Sci-Fi Short Film: The Beach House on Morro Lane - DUST
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Date: 2024-04-01
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vhhawk
The movie does a particularly brilliant job of demonstrating the character's tragic flaw. And the deft touches that show he has tried to change things. (Spoilers follow)
The Delorean becomes the time machine for instance, demonstrating he has perhaps shown her different movies in the two timelines we see - while also demonstrating his obsession with learning all he can about time travel. He has been in this moment hundreds of times, yet cannot accept that this moment is as good as it gets, and is not satisfied with simply reliving the moment. Gotta say, this made me very reflective about my own life. Love a movie that makes me think.
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The movie does a particularly brilliant job of demonstrating the character's tragic flaw. And the deft touches that show he has tried to change things. (Spoilers follow)
The Delorean becomes the time machine for instance, demonstrating he has perhaps shown her different movies in the two timelines we see - while also demonstrating his obsession with learning all he can about time travel. He has been in this moment hundreds of times, yet cannot accept that this moment is as good as it gets, and is not satisfied with simply reliving the moment. Gotta say, this made me very reflective about my own life. Love a movie that makes me think.
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cwwjr1681
He CANT fix the relationship. He built the time machine to fix it. If he could successfully fix it the machine wouldn't exist and he would be erased due to the machine that sent him back no longer exist so neither would he. That CAN NOT happen. He can change other things but can NOT do anything that would nullify the Time Machines existence. Same could be said if you built a time machine to make yourself rich something will always happen to make you lose the money. Robberys, stock market crashs, value of the dollar dropping to 0, new currency replacing the old ect ect
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He CANT fix the relationship. He built the time machine to fix it. If he could successfully fix it the machine wouldn't exist and he would be erased due to the machine that sent him back no longer exist so neither would he. That CAN NOT happen. He can change other things but can NOT do anything that would nullify the Time Machines existence. Same could be said if you built a time machine to make yourself rich something will always happen to make you lose the money. Robberys, stock market crashs, value of the dollar dropping to 0, new currency replacing the old ect ect
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jerrysstories711
You know, I often complain about these short films not having solid endings. And yeah yeah people always say the story is the journey not the destination blah blah blah, those people also thing Annihilation was great. But THIS film, I have to admit, took me on a journey so engaging and engrossing that I was fine with the lack of resolution. Well done.
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You know, I often complain about these short films not having solid endings. And yeah yeah people always say the story is the journey not the destination blah blah blah, those people also thing Annihilation was great. But THIS film, I have to admit, took me on a journey so engaging and engrossing that I was fine with the lack of resolution. Well done.
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TheMggaff
Funny, I didn’t find the film romantic, rather a cautionary tale of living in the past. stuck in the what could have been trap. He has chosen to live in a hell of his own making, trying to control that what he can’t control, what he can’t change. In this case, time travel isn’t a gift, rather it is an addiction, trying to fill an emptiness.
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Funny, I didn’t find the film romantic, rather a cautionary tale of living in the past. stuck in the what could have been trap. He has chosen to live in a hell of his own making, trying to control that what he can’t control, what he can’t change. In this case, time travel isn’t a gift, rather it is an addiction, trying to fill an emptiness.
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lieslfrank1717
I think that the problem was that he felt that she didn’t believe in him I. e. it would take him 10 years to get his first novel published
I believe that at that moment a kernel of bitterness and resentment was planted within him and it just kept on growing and growing without him realising it
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I think that the problem was that he felt that she didn’t believe in him I. e. it would take him 10 years to get his first novel published
I believe that at that moment a kernel of bitterness and resentment was planted within him and it just kept on growing and growing without him realising it
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flymypg
Woulda, coulda, shoulda. Physics proves the past can't be changed, else it wouldn't be the past. Fortunately, we can revisit the past without a time machine. But we need to be careful to keep it to revisiting, not reliving and certainly not revising. I like how this film makes it so literal.
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Woulda, coulda, shoulda. Physics proves the past can't be changed, else it wouldn't be the past. Fortunately, we can revisit the past without a time machine. But we need to be careful to keep it to revisiting, not reliving and certainly not revising. I like how this film makes it so literal.
