A MODEST DEFEAT | Omeleto
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- Two siblings fight a civil war.
A MODEST DEFEAT is used with permission from David Barr. Learn more at davidbarr.com.
Two young siblings duke it out for domination in suburbia. Big brother Tommy has the advantage: he's older, bigger and tougher, and he's not afraid to play dirty, whether it's stealing his little sister Tiny's food at dinner or distracting her at a school-wide relay race so that she gets off to a late start.
But Tiny has a plan to level the playing field, one that capitalizes on her smarts, ingenuity and resourcefulness -- and she goes to great lengths to score herself a small but very satisfying victory.
Writer-director David Barr's cheeky, charming family comedy is a study in sibling rivalry, told with a genuine sense of sweetness that never feels too cute or cloying. Told with almost no dialogue, the storytelling nevertheless captures Tiny's world, full of the small but significant indignities that she suffers at the hands of Tommy.
With a lack of dialogue, the film is reliant on good performances to communicate character and emotion. Young performer Sophia Ally plays Tiny, bringing appealing intelligence and nuance to a role that could come across as twee. She's rightfully indignant, hurt and disappointed with how Tommy treats her, but she's also smart, and goes about her plans with a sense of pluck, confidence and patience. Tom Harrison plays her brother with just the right degree of stereotypical big-brother attitude, and his behavior comes across as casually bratty, but never hateful or full of vengeance. This isn't a dysfunctional family, but an archetypal one.
With a measured, gentle narrative pace and deliberate editing -- and backed by an excellently evocative musical score -- the audience watches Tiny research, trial and ultimately execute her ingenuous plan, building to a funny, endearing reveal. Tiny's achievement is not just brilliant in itself, but also in her precocious understanding of strategy. In this particular game of sibling rivalry, winning doesn't happen by being stronger or faster, but in being smarter in finding a different way to the finish line.
Many family-oriented films can err on the side in cuteness, but what works in A MODEST DEFEAT is how it recognizes the intensity and seriousness of the emotional life of children, even as its aesthetic decisions elevate the story to the level of a modern fairy tale. Young children in any situation often strive to feel a sense of agency and efficacy, to feel more than pawns of the bigger forces around them. They may not be scientific geniuses like Tiny, but they can rely on inner resources like cleverness, calm and equanimity to eke out the victories that build confidence and self-worth in the long run.
Thanks to her brother, tiny is heading NASA now.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 laughed so much I died☠☠💀💀
it was a time machine. not a rocket ship
@V B REALLY NI**A ACCTUALLY DATS SMART😂😂😂☠ BTW STANDS FOR BY THE WAY
🤣🤣🤣 for real!
A classic example of using a cannon to kill a mosquito.
kalpana M I laughed way to hard at this
I laughed more than needed at this.
@@phroggie_6669 :-)
Yea why tf didn't she do that in the second day
I made you comment from one thousand to.... One thousand one hundred
I thought the girl was planning to let her brother eat a lot so he would be fat and she will win at the race.
Lol
Me too
Dewayne Robless her you mean
Not me lol,I thought this comment is funny lol
Same. How has fatass Tommy beaten skinny Tiny. Also Im pissed of the mother name her Tiny not Tina.
*lights flicker*
No one:
Me: iTS THE DEMOGRGON
Omggg lol
omg lol
All that for arriving on the dinner table earlier than her brother ...
What !!!😂😂
1:41 I love how she acts like young Lara Croft from the Tomb Raider series lol.
It’s so sad. I would not want a brother like that
I wouldn't want a mother that clueless.
Raising kids like it's "Lord of the Flies."
Never eats with them.
No fruit or vegetables.
Nothing made from scratch.
This little girl is smarter than me like wth! And why doesn't she just come to dinner 5 or 10 minutes earlier instead of building a time machine 😂😂
Because it gives her a excuse to make one ig and their cooler
Ikr
Why are you so surprised that she's smarter than you, while she's literally building a time machine when no one has never been smart enough to build one.
leevi lahtinen well why are you writing such snarky comments about someone when you know in fact that it’s just a TH-cam video literally no one can Evan come up with the concept of building a time machines nowadays so it doesn’t really matter does it?
