I think the story was even better if he didn’t helped the little girl in the end. The spoiled kid is getting what she want, people are never satisfied.
i have even seen it and im pissed… first of all butterfly effect was a shitty movie and if anyone references they should die a tragic and slightly funny death… denver has got good weed, and the broncos suck… its cool that it won awards… but i still probably wont watch it
This is inspireing peice of work ,the chain reaction of events and variations show you the “what if factor “we all think about well done .nice colour change as the sceans roll from the start sin city style.
There will always be stupid people out there criticizing everything they see.
For example, maybe a masterpiece work of art is shown on the internet. Comments will range from “Wow it’s beautiful!” to “OMG NO LIFE GET A GIRLFRIEND!”.
This is a great movie and it deserves every award.
I agree that it might have made for a more intriguing bit if the little girl had had to suffer the broken doll.
In fact, since no one else seems to take notice of him, when she looks over and meets his gaze; it might have been an interesting choice to have the car (which, I notice, eventually stops appearing) run her down.
Actually I think the fixing the doll thing makes the ultimate point.
He’s a good actor and throughout the whole movie he portrays very well ‘Dammit, I gotta fix that,SOB’
I think it displays the Reluctant Hero very well. Dude has the power, but the responsibility sucks.
Matt… grow up. Seriously. The Butterfly Effect is a term that has been around much MUCH longer then that (average, not crap) film.
And the fact that you won’t watch this simply because someone refrenced a concept that a totally unrelated movie happened to also touch on proves you are quite immature.
I find the notion that playing God makes you screw things more much more plausible, therefore enjoyed first half of the movie and was disappointed with the ending….
I love it!!!
What a great parable about the interaction between DJ and crowd (there always, ALWAYS being someone who’s not satisfied with the DJ’s performance, as the comments demonstrate).
Wonder why nobody else realized…
Fuck the comments about the girl “better fix the doll herself” and such. It’s great!!! It’s wonderful!!
I think it was sometime in 2000 or 2001 when I saw a flash animation that is very similar to this video.
I tried to find a link to the swf but the company that made it seems to no longer acknowledge it’s creation.
But that’s not important right now…
The flash animation was called groove monkey. It was about this alien monkey who came to this busy city and was overwhelmed by the noise and people not getting along then out of nowhere a kid who was playing with a ball on the sidewalk looses control of his toy which he follows into the street and is subsequently hit by an oncoming car. Groove monkey, who is an alien DJ rewinds a record which rewinds time and he is able to save the boy. He then manipulates the sounds that the people on the street are making causing everybody to get along and dance in the street.
It was a very good flash animation which is very similar to this video.
Now it’s going to drive me mad until I find the flash.
some of the god comments are silly. a god has nothing to do with what happens in our daily lives. There is no omnipotent being peering down on us making decisions that play out within our lives. only people that have not learned to think for themselves believes that our fate is being willed by a higher power. if people put the same energy into solving world hunger or global peace as they do being lemmings for churches who only want their money, we would have a beautiful, harmonious world around us. put your faith in your own actions. all that being said, I still liked it. the entire time i wanted to see how things would play out so i finished it and i think that makes it a good short film. peace.
I liked it . A modern day shamen with an electronic box. Well thought out. The esoteric replay. I see more interest in this type of genre. Changing one small part or even minor incident in the past has a phenomenol effect on any future event. Don’t we all look for some blessing to change a drastic event. We live in an electro magnetic world. Mind an material. The only impossible is the closed mind.
I’d like to know what people mean when they say this was “a bit Christian” or “boring. and it sucked”. A bit Christian…how, exactly? I think this is more about you being afraid of talking about destiny or predestination, because there’s no referencing of God or gods here that I can see. That inference is there for you to make, you made it - so maybe you’re the one protesting too much rather than this trying to give you any dogma to swallow. And if you’re going to say nothing more than something’s “boring. and it sucked” then, well, you’re just a little bit tragic. You can’t even be bothered to thumb the SHIFT key long enough to start a sentence; you can’t formulate an opinion; therefore, why bother saying anything?
I think this is a stunning short film. It raises ideas of interconnectedness and how our actions ripple across the lives of others. It allows us to see godlike action and the consequences of having that sort of power - without the witless gurning of a film like Bruce Almighty or the mindboggling awfulness of The Butterfly Effect - and does it in under 9 minutes. I do think the last little bit with the DJ’s consciousness looking into the life stories of the protagonists is a bit cheesy - but that’s just because the rest of the film takes place in the present so much (despite mucking about with that present) that the ‘life story’ bit looks a bit silly. And the ending would be better, as mentioned above, if the cosmic DJ did nothing to the doll, or if the girl fixed it herself. Not sure what one of the comments above about the girl, saying that she’s spoilt, is about - as far as I can tell a lot of energy is gone into making the child perfectly normal, if a little focused on her doll (aren’t most small girls focused on such things?). She and the DJ share a very well directed moment, staring at each other, and her expression isn’t spoilt or unpleasant at all.
