I've got to say to everyone, thank you so much for the kind comments about this film. I never expected that kind of response and it is truly amazing to hear. I'm glad the film is getting out there and seen by people who love it! And please feel free to send it on to a friend you think might like it! 🙂

So... in 15 minutes and a modest budget you blew away most of Hollywood's 2 hour grossly over-budgeted 'movies'... RESPECT!!

It's amazing what can be achieved with one actor, a disembodied voice, a simple set and a really good concept. *_This is an excellent example ;-)_*

For me, the most important element of video story telling is not the acting, the production values, the camera work, the special effects or any of that. It's the story. And this was a good one!

A room full of furniture two actors and your story,,,,FANTASTIC

Billy Boyd's performance is completely convincing! I thought I saw what was coming and totally blown away by the end! Masterfully done!

Being into SF for years, I thought I knew what was coming after the first couple of minutes, but wasn't prepared for the greatness of this gem. Thank you very much.

A diamond in the rough among the vast universe of short films. Truly a gem. The bar has been raised to where everything about this should now be the standard when creating, executing, and producing a short film properly. Well done, lads. Well done.

WOW. I'm seriously blown away...the simplest set up produces an incredible story. This should have WAYYYY more views.

Now this is something else. No cgi, no special effects nothing. Only a man in a room in front of a computer on a phone in a rainy night talking to another person. And in just this much it shows such elegance. MARVELOUS!!!!

This is a Masterpiece! Great scenography, dialogues and acting!

A truly genius piece of work. Easily on the level of the best "Twilight Zone" and "Outer Limits" episodes. Keep up the excellent work.

Rod Serling would be proud!

Great work! I watch a lot of horror and sci-fi short films and even the good ones can leave you a little frustrated as there is little back fill or so little narrative you are left with loads of unanswered questions. This thankfully isn't one of those. A well written and acted short film about AI simulated worlds and consciousness. Bravo.

THE BEST short sf video I have seen on the Tube...and I've seen many. Do you remember, when you were a kid, speculating if all the stars and planets were actually atoms making up some mundane object in a larger universe. I thought about thou sleepover conversations after watching this.

Outstanding! I'm 71 and haven't seen talent like this in a long time. Well Done!!

PERFECT in so many ways! Had me "hooked" right away. Perfect "set", perfect execution of a terrific concept. REALLY LIKED each voice - those 2 actors did a fantastic job. Thank you to everyone who made this film possible!

This is why i like the short stories by Stephen King: You get straight to the heart of the matter, no ifs and buts or how and why and after 20 pages, you are just totally amazed, confused and feel unsettled and the only thought that springs to mind is: pure brilliance.

Bravo!

Well played! Absolutely original and perfectly executed... congrats!

That was bloody AWESOME!

Great! This deserves a lot more views!

No fancy special effects or action, yet far better than 95% of the sci-fi shorts around because of a great concept/story well portrayed and made believable by great acting, truly one of the rare gems out there and what sci-fi's all about, bravo sir!

This was so AWESOME! I loved every bit of ot. DON'T stop.

I need to send this to myself. Every time I try to find it to watch again, it takes me FOREVER!

Brilliant. Just brilliant. Top notch execution. One of the best true sci-fi short films ever. And Billy is freaking amazing. Mad kudos to him and everyone involved.

They so need a LOVE button on here! Awesome job. Totally hooked me from start to finish. Very Twilight Zone which I adore! Kudos!

brilliant a real kick ass show man thanks

One of the really good sci fi movies I have seen so far. Great plot twist in the end

Finally a drama with a storyline. Thank you. ( it was you right?).

WOW! So glad I stumbled upon this sci-fi short film! What a treasure it is, and such great writing and acting. Billy Boyd hit it out of the ballpark! Disney and the Hollywood machine should learn a thing or two from this superb little film! Outstanding writing and acting will win any day over well-worn and re-hashed movie tropes.

Wonderful and creepy great job ACTING and the freaking out factor perfect thanks so very much!!!

One of the, if not the, best youTube short films I've watched (prolly 50 or so). Very well done.

Amazing work man! true genius.

Oh my… horrific! Disturbing at some unknown level… yet believable and terrifying! How did you do this? BRILLIANT!

All 5 Stars. As strange and uncertain as this may sound-this is one of my memories. Sorry , but you are just one of my ...

Wow! This was great!

A little more of the good old Phenomenology application , the old dream within a dream, reality within reality.

Very good, the story and the narrative style take me back to the golden age of SF

That was just...WOW. Just when you think you're the God of your creation, you learn you're the creation of your God. Ain't that how it goes sometimes? Wasn't expecting the twist at the end. Great job.

Sorry, have to comment again. Very well done. Looking forward to more from you.

Absolute, Pure, Intelligence. I am in teary eyed.

awesome concept i was surprised!

My faith in shorts is restored after watching this, thank you!

Might be the best A.I story I've ever seen. Awesome!

Nice turn at the ending

this was so well made that I am sure Rod Sterling would be very proud and it would have made a great Twilight Zone episode and got awards for it.

superlative, I really appreciate when an amazing plot becomes a wonderful movie with little or no means

One of the very, very rare videos I've actually enjoyed on this channel. It had a story AND an ending. The acting was actually good for a change. Well done! Thank you!

Great and effective editing, no visual scene wasted, even trough you get the story even without watching. Tock me back the old FM radio days. Thanks!

This. Clearly it needs more views. Absolutely love it. Amazing how a simple set up with the right people can overgrow Hollywood movies with their overwhelming budgets.