@@lahtine7431 Oh! No one can ever build a time machine.Even Albert Einstein proved it. Time machine's fictional.
So, the mother never eats with the kids, doesn't notice the flickering lights or hear the noise from the welder, but always has dinner ready at six. I got it, the mother is a robot.
Now see this movie as a metaphor of how this world works. The fair one had always been defeated and people who supposed to be in charge for justice is nowhere to be found when we need them. But well, those people must believe that they have "served" well :)
Celine Chimes introducing THE I MOM
my mom never eats with us either
Celine Chimes hahahah lol 😂
*plot twist*
Tiny: makes time machine while a child
Me: forgets left from right
nugg life you explained me
Well she too...in real life.
ivy the oven
Lolllll
Honestly!!
I honestly thought the girl was counting down the days until her brother would die lol
Sophie Fawcett SHUSHDHSJDDJJSJSH
Sophie Fawcett SAME
omg same i feel demonic
Saaaaame
Same
A whole time machine when she could just walk down there earlier
@@WonderingFrog Good for your friend ☺️
Like hitting a fly with cannonball
she did make a time machine doe
The point was to scare the boy
7ts
I like this story!! But I can't help but wonder why isn't the mother eating with them?
Now see this movie as a metaphor of how this world works. The fair one had always been defeated and people who supposed to be in charge for justice is nowhere to be found when we need them. But well, those people must believe that they have "served" well :)
Ada Ode my mom makes dinner then usually works in her office and doesn’t eat with us but I think it’s part of the story line like the Gemma person said.
Because she’s fasting
Lolaa22 • 😂 looool
When I was a kid my parents never ate with me and my sisters cause we ate early as kids
I feel like that girl is an amazing actress, judging from her facial expressions alone! I'd love to see her in something where she had some lines.
James Heskett agreed. Such poise and talent. She’s since been cast in The Current War coming out this year and My Zoe, and last year played Matilda in the west end and previously The Ferryman. Good casting I’d say, she’s a rising star.
searched for a comment like this
totally agree!
Yep 👍🏽
Yes !
James Heskett inittttt
Your brother is taking your food ? Don't tell it to your mom, just creat a Time machine so that you can get to dinner before him... It's not that complicated !
Lmao😂
Tbh I thought like that too..
Lol
It'S nOt A pRoBlEm AnYmOrE
Dear critic, you have taken the story literally
*Or she could’ve gone downstairs 2 minutes earlier.*
I found the flaw in that. Their mother is making the food and goes upstairs at exactly 6:00. They are unable to go downstairs earlier.
I think if the girl ,ade the time machine she would’ve made the brother not be born or her time machine was supposed to be for a use to have food
You underestimate the spite of little girls.
That's what she did, but using a time machine
i thought they actually fought in a civil war.
MaRcUs ENDAYA ME TOO
My brain cells were dead
They did, in Serbia.
lol same
Same
Why didn't she just go down for dinner before their mother called?
Her feet were tiny, not brain. And moreover I think logic is not that necessary here.
If her parents were like mine you come down first you eat last. Besides she might have been doing work.
come on - that would torpedo the whole premise: younger girl far more talented, smarter than her bro. but not smart enough just to go down early to eat before gross boy stole her food...
That would not be fun
Actually what Tiny did was even more genius than that: She designed and developed her time machine, just as dinner was cooking. So when the mother called the children down, Tiny was at the dinner table - literally in a flash - while plunging even more deeply into her homework. She "timed" everything perfectly! It's a defeat because she just one-upped her brother, but it's modest because, as Tommy caught a glimpse of, she's a little genius in the making and is capable of so much more.
So, she was smart enough to make a time machine, but couldn't think of just coming down earlier?
I mean its titled "A Modest Defeat"
girls!!!
