WHAT IN THE WORLD | Omeleto
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 เม.ย. 2021
- A young woman asks a stranger to take her picture.
WHAT IN THE WORLD is used with permission from Jamie Fraser. Learn more at / whatintheworldshortfilm .
A distraught man is driving on a remote country road, music blaring and boxes of stuff rattling in his backseat. But despite his emotion, he stops when he spots a young woman next to a car flagging him down.
But she's not stranded. Instead, she has an odd request: she needs someone to take her picture. Turns out, this is the first of many odd, strange requests and stories she will tell him -- as an equally outlandish story unfolds, unbeknownst to him.
Written and directed by Jamie Fraser, this dark comedic short is as oddly captivating as the seemingly guileless, quirky young woman at the center of the story. Like the film, she spins an almost freakish story, told with such matter-of-factness that we can't help but be swept along upon what turns out to be an even odder tale.
The strength of the film is its unpredictability, starting with the visuals and editing, which have both a pastoral, understated naturalism that suits the setting, and camerawork that is almost stately in its movement. Yet there's something just slightly off-kilter in the bright classical score and the editing's rhythms, which also suits how the young woman tells her story.
As she veers from one request to the next, she weaves a type of narrative Jenga, balancing one strange block on the next. There are an accident, dead parents, and a nunnery involved, and actor Charly Clive weaves it all together with a mesmerizing balance of vulnerability, charm and command. She delivers the nimble dialogue with terrific timing, but the rhythm is rooted not in the demands of hitting a punchline, but of character and circumstance.
Unraveling those circumstances takes WHAT IN THE WORLD into unexpected directions. To elaborate more would be to give some of the pleasure away, but the truth is even weirder and more eccentric than the young woman's story. It unspools with ironic cheekiness, but it also unearths the distressed man's own story, which exists at a more tragic and sincere register. The juxtaposition of these two stories colliding one random afternoon in the countryside creates its strange poignancy, both for the audience and perhaps even for the young woman, who offers up a sincere moment of comfort. It's said that we are all starring in our own movies, and certainly, the man and young woman are amid their own very different journeys. But when our separate narratives intersect, even for just an incident, it makes for those riveting, singular moments that make life random, peculiar and oddly resonant. - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
He likely won't know that they syphoned gas from his car, and was actually grateful in the end, because he was able to speak to someone he believed understood him. So, while they thought they were gonna screw him over, he actually got something good out of it, while SHE got the consequence of guilt for her actions. Great way to turn the tables.
Hold on, conniving boyfriend? She wanted to do this, her character is manipulative and cruel. The boyfriend originally wanted to ask for help. She wanted to take advantage of someone for fun. Of course the boyfriend is also horrible and just as guilty because he went along with it.
@@tomek_maslankowski This is why Omeleto's shorts are great. They leave cliffhanger-ish endings for people to discuss what they think the ending was about.
Of course he’ll know gas has gone from his tank, she has no conscience so won’t feel guilt. Why he would entertain taking her photo in the first place baffles me. Ask if she needs help but stay in the car FGS.
I was hoping the male criminal would have to deal with consequences too.
yes!!!! perfect analysis!
The whole plan would have been ruined if he parked on the right side of the road, instead of the left.
Yeah, I wondered at the time why he would do that! :-)
The driver is sitting on the right side of the vehicle, so it is only natural he'd park on the left.
@@tichu7 that does not make sense to me
@@Fatih-ot5ur Drivers typically park on the opposite side of where they sit.
How does it matter ... girl would have lead him inside the farm or lil far off with some other story😜
Fellas... Just because she's pretty, doesn't mean she's nice.
or rich
The world is an unfair place.
@@JarodM I feel, it's getting more and more unfair.......
_im very pretty but complicated and very nice ha... But true not all girls are pretty n nice_
@@Saudyization Do you know to cook well also?
He was smart enough to don't put himself at risk and smart enough to give her a lifetime guilt feeling.
