THE LANDING | Omeleto
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- A man investigates a landing.
THE LANDING is used with permission from Josh Tanner. Learn more at thelandingfilm....
As a child in the summer of 1960, Edward lives with his father on a Midwestern farm, with no mother in the picture and a palpable, almost lonely quiet around them.
One night, he and his father watched something land in a field. Whatever has landed seems to unleash his father's inner turmoil, and haunted the young boy as he grew into a man. Years later, Edward goes to unearth the truth of what just happened -- and reckons with the legacy and shadow that it cast on him and his family.
This sci-fi short -- by writer-director Josh Tanner and co-writer Jade Van Der Lei -- has all the trappings of a classic in its genre, seemingly hearkening back to the 1950s, which its evocation of Cold War paranoia, pastoral innocence and UFOs.
There's also an ambitious, adroit sense of craftsmanship in the camerawork, VFX and lighting that also fits within the genre norms, where all the technical elements of the film work together to evoke otherworldliness and awe at the film's key moments.
But unlike many genre films, there's also a meditative thoughtfulness to the writing and storytelling at the film's beginning that takes its time to observe the main characters and their relationship. Like many sons, Edward craves the love and companionship of his father, who he looks up to as the source of stability in his life. Their father-son dynamic is closely and beautifully observed, showing their bond on their own terms, whether it's through watching TV or eating dinner together or sharing silence as they stare up at the night sky.
But when something falls out of the sky and lands in a field on their farm, their quiet life together is interrupted. The small inner conflicts of Edward's father noted quietly in the storytelling -- a sense of failure, and a longing to make a difference as a man and would-be soldier -- suddenly crack open. Edward then witnesses his father in a way he has never seen before, breaking the bond between them and shattering Edward's innocence forever.
In the end, THE LANDING uses its genre elements -- and its unexpected reveal -- to tell a story about parental legacy, and about what happens when a child's idealization of their parent comes crashing down and they see their father at his most tortured and ultimately vulnerable. By taking the time and space to build up the historical moment and the characters -- and taking the care to support the emotionally resonant writing with equally powerful performances all around -- it ultimately offers a moving story about love and forgiveness, where we can look at our family in their full truth, and love them anyway.
This 17 mins could have been turned into a 2 hour full length feature. It was absolutely incredible.
Unlike so many 2 hour features that could have been told in 17 minutes.
@@tomat6362 well if, this 17 mins could have been turned into a 2 hour full length feature, then wouldnt that mean that the 2 hour feature version could have been told in 17 mins....
A lot of these films can
These movies are like small strawberries. Bursting with flavour.
Way better than the big fat watery Hollywood variety.
I think this should remain 17 minutes. 2 hours would make it drag, I think.
"I was meant to be one of those little green men." The irony runs deep in this short and on many levels.
Yaaas . The comment I stayed for
just 2 levels, but yes, it's ironic
@@phoule76 (SPOILERS) Here are some more levels...
1. Dad says he was meant to be one of those “little green men,” which is slang for alien invaders.
2. The boy’s toy soldiers were advancing on a little red creature, which symbolizes Russia and the “Red Scare” of the time.
3. Dad says that there always has to be an enemy, which means in situations where there is no enemy, you become the enemy.
4. The heart monitor in the beginning sounds odd, kinda like tracking a spaceship orbiting the planet.
5. The radio program announcer says “The program you are about to hear is science fiction. We make no guarantees how long it will remain fiction.”
6. The fields around the farm seem endless, making it feel like they’re on another planet.
7. Dad asks “Am I the enemy?” He later gets the answer to his question when he watches the news.
8. The alien in the comic book appears in an sphere of light. The Russian capsule is a sphere.
9. In the barn, when Dad gets his chance to be the rifleman he said he was meant to be, he can’t pull the trigger. He’s no more a rifleman than the toy.
10. The comic book ends with a confrontation between a single army rifleman facing a red alien.
11. The radio news talks about the Russian astronaut as “ushering in the dawn of a new era” just as Dad and Son approach the space capsule at dawn.
12. The TV news anchor says “Now the world is asking… what’s next?” as Dad turns to Son after finding out the truth. Their relationship is changed forever.
