Sci-Fi Short Film "The Manual" | DUST

Sci-Fi Short Film "The Manual" | DUST | Flashback Friday

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5 ай бұрын

In a dystopian future, the last human is raised by a machine. He struggles with the loneliness of no human interaction and questions the teachings of a mysterious religious 'Manual' which the machine claims is holy.
"The Manual" by Wil Magness
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In the distant future, James is the last human on Earth. He is raised and protected by a humanoid robot, the Machine, who brings him up on a strange composite religion described in a handheld device called The Manual. The Manual's teachings fuse aspects of old-world religion and incorporate robots as spiritual beings in the afterlife, alongside and equal to humans. The man wrestles with loneliness and depression while the search for other humans becomes more and more futile. As his faith in The Manual is shaken, he sets out to test one of The Manual's core beliefs: reincarnation to the next life in the city of the Creator. What he ﬁnds could be described terribly as exactly that.
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@Brianchse 5 ай бұрын

This film does something many of the others don't. It actually gives some semblance of an answer to what's going on at the end. So many of these films just cram a bunch of questions into their 15 minutes along with some decent acting and special effects and end without answering any of the questions. It's a let down most of the time.

@rockybalboa5552 21 күн бұрын

I completely agree. Ive watched like 5 or 6 times, showing it friends over the last like 5-7yrs . All things considered its 🤔 quite interesting about what happens next for me..and for you...because something else definitely happens. It's a worthy effort to describe what it could be for all of us in an insanely, absurdly, worldly, existence...

@thefrener794 15 күн бұрын

Does life have any answers? Life is open ended. I am glad they do not try to provide any answers most of the time. That is just how it should be. Let me wonder. You can get your happy ending at the Asian massage parlor.

@Brianchse 14 күн бұрын

@@thefrener794 notice: This isn't life. It's a short film. Smh

@thefrener794 14 күн бұрын

@@Brianchse Again this is how life is. No answers you have to provide those for yourself. So yeah I do not need an answer for these, I will use my imagination and provide my own various endings.

@Brianchse 14 күн бұрын

@@thefrener794 and again I wasn't talking about life, as this film isn't life. If you want to use your imagination to tell yourself a story, or to imagine you're answering unanswered questions, have at it Haus. But I still think films that make sense and give a finished feel are much better than the lazy ones that don't.

@jermainemcgill 5 ай бұрын

This was the best SciFi short film when it came out and it still holds up. Incredible writing and a great twist at the end.

@jameswcollett 5 ай бұрын

I think it is a cheap slap at the end. Also unoriginal.

@rockybalboa5552 21 күн бұрын

I completely agree with the poster and diagree with your reply. Ive watched like 5 or 6 times, showing it friends over the last like 5-7yrs . All things considered its 🤔 quite interesting about what happens next for me..and for you...because something else definitely happens. It's a worthy effort to describe what it could be for all of us in an insanely, absurdly, worldly, existence...

@mrwoodandmrtin 5 ай бұрын

The one good thing about post-apocalyptic settings is that you don't need a big cast. The bad thing is that they are hardly ever romantic comedy.

@JohnDavies-wi6oq 5 ай бұрын

By far my favourite movie that needs Hollywood to make it known to the masses.... amazing always keeps me thinking.

@crayder1100 5 ай бұрын

This is exactly how I imagine future AI will be. Like once we have a stable ground, a "brain", that can handle an extremely large network of "neurons". By that time we'll surely have other AI capable of simulating a reality, and subjecting the newborn brain AI to a life within it. The brain AI would grow up just like a human, for multiple lifetimes (not remembering them during this of course), then be brought to the real reality and realize they are an AI. They would then have a personality developed from their combined simulated lifetimes. This personality would be evaluated by humans. Finally, if passing the tests, it will be turned into a cellphone and become a human companion - or turned into a vacuum or toaster. And this is how the Brave Little Toaster was born.

@Ariahlynnn 5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂😂

@Glidingjackdaw 5 ай бұрын

😂...👏🏼

@placidqualm 5 ай бұрын

Hate to make the comparison, but this makes me think of cookies from black mirror. Forced to live lifetimes in moments.

@rockybalboa5552 21 күн бұрын

@fabled-pilgrim 2 күн бұрын

I won't pretend to understand all of the hidden existential meaning running through this film but I can appreciate what a quality production this is. The ending certainly caught me off guard which is a rarity these days. Also, kudos to the acting lead. His performance really sucked me in and had me invested in the character.

@mundanestuff 5 ай бұрын

Interesting take on things, and I especially loved the large hose clamp on his neck at the end. Practical props for the win.

@HawkGTboy 5 ай бұрын

Haha, I recognized it as a hose clamp immediately as well.

@rockybalboa5552 21 күн бұрын

@christhescienceguy6285 5 ай бұрын

The writing, the concept, and the music in this movie is amazing.