Overall, it’s a fantastic short. Ignore the moron statements above obviously motivated by either (a) not having actually watched it, (b) the desperate need to do down anything someone else has done, since they haven’t ever done anything with their lives and are feeling the burn of failure, or (c) simply having a very small, very closed mind. It’s nice to see films play about with time and be ironically infused without ending on a down note or being essentially a bad, overlong joke. Fabulous.
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this has been done many, many times, countless variations. not at all original. youngsters think its great beacause, a- there’s a dj involved, and b- they have been made stupid by television and absent parents. oh yea, and none of you can spell…
Yes, that’s right Dr G, none of us can spell. That’s why you appear to have an issue with the commonly accepted “yeah”. Got a problem with the subvocalised H? You poor thing. Also, you seem to have distinct trouble with the word because, as well as the traditional lack of ability in starting a sentence with a capital letter.
And yes, of course it’s been done before. I would like you to attempt to find a truly original, never-been-done-before-in-any-form piece of narrative fiction published or produced in the last 20 years. Then you can get on your little soapbox. There are only so many ideas in the world. This is just a very nice way of approaching one of them.
Those of you who so loosely pass the term “Butterfly Effect” around need to do some research. The movie was horrid; the term/title is lifted from a 1952 short story, “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury. It’s about a dinosaur hunting trip into the past (read it first; condemn hunting second) where one of the hunters steps off the elevated path and kills a butterfly.
The trail of events following that killed butterfly change the future.
I liked the end - it shows the dilemma of the main character to “fix” things.
The end is open:
We see that he fixes the doll - CUT - we see him running away and don’t know what happened this time when he tried to fix another thing….
True. The groundhog day theme is totally over done, but this is really an original approach. As Nat was saying you can’t really find anything that “hasn’t been done” but certainly there are a lot of different approaches to the same ideas and problems… or else I might as well just quit my job as a photographer! lol!
I enjoyed it, it was good for a short film. There isn’t many movies out there that explore the butterfly effect, other than the one with the namesake, so it was nice to see that concept explored in a modern urban setting.
TOO SHORT! Seems the spirit with this is something within the heart of a neomusician. Visual is becoming the medium to replace music to gain entry into the heart. Think of it as part of the human evolution. What did Chopin and Mozart give us when there was only medium of music and sound. Now we have visual. Artists are trying to speak and move the human soul and spirit today with film. God be with the visual artist. I liked the short film. Not for the sound, just the vision. We still Need SHAKERS and MOVERS.
Um, very interesting. I enjoyed this very much, but I think I would have the Dj get hit by the vehicle in the end. And everyone stop and stare at him. Perhaps too predictable, but I like the darker twists to things….rather then the sweet and innoncent. Or at the end, have one little snap of dialogue.
Fantastically well done! Yes, it is an old theme, but it is reconstructed in a new way that is succinct, well written, well directed and well acted. The film, as can be seen from all the comments here, creates philosophical arguments. Considering “Philosophy Major, Anything helps, God Bless” are the only words in the film, maybe all the arguments that are being held by everyone that is responding to the film is exactly what the Director and Writer were looking for from their audience. If you had power, how would you tweak the present?
(I love the idea of the sound equipment as the tools for change and transition. Someone connected with the film had background in the music industry.)
I think the film is wonderfully done. The ending? I guess it all depends upon how each viewer interprets the film and that determines how they feel about the ending. I thought it was a good connection between one of the initiators of the event series (the young girl) and the transformer of events (the DJ). The film became less of a game of change and more one of seeing into the heart of the “DJ of Change”.
I guess one of the final questions that the film makes for the viewers is:
‘Does the DJ represent You or someone or some being else?’
i have even seen it and im pissed… first of all butterfly effect was a shitty movie and if anyone references they should die a tragic and slightly funny death… denver has got good weed, and the broncos suck… its cool that it won awards… but i still probably wont watch it
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You’re a stoner. Your opinion is invalid.
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# Mary Jane Says:
June 11th, 2007 at 3:58 am
Slightly overrated
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You’re an idiot.
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# majd Says:
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:15 pm
this is a very very WEAK short movie.
its is LAME. am very sorry, am not even gonna spend time explaining why.
it isn’t worth it.
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And you have the imagination of a peeled grape.
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The broken doll thingy came across as that he was fixing it because it was just as important to someone as the other stuff. Especially as the little girl probably percieves it to have almost a life of it’s own; so not fixing it would have been as bad to her as someone actually dying, athough she obviously would have got over it faster. Anyway whats wrong with a little compassion? Perhaps though im reading to much into that.
Did make me think of Faithless, ‘God is a DJ’.
i think this would have been better if he just kept messing everything up more and more until finally he returns it back to the original instance of the biker being hit. but on the other hand that would be kind of pointless.
To me, the message is loud and clear - sometimes we do have a second chance to live a better or happier life. That is where God comes into the picture - to make a way where there is no way.
It’s a good illustration to show that God is always in control and He can change what needs to be changed. Moreover it is also part of His plan to allow things to happen because all things happen for good for those who love and trust HIM (Romans 8:28).
