THINGS THAT FALL | Omeleto
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- A college student hears voices.
THINGS THAT FALL is used with permission from Sy Huq. Learn more at thingsthatfall....
Alex is a college student who struggles with auditory hallucinations related to schizophrenia. This makes it hard for him to connect with people, much less get through many tasks of university life.
But after a disastrous exam, he retreats to the library, where he meets Carly, a hard-of-hearing classmate who makes a connection with him that goes beyond sound.
Written and directed by Sy Huq, this short isn't quite your typical "meet cute" scenario. Though on paper the story is definitely a simple yet effective case of "boy meets girl," its attention to character and its scrupulous construction of what it feels like to experience what it is like to "hear voices" add a unique dimension, as does its commitment to representing deaf and hard-of-hearing characters in a fuller, richer way.
Sound is a key element in the film, and here it takes center stage, starting with the beginning sequence -- recorded in a 360-degree binaural audio soundscape -- that layers a dense, distracting collage of voices, noises and everyday sounds against images of Alex taking his midterms.
He finds relief only by listening to music on his headphones, which are quickly taken away by his professor, who doesn't understand how Alex is plagued by auditory hallucinations. The segment puts us in Alex's subjective headscape -- its intricacy and sculpted quality sounds remarkable, especially when wearing headphones -- and helps us understand what it is like to be in his world, and what assault he can be under when he experiences his auditory hallucinations.
The craftmanship and camera initially have a muted realism that seems suited towards drama, especially as it immerses us in Alex's experience. The storytelling that develops, though, is one of a slowly developing connection between two people, as they notice and take interest in one another.
The film never quite allows itself to get carried away with this narrative thread -- it's constantly interrupted either by Jack's auditory assaults, or moments of comic relief by an overly irritable librarian -- but it also keeps the film from getting too sentimental, cutting out just as Jack meets the one girl who has a radically different relationship with sound and hearing -- and who connects with him on a level that is both very relatable and very special.
THINGS THAT FALL feels like the first chapter in a bigger love story, and many viewers will likely want to see these characters develop and grow in their relationship with one another. Other viewers may long to see more of such a sensitively rendered representation of a much-maligned and misunderstood mental condition and perhaps see the love story as superfluous.
But that would be going against the film's overall mission, especially since it balances the delicate line between accurately portraying what it might be like to have to live with schizophrenia without "othering" the mental illness too much or defining a character entirely by it. Alex and Carly are both dealing with conditions that impede their daily lives in some way or another. But they're still people, who yearn and struggle to be seen and understood. They're still worthy of being included in love stories because all human beings strive towards connection with one another -- no matter what our struggles or condition. Alex and Carly have much to learn from one another -- just like how viewers have much to learn about these characters' experiences and lives. We get a short glimpse of it here, and thanks to this thoughtfully crafted story, will likely be curious for more.
Her voice stops the bad voices, her voice is the best voice he has heard in a long time, even though she can't speak a word, beautiful, I'm glad he got a moment of relief❤❤❤
Thank you for explaining this. 👍🏻❤️
Yes, thanks! There are more points here where I really can’t follow the logic…
E.g. if she can’t grab the book from the front side, she’ll certainly never reach it from the other side, or in fact even spot it.
And: he doesn’t need to go find the step, he can just take the book, he’s tall enough.
I’m also doubtful that such intrusive voices can be completely blocked out by just a little music.
And how doesn’t the teacher know about the student’s problem with voices, if this is already the mid-term test? It would come up during normal classes too. (The college should be human enough if they have sign language translation!)
What a beautiful rendition of the ending. Be still my heart, thank you for that :)
@@gevangasteren I work at a psych hospital and many, many patients who hear voices get a lot of relief from listening to music through headphones.
@@alannacarlson6715 Thank you, that’s good to hear. Can you say a little more about that? E.g. do the voices stop when one listens to certain types of music? Or is it rather that the music gives a different thing to focus one’s attention on, so one is more free, even though (some?) voices continue? I guess it varies from person to person, but I’m very interested to know more about it!