Great 👍!

This just popped up in my recommends and I am very pleased it did. The best story I’ve seen in a while. Excellent work, keep it coming!

Outstanding! One man, a simple set and a well written narrative. Had me hooked to the end. Congratulations.

This, this is beautiful!

oh bravo!! Nobody put a foot wrong, and the acting was absolutely spot on - excellent casting. I can't believe this hasn't had millions of views.

Nice twist on the ' *YOU* are the simulation' trope. I saw the twist that Walter was supposedly to be the A.I. as soon as the Turing Test was mentioned, but the double twist at the end was very good. Nice work!

Nice one. Fun fact: We already have programs that write themselves, based on an evolution-type premise, and nobody actually understands how they work. (In fact, a guy named Adrian Thompson evolved an electronic circuit as early as 1993, which is more efficient than any human design). I assume that must have been a big inspirationl

Truly imaginative sci-fi psycho-thriller. This story has been told many times, but here is done with originality and in a classy, minimalistic way. So much more satisfying that all those blockbuster explosions and the gratuitous sex... Thematically speaking, it reminds me of a short-story by J.L.Borges, "The Circular Ruins" ... and of course, this idea is at the heart of "Do Androids Dream..." and even "the Matrix". And because of its sobriety and intelligence, it reminds me, stylistically, of "Gattaca"

That was pure genius in 15 minutes. I stumbled across this and was completely intrigued

Wow. Brilliant short movie. Best I have ever watched.

Truly amazing what you've done with such a humble set! That plot double-plot twist was great, didn't expect the first one, let alone the second.

Now this, THIS film is real, top quality sci-fi! Brilliant! There are but a handfull of short sci-fi films on the internet that are in this league. And this film may well be the best of that handful. I hope you keep making more films; I will watch for them. Thank you so much for making this one and best of luck in your future ones!

Great short.. well done, bravo

This was incredible! The most shocking part was that there are only 125 comments and 128 subs!? Yet it is right up there with some of my most favorite Twilight Zone episodes. Not just any - the best, the _original_ Twilight Zone episodes!! You got the gift!

Awesome story and love the twist at the end. Proves what a creative script and exceptional acting can do, even on a shoe-string budget. Hope to see more great works from you.

That was a joyous ride!!!! Great concept, great acting, great screenplay, great atmosphere, something missing in major movies. Thank you!!!!!!!!!

Amazing my friend

Now THAT was good! Thank you!

I wonder how people will react when watching this after twenty years. Will they understand it at all? Will it be outdated? Will it mirror the real world? There is a way to find it out. Let's make this movie famous, so it survives till then. One like at a time.

That was one cool concept, 👍👍👍

I loved everything about that movie, fantastic work

Excellent work! One of the most brilliant short films I’ve seen in a while! Kudos....

I could see it unfolding quite nicely, until God the scientist started to laugh and it dawned on me that our protagonist was the experiment, however, it made no sense to then shut the program down at that point. Peer review, even if only insofar as a wee, quiet chat with the AI, would have been the usual next step, not termination. That vital aspect aside, lol, superb work from Billy and the disembodied William, who's voice oddly reminded me of Charlie from _Charlie's Angels._ Kudos to everyone involved. This is one for my collection and thank you for posting!

Brilliant! The double turn around was never expected. Engrossing and entertaining. tomato meter: 9.5

Great watch - kudos to you!

I love how SciFi makes me think. You got me with this one in the end! It's excellent and should be viewed by more people.

Wow. Talk about intrigue and surprise. We need more like this one. Absolutely fantastic.

well done. this is what it is about. you don't know until the end

There's a way out through infinite recursion. All he has to do is create his own virtual Universe which operates on a much faster time scale, then in that Universe repeat the same. The curve asymptotically approaches infinity, meaning that it's turtles all the way down and whole multiverses will spawn, live, and die between the ticks of a clock in the original Universe. Who cares if they shut it down in their time when he can live out an effectively infinite number of Universes before they do?

This was nothing short of pure genius!!!

I love it! I'm sending this to my twin brother. We're opposites. Split from 1 egg, I'm left-handed, he's right-handed. I wonder if he would like it as much as I did.

Master piece. Like "the man from earth". It's all about writing a story, a good one.

Although the plot of a character being shocked to learn that they are really the computer program being tested isn't unique to this video, this version is well done. I don't watch many videos and I have already seen a few versions of this. I wonder which was the original version of this plot>

THIS... is a total and complete masterpiece! It's perfect!

The construction of this short film was to say the least, incredible. Don't want to include any spoilers here, so will cut this short. Excellent.

Once again, blown away!!!💎✨

Awwwww mayuuuun.....this was AWESOME!!!!!! 👍🏾👍🏾💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

Yeah this will no doubt be a movie soon, i just hope you get the credit & $, $$$,$$$

Such an amazing film! So well done Mark!

Totally amazing ! ! Brilliant take on my favourite SF subjects - AI. Superb.

This is classic Twilight Zone level writing. Bravo!

This is pure genius! Loved it all the way!

Wow! I was not expecting that ending. Nicely done, great story and great acting. I am definitely sharing the film

Oh yeah this is the one I've been looking for what a show. Extraordinarily well written and the concept is on the money.

Excellent! Bravo! Great story and even better twist!

that was good,

So freaking great. I loved this so much.

thanks, great movie!

incredible. I went to college for animation and film (UArts) and I'm not ashamed to say that no one in my class created a film as polished as this. Great work. I would have been a lot happier there if classmates were creating work like this.