God bless the producer of this meaningful clip. It’s inspirational indeed and if we put our thoughts to it, we will get the big picture in life - that God is good and would love to undo all the harms that evil and carelessness have wrought into this world of ours.
What you say about the Ray Brabury short story is certainly true but surely it was Edward Lorenz, a meteorologist, who made popular the term and the associated Chaos theory. He presented a paper at a conference in 1972 entitled “Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?”, after discovering that making small changes to his computer model of the earth’s atmosphere would produce wildly varying results; perhaps he was a fan of Bradbury?
Either way, back on topic, I liked the film (although maybe the guy should have cut his losses at the doll!) and I like Pierres idea too (3 posts up).
Don’t you ever use my [southpark]ing name again. Posting with some completely vacuous remarks; “denver has got good weed”. What the southpark does that have to do with this work of viral-art?
Well deserved aware. Great touch at the end with the little girl recognising that he the power to fix things.
It’s odd to see a movie made in the US about people co-operating and working together, or doing anything good. US movies usually reflect real life…shootings, muggings, everyone out for themselves etc.
Whatever all yo opinions were on it - and some of them are pretty deep (you must be stoned). The movie was good and entertaining. I thought of the God reference, but what comes more to my mind is the DJ wishing he could redo that mix that he blew or pull back that song that cleared the floor.
If it wasted 10 minutes of your life, get back on your PS3 - all will be fine soon.
Put it this way, it blows anything away that Michael Moore or one of those morons ever did. Maybe we should give him the Nobel Peace prize instead of Gore. God knows this guy did more…
Great video. The question i have is why was it a basketball!!! Must be filmed in LA or something. Next time try a really sport like soccer or street hockey. lol. just wanted to make a comment that hasnt been made. doog boj! peek ti pu.
Nice short… Congrats to the creator he/she has done a wonderful job.
I think some of the comments about the ending are justified and think it would have worked better if he had walked up and fixed the doll himself, but it’s all good.
It used to infuriate me when i seen crazy comments from people like Matt but to be honest now I just don’t give a toss what these people think any more. They wasted there obviously not very important time to write a comment that is just useless to everyone.
Now I just laugh and realise that they are probably just kids, slow or just trying to get a reaction so fuck em
Like all “art”, if most people think it is great, it is probably mediocrity sprinkled with a bit of philosophy 101 and served with a heaping side of corporate-massaged pop culture. The concept here is an old one, but in this incarnation it caters to young people who think they are “deep”, people like Nat who go on and on about why it is such a great work of art, and then proceeds to show his intellectual shortcomings by using sophomoric words like “protagonist” and “dogma”. If you are as smart as you want us to think, then you would agree that this film ain’t so great, that, like the subculture it appeals to, it lacks nuance and depth, and a general ignorance of quality. And I’ve got news for most of you- deejaying is not the great new art form that the older generation just does not understand(like jazz before it). It is just another technique for artists to use. In the long run, people will lose their infatuation with the technology, and there will be less and less opportunities for the charismatic x dealer to pass himself off as an artist because it gets him laid.
Thank you all who commented. I really enjoyed reading them all. So interesting to see people’s reaction on this. I smiled, laughed, frowned, wrinkled my forehead ,and raised an eyebrow reading the comments.
This film was an enjoyable. I would like to see the competition it had, to win 35 awards. The concept isn’t new and the delivery wasn’t all that original but it was fun to watch. I don’t think it was anything amazing though.
It’s alright. Nice little movie. Wouldn’t call it “amazing”, but it teaches some nice concepts to the “kids”. Basically, you can’t control everything, so just relax, take life’s challenges as they come, and be tolerant. Everyone’s happier this way. Life’s a coin toss (symbolized by the DJ’s giving that gentle push on the turn-table).
They really should cover things like philosophy in high school. Would be nice for students to graduate with more than the simple building blocks of knowledge. Critical thinking, analytical skills, and basic understanding of human psyche and philosophy would make for much more enriched kids entering adlthood.
All you artfags and douchebags on the extreme ends of the comments should probably just shut the fuck up about it now, unless you’re going to put your money where your mouth is and create something better.
Why is it that no one can post anything creative and entertaining online these days w/o a chorus of “seen it” and “totally sucked” on the one hand, and “OMG BEST THING EVARRRRR” on the other?
Though, to be honest, I’m more inclined to read the overly-supportive stuff, since at least it’s SUPPORTIVE. The rest is just pretentious assholes showing off.
Filmmaker, well done.
The rest of you, STFU already. Sheez.
Loved it - it made me smile - was feeling good - read a few reviews and got to - Judy Says:
May 19th, 2007 at 3:02 pm - typical female - ruined another moment
Amazing film! Excellent editing, very entertaining and great message. Just thought’d I’d be a another Jewish doctor that appreciated something productive to come out in the film industry recently. FUCK! Go to hell other doctor jew
hmm it was ok. nothing special though. it was too incoherent to make ONE final statement. more explanations can be possible.
furthermore it wasn’t very original as Psyfive allready proved.
so i don’t agree with the AMAZING FILM!!! comments on here praising it into heaven.
and I could win 35 awards with my short film
all depends wich contests i enter.