Fact. Your sense of hearing is the last to go when you die. Therefore it's always encouraged to say something to those that are dying even if you think they can't hear you.
Now I’m kinda curious, what’s the first sense to go?
@@sadflix8754 Google says “first hunger and then thirst are lost. Speech is lost next, followed by vision. The last senses to go are usually hearing and touch”
How would you know if your're alive to tell this to us?
@@braylon4125 thought abt it too, maybe they scanned the brain of someone while dying to see which parts of the brain were most/least active while dying, idk just a possibility
I suspect that it would partly depend on why you're dying. For example, an untreated vestibular schwannoma might knock out your hearing first, whereas decapitation might take out all your senses simultaneously.
My favorite voice was YOU JUST LOST YOUR HEADPHONES
When
@@unchi8147 2:37
Damn I really thought he was gonna hear her in his head
me too
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Me too
Meeeee Tooooo
What a difficult thing to have to endure.. I'm wondering how he made it that far into college without losing his mind.
Germaine Marryshow peer pressure...
I think he's already lost his mind
I gave him some tips
@@MrArjunsexy No
schizophrenia usually presents itself during peoples early to mid 20's. So perhaps he wasn't hearing voices during the beginning of college. .
For the first few minutes my anxiety went ↗️↘️↗️↘️↗️↘️
Has a deaf character - yet no subtitles for the hearing impaired viewers..
it has captioning under settings on the video
theres captioning in the settings
@@TheRealArkness They've only just appeared today I guess. Meaning they weren't already on when the video was put up.
@R ah. well now you all know 🙂
@@TheRealArkness :)
"HE TOOK YOUR HEADPHONES!! HE JUST TOOK YOUR HEADPHONES!!"😱
Yes 😐
He should've been listening to "Hole in the Sky".
It's miserable to hear voices inside our head... Sympathy from the core of my heart to those who suffer from this...
I think it's a natural ability that everyone has, they just block it out with way too much stress from all.the BS we worry about in life that has zero importance! Too many thoughts about Facebook and tiktok and no thoughts at all cause you're staring blankly at the idiot box!(otherwise known as the television)
Don't sympathize for these people, try to be more like them but with actual control over the 'voices' instead!!
@@jeffffro7674 Take it from someone who experiences hallucinations. It's not a gift, it's a curse. Imagine living in an apartment you can't leave with toxic roommates you can't get to shut up and can't kick out. I'm constantly second guessing whether things are real or not and I never get a concrete answer. Yeah, before my first psychotic break I was able to hold a conversation in my head easily, but those days are long gone now. Don't wish this illness on anyone, and please cherish your sanity.
@@NLoett Sanity??!? Wo ist das?? I'm gonna need a definition for that one, I don't know this 'sanity' you speak of......
@@jeffffro7674 warum redest du plötzlich auf Deutsch?
@@Medellinish eine bitten
Who gets mad at someone for having headphones on a in a library
Well, it depends on the volume. Some people listen to really loud music, then it inevitably escapes headphones... Normal volume - no problem.
The music was loud enough for a deft girl to enjoy, that’s tell you how loud the music was so much so it was too much for the other student even through the headphone
@@j59424 that’s not how it works. Almost ANY deaf person would be able to feel the beat of the music through the headphones even on a LOW volume. Idk why your making it seems like his headphones were blaring
@@yougsa She hears nothing but pretending to do it because she likes him.
The librarian said she could hear the music through his headphones... It’s acc annoying when you’re studying in a library and you hear the music through someone’s earphones
As someone who has permanent tinnitus, I know the feeling of never getting to experience silence ever again. Baby Driver demonstrates this really well. Still, hearing voices takes the whole problem to the next level :(
@@katie9609 Thanks, mate. It can be drowned out by music, but there are times when I miss the peace of quiet. I think there's a diifference between making peace and coping, as I'm doing the latter.