I think you are somewhat missing the point geez
This cracked me up
STOP SAYING THAT!!! Geez why cant people just understand that it was a short movie and that not everything is exactly the way you think it should go
Everyone: wow cool film 10/10
Me:Haha that's a cool ketchup bottle
ya the bottle so cool
ultimate nu
What
In nz that's almost the only bottles we have in restaurants
Same lol
“Be nice to nerds, the chances are you’ll end up working for them one day.” - Bill Gates
Ella L
Lol
Why did he have to call them 'nerds'
hatortot is not cool he could mean himself as a nerd Idk maybe
@@whattheeff5592 what tf does that have to do with the quote
Well said!
Am I the only one wondering where she got all the equipment from
*from a shed*
Like my mom would beat the holy Ghost out of me if I misplaced a pan
I know right!
Matilda Cool home depo
@SHAKHRIZOD DJURAEV lol 😂
why doesn’t the mom eat dinner with them lol
Umm most mom's dont
khloe schwerdtfeger um thats sad lol
@@khloeschwerdtfeger5841
? What? My parents eat dinner with us every day? And my grandma?
And my dog? And her dog?
Its like one big party?
I though everyone eats together?
@@thecookiegirlgamer8851 Can't you read? I said most so that doesn't mean you 😑. Some people's family's are dead or left them like me. Most people don't have a perfect little family.
khloe schwerdtfeger Hey, it’s okay. I’m sure she was just confused. Also, sorry about what you’ve had to go through. Do you have any left with you?
I think we could all agree we thought *the brother was gonna die.*
Not me?
No not really:/
I thought he was about to be never born! lol
Yeah xd
Nope
When it said omeleto I thought the movie was about an omlet
OMG 112 likes
Most I've ever had thx guys :))
Omg thx for 2 likes kids
me too.
Me too XD
Same here
I thought the same 😂😂
She did that just for extra food, not knowing that she could win the Nobel Prize and take home a million dollars.
Exactly
Sam Harper ikr
Probably more than 1 mill as she did just make a time machine
@@yoda266 yeah get the prize and money in 2019, next day travel yesterday to get it again and so on
She didn't do it "just for extra food". She did it to stop being suppressed by her brother, in her own way. And looking at the brother's expression, she clearly won.
And excuse me what kind of dinner is fries, beans and pizza every night .. where are the greens
It is every Friday
That the reason of the calander
Coz director didn't wanted them... simple as that
They party everyday
🤣😂🤣
Why doesn’t the mom do anything doesn’t she notice if she is really hungry or something
Okay can we just talk about the lack of vegetables on their plates?
Si•va•ri ok i thought it was my comment since we have the same profile
Nutrition exited the film along time ago
itsprolly jules Oof and I thought you were me lol
not all of us eat vegetables luv
Not everyone eats nor has enough money to buy healthy foods
They chose the perfect kid to play the role of a bully. He made me so angry I wanted to punch him. Well done young lad. 'Tiny' is absolutely adorable. The mom needs some serious parenting skills.
Yeah, I wonder if she ever went into tiny's room..
I mean....it was a super easy part. All they needed was a boy who could glare
At least the mom cooked awesome dinner for her kids every day
i’m the one who made this 1k likes
I know. What?
I thought she was going to stop her brothers birth with the time machine
Same lol
It looked like she was the older one at end as the boy looked diffrent
😂😂😂
Me too 😁
me too!
Tiny is a beautiful little girl, she has a face for movies. I can definitely see her being in many more.
Is it just me but I'm kinda worried that one of them goes to bed hungry
Lovely Looks noooooo, of course not
I go to bed hungry always
I feel you, big sister sense activated
@@tracygod5958 because eating at night before u sleep makes u fat
I’m worried about it to
Damnit, I at first thought he was giving her his food.
Same
Same
Yeahh
Omd same
Same
Is it just me or are those kids eating some unhealthy dinners.
Yea they are some pretty bad dinners. I’m pretty sure it’s supposed to show how the mom doesn’t really get involved and put to much effort in or make time for her kids.
