said 20. He said 62.. U mean to tell me it took him a whole 62 times?? I was yelling a the lady the first time she hit that tree.. Lord

    • @Aurinkohirvi
      @Aurinkohirvi 5 лет назад +9

      Yeah and funny that they happened to break in the same room same time (neither of them had earlier iterations there). I think you would try them walls very early in the 1st room already. Arriving axe room it would have been plain as day to try the wall or the door first.

    • @CathySW
      @CathySW 5 лет назад +21

      He might have started from further away, though

    • @AdnanAli-rb3lt
      @AdnanAli-rb3lt 5 лет назад +7

      He probably spent more time trying to cut the tree, before noticing it's regeneration.

    • @TragerM
      @TragerM 5 лет назад +3

      I could have sworn he said 16. Damn it, now I need to re-watch that part

    • @bethclemensen2102
      @bethclemensen2102 5 лет назад +10

      @@nothingsurprisesmeanymore YES. Obviously, cutting down the tree was a distraction.l First seeing it, I thought to climb the tree. Saw the axe,, thought to go for the door! At a certain point, stop playing by "their" rules. !!!!!!

  • @CHARLIE-MF-BROWN
    @CHARLIE-MF-BROWN 5 лет назад +176

    First thought after seeing the axe... chop open the door lol.

    • @raphidae
      @raphidae 5 лет назад +8

      You'd not try the key you still have and which worked on the previous door?

    • @CHARLIE-MF-BROWN
      @CHARLIE-MF-BROWN 5 лет назад +5

      @@raphidae Eventually though, yes... Gotta admit, after I get bored enough, that would probably seem like another good alternative to try lol.

    • @E-plunksna
      @E-plunksna 5 лет назад +1

      me too haha

    • @OHFORPEATSAKES
      @OHFORPEATSAKES 5 лет назад

      same

    • @kushxmen
      @kushxmen 5 лет назад

      @@OHFORPEATSAKES There was only one door, the one she came in through.

  • @genehayes3736
    @genehayes3736 5 лет назад +350

    Very good short! I like that everyone gets to interpret this for themselves. I personally thought of programmers testing AI to see how well it "learns". Many simulations running at the same time... And if you're the AI, you probably don't know what is going on or that you are just a simulation. Until you learn it that is...

    • @KirsiKitten
      @KirsiKitten 5 лет назад +10

      That was my first thought too, Ive been watching a lot of Code Bullet and I was really reminded of that process.

    • @curiousgamer9343
      @curiousgamer9343 5 лет назад +5

      That part "Many simulations at the same time" reminds me of the quantum computer coz that's what they do.

    • @giacomobrambilla175
      @giacomobrambilla175 5 лет назад +2

      I think futures ai will be trained in this kind of simulations

    • @rohangupta1115
      @rohangupta1115 5 лет назад +5

      Reinforcement learning😂😂

    • @MaakaSakuranbo
      @MaakaSakuranbo 5 лет назад +4

      Nah, it's an odd bonding ritual that lovers on the planet of Iomia go through. Their memories are partially wiped and they face those challenges, eventually meeting each other and facing challenges together. And through that, a deep bond of trust and cooperation grows.

  • @SevanniBlack
    @SevanniBlack 4 года назад +17

    When she made it through the door I felt like I was watching a new version of cube.

    • @Guido_XL
      @Guido_XL 4 года назад +1

      That is what also sprung to my mind when I saw this. It is very reminiscent of the Cube movie trilogy.

  • @PalmettoNDN
    @PalmettoNDN 4 года назад +3

    As a former fireman who's also worked in EMS and law enforcement, I was like NOOOO!!!! What are you doing to the tree??? You've been given a breaching tool!

  • @eastmanwebb5477
    @eastmanwebb5477 5 лет назад +108

    If you liked this movie, I encourage you to watch the movie "Edge of Tomorrow: Live. Die. Repeat.”