Same dude, it gets Easier though :>
I'd go insane, I have the TV on a lot to drown out the noise from traffic, and I can't block out stuff like fans and lights buzzing.
@@theblockbreakerpog what is tinitus?
@@zil1832 Basically a permanent ringing in the ears, normally caused by parts of your ear getting damaged.
The one who was chewing was getting on my nerves 😂
Same😂😂😂😂😂
ikr i hate listening to ppl chew
While I don't claim to have hallucinations, it's really important that teachers are willing to see the struggle students go through, even simple panic attacks happen. It's imperative that these non-linearities are accommodated, once in a while.
You made a very good point ma'am and I wholeheartedly agree with you. If the non-linearities are accepted there will be fewer people having depression and committing suicide. The world will be a happier place
Now every time I see somebody in public with earphones in their ears, I'm going to wonder if they are just trying to drown out the voices in their head.
Its common for mild agoraphobia to use headphones outside
I am
i’m wearing noise cancellation headphones and i immediately took them off 😂
Yeah... So what happened? How did she listen to the music if she is deaf? Or was she just feeling the beat? No one should physically remove ear buds or headset from another person- including the teacher. There was no reason to shame him in front if the class.
Deafness isn't all or nothing. There are degrees of hearing.
That teacher was a dick, absolutely. But also, if your student needs a disability accommodation, he shouldn't have to DIY it, and it shouldn't be a surprise to you.
Here's how it would go down at Ohio State. It's similar at other schools. Teacher has to allow reasonable time at the start of the term for students with disabilities to let him know and start arranging accommodations. Teacher has to state that time in writing in the course syllabus.
Student can get Office of Disability Services support. ODS are familiar with commonly used accommodations, and they can recommend some (in consultation with the student), which means the student doesn't have to go educate every one of his instructors individually about all the details of his condition. A controlled sonic environment for taking midterms is a pretty normal recommendation. Normal enough that ODS can even provide that environment and proctor the test, if the student and teacher want them to. That would help settle any worries about an audio cheat sheet buried in the playlist or something.
And if the instructor was uncooperative about making accommodations, let alone if he singled the student out in front of classmates for using something he needs, ODS has the institutional power to turn the screws on him as he deserves.
@@eritain wish it was like that for the rest of the world but unfortunately America, UK and some higher countries in Europe only do that. The rest dont have such things and even if they were it wouldn't be that easy to handle everything.
There’s different levels of being deaf
I felt like jerking the ear buds out was assault and theft.
She had on a hearing aid on so I'm assuming she's deaf in one ear and the other ear has very minimal hearing by the size of the aid. The headphones were loud enough for her to hear in her hearing aid, you can see her lifting it away from the ear with the hearing aid
This is because when people wear hearing aids with headphones the headphones scratch against the microphone causing a loud sound that distracts from the music
I've been wearing hearing aids since I was five so I understand
"You're listening to 'Internal Monologue F.M.' with DJ Subconscious. Playing all your thoughts non-stop, uninterrupted 24 hours a day! From classics like 'Why did I say that?' and golden oldies like 'Oh, that was embarassing.' to today's hottest hits: 'What the hell am I doing with my life?' and 'Am I hungry or am I bored?' - Stay tuned!"
Where is this quote from? It sounds really familiar! Thanks!
lol
@@CasualEngineering GTA5 I think
I have enough trouble with my own voice. Can't imagine a host of jerks making racket nonstop
I liked how it ended. I really felt bad for him. I liked how they met in a library 📚
That last scene, when she takes his headpones off, and he doesn't hear voices, and he's so relieved... It's... just pure happiness.
This had way more potential, I was just waiting for something to happen... like him hearing the deaf girls inner voice/thoughts
agree, it was a good idea that did not develop.
Okay Boy Meets Girl in the library and then that's it what happened?
They met. That’s how it starts.