Well I mean the brother is kinda chubby
When I was at their age I thought 1+1 = 11 and look what are they doing. My mother shouldn't see this movie. 😂😂
Right
Lovatic Forever u dont even know they age
@@noahschnapp3494 they are 30 years old? They are like 6-8 years old, it's obvious
@@fjhsts true my parents will compare me to them and she will force me to study
Watch Alternative Math. Short movie about exactly that. 2+2=22
When the brother was eating I thought he was going to become obese lol
I would just put rat poison in the food
typical egg eater That’s 2000 IQ
He already is obese
The boi :OOO
He’s kinda getting there just saying
Uhh her name is *"TINY"* her Mom just WANTS her to get bullied
That's a nickname of Tiffany. Tiny
That's actually a cute name
Everiil Hiroshi wouldn’t the nickname be tiff?
@@bee5648 Or tiny tiff
My names tiny
When the light started flickering I thought the demogorgon was there
XD
I LOVE STRANGER THINGS TOO LOL AND BEHIND THE SCENES BLOOPERS THERE FUNNY LOL
@@cj4539 she never said she loved it tho so your ansewering no bodys question tf ghost?
@@therealdefaultbrudda l dont get what your saying
Same
Read that as "2 young siblings fight a civil war in Serbia"
After watching it, Tiny could win a civil war in Serbia.
I wonder why they never blamed each other as a normal siblings?🤷♀️
Thanks for the likes❤
Omg guys u gotta stop liking this comment.Literally my most liked comment ever😧
I was thinking same. Both are abnormal
Exactly 😂
Ikr
Don't worry, I make my sister as comfy as possible if you know what I mean 😏😉🤫
Makes sense.
Option 1: Make a time machine
Option 2: Get down stairs faster
Option 3: wake up earlier
Let's be extra
It's called drama for a reason
She wanted to be faster at every thing thats why
She took the effort to built a time machine instead of just coming 5 minutes earlier by herself to dinner :D
Still great story and fantastic actors are those kids!
Hahhahaha
Lolz, seems logic. But you see she counts the days, where she always tried to be the first to come in dinner.
*replied after 2 years 👁️*
The girl's smile, her highness nature, her watch, her acting skills everything is just soooo beautiful
When sibling rivalry go too far
Dude she spent all that time trying to make a time machine when she could of just told her mom about it.
Tiny's aint a bith
yusuf dharmaa rotfl 😂
the sibling golden rule is you never get the parents unless absolutely necessary
@@sharersale6480 i rlly dont care about grammar but kk.
Sahi pakde Hain 😊
The boy is such a good actor.. he has that facial expressions of a brute brother! Really good acting! ☺️
The Cool Tuber or maybe being him self ! We don’t know
Ok
.
She just ended this man's whole career
Bloomberg: So how did it all start? How did you end up being a billionaire?
Tiny: Well.......
Bruh if you invented a time machine you would be the world's first trillionaire and probably considered a god.
Tiny: I got hungry
When you notice She is smarter than you ☹
She is
She isnt
@Shut Tube no way
😂😂😂
When. you. notice. She. is. Smarter than. you.
Lesson Learned:
If you ever get into a conflict with your sibling about food rations, don't resolve it, just build a warping machine in ur bedroom XD
ALEXANDE MESHERIAKOV naaah who would ever think of that 😂
*Instead of telling mom why not create a time machine that works*
Over face your problems by yourself. Moreover, this short story has a deep meaning other than the story.
I am a very good . I'm not sure if you are looking for a while?
@@bossedaniel6644 what?
I see lots of commenters have issues with the story, but me ... I simply loved it. I found Tiny's victory over her rude brother, so satisfying. She was adorable, and I found myself rooting for her the entire film. Thank you Omeleto for this one, I think it's a WINNER.
Ikr
Well an award wining film should have more than just a good big picture, every aspect should arise something thus creating thought and motion within its viewers, you should feel something, you shouldn't be sitting there wondering why this 8 year old girl is soldering circuit boards, or wielding metal sheets in side of a house. Yea the bigger picture was good, but not award winning, lots of points in the plot were skipped, they start the film out with boy taking girls dinner, then proceed to show the rising action of him oppressing her, then throw in some rubbish shots of a 8 year old doing extremely unrealistic stuff as their "climax," Then she takes his food and we are at a resolution. This films depth is quite bad, don't get me wrong this film is well shot, but it is in no way award winning.