All excellent points. But i would like to mildy point out on point 9.,that despite the fact he didnt shoot him, he hung him from a roof beam. It was also a shotgun. Which he did fire in the beginning. I would also argue real "riflemen" don't shoot men hung from a rope. Not that you were implying that.
What's the irony exactly?
So, Gagarin was not the first man in space? The dad murdered the first?
He was the first man in space. This man’s mission failed, he fell back to the earth...
Yep.
It's just a story in which Yuri Gagarin wasn't the first man
In space
@@genshiyami nobody never know)))
What a plot! What actors! Overwhelming and deeply touching. The father's traumata and wounds made him abuse his son emotionally and mentally. And he having watched and not at all having been sheltered in no way still is loyal to his father for all those years. Parent's pain is lived by their children if no one helps. What a tragedy in so many ways.
And this film shows bitter ironies as well. Birlliance within a few minutes. Absolutely impressive!
WHY hasn't this won international short film awards?? MASTERFUL STORYTELLING. Intertextuality, manipulation of time through the tiniest of details, genre stretching. Plus wholesome ideology. BRILLIANT nugget.
I was expecting a regular old cheesy alien story. I wouldn't have minded one, but this concept and project was really well done.
Absolutely outstanding, wasn’t expecting the twist… 10/10
Beautifully crafted film, and a reminder that living in one's own narrow preconceived notions of things, can destroy something great.
There’s something special about reading comics at night with a flash light
Brilliant story and story telling. Tom Usher as a child actor kicked arse ... don't recall seeing him in anything else but then I don't get out much. :)
Street where I live at, has name by that great man - Jurij Gagarin Boulevard
Dušan Šućur юрий Гагарин пьёт молоко Юрий Гагарин летает высоко
@@aleksbb2537 what does that even mean,never heard of it
Stay cheeki breeki
Well done! Did not see that one coming for sure. Really captured the paranoia of the times.
I discovered this in 2023!! Omfg, this absolutely blew my mind. Thank you- this was an awesome video…..
When he grabbed the noose- I was suddenly like “Wait wait wait”
What a powerful movie! Just show how scared and ignorant people can be, and enlightenment can set them free, too late in some cases.
The enemy outside of us is nothing compared to the enemy within.
The guy was clearly an astronaut. He wasn't wearing a pilot uniform. The father was blinded with his own rage.
Stéphanie Boisvert That may have been difficult to determine given that he was the first. Maybe he figured the Soviets wore different colors uniforms. Who knows. His first fault definitely wouldn’t have been “this man must have come from space”
Well written and acted and produced. Exceptional!
All that's missing is some Rod Serling narration and this could be straight out of the Twilight Zone. I've got chills!
OMG - he killed superman!!!
Julia Connell no.....not even close
@@ladysquids umm it's a joke - strange craft crashes in the middle of fields in the middle of nowhere...
Omg i probably ruined it by reading comments first.
That would have been nice plot twist though.
lmao
Great short..easily recommendable, good acting, great story. 1st ive ever liked..so many shorts, lately have no ending leaving u to ponder..i like endings
So cool to see David Roberts in one of these. Representing the Aussie Actors Omeleto!!
wow. this was amazing to watch. completely captivating.
the kid is an aussie actor whose done some great work on omeleto.
Extremely well done short. Enough to make me want to have Daddy take a long walk off a short pier, ASAP.
The kid was not an accessory to a crime as commented but a witness and a victim of circumstance. Also he was perhaps a victum of child abuse on some level.
Beautiful heartbreak. Judgement and prejudice is such an ugly thing~
Every omleto video I scroll down and read the comments before watching the whole thing. Everytime I regret it.
So, why did you do that ?
@@jeanneparisot237 i just get too excited for my own damn good.
@@bizarro20daves Mdr ! You are weird, Bro ! XD
Survives rocket launch. Survives multiple rocket stages. Survives LEO. Survives crash landing. Dies in a barn, hanged by misguided "patriot."
I find it oddly interesting that the Actor who plays Henry's Father is named, Henry Nixon.