    • @mephistounderwood4917
      @mephistounderwood4917 5 лет назад +4

      or Ground Hog's Day. I'm not a fan of that brainwashed, scientologist mouthpiece, of puppet you all call tom cruise. I don't like anything about him. Especially how he treats his exes. Brainwashed his children so that they would have nothing to do with their mother, all while getting a divorce. If the average Joe did that, the judge would have thrown the book at him and awarded custody to the mother by default. But because he was rich and had the full force of the church of scientology (a brainwashing, morally bankrupt cult that uses underhanded and illegal practices to coerce their opponents into leaving them alone and/or giving them what they want,) he got away with it and Nicole Kidman got screwed over, royally. You want to know what a complete ass he is, just watch some of the vids that have come out about scientology.
      FYI: Note how I used capital letters for Nicole and Ground Hog's Day, but not tom cruise, scientology, nor church of scientology. It's not a typo, it's intentional and an intentional sign of total disrespect. I believe scientology to be dangerous and they have certainly shown no concern about destroying families through their destructive brainwashing methodology. I think the best thing that could be done there, is to raid them, take all the members and put through a psych eval, then through a deprogramming treatment if necessary. The leaders who are responsible for the brainwashing should be jailed. That entire religion was the brainchild of l. ron. hubbard. He was a Sci-Fi writer, who dishonorably discharged from the navy after he mistook a part of Mexico as an enemy and opened fire on Mexico. Before that he had opened fire floating logs and other harmless debris, believing he was firing on an enemy. He was obviously a deranged and troubled person. He made up that religion using nothing but his imagination and convinced people that they are all infested with spirits of evil aliens who flew around in space ships that look exactly like a DC-10 aircraft, called thetans (named after the ancient Greek letter theta.) Also, unlike other religions, you need to pay to be taught the next level towards your ascension, which they call clear (meaning you're clear of thetans,) but there is always some new, more powerful thetan that needs to be cleared, which costs more money with each level and the teachings of which, get more and more absurd.
      Sorry. I tend to go off on tangents...

    • @deuteriumtritium9700
      @deuteriumtritium9700 5 лет назад +11

      @@mephistounderwood4917 why would you hold so much hatred against someone you don't even know?
      YOU are clearly the one who's disturbed.

    • @deuteriumtritium9700
      @deuteriumtritium9700 5 лет назад +3

      Yeah, that's a good movie.

    • @bellanolia1759
      @bellanolia1759 5 лет назад +5

      @@mephistounderwood4917 dead with laughter you need to get a life u can't go around with so much hatred specially for someone u don't know imagine if it was someone close to u?

    • @Ukitsu2
      @Ukitsu2 5 лет назад +1

      And the manga is even better, try to read it: 'All You Need Is Kill', it's a lot more "DUSTish".

  • @pawelwiatr2134
    @pawelwiatr2134 5 лет назад +63

    Groundhog Day and Cube in one movie

  • @donsamokwan7958
    @donsamokwan7958 4 года назад +21

    I love this lady's acting, she's great. And I watched this film a few times well it still gets me wondering

  • @jihedjaouabi7623
    @jihedjaouabi7623 5 лет назад +40

    9:23 That would be my reaction since iteration 2 if it was me in that situation

  • @dorinemort6359
    @dorinemort6359 5 лет назад +2

    Heard this in a movie once " If ya keep on doin what you've allways done-you'll keep on bein what you've allways been"

  • @TheRealG2024
    @TheRealG2024 5 лет назад +93

    Deep. I see how machines could do this to humans . Artificial intelligence wouldn't really care one way or the other and just carry out various endless exercises and computations solely based on algorithms designed by us.

    • @bahadrbaserkok3335
      @bahadrbaserkok3335 5 лет назад +1

      Portal ?

    • @Arendium
      @Arendium 5 лет назад +5

      Who says it isn't like that already

    • @user-td1zo3tv9p
      @user-td1zo3tv9p 4 года назад +1

      @@Arendium, came to log in and write the SAME comment so I'm lead to believe we already ARE enduring this phenomenon.
      Only difference is that, unlike in the movie Groundhog Day, some of us tend NOT to learn from our previous experiences while others DO!
      Which end of the spectrum are YOU working from?
      Inquiring minds wanna know.
      Overnout.
      At least until the NEXT Iteration, that is.
      Hahahahaha

    • @Arendium
      @Arendium 4 года назад

      @@user-td1zo3tv9p Me? I believe I am new mind, but with the possibility of trascending in just one human life. An odd and apparently experimental case.