I could win the annual short film contest at my community center 35 times.
that doesn’t make me an amazing film maker
That DJ was a Q T… my mom sent me this and said to watch it… I laughed my butt off when he packed his tables up the first time and it all went wrong again…
This was good and it deserved the awards it got for the thought and work that went into it….
This was titz on a ritz, Captain Spitz. I rocked with it from start to finitz. Well done, good camera work, editing, lighting, writing, and kung fu fighting.
No appreciative props lost on this pops.
if he could slow time down, then maybe he could speed time up and hook up with that little girl when she’s old enough for him to rock out with his cock out.
Brilliantly made short film and deserves every award it received. Not only was the storyline great but the quality of the filming was awesome.
Fixing the girls doll up at the end portrays what I believe the directors own perfectionism by not settling with near enough but rather going that bit further to make things perfect.
I want one of this, i can give any price for this awesome movie oh I need this to be mine, this is superb! oh yeah! best film ever! yeah! mmmmh! (fags!:)
April 26th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
It’s Denver! Love it
April 27th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
Butterfly effect…awesome!
April 27th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
that is absolutely immense and worth every award
April 27th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
What bloody award?
April 27th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
You can find out more about the short film here:
http://www.doubleedgefilms.com
April 27th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
yeah its denver! schweet.
May 14th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
I think the story was even better if he didn’t helped the little girl in the end. The spoiled kid is getting what she want, people are never satisfied.
May 19th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Very insightful. I could have used that guy and his magic a few times in my life.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:32 am
i have even seen it and im pissed… first of all butterfly effect was a shitty movie and if anyone references they should die a tragic and slightly funny death… denver has got good weed, and the broncos suck… its cool that it won awards… but i still probably wont watch it
May 24th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
This is inspireing peice of work ,the chain reaction of events and variations show you the “what if factor “we all think about well done .nice colour change as the sceans roll from the start sin city style.
May 24th, 2007 at 6:58 pm
wow… that was actually pretty good…. i’ve learned something… never jugde a clip by its comments…
May 30th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
What matt has said is so true.
There will always be stupid people out there criticizing everything they see.
For example, maybe a masterpiece work of art is shown on the internet. Comments will range from “Wow it’s beautiful!” to “OMG NO LIFE GET A GIRLFRIEND!”.
This is a great movie and it deserves every award.
June 9th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
I agree that it might have made for a more intriguing bit if the little girl had had to suffer the broken doll.
In fact, since no one else seems to take notice of him, when she looks over and meets his gaze; it might have been an interesting choice to have the car (which, I notice, eventually stops appearing) run her down.
June 11th, 2007 at 3:58 am
Slightly overrated
June 12th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
That was great - but I was expecting him to go fix the doll himself at the end!
June 14th, 2007 at 11:50 am
It is worth watching…
The ending would have been better if the girl had just smiled at the guy, and fixed the doll herself.
THANKS to Denver
June 16th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Changing the world, one person at a time….Love it!
June 19th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
Utterly amazing.
June 19th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
I want to do that
June 20th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
the fact that people are complaining about the ending just proves its point, people are NEVER satisfied.
June 26th, 2007 at 1:39 am
Actually I think the fixing the doll thing makes the ultimate point.
He’s a good actor and throughout the whole movie he portrays very well ‘Dammit, I gotta fix that,SOB’
I think it displays the Reluctant Hero very well. Dude has the power, but the responsibility sucks.
June 30th, 2007 at 1:18 am
This i pretty cool but certainly overrated. Not “OMG Bestest vid evArrr!!!” But yes entertaining and well made. Maybe not award worthy.
June 30th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
well i liked it :)
June 30th, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Matt… grow up. Seriously. The Butterfly Effect is a term that has been around much MUCH longer then that (average, not crap) film.
And the fact that you won’t watch this simply because someone refrenced a concept that a totally unrelated movie happened to also touch on proves you are quite immature.
July 1st, 2007 at 7:50 pm
it shows you what a hard job God has got
July 1st, 2007 at 9:55 pm
I find the notion that playing God makes you screw things more much more plausible, therefore enjoyed first half of the movie and was disappointed with the ending….
July 2nd, 2007 at 2:01 am
It wasn’t really anything special….and abit christian
July 10th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
Very cool short. Kind of makes me think about that special effects guy from “On The Lot”, although much simpler in terms of the effects.
July 22nd, 2007 at 1:38 am
I love it!!!
What a great parable about the interaction between DJ and crowd (there always, ALWAYS being someone who’s not satisfied with the DJ’s performance, as the comments demonstrate).
Wonder why nobody else realized…
Fuck the comments about the girl “better fix the doll herself” and such. It’s great!!! It’s wonderful!!
July 24th, 2007 at 11:58 pm
I think it was sometime in 2000 or 2001 when I saw a flash animation that is very similar to this video.
I tried to find a link to the swf but the company that made it seems to no longer acknowledge it’s creation.