She seemed to be quite taken by him in the end. As he was driving away, i got the impression she wanted to drive after him and give him a root in the fields.
I kept expecting her to suddenly start the car and run the guy over. That's pretty dark of me isn't it?
No, that's what Omeleto does to you.. Always expecting a plot twist😂
I thought the same ! !
I thought she is ghost! 😂
That is what I thought. All this trouble to siphon some Gas. I didn;t think it was really worht it even with the Price of Gas being much higher recently.
I thought same too.
Means we ate very aware of dangers ahead.
Be good/ nice to others, you never know how their day has been...
Absolutely right dear.
After the first scream in the car, that's when I'd put the camera on the car, say "thank you" and get the hell out of there.
..and theres a man who has women sussed! Good call thats when I’d leave too 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Exactly , she seemed crazy on the first impression.
I wouldn't rather stopped the car either.
Who else stop a car to take someone random else's photo 😂😂😂
Yah, anyone would be onto that. Even your deaf dog!!
"Blakkat41" The guy is really unusually patient and does not suspect things from such odd behavior.
*HE SAW HIM* How is no one talking about this. I think he realized what was happening and decided to torture her with a sad story right back 😂
It feels like the story was inspired by Doctor Quinn with the woman driving the red car as Michaela, the green car driver as Ethan and the boyfriend as Sully. His wife is really dead but what he forgot to say is that he abandoned her a long time ago. It would make sense with the Colorado car and the dress of the woman. I also think that he just try to torture her especially after looking at his license plate. He obviously saw the man but pretended he didn’t. The brand Toyota leads me to Denver.
@@sarahr3813 I've never seen that but when researching it looks to be a show from the 90s. Is that correct? Reading it on fandom and sounds about right. I always find it interesting when the main character, a woman, has a less detailed profile compared to male characters🤦🏽♀️They also make note of her virginity before marriage, was this a big deal on the show? I guess it was the 90s
Now I thought that as a possibility, but the mess of stuff that he was transporting seemed to backup his version of events as accurate. Perhaps he was just relived to unburden himself of some of the emotion.
He probably feared if he react the boyfriend would panic and hit him or somethin- letting it slide and play along when you're in a deserted area is pretty rational
But the story at the end was to make her know how horrible of a person she is
Am I the only one who saw a smile on his face at the end shot ??
I was expecting a twist like "And I know YOU were the one who caused the crash"
And then he would get flash backs of how drunk he was that day 😂
same here
And the genre suddenly switched from drama comedy to thriller.
Yes, specially since they show him sleepy in the beginning and a little too distracted while driving (almost as if he was dragging himself)
me too
I was expecting her to be a serial killer, who baits people and runs them over at the spot where her parents died....
u probably from murica lol
ngl that thought went over my head, especially with how it was titled.
I expected _him_ to have a murder victim among all the stuff in his car
That would have been a better story lol
I was expecting the guy to be a serial killer who attacks her and her boyfriend saves her.
The guy really believed that she waited for hours for someone to come along and take a picture from two feet distance instead of taking a selfie.
And apparently this was set back in the days when phones didn't take pictures.
@@jbtechcon7434 And yet even in those dark times you could still hold your camera in your hand and press the little button on top and you would get the same result as making selfie on your phone in our wonderful technologically advanced times.
Might be a little hard to think rationally when grieving for your wife
@@fuzzbuzz6859 thought the same
@@Domagoj_Pintaric but back then it was rare for a camera to have autofocus, they had a fixed focus about 1.5-3m away, so that a "selfie" would invariably come out extremly out of focus
13 minutes straight of me just staring at the hair sticking out the girl’s hair
mee too
itz a piece of grass.. lol
Same
Same!😂
Yeah... What was that for?
Aaaaannnnd... that's how less and less people are willing to help strangers. I guess no good deeds left unpunished.
All jokes aside, the acting in this short was so, so riveting!
Plot twist - the Fiat 126 doesn't take diesel.