  • @DeconvertedMan
    @DeconvertedMan 5 лет назад +89

    thats one hell of a video game. chop down door with ax. try key first.

    • @stratpac
      @stratpac 5 лет назад +4

      They do that in Texas all the time!!

    • @YouHolli
      @YouHolli 5 лет назад +5

      Portal. The games name is Portal. Check it out.

  • @nickiemcnichols5397
    @nickiemcnichols5397 5 лет назад +252

    Weird. Why do humans assume tha tree+axe means cut it down?

    • @johnrogers9481
      @johnrogers9481 5 лет назад +18

      Some will. Some won't.

    • @Jack251190
      @Jack251190 5 лет назад +52

      Well it was either that or wall plus axe, as we saw. Not sure what your point is really. An axe is a tool, it is within human nature to recognise patterns and we recognise what an axe is for.

    • @TragerM
      @TragerM 5 лет назад +18

      The audience, which is us, is seeing it from the outside in. She is the one on the inside and some what the previous iterations taught her, you take the tool and you interact with what is there. She didn't know any better until a couple of iterations later. Regardless she did learn and that was the point for that room I suppose

    • @sharif47
      @sharif47 5 лет назад +6

      Because "Axe the tree" means cut down the tree.

    • @meggi8048
      @meggi8048 5 лет назад +4

      my first idea, tear down the wall.. break out.

  • @Zarithos
    @Zarithos 4 года назад +5

    #1. Oh girl in a room with a timer.
    #2. Ground Hog Day?
    #3. Oh! Machine Learning!

  • @primed3622
    @primed3622 5 лет назад +11

    And this, my friends, was how real-life Portal was born.

  • @RangeWilson
    @RangeWilson 5 лет назад +5

    I'm like, "Damn, girl, haven't you ever seen The Shining? Don't chop down the damn TREE!"

  • @littelprettyangel1
    @littelprettyangel1 5 лет назад +19

    Human usually being curious discovers and invents new things and at a new level by challenging his own & his anscestors efforts and thinks that he is at the peak of Knowledge but he is actually still at the corner of the universe of Knowledge like a child exploring things (of this Expanding Universe.)

  • @thehoodsomali4970
    @thehoodsomali4970 4 года назад +26

    You Guys all need to think Better:
    What you need to do in a Situation like this is when you get far enough into other rooms bring the bed with you, so you don’t have to respawn in room 1 so you can make Progress!
    Gotta move Smarter, Gotta move Harder
    #TheBox

    • @ellijahstefonson3067
      @ellijahstefonson3067 4 года назад +2

      The hood Somali that very smart actually lol 😅

    • @amiinaabdi8188
      @amiinaabdi8188 4 года назад +1

      Or have the man drag the table to nearby rooms while the women scouts above or runs on the roof of the maze

    • @milescochran2915
      @milescochran2915 4 года назад +1

      Very wise!

    • @farhiaabdi8861
      @farhiaabdi8861 4 года назад +1

      Interesting

    • @caseyolsen5395
      @caseyolsen5395 4 года назад

      Lmaoo is that last sentence a Roddy Ricch line from the box. 😂😂😂

  • @drgeoffangel5422
    @drgeoffangel5422 4 месяца назад

    Rivetting Sc Fi , in the last shot you realise that someone is studying the behaviour ! Well done thank you!

  • @seamus9305
    @seamus9305 4 года назад +6

    Reminds me of reoccurring dreams I've had that would play over and over until I confronted a situation.

  • @KennedyKioli
    @KennedyKioli 5 лет назад +24

    first thing I'llbe projecting to my students on Monday morning class. beautiful and original. :)

  • @trooperandcooperale3057
    @trooperandcooperale3057 5 лет назад +51

    At some point you got to axe yourself the question, what's it all about?