Everything about the filming of this is beyond excellent. Creating a fantastic atmosphere to compliment the narrative. Only sometimes, in an effort to underline the mysterious, perhaps sinister element of the moment, does the music let it down by verging on becoming a little too overly Hollywood dramatic - this can invade the personal connection you have between yourself & the two characters on this isolated farm.
Kudos to the makers and actors ... the ending of all movies in this channel has the same goosebump effect every time without fail
The cinematography on this is impeccable!
Because of what his father did, his whole life became empty and probably never married and was unhappy the whole time. His sentence for keeping his father's secret. Terrible and senseless.
Predictable twist. But really good short! I just found Omeleto and I’m loving it ;)
Who else thinks the Dad looks like Taron Edgerton?
Cool Guys Inc yes...close. And love the Aussie actor with the shovel.....attractive and a favorite of the edgerton brothers.
Being a soldier is more than killing and when you do ,you must know when you should and why...
That kid looks kind of like Macaulay Culkin in his "Home Alone" days.
Sam Harper hahahahaha damn righteous dude. Bro your comment is extremely underrated. As someone said humans are the worst of all monsters.
I remember those days. America and the Soviets did not get along. They were scared that either one would be the one to end it all.
Very,very well done!
He respected his father enough not to tell it till after he died. But wow
I came back just to say how frikken awesome this film is. 🙌🏽🏆
These shorts are unbelievably good!
Is it me or does the radio man's voice is very Rod Serlingesq. Perhaps a bit of paying homage. I'd like to think so.
No, more like Walter Cronkite. Maybe actual audio.
The farmer was correct... we were in a cold war with the USSR in 1961. He landed in US territory. He was just like Gary Powers, retribution was in order.
best short ive watched in a long while
These actors were phenomenal!
Wow powerful stuff!! 👍👍
I feel so bad for the spaceman tho
I really enjoyed this story it remind me of the day I came face-to-face the Soviet officer in East Berlin
Was it putin
Some monsters simply... don't look like monsters.
The moment he said “You know I was supposed to be one of them.”
I thought he re goes one more of those stories again ...
Without enemies, real or imagined, governments would not exist in the same way as we now know them.
Can I just say how much I love your channel.
That's the issue if one did land instead of greeting with a hand it would most likely get shot. Sad 😔
Subscribing to Omeleto is one of my best decisions in YT.
Great short. Thanks again 👍
Magnificent piece of work.
Super cool and sad at the same time
This could so easily be a true story from the McCarty era.
Boy that father really brought his own issues on that poor kid
WHERE’S PART 2??? You left us on such a cliff hangar
thats what its supposed to do. There isnt going to be a part two but the purposely left you on a hanger.
@@Sasha-gd8xi monke want part 2
The theory is said in the ending. The Soviet kept anything about sending men in to space a secret unless it was successful. God knows how many of them probably had faith like this or different.
The enemy is fear and ignorance.
The suspense was intense. He killed the first man that went to space. What a twist.
that was awesome thanks artists
very good story
very sad and amazing movie 👏❤
russian dude looks like chandler from mr.beast
I WAS THINKING THAT
Josiah Morris I know right? I love chandler so it was kind of weird watching the Russian guy getting hanged lol
The first person to go to space was whoever was the first to take LSD.
No farmers kid would bring a flat shovel to dig a hole in dirt. And no one digs a hole and perfectly sets the dirt around the edge evenly. Try again writer and director. Errors like this ruin the realism
Omeleto i is the next twilight zone love it😭
Everyone knows they splattered on the ground, drown in the ocean and were stranded in space, but cosmonauts were never killed by a farmer.
Excellent.
Very close to the real story. Except the capsule landed in China & the cosmonaut was returned alive to the USSR.
You have been researching.., don't do that, never think on your own, and ALWAYS trust TV :)
good film.
Wow...just wow!
Dad had the right idea.
50 years later... methinks this would not exactly be an open wound. Done deal a looong time ago
I somewhat already guess it was actually the Russian, but damn that ending
Well you're half right the guy is from Russia but unfortunately he is Soviet Union which is almost the same as Nazis and ISIS groups with lot less extreme violence and more of a superpower rival country if anything until they disbanded from economy I collapse after spending too much on trying to beat the US.
this one was nuts
I love how this was done. It had me on the edge waiting to see a glimpse of a creature unknown to mankind, but the endings twist shows the old tale true, of man being the *true* monster afterall...