I felt the same way. I deal with things like this in my life. So, it was awesome to me!
@Fancy Bear excuse me, that's rude.
I am so glad to hear this,makes watching the video less frustrating.
accurately shows the extent at which an introvert will go to avoid leaving their room for too long
The moral of the story is: Don’t take from others as others may take from you
Wrong!
The boy was being selfish like most people in the world today it’s so sad
Tu as raison :(
Dans ce monde les gens sont égoïste et c'est vraiment triste
I no😭😭
@@chaymachekkal1969 shona lanae habla espagnol?
No hablo espagnol
You’re a joke
The Donald as a Bratty Child .....not much of a departure from now .
Commercial of why eating fries makes your children smarter🍟😂
true. hahaha
Phineas was and Ferb who?
Time-machine can be a metaphor for confidence. When she got it, she defeated her evil brother.
No she build a time machine. That's my headcanon
How can she build a time machine with big muscles when she cant even win a race?
FINALLY 👏👏👏she really didn't have to though, he's dying first!
Not evil ,selfish. Being kind is not that easy, because it usually implies you losing sth that you could have had.
@@sn1pergaming922 Stewie can build a time machine, and he's just a baby.
i thought they were syrians fighting to survive in the syrian civil war...
Me too
Legit thought she was going to blow up her house for revenge lmao
True😂😂😂😂😂😂 or her brother
Omeleto is a Channel
I was thinking this short film is all about omelette
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Same haha
@@madsomae 😂
@@perfectly._.imperfect m65g
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Same that is what I thought that's the reason I watched all these videos
But at the start I felt really sad for Tiny but I didn't feel sorry for Timmy because Tiny got pay back
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@@highguys6428 ikr
@@highguys6428 so annaoying find a hobby will ya
@@galaxywolfie8312 my heart just broke...do i cry?
@@highguys6428 thnx finally sm good comments
Omg that is so sad her brother is starving her and she lost the race because she didn't eat enough 😭
Not what happened, but okay
No, she lost the race because the brother made her look at something. Sorry for the extremely late reply and if I sound rude, I am sorry. I’m just trying to let you know. :)
sometimes you got to beat a bully at their own game💪
Just for the sake of having more food on her plate during the dinner time..... She invented a time machine....... Wow
She could patent it and become a billionaire, maybe even a trillionaire.
Am I the only one that gives my younger brother food compared to taking more food from him? Just me? Okay
Well you did get 23 likes out of 4 million views.
That's something, right?
Sounds like something somebody begging for praise would say but ok
Nope
i do
She makes an entire time machine even though she could stay there waiting for the food
At 5:09 when the kid checked his time it said 5 55 45 and i looked at my clock it was 5 55 42
💀
I thought she was gonna kill him
But nope
It was a time-machine-ly solved issue
forget the time machine we would've fought .
I don't care my brother can take all my food away from me SO WHAT........................................I still got dem late night snacks😏
Hahaha😂😂😂😂
I legit thought this was horror
YAY THREE LIKES the most I ever gotten.....
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M8 you got 138
Nope ! 175😉
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now its 593...594 with me yaaaay lol
Little boy keeps beating little girl to the table taking her food from her plate , for more for himself, little girl spends a whole month creating a time machine , so that she can beat her bigger brother to the table now.:)
The moral of the story is that when u do something bad to someone or do anything bad u get back karma that’s why they put a time machine
Oh..
@@minV5326 i know right!!
The little girl at the start was so nice she didn’t complain
Who else kept saying AWW because of how cute the girl is😂
Just me? Okay
Wrong!!! Me
I am too
Sameee
She did look adorable i kept saying "Awwww" lol
That boy is a really good actor
Because he is making me so angry
5:21
That kid looks like Bob from stranger things!
YES I SAID THE SAME THING HE REALLY DOSE
2:19 why is this girl doing derivatives at age 10??!?
That little girl is a diva! This is such a sweet story, one of my favourites from this channel.