That's what I'm thinking! The description of the film literally explains every single thing that happened! Why the hell would I watch this a second time??!? That was pretty damn weak!
@@jeffffro7674 went over your head. Why must there be an ending? Just experience what happened. Decide what it means to you. If it doesn’t mean anything for you, move on to the next. To some, it means everything
That's how short films are, they leave it up to you to make your own ending.
@@katie9609 I like your way of thinking
What he is experimenting reminds me of what Huxley called soma effect in the “Brave New World” except that here the guy is wide awake. I am not sure it’s hallucinations/delusions as he doesn’t hear voices anymore when he listens to music. If it was an internal problem, music wouldn’t have solved anything about his problem as it would be an additional sounds coming from his own brain. So it’s seems external just as he perceived it. On the other side, there’s a deaf girl using hearing device. He hear too much, she hear too little, just like him, she is isolated from the “normal” world. Music being their common passion, pleasure. The reason why they met seems to be technology and sensory different experiences. Things that fall...from the sky
brandi minor The description says he is suffering with auditory hallucinations and schizophrenia. But actually, I agree with you, the film tells a different story, I see a man suffering with anxiety and low self esteem. The little voices representing his inner conflict, he want to succeed in his exams but he thinks that he is not good enough to perform compared to the others. The brutal way people treat him make it even worse. The music is the tool he uses to be less stressed, less overthinking about his possible fail. The description is using terms in a wrong way concerning his condition. I did the same ironically relating the sky to schizophrenia. It’s just words used improperly.
brandi minor brandi minor brandi minor Indeed, I never experienced auditory hallucinations nor schizophrenia. I am not either a psychiatrist. However, referring to the DSM-V criteria for schizophrenia, there are five different symptoms allowing the diagnosis and I only saw two of them in the movie : hallucinations and catatonic behaviour. No delusion, no disorganised speech, no negative symptoms. I am not sure two symptoms out of five are enough to establish a diagnosis. Besides, the guy showed signs of high stress level on the beginning. Look at his legs, his hands and later when he had to quit the auditorium, he looked clearly anxious. During the hallucinations, he experimented hyperacusis (the man chewing) or was it a part of the hallucination also? The video left me confused, that’s why I tried to reinterpret it more freely, in order to question it. Artists generally enjoy to play with the way things seems and the way things really are, maybe the purpose of the video is to spread awareness and encourage tolerance or maybe the purpose is to make people question themselves. If you can explain why you precisely think about auditory hallucinations and schizophrenia, I am interested about your point of view.
0:41 i thought some one was talking to me lol.
LMAO
My earbuds gave me surround sound and put me as him, and I wasn't ready for the voices😭🤣
Short and sweet.
I think to hear voices is a spiritual ability that hasn’t been quite explored or researched. I don’t think ppl that hear things are crazy just on different frequency then most.
it’s not a spiritual ability is called being a schizophrenic
@@beuph I never said it was I said “ I think “ . Secondly who’s to say it isn’t even schizophrenia has been associated with the study of demonology and possession. There are some things science and medicine just don’t have an answer for or they just pass it off as some sort of condition. Again my opinion ijs
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I agree with you. You sound like you might have the ability.
I believe its what telepathy is. All day we are ALL being bombarded with the same thing, the thing is that the majority of the population is far too distracted from all the crap in life to actually quiet their mind enough to hear them. One thing I think about it too is, when we hear a thought from someone else in our own mind, it's in the voice you consider to be your own, like when you think to yourself....did I remember to lock the door? The tricky part to telepathy is knowing your own thoughts well enough to recognize when a thought is your own, or when it's one you're hearing from someone else. The stronger bond you have with another person, the easier it is to hear when they're thinking of you. It took me years and a couple of really strange thoughts to figure this out! Once I had a thought of one of my brothers friends that I hadn't spoke too or thought of for years, and I was wondering why all of a sudden I couldn't stop thinking about him. A week later, I spoke with someone who was trying to remember this person's name and couldn't, I told her the exact time and date when she was trying to remember, it freaked her out pretty bad! I heard her thoughts because in her mind she was wishing she could ask me his name, I didn't hear that part, all I knew was the name, I couldn't tell that it was coming from her cause when I heard the name in my head, it was my own voice, not the sound of hers......does any of this make any sense?