But that’s not important right now…
The flash animation was called groove monkey. It was about this alien monkey who came to this busy city and was overwhelmed by the noise and people not getting along then out of nowhere a kid who was playing with a ball on the sidewalk looses control of his toy which he follows into the street and is subsequently hit by an oncoming car. Groove monkey, who is an alien DJ rewinds a record which rewinds time and he is able to save the boy. He then manipulates the sounds that the people on the street are making causing everybody to get along and dance in the street.
It was a very good flash animation which is very similar to this video.
Now it’s going to drive me mad until I find the flash.
The video was good though.
oh yeah, Denver! woot!
August 2nd, 2007 at 2:45 am
dude, this was boring. and it sucked.
August 3rd, 2007 at 3:34 am
Amusing :)
August 3rd, 2007 at 11:19 am
TO ALL THE MAKERS. PRODUCERS, ACTORS OF THIS SHORT FILM . . . MAGNIFICO!
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
August 3rd, 2007 at 5:52 pm
some of the god comments are silly. a god has nothing to do with what happens in our daily lives. There is no omnipotent being peering down on us making decisions that play out within our lives. only people that have not learned to think for themselves believes that our fate is being willed by a higher power. if people put the same energy into solving world hunger or global peace as they do being lemmings for churches who only want their money, we would have a beautiful, harmonious world around us. put your faith in your own actions. all that being said, I still liked it. the entire time i wanted to see how things would play out so i finished it and i think that makes it a good short film. peace.
August 3rd, 2007 at 10:44 pm
wa333333333333333 perfect Oo
August 3rd, 2007 at 10:46 pm
This short is sooo great! It makes me want to go home and try to write something that awesome.
I loved it!
It deserved all of the awards!
August 4th, 2007 at 4:29 am
the same thing happened to me
a long time ago….
in a place very far away
August 6th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
the best 8 minutes I’ve spent watching anything..perhaps ever.Left with a warm, fuzzy feeling.
August 6th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Great film.
Now… how many people’s lives can YOU change… in a positive way?
August 7th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
This is great, I loved it.
August 8th, 2007 at 11:02 am
very interesting…
August 8th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
very nice, i love this clip! great work!
August 9th, 2007 at 1:57 am
Enjoyed this very much. Every choice we make has consequences, too bad we don’t own that record player! GodBless!
August 12th, 2007 at 3:11 am
I liked it . A modern day shamen with an electronic box. Well thought out. The esoteric replay. I see more interest in this type of genre. Changing one small part or even minor incident in the past has a phenomenol effect on any future event. Don’t we all look for some blessing to change a drastic event. We live in an electro magnetic world. Mind an material. The only impossible is the closed mind.
August 12th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
GOD is a DJ… ;)
August 12th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
That was the most moving poignant thing i have seen on the internet in…ever! totally enthralled and loved every minute of it!!! Thanks!!!
August 13th, 2007 at 4:55 am
As if a drug addicts going to hand over a fistful of cash.
August 13th, 2007 at 8:43 am
I’d like to know what people mean when they say this was “a bit Christian” or “boring. and it sucked”. A bit Christian…how, exactly? I think this is more about you being afraid of talking about destiny or predestination, because there’s no referencing of God or gods here that I can see. That inference is there for you to make, you made it - so maybe you’re the one protesting too much rather than this trying to give you any dogma to swallow. And if you’re going to say nothing more than something’s “boring. and it sucked” then, well, you’re just a little bit tragic. You can’t even be bothered to thumb the SHIFT key long enough to start a sentence; you can’t formulate an opinion; therefore, why bother saying anything?
I think this is a stunning short film. It raises ideas of interconnectedness and how our actions ripple across the lives of others. It allows us to see godlike action and the consequences of having that sort of power - without the witless gurning of a film like Bruce Almighty or the mindboggling awfulness of The Butterfly Effect - and does it in under 9 minutes. I do think the last little bit with the DJ’s consciousness looking into the life stories of the protagonists is a bit cheesy - but that’s just because the rest of the film takes place in the present so much (despite mucking about with that present) that the ‘life story’ bit looks a bit silly. And the ending would be better, as mentioned above, if the cosmic DJ did nothing to the doll, or if the girl fixed it herself. Not sure what one of the comments above about the girl, saying that she’s spoilt, is about - as far as I can tell a lot of energy is gone into making the child perfectly normal, if a little focused on her doll (aren’t most small girls focused on such things?). She and the DJ share a very well directed moment, staring at each other, and her expression isn’t spoilt or unpleasant at all.
Overall, it’s a fantastic short. Ignore the moron statements above obviously motivated by either (a) not having actually watched it, (b) the desperate need to do down anything someone else has done, since they haven’t ever done anything with their lives and are feeling the burn of failure, or (c) simply having a very small, very closed mind. It’s nice to see films play about with time and be ironically infused without ending on a down note or being essentially a bad, overlong joke. Fabulous.
August 13th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Over-hyped.