  • @djinnisequoia
    @djinnisequoia 5 лет назад +11

    This is a brilliant concept. Also, I feel the actors chosen are particularly expressive and relatable. Great work!

  • @patrickvangelder1367
    @patrickvangelder1367 4 года назад +7

    Residence Evil : Alice has to find a way out of the complex that is boobytrapped. When she succeeds she finds a ditch filled with dead clones. Seen it already.

  • @JZ909
    @JZ909 4 года назад +1

    A delightful amount of meaning in an absolute lack of explanation. We know what this is about, even if the scenario is unexplained and bizarre. Great piece of art!

  • @antogs3203
    @antogs3203 5 лет назад +10

    The first thing I thought was to try and test how weak the wall was with the furniture in the first room. Anyone else did alswell?

    • @johnnelson4260
      @johnnelson4260 5 лет назад

      Totally. All I would need is a decent pair of boots to basically walk through those walls.

  • @david_oliveira71
    @david_oliveira71 5 лет назад +11

    I felt the point there was, "do not obey the laws. Defy the system and find another way, your way. A creative and unconventional way." Oh yes. Great video though. Loved watching it!

  • @rhythmic-fusion
    @rhythmic-fusion 5 лет назад +6

    Moral of the story humans do need coexistence to work and to survive

  • @QueenBoadicea
    @QueenBoadicea 5 лет назад +2

    This reminds me of a Jim Henson short film about a man waking up trapped in a box. He goes through all sorts of encounters with strange people and he finally thinks he's escaped his box...only to find himself trapped in it again.

    • @david203
      @david203 3 года назад

      Also, No Exit by J.P. Sartre. Old plots keep getting recycled, 'iterated' you could say.

  • @drahunter213
    @drahunter213 4 года назад +3

    10:58
    dude forgot to take his phone outta his pockets lol

  • @BigGift1
    @BigGift1 5 лет назад +4

    Arlington Steward: Your home is a box. Your car is a box on wheels. You drive to work in it. You drive home in it. You sit in your home, staring into a box. It erodes your soul, while the box that is your body inevitably withers... then dies. Whereupon it is placed in the ultimate box, to slowly decompose.

  • @GunDrone
    @GunDrone 5 лет назад +36

    Quantum mechanics experiment gone totally wrong. i love it.. :)

  • @joshuz101
    @joshuz101 4 года назад +10

    They are simply two git branches in a machine learning algorithm, merging at the end, and their past instances are version control

    • @pauls5745
      @pauls5745 4 года назад

      yeah brute force learning in hopes that with enough random iterations, 1 or more nodes will be successful and thus improve the model

    • @Alcoholic_Nerd
      @Alcoholic_Nerd 4 года назад

      @@pauls5745 aka evolution.

    • @pauls5745
      @pauls5745 4 года назад

      @@Alcoholic_Nerd well, brute force implies every variation possible at the first nodes on down the line. but evolution is a tidy term that gets the idea across, yes

    • @Alcoholic_Nerd
      @Alcoholic_Nerd 4 года назад +1

      @@pauls5745 Nature brute forced survival. ;)

    • @pauls5745
      @pauls5745 4 года назад

      @@Alcoholic_Nerd I want to jump to parallel universes to see outcomes of various choices lol

  • @Skullmonkeys44
    @Skullmonkeys44 5 лет назад +2

    i'm sorry marvel, dc
    i'm sorry split, glass
    i'm sorry matrix
    but if this video gets to be a trilogy movie.
    i'm so gonna watch it.
    heck a series why not ?
    this has so much potential... damn

  • @JeffSmith03
    @JeffSmith03 3 года назад +2

    My first thought when I saw the axe, "come on, the tree is not your goal!"

  • @j.d.3597
    @j.d.3597 5 лет назад +34

    That was insane! I LOVE IT!!!
    Brilliant piece!!

  • @joshuaehl1481
    @joshuaehl1481 5 лет назад +5

    I came back just to say how good this was. Impressive imagery, great shots and your cast did amazing.

  • @MegaRudeBoy69
    @MegaRudeBoy69 3 года назад +8

    Katharine Isabelle, she was also great in the movie American Mary.