My point is......TELEPATHY IS REAL!!!! We all have the ability to do so, we are so distracted from knowing ourselves well enough to know that the 'voices' you hear are just telepathic connections from others in our lives. Tune OUT and you will be able to tune IN!!!! Its that simple.......
I have seen the boy before on Law and Order SVU. He played Hunter Mazelon. Did an excellent job!! Great actor.
Wow! This short is a life changing lesson for me from communication to friendship. Great short! 👍
Reminds me of Words on Bathroom walls. I now have empathy for people who go through this.😭😔
I was waiting for him to read her thought and her to finally feel like she has a voice without signing
This feels like the tinnitus I try my best to endure.
I would've loved this to continue actually.
Yeah
I'd have my grandma help me learn full sign language just for her (the deaf girl) 💞
Finally they made this story...I hope there will be another part coming soon🤗
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👍👍
Thank you for this short film, it was fantastic and meant a lot.
I think Omeleto should run Hollywood for a little while.
i tend to hear random sounds, and it drives me nuts. cant imagine hearing voices day to day.
This is a real issue known as schizophrenia
While mine are not hallucinations, as I recognize the voices coming from within my head and not as actual physical manifestations, the script for the things the voices say is too on point with how intrusive thoughts run through your brain during a panic attack or other episode. Way too real, made me feel kind of triggered lol but what a beautiful film.
Why does the professor lowkey sound like the bright side narrator-💀💀💀
oH MY GOD YOURE RIGHT
Awh! 💖 Starting of a beautiful friendship 💓
Yes, I also misread as "connection with a dead classmate."
Mate watch this with earphones and it hit differently
Quality short and it hit home a little bit as I went through drug-induced mania 10+ years ago and the whole auditory hallucinations thing....yeah, not good, not good at all.
I can only imagine how hard it must be for someone who has that constantly. I had it for weeks and I wouldn't wish it on anybody...
Moral of the story. Chicks dig music
Maybe if people said thank you to the librarian she’d be less grumpy.
Many people have that kind of thought process.
The best voice to hear is a silent voice u may find it comforting
Ending a good story with love story 🤔 I would see more
The biggest flaw in this is that kids go to the library to find books with limited information, instead of just googling it.
The deaf girl is from Switched at Birth
My boyfriend's snoring is like that guy's gum.
I FEEL YOU!! I have misophonia and snoreing sounds like a jack hammer to me, even when it's soft. My husband snores, the couch is my best friend.
That was a nice credits song
That makes so much sense in elementary school I seen a lot of kids that were noise cancelling headphones and they were in a special class probably special ed I’m guessing lotta kids with anger issues or really bad learning disabilities makes so much sense now that they wore headphones at assemblies and stuff
I hear voices when i have a fever
omg where did i see her before? Unfriended dark web!!!
THE CHEWING GUMMM IS STILL TRIGGGEEERRRINNGGG MEEEE💀💀😤😤😤😤
Some days I wake up to a non existent alarm then when I walk alone I hear people yelling my name and in tests I hear random songs or sounds
It isn't continues but it still happens
i’m only 0:49 seconds in & the “mah mannn” got my dying 😂
Id love to date a deaf woman, i would treat her amazingly, and made sure her life has a dull moment.
Great video! I would like to see more of this story...
When the ADHD kicks in
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@@cuckoobrain7999 attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
@@tahsintabassums ADHD allows you to hear voices?
@@lightyogami6453 No, but it causes problems with keeping focus. Not the same, but kind of related in that sense.