@@TheAstroflightWhere do you get this 25% stat? I've spent my life working for the Air Force and Army and have met a single soldier who was looking forward to killing anyone. The ones I know who did kill were haunted by it the rest of their lives. Most soldiers I know do it for patriotism, discipline, or money.
@@TheAstroflight 8 years active duty Air Force, 15 years Army civilian. I still want to know where you got the 25% figure.
@@brettthornhill9989 You can want, but don't have to get...
You may read an estimate, but may not understand the word itself.
@@TheAstroflight I find what you said really sad and an honest insight into the mentality of some soldiers during any horrific conflict. Would make anyone ashamed of our 'humanity'.
“And so the enemy was revealed to be, neither a “little, green man”, nor a “red commie”. It was simply the black void of ignorance and hatred. A void that has, and will continue to consume many.... in the Twilight Zone” - If Rod Sterling narrated this lol
I read it in Sterling's voice before reading the twilight zone reference
I thought this was from an actual episode lmao
Impressive! This could have been an actual closing narration to an episode of the original The Twilight Zone. Well done! 👏👏
I thought it was Stirling's voice on the radio.
hey that was pretty spot on
The idea that he killed the first man in space is heartbreaking.
And he didn't realize his victim was a cosmonaut until he later watched the news. He probably thought the Russian landed there deliberately as part of an invasion.
First man to attempt to go to space.. clearly he didn’t go to space, his mission failed
@@swatisri2409 Quite possibly. He could have gone to space but his capsule landed in the wrong area when he re-entered the atmosphere.
Mr. & Mrs Smith Maybe. I based my opinion on what was said in Wikipedia about Gagarin’s space mission - “. The core stage then separated while the rocket was in a suborbital trajectory, and the upper stage carried it to orbit. Once the upper stage finished firing, it separated from the spacecraft, which orbited for 108 minutes before returning to Earth in Kazakhstan.Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth.”
The core separated from the upper stage successfully and was in orbit for 108 minutes before returning to earth. So, if it didn’t separate successfully, or maybe if the timing was off, it might have fallen without orbiting. Again, just speculation. Maybe he went to space and had trouble returning...
@@swatisri2409 That's a good conclusion. I was just thinking he had been in space because Gagarin did go to space and re-entered, landing in Russia. They could have miscalculated where this man would re-enter, cashing him to land on the opposite side of the world. It's speculation though, this is just fictional. Or is it...
His last word was "kid" in Russian, trying to warn him about there is a kid's presence
:(
Boy. мальчик specifically means boy and I thought he was asking him for help personally.
The cosmonaut was probably a good man, and the fathers mental state kept him from realizing his intentions. I truly felt bad for him 😿
@@moralityisnotsubjective5 He also made eye contact with Edward, but Edward couldn't really do anything to help.
@@SuicideSeason4545 Not an unusual mental state for Americans even to this day despite the cold war being over for decades.
That would've made a good Twilight Zone episode just add some Rod Serling commentary and there you go.
I was just thinking that .
Very Twilight Zone-ish. Agree! Rod was one hell of a story teller.
@@strivingx67 ,For real
And black and white
@@Ethan-en2ij and he smoked like a chimney! On camera!
What a twist! Oh wait... no. Nope, not a twist. My bad, carry on.
Yay, Rod Serling!
I've never been so mad at someone that doesn't even exist.
White privilege in a nutshell
@@scratch3406 lemme guess: you're american, right? everything there is about race and division
@@scratch3406 Nevermind everyone here was white
Pinball Pals cus he killed another white man??🤣 what skin color was the man he killed exactly 🤣
Cavpal I’m an american and I can confirm that identity politics is one of the biggest things in america and I hate it.
Better than half the movies Hollywood makes
More like 90% of all Hollywood movies.