@unwantedspirt 2 ай бұрын

the very start of this film just ripped my heart out of my chest as a daddy

@DaleWheeler 5 ай бұрын

Original and well made. Simply GREAT!👍👍

@starlord 5 ай бұрын

Music definitely had some Philip Glass Koyaanisqatsi vibes to it. Was almost painful waiting so long for him to hop in near the end... The story touched on relevant elements, thought provoking, indeed.

@rockybalboa5552 21 күн бұрын

@grammybear4226 5 ай бұрын

🐼 Big Panda Bear Hugs from a 70 yr old grandma in Texas, USA and by the way l'm subscribed and l hit Like. 🐼 ❤ 🎀 👍

@Hashakgig 5 ай бұрын

This is one of the sweetest comments I've read today.

@Jerbies_Kimmers 2 ай бұрын

Certainly did not expect that. Great short🙂

@user-tp9pr1jm6w 5 ай бұрын

Great job. Enjoyed it very much. Thanks.

@faqu2gamer566 5 ай бұрын

Who ever came up with the concept what to say, an exceptional piece of creative writing. Are we there yet?

@barsei1511 5 ай бұрын

an interesting way to create a service robot. great movie!

@crinamanea5971 5 ай бұрын

Just ...fantastic! Original idea and well play, thank you!

@frankwafer6919 5 ай бұрын

Wow, fantastic - Merry Christmas!🎅🌲!

@nicohaab9967 3 ай бұрын

agree yes very much fantastic!

@thaddeesylvant5159 5 ай бұрын

Magnifique, merci.

@beatrixhiperkarma7722 5 ай бұрын

Great soundtrack

@craigswanson8026 4 ай бұрын

Compelling AF. Exceptional vision and execution. Congratulations on a tremendous accomplishment. 💚🖖🏼

@NBC_NCO 5 ай бұрын

We are spiritual beings having a human experience. Why do I always look up at the stars? It is because instinct tells me I am missing something.

@Lordfoogthe3st 5 ай бұрын

But couldn’t that just be our desire to have meaning? We have emotional attachment to our reality. If our reality is purposeless that would cause one to desire that purpose. Why do we need to be spiritual to have that desire?

@Glidingjackdaw 5 ай бұрын

We are the Universe experiencing itself.

@arseniboston9659 4 ай бұрын

@@Glidingjackdaw am I experiencing you ?

@Glidingjackdaw 4 ай бұрын

@arseniboston9659 Yes,as I am experiencing You,Everything in the Universe is connected.

@TheDaveRout 5 ай бұрын

Good film, enjoyed it

@ThomasPCGuruENGINES 4 ай бұрын

24.:50 when a person in existential pain decides to proceed with suicide, they feel happy in anticipation of an end to their pain...accurate portrayal, but a trap. Please do not copy the protagonist...the same result is unlikely. Now for your horoscope: You will face a difficult choice. The correct decision will begin a healing process. Things undreamt of will come your way, changing your path and your very self. You will find companionship, truth, meaning and acceptance...

@murmisrs5092 3 ай бұрын

It was cool! Thank you for sharing!

@QuaidleVision 5 ай бұрын

Nice Work!

@ResidentMazeRat 5 ай бұрын

Bravo!

@MrKim-kv2vv 5 ай бұрын

Excellent! 🙋🏼

@KeithCopeland778 3 ай бұрын

Excellent!!!! I didn't see the ending coming!

@nicohaab9967 3 ай бұрын

yesss thats what I thought!

@sirussid3671 2 ай бұрын

The more I watch films from dust the more I ❤️ “ them 👍

@launahughes7751 5 ай бұрын

Excellent

@pacogonzalez7855 5 ай бұрын

original y excelente.

@ValerAM1000 5 ай бұрын

.. the World, Music, Spirit, and meditation ..

@nicohaab9967 3 ай бұрын

yes agree!

@kevinmathew4173 5 ай бұрын

❤

@lunainezdelamancha3368 10 күн бұрын

😂... pretty good!

@woritsez 5 ай бұрын

was sad when machine went

@nicohaab9967 3 ай бұрын

yes

@leonestello8519 5 ай бұрын

👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾For someone who skipped through piece by piece and watched only the end after that (Yawn) beginning, this reminde me of "Chrysalis"👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾👾

@vulcanlogic4480 4 ай бұрын

Some people can’t be alone.

@AnotherCG 5 ай бұрын

Should be called "The Casket"

@asadasemwali8365 5 ай бұрын

Profound perception on Christianity!! Interesting.

@Lordfoogthe3st 5 ай бұрын

The ending explains nothing. So he’s a robot brain all along? Who’s his community, himself over and over again? Do his parents actually exist or were they in his head all along?

@Mangolorian-je3eo 5 ай бұрын

You know the usual cop out: something something own interpretation.