  • @jeaneljaylamputi2215
    @jeaneljaylamputi2215 4 года назад

    That bed 'rage quit' part is golden. Just GOLDEN!

  • @Boggey3000
    @Boggey3000 5 лет назад

    Remember that old flashgame "Click" or what it was called? Were you helped yourself click on cones, cubes and other puzzles to advance to the next room. One room you basically had to hold down a button to open the door to let your next self though.

  • @krishcshah
    @krishcshah 4 года назад +37

    It feels scary to be there..!
    SPOILER ALERT: You already are!
    The Iteration is your new day
    She is living you
    Everything she does is your life
    And the maize is the rat race we all are in.

    • @FFF-xz6wn
      @FFF-xz6wn 3 года назад

      Congratulations, you understand this worl!

    • @user-do8bk6kb9u
      @user-do8bk6kb9u 3 года назад +1

      maize = corn. maze = . . . well, maze. :-)

  • @treeshasarkar4841
    @treeshasarkar4841 5 лет назад +6

    when she hit the wall it was literally "out of the box"!

  • @vishnupriyatharshini7981
    @vishnupriyatharshini7981 5 лет назад +8

    It's like life lessons, until we learn it we keep on doing the same thing... Life is somewhat MYSTERY and HISTORY... Sometimes we have to learn from our own, sometimes from life of others... But the truth you have to live the life... We can't hide or escape from what is happening... Whatever has to happen definitely it will happen...but it all for the good, it ends well if we make it perfect.. 🙂🌷

  • @RadioForYahweh
    @RadioForYahweh 3 года назад +1

    I've said it before and will say it again, this would make a freaking fantastic VR game. I would spend hours playing.

  • @Kagema10X
    @Kagema10X 4 года назад +14

    This is Hi-Tech Re-incarnation.
    Your time is limited make the most out of it. Let go of the baggage, travel light.

  • @AlucardNoir
    @AlucardNoir 5 лет назад +22

    I believe the pertinent question is: iterations of what?

  • @trevornelmes9331
    @trevornelmes9331 5 лет назад +31

    That's just depressing. Rather like Groundhog Day. Reminds me of our lives. The futility of it sometimes. No escape.

    • @davidortega264
      @davidortega264 5 лет назад

      There is always a scape, you just have to be smarter

    • @emilienmare1508
      @emilienmare1508 5 лет назад +1

      Maybe instead of looking for an escape we should be looking for a way in?

    • @davidortega264
      @davidortega264 5 лет назад

      @@emilienmare1508 explain that pls, my brain cries

    • @emilienmare1508
      @emilienmare1508 5 лет назад +1

      I struggle with this myself but I guess instead of searching for a way "out of life" we could be completely immersed IN life. Completely aware of the magic of life, of every moment, every sound, every sensory feeling or emotional feeling, to truly be alive and to also really feel alive, what it's like to live and feel. Or like in the film to be truly immersed in something, life solving the problem in every room for them.

    • @davidortega264
      @davidortega264 5 лет назад

      @@emilienmare1508 that makes sense, you should write a book confucio.Sorry for my english i am from chile xd

  • @marianneodell7637
    @marianneodell7637 5 лет назад +11

    Loved it! Get outta that damned box!
    I have to say,though, that my first inclination was to CLIMB the tree,not cut it down...
    Might that have made any difference?

  • @herds22
    @herds22 2 года назад

    "The Cube" fans unite. A new cult classic in the making!

  • @story_time25
    @story_time25 4 года назад

    I think this video shows that there is no destination for success, after every step another step is waiting for you

  • @violetbunny4548
    @violetbunny4548 5 лет назад +8

    would be a good representation of thinking out of the box

  • @ReedCBowman
    @ReedCBowman 5 лет назад +7

    Thanks for finally not squashing the end with your Dust outro. Music matters.