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AQ-qj6rz
-another one of those scifi stories where it's possible to break the laws of physics but no one understands basic problem solving
-imo the most implausible thing about this short is that there is a half eaten piece of cake still lying around, that would be a licked clean plate in reality
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-another one of those scifi stories where it's possible to break the laws of physics but no one understands basic problem solving
-imo the most implausible thing about this short is that there is a half eaten piece of cake still lying around, that would be a licked clean plate in reality
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derickbuckles7088
Guy: Idk what went wrong!
Also Guy: 1. Super Beta 2. Has one-itis. 3. Beta-Orbiter. 4. Clingy 5. Showing Signs of having NO other options 6. Pedestalizing some post-wall chick as if he's some lower-tier fan. 7. 8. etc.
Basically reducing her attraction to him.
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Guy: Idk what went wrong!
Also Guy: 1. Super Beta 2. Has one-itis. 3. Beta-Orbiter. 4. Clingy 5. Showing Signs of having NO other options 6. Pedestalizing some post-wall chick as if he's some lower-tier fan. 7. 8. etc.
Basically reducing her attraction to him.
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Titus-as-the-Roman
This is what I both like and hate with these short films. They're able to focus in on and go in depth one moment that in full length films might gloss over due to time restrictions. But at the same time the endings are always leaving you with questions and ambiguity.
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This is what I both like and hate with these short films. They're able to focus in on and go in depth one moment that in full length films might gloss over due to time restrictions. But at the same time the endings are always leaving you with questions and ambiguity.
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dovidstaples9985
I don't think he was a time traveler. This was something else. Notice the first time she didn't see Back to the Future and the second time she did. If he was travelling back to this moment in time how could there be such a huge difference between them
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I don't think he was a time traveler. This was something else. Notice the first time she didn't see Back to the Future and the second time she did. If he was travelling back to this moment in time how could there be such a huge difference between them
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Barbutt
Painful. They never say why it doesn’t work out. How much time passes before returning. It’s just a moment over and over.
For now on I figure Dust wants us to make our own conclusions. I’d prefer permission. rather than feeling I missed something.
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Painful. They never say why it doesn’t work out. How much time passes before returning. It’s just a moment over and over.
For now on I figure Dust wants us to make our own conclusions. I’d prefer permission. rather than feeling I missed something.
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daevydjae
This was so boring I actually noticed the terrible editing job from 2: 00 on, like when Zach lay his head on the pillow, the camera switches and he's not on the pillow. Or the colored pillow was beneath him then it was on top of the other pillow.
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This was so boring I actually noticed the terrible editing job from 2: 00 on, like when Zach lay his head on the pillow, the camera switches and he's not on the pillow. Or the colored pillow was beneath him then it was on top of the other pillow.
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wael77
One person in a relationship always wants it more. All I can say is, if you are the one who is desired more, and you love the other person, don't take them for granted, use them, or ignore them. Appreciate what you have.
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One person in a relationship always wants it more. All I can say is, if you are the one who is desired more, and you love the other person, don't take them for granted, use them, or ignore them. Appreciate what you have.
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intuitivetasha113
I thought that gurl was Fiona from SHAMELESS! LOL . I was thinking wow dust must pay their actors pretty well to be able to afford Fiona from shameless LOL can’t think of her real name right now lol
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I thought that gurl was Fiona from SHAMELESS! LOL . I was thinking wow dust must pay their actors pretty well to be able to afford Fiona from shameless LOL can’t think of her real name right now lol
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jeffreypryor4549
This was a touching episode. Every man, whether or not he's blue pill or red pill, has a woman that he would go back in time for and try to fix what went wrong. And all of us men know it.
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This was a touching episode. Every man, whether or not he's blue pill or red pill, has a woman that he would go back in time for and try to fix what went wrong. And all of us men know it.
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jackomille5200
Love have always been painful
I loved you, but this society will never let us be together.
So I never told you, to escape the misery.
I am coward but I love you.
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Love have always been painful
I loved you, but this society will never let us be together.
So I never told you, to escape the misery.
I am coward but I love you.
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david203
Nice, kind of. I was expecting it to morph into The Lake House (2006, but it just stayed in the moment. An unresolved moment just like most of these other unresolved films.