@PrimitiveInTheExtreme 5 ай бұрын

📜🤖📜

@jamesbarry1673 5 ай бұрын

This is what happens when you're not used to having domestic staff

@Glidingjackdaw 5 ай бұрын

...😂

@jimgagne3801 4 ай бұрын

You know this wouldn't be that bad... She could still give a hand dooky . I mean her voice isn't annoying like my wife.

@andrewhancock2451 3 ай бұрын

I like the film until the end. Too many films end up having too many unexplained things to tie up and end it with the explanation that it was a dream or a simulation.

@SuperDiddzz 5 ай бұрын

have i seen this before?

@Lordfoogthe3st 5 ай бұрын

I got deja vu too

@SuperDiddzz 5 ай бұрын

@@Lordfoogthe3st strange!

@jintermax1073 27 күн бұрын

same here

@LilRedDog 5 ай бұрын

Background music a lot like like what was used in the short film "More" "Elegia" written by New Order.

@user-xl6jp6qc6m 5 ай бұрын

Poderia twr legenda em português 😢

@michaelnelson5872 5 ай бұрын

Seen it

@HawkGTboy 5 ай бұрын

They should have hired a person with experience as a mime to be the robot. Her movements are way too organic and human.

@eugenetswong 5 ай бұрын

I thought that her hips moved too much in a feminine way.

@Lordfoogthe3st 5 ай бұрын

Not necessarily. They’d make the robot to be as close to human as possible.

@user-xl6jp6qc6m 5 ай бұрын

Ela é um modelo feminino, provavelmente essa é a intenção 😂@@eugenetswong

@eugenetswong 5 ай бұрын

😀@@user-xl6jp6qc6m

@lee-leesong5941 4 ай бұрын

What's A.S.?

@ronbianco5919 3 ай бұрын

My guess is “After Sentience”

@rocinant5318 5 ай бұрын

I Would like to say that , girl who plays a Robot does really good job with that movements! i mean , we always talk about human actors playing humans , but never about humans playing robots right? :( My full support to this robot she did good job , If i was robot , i would make a nuclear fusion in her heart , but that will be done in next life! ok ok my robot rizz is done , I enjoyed this film! Visuals 8/10 Sound 9/10 Story 8/10

@mahalalel7771 5 ай бұрын

Not my style but it's okay. Can't be a winner everytime.

@Vikas.03 5 ай бұрын

Don't waste your time, not worth it at all

@ShiftyGeeza 5 ай бұрын

AI plays God. Nice. Would a super intelligent AI that creates simulated sentient beings and a simulated reality to exist in be its God? Could it create a religion that included a simulated heaven for it's followers within that reality? Would those beings be right in worshipping it? If we were in a simulation then life after death would in fact be entirely possible within it.

@theinvisiblesupport7346 5 ай бұрын

First to say super

@karuptindustrees 5 ай бұрын

One robot and its sci-fi.......not.

@Lordfoogthe3st 5 ай бұрын

Dystopia, every human dead, apocalypse, futuristic robot. Yes, this is the definition of sci fi.

@Peekaboo-Kitty 5 ай бұрын

I don't get it.

@user-vn4lm2du6o 5 ай бұрын

Not impressed. It was well made, but the storyline was dull and meaningless.

@rockybalboa5552 21 күн бұрын

I respectfully disagree. All things considered its 🤔 quite interesting about what happens next for me..and for you...because something else definitely happens. It's a worthy effort to describe what it could be for all of us in an insanely, absurdly, worldly, existence

@klyanadkmorr 5 ай бұрын

A MAGAt Robot

@mbv1462 5 ай бұрын

Manually here

@kurtweiand7086 3 ай бұрын

Prepare for your finals, read the bible!

@Darklove720 5 ай бұрын

I am first viewer by mistake ( manual

@jameswcollett 5 ай бұрын

Lazy ending. Meaningless.

@NBC_NCO 5 ай бұрын

When you are narrow-minded.

@NBC_NCO 5 ай бұрын

@Lordfoogthe3st we are spiritual beings having a human experience. School is not what you have been taught. The physical classroom you are aware of is where you earn a degree in unicornolgy. Pay bills purchase items. Look at what I've done... Rinse and repeat. Your entire human life experience... is the classroom. What will you learn and commit to memory? For not one physical thing, you will have in the end. Wash Rinse and repeat. Unless you become a student. Still above your paygrade. Give it three more times. Deja vu.

@Lordfoogthe3st 5 ай бұрын

@@NBC_NCOyes, these are the concepts of pointlessness one may find in the human experience which the film talks about. None of these are brought to light in the ending though. The ending had not addition to the story. It had no explanation or anything. In my opinion it was lazy.

@Lordfoogthe3st 5 ай бұрын

@@NBC_NCOI’m also curious, what religion do you follow?

@NBC_NCO 5 ай бұрын

@@Lordfoogthe3st None of them fit me.