Plot twist bis it wasn’t for the Fiat 😅
? It was a petrol Toyota! (But siphoning 5 litres wasn't going to make any impression on a 70 litre tank...!)
@@gramail2009 It would if there's only 5 litres in the 70 litre tank in the first place.
I can be pedantic too.
ha !
@@gramail2009 tank was 70 litre doesn't mean that was full.. May be there was only 6.5 litres left and the burglar took 5 litres from it(with some spillover too by that idiot 🙄)
this is one of the reasons I like "shorts". done right, they can deliver a message quick and clear.
and ultimately feel full length.
I freaking LIVE for these short films!!! Theyre so wonderful. Always such great personalities. They remind me that the world is NOT an inherently bad place. Thank you short-film makers and omeleto!
About movie-making: Is a FAN MADE HxH-Movie on the Way?!?
I wished people made more original content about real-life-anime.
Pokemon: Banettes Curse was already excellent,
but Pokemon-Movies made by Fans are still an underappreciated Art, to say th least.
I feel like you somehow got the opposite message from this than I did
I've had some strange roadside encounters in the middle of nowhere but this takes the cake. Great piece.
@Javier If I do you may not sleep well. Javier.
@@maxmason6053, now you have two listeners
"My parents died here" dawg, when she said that I thought the twist in the end is that she also died in the accident and just became ghost or someshit like that. Omeleto will just make you think stuffs in your head 😂 nice writing! with the calm "heavenly" music along with the deep yet simple plot twist that will hit you right on the spot!
Thought he was going to end up being the one that caused it. But yeah Omeleto will do that.
@@Dued12341 one of my thoughts as well! hahahaha
Omeleto has nothing to do with this. Lol
He just uploads the films.
@@carltonthepug thanks, capt.obvious
@@karlgalvez yeah well, it doesn’t appear that (obvious) by your comment, which implies that Omletto is the filmmaker. 🙄
He fully knew what was going on. On several occasions, he saw the man behind his car, and saw the top of his head too. I think he came up with that story, or embellished it for her, to make her feel guilty for what she had done.
Exactly what i thought
I thought the same. He has a slight smile as he pulls away. He completed knew what was going on, and he punished her for it. :-)
@@JeffSchall You can see in the beginning before he pulls over that he is suffering, and you can see the stuff in the back with a picture of him and another woman. I don't think his story is in any way invented or embellished. Even if he knew (I don't think he did when he told her his story, maybe at the end) I don't think it would have been in his character or current state of mind to want to punish.
I'm so glad there wasn't a darker twist... it was great, just as it was.
Reading the comments for clarification because what I got out of it is different. I think he knew and allowed them to take his gas. At the end, he just wanted to make her think of what they were doing. Just one take.
"Matthew Biglardi" Another thing was that longish scene in which the woman and her "boyfriend" were in the red car and she was telling him to "pick one" (from her closed hands) and then after he did, she just put a pin in her hair. What is that supposed to mean?
@@obscurelyvague short straw to see who would do the distraction and who would syphon the petrol.
Agree with Bigliardi that the man figured out what was happening and created the story to make her feel guilty. Was confused as to what the story was meant to mean until i saw him smiling at the end as he drove away
Found this channel by accident and this is the third film and I am hooked. Always more to the story than we may ever know as individuals interacting in the world. It was nice for a moment to see both sides of their stories. Thank you.
My first thought was...This lady is about to taze the guy and drive away with his body and/or car. People, if someone EVER flags you down on the road and starts saying odd things you need to have one hand on your pocket knife or pistol because you're about to get robbed in some way....I promise.
I feel sad for you if you made this experience. I personaly had a lot of interessting and funny situations with strangers who acted strange and despite from some continously asking for money I never had any issues
My first thought too, for a request like this I'd just keep on driving and not even look back unless the person is clearly hurt. And even if they are hurt I'd call police/emergency obviously.
Thankfully people don't carry pistols in England.