August 14th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
That was amazing…
it deserved every award =]
I wish I could go back and change things, that’d be awesome
August 14th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
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August 14th, 2007 at 11:26 pm
It’s a quaint film. It left a warm fuzzy feeling in my bowels.
August 18th, 2007 at 1:04 am
this has been done many, many times, countless variations. not at all original. youngsters think its great beacause, a- there’s a dj involved, and b- they have been made stupid by television and absent parents. oh yea, and none of you can spell…
August 18th, 2007 at 9:11 am
Yes, that’s right Dr G, none of us can spell. That’s why you appear to have an issue with the commonly accepted “yeah”. Got a problem with the subvocalised H? You poor thing. Also, you seem to have distinct trouble with the word because, as well as the traditional lack of ability in starting a sentence with a capital letter.
And yes, of course it’s been done before. I would like you to attempt to find a truly original, never-been-done-before-in-any-form piece of narrative fiction published or produced in the last 20 years. Then you can get on your little soapbox. There are only so many ideas in the world. This is just a very nice way of approaching one of them.
And ‘absent parents’? Wow. You are truly stupid.
August 23rd, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Those of you who so loosely pass the term “Butterfly Effect” around need to do some research. The movie was horrid; the term/title is lifted from a 1952 short story, “A Sound of Thunder” by Ray Bradbury. It’s about a dinosaur hunting trip into the past (read it first; condemn hunting second) where one of the hunters steps off the elevated path and kills a butterfly.
The trail of events following that killed butterfly change the future.
August 26th, 2007 at 1:51 am
Absolutely fantastic! I like how it showed that every action has a reaction.
August 26th, 2007 at 4:34 am
Ha ha! I love your comments Nat. You truly shot Dr. G down in my opinion!
I enjoyed the video!
August 29th, 2007 at 3:29 am
I liked the end - it shows the dilemma of the main character to “fix” things.
The end is open:
We see that he fixes the doll - CUT - we see him running away and don’t know what happened this time when he tried to fix another thing….
All the hate here - guys - get a live :)
Cheers
August 30th, 2007 at 8:10 am
That was awesome.
True. The groundhog day theme is totally over done, but this is really an original approach. As Nat was saying you can’t really find anything that “hasn’t been done” but certainly there are a lot of different approaches to the same ideas and problems… or else I might as well just quit my job as a photographer! lol!
August 30th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Good job ,, awesome directing and Idea .
August 30th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
I enjoyed it, it was good for a short film. There isn’t many movies out there that explore the butterfly effect, other than the one with the namesake, so it was nice to see that concept explored in a modern urban setting.
August 30th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
The ending was awesome. Getting out while the getting was good, before something else could go wrong. Quit while you’re ahead ad all that
August 31st, 2007 at 3:30 am
TOO SHORT! Seems the spirit with this is something within the heart of a neomusician. Visual is becoming the medium to replace music to gain entry into the heart. Think of it as part of the human evolution. What did Chopin and Mozart give us when there was only medium of music and sound. Now we have visual. Artists are trying to speak and move the human soul and spirit today with film. God be with the visual artist. I liked the short film. Not for the sound, just the vision. We still Need SHAKERS and MOVERS.
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:15 pm
this is a very very WEAK short movie.
its is LAME. am very sorry, am not even gonna spend time explaining why.
it isn’t worth it.
September 6th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Good!!!!
September 13th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Um, very interesting. I enjoyed this very much, but I think I would have the Dj get hit by the vehicle in the end. And everyone stop and stare at him. Perhaps too predictable, but I like the darker twists to things….rather then the sweet and innoncent. Or at the end, have one little snap of dialogue.
overall, excellent, very good concept!
September 14th, 2007 at 5:41 am
Loved it.
September 25th, 2007 at 7:18 pm
This film could possibly be THE most brilliant film ever. It deserves a place in history.
Spread the word!
September 26th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Fantastically well done! Yes, it is an old theme, but it is reconstructed in a new way that is succinct, well written, well directed and well acted. The film, as can be seen from all the comments here, creates philosophical arguments. Considering “Philosophy Major, Anything helps, God Bless” are the only words in the film, maybe all the arguments that are being held by everyone that is responding to the film is exactly what the Director and Writer were looking for from their audience. If you had power, how would you tweak the present?
(I love the idea of the sound equipment as the tools for change and transition. Someone connected with the film had background in the music industry.)
I think the film is wonderfully done. The ending? I guess it all depends upon how each viewer interprets the film and that determines how they feel about the ending. I thought it was a good connection between one of the initiators of the event series (the young girl) and the transformer of events (the DJ). The film became less of a game of change and more one of seeing into the heart of the “DJ of Change”.
I guess one of the final questions that the film makes for the viewers is:
‘Does the DJ represent You or someone or some being else?’
Hmmm…Philosophy. Positive Change is Good.
September 26th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
# Matt Says:
May 24th, 2007 at 6:32 am
i have even seen it and im pissed… first of all butterfly effect was a shitty movie and if anyone references they should die a tragic and slightly funny death… denver has got good weed, and the broncos suck… its cool that it won awards… but i still probably wont watch it
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You’re a stoner. Your opinion is invalid.