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Nice, kind of. I was expecting it to morph into The Lake House (2006, but it just stayed in the moment. An unresolved moment just like most of these other unresolved films.
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HebaruSan
One of his trials should include an attempt to convert her parents to a religion that forbids divorce and then immediately proposing the first time they meet.
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One of his trials should include an attempt to convert her parents to a religion that forbids divorce and then immediately proposing the first time they meet.
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dust
Damn, hits home. Right when I was feeling better. but it’s right, sometimes people are only there to teach you something and once we learned then they depart
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Damn, hits home. Right when I was feeling better. but it’s right, sometimes people are only there to teach you something and once we learned then they depart
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BedbugGaming
Nice job on this one. I'm no time traveler, but I had a sad/bad breakup and I must've relived moments from that relationship a thousand times.
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Nice job on this one. I'm no time traveler, but I had a sad/bad breakup and I must've relived moments from that relationship a thousand times.
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heaterpistol6067
Tentacles need to come out from behind her head. Her tongue needs to reach out and attack him. He needs to fight for his life. Dust
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Tentacles need to come out from behind her head. Her tongue needs to reach out and attack him. He needs to fight for his life. Dust
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kevincrady2831
If only he'd gone back about 3 hours more and showed her _Time Bandits_ instead of _Back to the Future, _ it would have worked! ; )
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If only he'd gone back about 3 hours more and showed her _Time Bandits_ instead of _Back to the Future, _ it would have worked! ; )
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rincione4126
We only remember the past. We never know it when we see it. The mind goes back, but time goes on, and farewells should be forever.
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We only remember the past. We never know it when we see it. The mind goes back, but time goes on, and farewells should be forever.
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amatulic4229
This is basically Groundhog Day but without any resolution. Although nicely done, it's just a concept for a story, not the story.
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This is basically Groundhog Day but without any resolution. Although nicely done, it's just a concept for a story, not the story.
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scottb7539
Another back to future reference That Rocks! Now we need a couple Star Trek references and Star Wars we got a full sci-fi thriller.
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Another back to future reference That Rocks! Now we need a couple Star Trek references and Star Wars we got a full sci-fi thriller.
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---ir6sr
One weird fact about watching a scripted film is knowing that the ending has already been pre- determined. So why get your hopes up
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One weird fact about watching a scripted film is knowing that the ending has already been pre- determined. So why get your hopes up
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BeautyOfGaia
I came. I got DUST in my eyes. After I got it out, I decide to build a time machine to repeat that situation as long as I want.
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I came. I got DUST in my eyes. After I got it out, I decide to build a time machine to repeat that situation as long as I want.
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uclajd
Very good film. Who hasn't thought about going back to certain moments, just to realize their importance, good or bad
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Very good film. Who hasn't thought about going back to certain moments, just to realize their importance, good or bad
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luthermcgee7297
Sorry, I came here to experience another quantum reality, not to watch two fools knock their heads together
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Sorry, I came here to experience another quantum reality, not to watch two fools knock their heads together
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johncunningham4820
Ground-Hog Day, the abridged version. Actually a Great Little Film. Well done to all concerned.
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Ground-Hog Day, the abridged version. Actually a Great Little Film. Well done to all concerned.
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blakesutton4287
I've watched a lot of shorts with the same idea. That being said. I really like this one. Great acting.
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I've watched a lot of shorts with the same idea. That being said. I really like this one. Great acting.
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melvintalmadge2803
An earthquake kills them. That's why there's no future for them. It's as simple as that.
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An earthquake kills them. That's why there's no future for them. It's as simple as that.
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bryanfisk7904
Seriously, talk to your mental health specialist, stalking your ex in the past is just wrong.
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Seriously, talk to your mental health specialist, stalking your ex in the past is just wrong.
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amit12a17
If that was an earthquake, why didn't they get up and ran out of the house I really want to know.
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If that was an earthquake, why didn't they get up and ran out of the house I really want to know.
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marvinpineda8693
_If I had a DeLorean, I would go back to when you stopped handwritting in cursive to me. _
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_If I had a DeLorean, I would go back to when you stopped handwritting in cursive to me. _
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