The woman's "boyfriend"
Notice that he has a right-hand-drive and is driving on the left, while she has a left-hand-drive and is parked as though she was driving on the right. This would have triggered my suspicion meter the moment I saw her if I were him.
It wouldn't have been a red flag at all. On those narrow country roads people tend to pull off to either side. That's what we did on narrow country roads if we had to stop. It's not like they are busy highways where you will need to take a chance and time it to get back out into your lane by crossing traffic. He lived in a village and this would have been his mentality also. Lanes like that don't have the same rules or protocol as streets or highways.
Sorry, I tend to blather on when explaining things. 😸
@Lee Fazzani
Left hand drive/imported cars aren't unheard of in the UK, so it wouldn't have been suspicious at all.
Also, there's nothing odd about parking on the right hand side of the road - it's a single lane country road, so you park wherever is safe, and doesn't block the flow of traffic.
@@ianmacfarlane1241 Her car was on 'foreign' plates and had a uk '94 tax disc in the window. She won't be so happy when she finds out her 'chum' put diesel in her petrol car LOL.
@@doronron7323 Oh man...are you a superspy or something? That was awesome!!!
@@JanyaAndromedaGalactic it says "unleaded fuel only" inside the fuel door of the green Toyota.....
That's an awful thing to do to someone even if his partner didn't pass away...but anyways all the actors were good in this!
She could have just said she ran out of fuel!
True, but there's no fun in doing that for them.
Hey, what an unexpected plot for a short movie. Why don't you write that on a scrap of paper 🤔 (1/4 page will be heaps), then hawk it around the production houses and bankers.
I bet they'll be falling all over themselves to lend you the money and suggest talented stars for such an intriguing, riveting one minute 🎥 movie 🤩
I thought the twist would be more sinister - like she would want him to take the photo with the car on and she would run him over!
@@ehzAxemuzik Nice, plus have a blurry pic of her mums dead face in the back seat?
@@BrassLock why are you hostile? They're not even bashing the short. Damn
People, always stay in your car, with the doors locked, keep the vehicle running, windows only a shade down to yell through. NEVER get out even if it’s a body in the road in the middle of firkin nowhere.
Hey Buddy
How are you keeping,
Where are you from??
Moral of the story is: “ buy Tesla , all electric!
This is the reason don't ever stop in middle of the road to help someone.
Agreed! Don't be too nice to strangers. Cause there's a big chance that they're criminals. Siphoning your gas is one thing, but organ trafficker is an entirely different story. Waking up in the middle of nowhere with no kidney is no laughing matter.
@@cahidijoyoraharjo7833 By "big chance" you mean "tiny chance"... or "no chance" if you're talking about organ trafficking. People shouldn't live in fear, and especially shouldn't start looking for things to be afraid of. Be sensible, consider risks... but don't exaggerate them.
@@jen204 - Once you've been taken advantage of you grow a thicker skin to make sure it never happens again. Id say the people at most risk are the people who think it is unlikely to happen.
When someone asks to borrow my phone I say, "no but i'll make a call for you on speaker" while grasping the handle of a knife or taser inside my pocket with my other hand. If someone flags me down on the street you better believe Ive got one hand on a pistol while I only crack the window an inch to talk. You havent seen what Ive seen.
@@__-pl3jg Being foolishly trusting comes with a cost, I agree (sometimes a very high cost). Being foolishly untrusting does, too, but people give too much weight to the obvious cost over the other more subtle one. Incorrectly evaluating threats is always costly, in both directions, and living with heightened fear ruins one's risk assessments. Notice that the message I responded to said there was a "big chance" that strangers were criminals, and evoked the fairy tale of organ theft. That's not a healthy worldview, and not a realistic one either.