Oh totally
Better than ALL that hollywierd makes.. Fixed that for you
That was very good. I didn't expect that at all 👍
@@gbear1005 ,Agreed
Having circled the Earth in a satellite ship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People of Earth, we shall preserve and enhance this beauty, and not destroy it. (c)Yury Alekseevich Gagarin, the first man in space, Soviet cosmonaut, 1961.
Поехали!
What's really sad is that Gagarin never lived to see 40.
If you circled the earth is a Satellite ship, then you know this. I shall first say, there are 2 groups. The flat earth believers, and the globe believers. Many Christians believe the Earth is a disc under a firmament. as they point this out in Genisus.Others believe in infinite Space and the Earth is a globe. You saw it, what did you see.
This a Hollywood level film.
One of the best 17 minutes I ever had in TH-cam.
"There ain't no war if there ain't a real enemy." I like when profundity slips into conversations.
All the dialogue here is written with knifelike precision. Excellent work.
And in his own ignorance, he saw war and an enemy where there was none.
The father reminds me of Michael Douglas' character in "Falling Down". The clothes, glasses, haircut, emotional instability, and even his voice.
Same
I thought the same thing too!
Yes, good movie
That gut-wrenching moment at 15:12 when the son's belief in his father is destroyed. And the father knows it.
Who's the enemy then? Me?
Well you're the one hanging an astronaut that landed on your farm because he's from Russia so yeah kinda 🤷♂️
@arkanove delije I don't typically just hang the people I disagree with politically.
The point was that the father thought that the cosmonaut was a spy or just someone evil in general. During the Cold War people were very cautious and thought that anyone that was from the opposing country was an enemy. The father was too fearful to actually care about the cosmonaut and didn't trust him either way.
As the father says and believes, "he is the enemy."
When you keep someone in small room with no water or food and then brutally murder him on eyes of your son just because he is commie, even tho you don't even know why is he here.
I do it usually.
@enver hoxha Capitalism is the enemy.
This is uncomfortably plausible
Hate to tell ya...
@@kj9219 wait is it real?
Yuri died when he and a flight instructor were flying a MiG and crashed. This is just a film. It was a good one, though.
@Keyzer Soze Oh.
That moment when you murder the first human that has been to space
John Cumbee hi halo combat evolved.
@@niklaskovacevic167 sup? I'm the future of gaming
Tbh with how hard he hit the ground he should be paist.
@@snipes_1138 yeah. Did you see a parachute on the ground around the capsule or anything?
@@sunderbans No I did not and with how fast he was going he should have gotten cooked.
When you realize that this might’ve actually happened due to the secrecy of the soviet union
When you realize that governments have been doing this for centuries because all governments are corrupt
Why though ? In the Film the landing was a success, maybe Not the place where IT should land but nevertheless
Think about what might have happened due to the secrecy of the US. The mind boggles. But go watch Pioneer One on TH-cam. 6 part series. Secrecy. Mars. etc.
@@noahparker50 To say that all governments are corrupt is super ignorant.
When you realize this might have actually happened in reverse due to the secrecy of the US government 🤔
In all seriousness, blaming the Soviet government would be very odd if this actually occured. A man was *murdered* by a crazed anti-communist farmer. Not killed by American military personnel who saw him as a threat. He was captured, bound, and killed by a vigilante. If the roles were reversed, and an American test pilot was murdered by Russian farmers after a crash landing, the world would be outraged by their behavior. Secret test flight or not. And let's just be honest, all test flights are secret. We've had plenty of test flights of our own, many of which weren't publically revealed until years to even decades after the fact.
Im 36 years old and I've watched 100's of movies. Your 10-24 min short films have had more of an impact on me than any 2 hr movie in Hollywood. So Impressive 🤘
I couldn't agree more.
It’s a real movie tho I’ve seen it early 2000
Let’s be honest everyone thought it was an alien crashing into earth not a human
Kinda the point of the first half of the short....
Well, he was technically an illegal alien...
Ye
No, only you
There's still enough left in me of that geeky sci-fi-loving kid I used be that I was a little disappointed that it wasn't.
Wow, this was amazing. It was tense, dramatic, the twist was awesome and the cinematography as well as music just superb. I think these shorts are criminally underrated.