Seriously tbh this give a bad meaning to it. Tiny could have done things better but soon she gonna end up like Tommy and well it's not defeat it a cycle of bad choices.
(Just saying)
lil o blobfish 💯
Yeah, I think the movie would have had a lot more depth if the girl eventually offered to share her plate.
Who the heck names their daughter Tiny!!?? Idk 😂😂
might be a nickname
The British?
Alot of people my name is tiny
@@KBLaughs Sure KIM..... 🙄
Exactly my thoughts....
1:17 this part is frikin messed up man,
Just why, why
The kid in the beginning taking the pizza and fries what a pig
Who names their kid tiny
I think it’s just a nickname
someone called large
Only
2:52 I thought she was carrying the bothers dead body for a second..
Pink Lemonade lmao
That would be a way better end
*They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.*
Loved this so much - never underestimate the underdog that is the younger sibling 😎
This little girl has more knowledge than I have..she made a time machine and I can't even repair my watch😥😥
Maybe i was born dumb or this generation kids are super smart😂🤣
煪SHERNI no girl you’re right tho, Gen Z are like insanely smart
I was born in 2002 and am not smart at all...
I was boren after 2002
I cAnt sPell
煪SHERNI This gen of kids are the most stupidest ones ever! Idk wtf you’re talking about
Im smart in school but hate learning😞😩
I Really Thought That There Was A Civil War
Come on! how come you don't understand the whole point of the short film?
Point 1: "Why wouldn't she come down earlier"? that wouldn't be an absolute defeat. Ok, let's imagine she does it the first time, everything goes well, then what? the brother will go down earlier, a "who's an earlier battle" would start and she wouldn't be as focus on her homework as she should.
Point 2: The film is titled "Modest defeat", why? she's 10 times better than her brother in all featured aspects of their personality and character: she's smarter, kinder, nobler... what she did is just a small piece of her true value, and his brother got to perceive that with the time machine idea. Being first at dinner is something ANY child can do, cheating and taking the easy road was something he was good at, why would she use the same way?
Point 3: You're using logic while watching a film, are you being serious? If you want something to adjust to your reality watch the news or something.
Point 4: well, this is the funniest, "should've told her mom"... Do I have to remark this? she was missing some parental skills, how do you know she would have done something about it?
You get the points properly and this will be useful for those who did not get the right meaning of this short film.
I'm not even going to read this essay, it's a short movie, calm down
@nathaly toledo, most worthwhile and thoughtful comment posted on this short that I have seen.
The most *IMPORTANT* point that you missed though is, Where is the FUN to 1. Coming down earlier or 2. Telling their mom, when she could utilize her remarkable brilliant skills and knowledge to show her little thug of a brother that at ANY point in time, she could go back into the past and ensure he was NEVER conceived to begin with.....so he better watch his step? LOL.....the titled of the film "Modest Defeat" goes to show that the writers didn't explore a much darker tone in warning this bully- to stop his bullying because it is not about the dinner, nor winning a match, or being kind to those less fortunate.....but about being thoughtful and loving to others not just self.....and if you don't....someone else might just teach you a small lesson such as getting to dinner shortly before you and giving you a taste of your own medicine or actually go back in time and erase you very presence if it is so deleterious to others.
Can anyone explain me why this film has been nominated for oscar?
Seriously tho
No one stated that this particular short film received an award but the channel has received Awards. I hope this helps you out. 💖
If anyone took my fries there wouldn’t be a next time
Don't you need a scientific calculator, sweetie?
SAME THOUGHT
This little girl really just made a bloody TIME MACHINE people
So no one is going to talk about how beautiful the little girl is and how cute the little boy is?
sunset. gazer they look crippled and anorexic
The boy is fat the girl is the opposite
The boy he big and chunky
The little boy isn't cute
guy seriously.. if u don’t have anything nice to say just keep ur mouth shut
Hold up so we not finna talk about HOW SHE MADE A TIME MACHINE
Everyone's talking about it
I am your horror fan, first time to watch this kind and loved it, should got the simple and easy way, but No. she is smart not only get there before him, surprises and empresses and annoying him at the same time get his food too. Well done .
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