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# Mary Jane Says:
June 11th, 2007 at 3:58 am
Slightly overrated
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You’re an idiot.
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# majd Says:
September 3rd, 2007 at 12:15 pm
this is a very very WEAK short movie.
its is LAME. am very sorry, am not even gonna spend time explaining why.
it isn’t worth it.
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And you have the imagination of a peeled grape.
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September 30th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Fantastic. liked the story, very good effects and acting, has a professional feel to it. Well done.
October 3rd, 2007 at 12:24 am
ehhh….entirely mediocre.
October 3rd, 2007 at 4:50 pm
The broken doll thingy came across as that he was fixing it because it was just as important to someone as the other stuff. Especially as the little girl probably percieves it to have almost a life of it’s own; so not fixing it would have been as bad to her as someone actually dying, athough she obviously would have got over it faster. Anyway whats wrong with a little compassion? Perhaps though im reading to much into that.
Did make me think of Faithless, ‘God is a DJ’.
October 6th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
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October 7th, 2007 at 2:37 am
i think this would have been better if he just kept messing everything up more and more until finally he returns it back to the original instance of the biker being hit. but on the other hand that would be kind of pointless.
October 7th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
right on… nice one.
October 8th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
total shit, waste of ten minutes of my life
October 10th, 2007 at 11:54 am
yes! yes! yes! Somehow has THE beautifull combination and the message passes through everything and can be understand by any one!
I give it a price also! BRAVO!
October 10th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Tom Tykwer did it first… and better… with Run Lola Run.
October 10th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
To me, the message is loud and clear - sometimes we do have a second chance to live a better or happier life. That is where God comes into the picture - to make a way where there is no way.
It’s a good illustration to show that God is always in control and He can change what needs to be changed. Moreover it is also part of His plan to allow things to happen because all things happen for good for those who love and trust HIM (Romans 8:28).
God bless the producer of this meaningful clip. It’s inspirational indeed and if we put our thoughts to it, we will get the big picture in life - that God is good and would love to undo all the harms that evil and carelessness have wrought into this world of ours.
October 10th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
what a pile of crap. they hand out awards to anyone these days.. amazing my arse
October 10th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Everything about that was bad ass. Loved it. Except one thing, the special effects. But hey, It was not my film. Great Job.
October 10th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
@ Doug Glass
What you say about the Ray Brabury short story is certainly true but surely it was Edward Lorenz, a meteorologist, who made popular the term and the associated Chaos theory. He presented a paper at a conference in 1972 entitled “Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?”, after discovering that making small changes to his computer model of the earth’s atmosphere would produce wildly varying results; perhaps he was a fan of Bradbury?
Either way, back on topic, I liked the film (although maybe the guy should have cut his losses at the doll!) and I like Pierres idea too (3 posts up).
October 10th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
Cool Vid, Fun to watch, good idea w/ da DJ and all, but definitely overrated. sorry kids.. its not “the best video evr!”.
-Broadcast Designer
October 11th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Nice!!!
October 12th, 2007 at 8:45 am
Don’t you ever use my [southpark]ing name again. Posting with some completely vacuous remarks; “denver has got good weed”. What the southpark does that have to do with this work of viral-art?
October 12th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
Well deserved aware. Great touch at the end with the little girl recognising that he the power to fix things.
It’s odd to see a movie made in the US about people co-operating and working together, or doing anything good. US movies usually reflect real life…shootings, muggings, everyone out for themselves etc.
October 13th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Loved it, to quote Faithless, “God is a DJ”
October 13th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Whatever all yo opinions were on it - and some of them are pretty deep (you must be stoned). The movie was good and entertaining. I thought of the God reference, but what comes more to my mind is the DJ wishing he could redo that mix that he blew or pull back that song that cleared the floor.
If it wasted 10 minutes of your life, get back on your PS3 - all will be fine soon.
Put it this way, it blows anything away that Michael Moore or one of those morons ever did. Maybe we should give him the Nobel Peace prize instead of Gore. God knows this guy did more…
Keep a rocking it - Peace and Love..
October 16th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Great video. The question i have is why was it a basketball!!! Must be filmed in LA or something. Next time try a really sport like soccer or street hockey. lol. just wanted to make a comment that hasnt been made. doog boj! peek ti pu.
October 18th, 2007 at 10:22 pm
Interesting. I had problems loading it. Stupid DSL.
October 21st, 2007 at 3:48 am
that was great! well edited - well framed - it was refreshing - nice to see creativity in action!
October 22nd, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Nice short… Congrats to the creator he/she has done a wonderful job.
I think some of the comments about the ending are justified and think it would have worked better if he had walked up and fixed the doll himself, but it’s all good.
It used to infuriate me when i seen crazy comments from people like Matt but to be honest now I just don’t give a toss what these people think any more. They wasted there obviously not very important time to write a comment that is just useless to everyone.