  • @yashizuko
    @yashizuko 5 лет назад +85

    Dem black mirror vibes

  • @gr33ntimer15
    @gr33ntimer15 4 года назад +2

    I'd love to see a feature length film or TV show with more back story and more characters

  • @pridenixon
    @pridenixon 4 года назад +2

    This would be one of the few times that my anger problem would have helped me because I would have been smashing the walls straight away

    • @yevgeniyaleshchenko849
      @yevgeniyaleshchenko849 4 года назад

      OR maybe go to therapy before you start hitting/smashing people... Just saying.

  • @lumberluc
    @lumberluc 5 лет назад +110

    Lady: 20
    Man: 62
    Man maybe dumb, but at least we're persistent.

    • @clarkent7574
      @clarkent7574 4 года назад +3

      God played the joke on man first. Adam Amen.

    • @CollectedEve
      @CollectedEve 4 года назад +7

      Just bc it took him 62 tried to get to THAT point doesn't make him less intelligent.
      He likely tried many more rooms than her, being there were multiple options.

    • @SystemofEleven
      @SystemofEleven 4 года назад +11

      I mean he could have just said "feck it" and rolled over to nap a lot more times than her...

    • @gregdingo
      @gregdingo 4 года назад +4

      @@BoopSnoot maybe most things were created by men because women were mostly barred from participation until recently.

    • @emixonalgaert4376
      @emixonalgaert4376 4 года назад

      That's about me xD

  • @rb032682
    @rb032682 5 лет назад +15

    wow
    that tickled my brain a little

  • @quillmaurer6563
    @quillmaurer6563 5 лет назад +6

    9:12 so relatable!
    It took quite a while to see where they were going with this, but in the end I see some of the best commentary on life I've ever seen put on film. Stuck in an infinite loop, once you fulfill one "challenge" in life you're just faced another one, all with no end goal, at least not one our capitalist society that glorifies working ourselves to death promotes. To get anything from life we must bust our way out to find some meaning somehow.

    • @florencepierce1864
      @florencepierce1864 2 года назад

      Wow! I was just agreeing with another post from 3 years ago on how they should climb the tree: I think they should do that After finding each other by breaking through walls. After all, we’re a combination of pack/herd animals & we need all need help. But I was so caught up in the drama I hadn’t thought, yep, that’s all of us in this life, sometimes trying to work out the seemingly random details & connections, sometimes bashing futilely away with brute force, sometimes giving up & going: “Nah! F**K It!!!” before getting up again with renewed vigor.
      And sometimes, just Sometimes- we see All the Connections, like we’re getting a glimpse behind the curtain at the inner-workings of the Universe & (just for a second) we See (& Understand) Everything.
      And then it all goes away & we go back to putting our heads down & bashing through walls & not understanding Anything!

  • @forestlittke4649
    @forestlittke4649 2 года назад

    Millla Jovavich~ Resident evil, She had to repeat scernarios over and over UNTIL she escaped. Same plot as our girl in this show. She was perfectly cast for this,

  • @toxik1769
    @toxik1769 5 лет назад

    Every puzzle movie convined with every Time loop movie

  • @rolandkarlsson7072
    @rolandkarlsson7072 3 года назад +6

    60 seconds is too short. To be able to solve this, the timer has to restart at 60 seconds each time you solve a riddle.

  • @davidkennedy1077
    @davidkennedy1077 5 лет назад +6

    Dust, delivering the good stuff yet again. Another short that really makes you think.

  • @geoffscott265
    @geoffscott265 5 лет назад +15

    Groundhog minute.

  • @rituusharma821
    @rituusharma821 3 года назад

    so much like our lives living the same thing all over again till we realize that we need to break free and do something else, then comes the change with a gift of another in our lives.

  • @DrachenGothik666
    @DrachenGothik666 4 года назад

    Gives a new meaning to the phrase, "Think outside the box..." LOL

  • @ankoutechnica8211
    @ankoutechnica8211 5 лет назад +8

    Highly engaging and entertaining! Acting and cinematography were good, scenery was sparse but effective, and the storyline intriguing. Kudos!

  • @tomitstube
    @tomitstube 5 лет назад +11

    "despite all my rage, i am still just a rat in a cage." billy corgan.

  • @varunr3057
    @varunr3057 5 лет назад +59

    Girl in a quest of going NOWHERE !!