Fortunately, for most of us your past experiences are likely not representative - and certainly not for the environment seen in this film (no weapons, no violence apparently considered by either side, and the victim lost a trivial amount of gasoline, and gained a hug and a story). I don't doubt you've seen things - but I don't consider it more "real" than what I've seen (which does include being the victim of crime, more than once, and uncountable pleasurable interactions with strangers). We live different lives, in different environments, and it sounds like i wouldn't want to trade. Maybe your degree of caution is appropriate for you... it would be overkill, here. A blanket "don't ever stop to help" is not good advice except in broken places.
@@cahidijoyoraharjo7833 agreed
The stranger got her when she had unnecessary conversations everytime when he Will to click portrait...and at last he gaved her a lesson that how really it feels when loosing someone 🤗
I was expecting this to turn into a gory horror movie at any point.
I didn't know girls still have hair like her. It's good to see that the forgotten era of the 40s is still alive.
It is a movie.
Didn't he smell something?
her voice is similar to those personal AI assistants in labs, perfect tone.
I thought we were gonna find out the man totally made up the story about his partner dying just to play a trick back on the girl. A double double cross. Like Spy vs. Spy from Mad Magazine
Didnt he look at the fuel gauge? I think getting inside her head that was his parting gift.
Me too! I was waiting for the double twist. A bit disappointed with this one.
I think this is what happened. Because after looking at the gas gage, he laughed.
That would have been great
same as i figured he caught on about the gas
They could have just asked him for help like the boyfriend suggested.
Every time I watch an Omelet movie, I feel a bit like I'm walking into the Twilight Zone. Such a weird feeling. Curiosity gets me so I watch sometimes, but kind of creepy.
Thieves. Liars and bad people. Then a guy that has lost everything that mattered.
He said, "i don't have a camera".
Like she wanted him to take a picture of her for himself.😒
What? Is it not like that? Whenever someone ask me to help take their picture I just pull out my phone, take their picture and walk away without saying a word.
Oh! I didn't know this was universal.🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@dallywang6143 😂
The stare of the girl at the last moment tells everything, without uttering a word
person on the side of the road, asking for a photo instead of a lift? if it were me i'd drive the hell away
Lesson learned, never stop for a woman on the road by herself! 👍
Haha! As the “woman on the side of the road by myself” who’s been in genuine need of the help, I rather object to this, erm, “lesson!” 🤣
@@ravenestrella2310 funny you say that why not man up? 🤣
@@ravenestrella2310 equality of the Sexes? Fix your own dam tire!!! ✔️👻
Now the man is gonna find someone else for fuel 😂😂
The moment when you realize your Fun ...may not be such a great idea.😳
Right ..just life lessons..we are all connected
I was binge watching old videos of omeleto and voilà there is a new one.
One more for your insatiable appetite!
Expect this to happen quite a bit with the price of gas right now.
shame on those young lovers! excellently done.
They may have saved his life. He was falling asleep while driving. That little wakeup may have kept him alert until he reached his father-in-laws house.
His fuel seemed rather low. I was expecting the girl and boyfriend to drive past him further down on the side of the road having run out of fuel.
No idea where you get the idea that he was falling asleep. He was obviously emotional about something and looking back at the stuff in the backseat.
2.18mins in - she's obviously mad, run dude, run.. 4.26mins in.. She's gonna murder him, I know it.. Watches to the end.. Ohhhh.. Unexpected.. Damn..
What a thoroughly delightful film with a truly charming performance by the lead actor charly. She is totally lovable in this role and the hug she gave her 'mark' at the end was so touching. Thank you for an enjoyable film by a talented trio of actors and a great team creating the story.
is that only because she's attractive, though? Because she's a pretty horrible person in this -- inventing dead parents and conning a good samaritan and all that. But we're led to empathize with her because she felt guilt at the end for what she did? Don't get me wrong, I had the same instinctual reaction as you did, but wanted to think more about why I felt that way
What a very patient man
I found this to be a bit fuelish.
Not at all. Great little story and characters. It was a gas !
@@martineldritch 😄
🤦♂️
this is so weird, i love it
Mmm, it seems. The joke is on her. She actually meet someone she connected with emotionally and intellitually than compared to her bf level wise. Followed.