I love omeleto films
man i thought they was finna talk to eachother through their mind
My guy really got a stool instead of grabbing the book tho
1 out of 100?! I thought everyone was hearing them! OMG OMG
I don’t hear voices but I think I know how it feels. When you say something silly in class you feel hot, embarrassed, closed, everyone is staring at you. I hate that feeling. 0:48
I was watching this with headphones and the first scene was so trippy
What some are missing by asking how she could hear the music from the headphones , is that she is wearing hearing aids - meaning she isn't 100% deaf.
He uses a device in his ears to shut out sounds, and she uses one to let sounds in. I get this, my parents had a similar yin yang relationship as one was visual impaired and the other hearing impaired. They complimented each other, naturally, and without it being a thing.
So personally IMHO I think this short fell just a bit, well... short. I don't see the alluded connection considering you need the narrative in the description for explanation of the film's mission. "Alex and Carly have much to learn from one another" - Well then, show them leaving the library together, or one taking a seat next to the other next time in class. 15 more seconds.
I wrote a song about the voices I hear... dead like to talk. I knew alot of people could relate
hhhhh my name is Alex and auditory hallucinations are my biggest fear
I don’t have hallucinations like that, but I do experience tactical hallucinations and mild auditory hallucinations, it’s so distracting and weird I can’t imagine it being that bad
Commonality of experience creates lasting bonds.
Wish it was longer :c
How exactly did she listen to the song if she is deaf
feel the beat
Shes deaf but she still feels the vibrations
Not everyone is completely deaf, Beethoven went deaf because of an illness and still had like 15 to 20 percent hearing left, he created all sorts of odd contraptions to funnel sound towards his ears, I don't know if they helped or not but if he had some of the headphones we have today, he would've been fine.
Also yes, the vibrations are very powerful and if you tune in to them enough, you can make out what everyone else hears. The 1st couple years I played bass I wasn't very good of course, I was always around other people it embarrassed to be heard, so I played an electric instrument not plugged in. When I hugged it tight to my torso, I could feel every note I hit and if it was right or not. One of the 1st times I plugged in people were shocked at how good I was cause they never heard all the times I sucked, but I felt how bad I was while they were all talking and not paying attention. That's how Beethoven was able to compose such incredible pieces while being "deaf". At the time, everyone thought he was a genius cause he's deaf! How can he hear what he's playing/writing? Well, that and everything he did write WAS actually genius!!!!!
She’s wearing an ear piece and may even have a cochlear implant. She speaks very well, and the way they softened the beat would be as she could probably hear it. Vibrations, but also certain tones and years of life experience picking up on different intonations. I lost my hearing in my right ear 17 years ago, and that’s just how it’s been for me. Deaf doesn’t always mean silence. It can also mean weeding out the bad pollution noise, finding the sound in the darkness, but mostly just learning to hear differently than others. That’s exactly what the male protagonist needs to do as well.
I think it would be better to hear nothing at all than the lies told to you by the voices in your head.
I love your vids! Lot of deep messages and interesting things happening. Just this one, I thought, "meh.."
This is the guy from Mostly Ghostly. What a guilty pleasure from my childhood!
"HE JUST TOOK YOUR HEADPHONES"
The story of my life.
My frickin' heart right now
I felt this so much.
I sorta thought he would've heard her voice like the others...
I loved it, it reminded me of a Pixar short
I suffer from auditory hallucinations. I have for 26 yrs
Very nice! TY! 👍
His voices went away because the deaf girl scared them away?
What i love about omeleto they always come with new concept
Beautiful
How do these people even think during their tests i simply panik
One line explained 8 minutes as nothing else happens.
the most absolute worst part of this entire thing was the librarian
A LOVE can hear... any voice.
I felt so bad for him.
Too short. I want to see ðe entire series about it
Wait...so...going away to get a little footstool from somewhere else with your clumsy ass is somehow easier than just taking down the book for her?!?
beautiful
It's got Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice vibes, and it makes me really uncomfortable.
Amazing audio mixing though