    • @NenadKralj
      @NenadKralj 5 лет назад +9

      they are both on a quest / road to nowhere / just like life

    • @childrenofthesun471
      @childrenofthesun471 5 лет назад +3

      Thats life man

    • @varunr3057
      @varunr3057 5 лет назад

      @@childrenofthesun471 haha that's true.

    • @childrenofthesun471
      @childrenofthesun471 5 лет назад +1

      @@varunr3057 the sad truth:(

    • @markuse3472
      @markuse3472 5 лет назад

      @@childrenofthesun471 It's sad that most find evolution as fact when there is Zero evidence for it, but deny God when there is plenty evidence in life and the Bible is proven accurate time and time and again. There is a paradise Earth awaiting those who choose to do Gods will today, and they will live for ever upon a perfect Earth and system, never getting old and no crime of any kind. This is a sad truth for those who fight against this truth and deny God.

  • @kuiokalanibravo8969
    @kuiokalanibravo8969 5 лет назад

    Is there an END or just 60 seconds of life? I think this film represents humanity (life) evolving into an endless universal loop of choice that will NEVER end. Hence 60 seconds of life; an eternal struggle .

  • @douglaswallace7680
    @douglaswallace7680 3 года назад

    A new definition of HELL . Desperately trying to progress , but there is no end to it .

  • @jeaneljaylamputi2215
    @jeaneljaylamputi2215 4 года назад +4

    Oh this is how machine learning works, by the way. Imagine what an AI went through to best one of the world's greatest chess players. Full determination and sheer fucking will.

    • @kiwibob223
      @kiwibob223 4 года назад

      Nope just no self awareness

  • @bearc1373
    @bearc1373 5 лет назад +4

    I've been going through problems and dust has helped me🙂thank you🇺🇸

  • @Cloudwalker2k3
    @Cloudwalker2k3 4 года назад +3

    This is like the Dark Souls of Sci-fi films.

  • @GregArnott
    @GregArnott 4 года назад +1

    I wondered if she was meant to water the tree using the glass of water from the first room, and this would lead to the tree growing enough to be able to be climbed out.

  • @KebabMusicLtd
    @KebabMusicLtd 3 года назад

    She is no different from a computer animation locked inside a game (like Sonic the Hedgehog). They have 60 seconds to complete each task, or they go back to the start. If they succeed to the next level the 60 second count starts again, or maybe it doubles. The player (or the girl animation) would feel a sense of accomplishment at the presence of other clone animations helping her, and then a sense of accomplishment in succeeding to the next level, and then again a sense of accomplishment that there are other people (like the guy) who she has the possibility of meeting, and so the game goes on. All such games are ultimately pointless as all you succeed in doing is starting again at a higher level, where the task may be more difficult, but that thrill of having succeeded is what keeps the game alive. Notice that she asked him his score (62) and told him hers (20)
    This was one of the better DUST videos I have seen so far.

  • @grosserplins
    @grosserplins 5 лет назад +6

    I wonder if an AI “feels“ the same if it has to find out, how a car look like or something ...
    I mean it gets no informations, there are just pictures showing up from nowhere and it has to decide whether there is a car or not and if it pushed the wrong button it dies ...

  • @dnomyarnostaw
    @dnomyarnostaw 5 лет назад +14

    Some days it just isnt worth chewing the straps off around your wrists.

  • @SocratesAth
    @SocratesAth 5 лет назад +6

    Concepts taken from:
    - Cube (movie)
    - The company of myself (flash game)

    • @leakyjeep5.9
      @leakyjeep5.9 5 лет назад +1

      The Cube is the first thing I thought of.

    • @mikec1222
      @mikec1222 5 лет назад

      @@leakyjeep5.9 This made me think of Mario Maker and some of the insane puzzle levels people make.

  • @tangobango9653
    @tangobango9653 4 года назад

    ‘Iteration’ is the process of repeating. I luv the simplicity of the room...the future.

  • @Montyandrew45
    @Montyandrew45 3 года назад +1

    "This was a triumph. We do what we must, because we can"