Ended up losing him within 5 mins. The interaction showed her that someone with higher vibration does exist. What a silver lining.
What a setting for a short. An intriguing, unravelling of three 'well acted' characters and their dark motives.
A simple "No" would be sufficient.
This was very good, in the end everybody got what they needed. I wish life could be as wholesome as this.
Sad but true. There are peopel like that. With NO regrets as she apparently had.
I'm halfway through and can't take anymore of that annoying-as-hell woman! 🙄
Heh Mary
How are you keeping,
Where are you from??
"Uno card reverse" 😂😂
How?
@@ForteExpresso I got the feeling that he saw the man taking out petrol and know what is happening so he maybe lie to the girl because later when his car is out of petrol the girl feel guilty and kill herself 😂😂😂
@@weeklymation6875 big brains 🧠🤦🏻♀️
@@ForteExpresso 😂😂😂 well there always a twist in omeleto story
@@weeklymation6875 I meant your theory is - "Kuch bhi?"
Next time someone asks me to take their picture I'm going to say "I don't have a camera." That's hilarious.
he purposely forgot to handle the camera to the lady earlier which forced her to pick it right besides car so she could see the things he carried with him. Without that the lesson he intended to give wouldnt be possible.
LOL! Well, didn’t karma just step right up and teach her a thing or two! 🤣
Women's guilt tends to have a rather short half life in my limited observations though. How do you know it taught her anything?
@@leonkane8240 true
Nice writing that was a beautiful twist.
At least she didn't spill the guilt onto her boyfriend.
But then when he yelled for victory of being a successful criminal, I thought, bring on the guilt!
Another great short film with convincing acting! Thanks!
Now that video was really good! So many stories crammed into 13 minutes, marvellous.
Thank you! These little movies always brighten my day!
It's almost Black Mirror but so much more exquisite.
You must neither talk to someone you don't know
Eh?
Poor guy....
Great movie. Love the end and her implied mixed feelings.
Well filmed, well acted, well written with the exception of no point or conclusion.
Plot twist, they ended up sticking diesel in a petrol car.
Plot twist: he runs out of fuel a bit up the lane, has to pull the same gag she did...by himself.
My 2 mins impression of that girl is she was weird
That was so original!! Very well done
Drone shot was awesome in the beginning
We're speechless! Well done Jamie from G & G!
1st - A beautiful woman on the side of the road, smiling, flagging you down. It was OBVIOUSLY an ambush from the 1st second.
2nd - This is what interracial dating causes
She’s going to regret it for the rest of her life.
I thought for sure he was the one who killed her parents maybe drunk driving or something.
Such a gut punch near the end. Enjoyable short.
God, these shorties really make me appropriate film making - particularly as these are unknown (to me) actors with their 'this is my face' look.
I don't help strangers anymore. He got lucky that he only lost a gallon of gas.
was waiting for him to come back, or for them all to meet at a spot (diner / gas station) down the road
Road crimes are very common in the USA. All Americans have guns. A criminal nation armed to protect themselves from each other.
Amazing. A lovely script and well filmed and acted.
What kind of car is she driving? I'm obsessed!
Fiat
The guy only had 1 gallon with him. All cars have more than that in the tank. Unless the mans car was already low. Taking one gallon would not have made any difference. But, video doesn't show his fuel gauge before he got stopped.
This was amazing , that end was tragic 🤘🏻
A young woman asks a stranger to take her picture, { then has more odd requests } many of us watched this with something in our minds ;)
I would not get out in the middle of nowhere with a stranger or I would hope not
I was really hoping in the ending the couple would've driven away, found him on the side of the road and offered him petrol
Cast, in order of appearance? that's a new one!
To rejoice after doing others harm that's just horribly selfish.... Why even come up with the deceitful plan in the first place. Manipulative people are messed up.
wait... the Land Cruiser is diesel. her Fiat is petrol-fueled. ...
this youtube channel is a gem