Now I just laugh and realise that they are probably just kids, slow or just trying to get a reaction so fuck em
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Brilliant, well put together and very fluent. A+
October 28th, 2007 at 12:08 am
You know? This one fabulous bit of film. It really needs no further explanation or comment. Congratulations!
October 30th, 2007 at 9:39 am
excellent!
November 4th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
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November 5th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
WOW NICE!!! realy awesome!!!!
very very very very very NICE!!!! :p
LOVE IT !!
November 9th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Lame. Cheeeeeeezzzzy. Want to see a truly touching philosophical short film…watch Kiwi
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs
November 10th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
Like all “art”, if most people think it is great, it is probably mediocrity sprinkled with a bit of philosophy 101 and served with a heaping side of corporate-massaged pop culture. The concept here is an old one, but in this incarnation it caters to young people who think they are “deep”, people like Nat who go on and on about why it is such a great work of art, and then proceeds to show his intellectual shortcomings by using sophomoric words like “protagonist” and “dogma”. If you are as smart as you want us to think, then you would agree that this film ain’t so great, that, like the subculture it appeals to, it lacks nuance and depth, and a general ignorance of quality. And I’ve got news for most of you- deejaying is not the great new art form that the older generation just does not understand(like jazz before it). It is just another technique for artists to use. In the long run, people will lose their infatuation with the technology, and there will be less and less opportunities for the charismatic x dealer to pass himself off as an artist because it gets him laid.
November 11th, 2007 at 1:39 am
Thank you all who commented. I really enjoyed reading them all. So interesting to see people’s reaction on this. I smiled, laughed, frowned, wrinkled my forehead ,and raised an eyebrow reading the comments.
November 20th, 2007 at 2:38 am
Verrry thought provoking. Well done.
November 24th, 2007 at 6:20 pm
Interesting, and very well done. He should still use better interconnects for his tables…
November 25th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
35 awards? i wouldn’t have given it 1
November 25th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
This film was an enjoyable. I would like to see the competition it had, to win 35 awards. The concept isn’t new and the delivery wasn’t all that original but it was fun to watch. I don’t think it was anything amazing though.
November 26th, 2007 at 6:51 am
It’s alright. Nice little movie. Wouldn’t call it “amazing”, but it teaches some nice concepts to the “kids”. Basically, you can’t control everything, so just relax, take life’s challenges as they come, and be tolerant. Everyone’s happier this way. Life’s a coin toss (symbolized by the DJ’s giving that gentle push on the turn-table).
They really should cover things like philosophy in high school. Would be nice for students to graduate with more than the simple building blocks of knowledge. Critical thinking, analytical skills, and basic understanding of human psyche and philosophy would make for much more enriched kids entering adlthood.
November 26th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
last night a dj saved my life.
November 26th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
amazing theres not much else i can say about it best short film i have ever seen
November 26th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Not a bad short film.
Period.
All you artfags and douchebags on the extreme ends of the comments should probably just shut the fuck up about it now, unless you’re going to put your money where your mouth is and create something better.
Why is it that no one can post anything creative and entertaining online these days w/o a chorus of “seen it” and “totally sucked” on the one hand, and “OMG BEST THING EVARRRRR” on the other?
Though, to be honest, I’m more inclined to read the overly-supportive stuff, since at least it’s SUPPORTIVE. The rest is just pretentious assholes showing off.
Filmmaker, well done.
The rest of you, STFU already. Sheez.
November 26th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Loved it - it made me smile - was feeling good - read a few reviews and got to - Judy Says:
May 19th, 2007 at 3:02 pm - typical female - ruined another moment
November 29th, 2007 at 11:18 am
Amazing film! Excellent editing, very entertaining and great message. Just thought’d I’d be a another Jewish doctor that appreciated something productive to come out in the film industry recently. FUCK! Go to hell other doctor jew
November 30th, 2007 at 12:11 am
ITS FUNNY HOW IT WASTED TEN MINUTES OF YOUR LIFE, WHEN THE ACTUAL FILM IS BARELY OVER EIGHT, PUBLIC SCHOOLS, WHAT CAN I SAY ORLANDO
November 30th, 2007 at 12:31 am
hmm it was ok. nothing special though. it was too incoherent to make ONE final statement. more explanations can be possible.
furthermore it wasn’t very original as Psyfive allready proved.
so i don’t agree with the AMAZING FILM!!! comments on here praising it into heaven.
and I could win 35 awards with my short film
all depends wich contests i enter.
I could win the annual short film contest at my community center 35 times.
that doesn’t make me an amazing film maker
December 2nd, 2007 at 12:57 am
That DJ was a Q T… my mom sent me this and said to watch it… I laughed my butt off when he packed his tables up the first time and it all went wrong again…
This was good and it deserved the awards it got for the thought and work that went into it….
December 3rd, 2007 at 9:10 pm
Good Stuff…I liked it all around. Really did deserve all the awards…good storyline and good tunes. Peace and Love
December 6th, 2007 at 9:36 pm
beauty :-)
December 9th, 2007 at 8:49 am
wow what a waste of time? i don’t see how that won any awards, it was drawn out and boring. i wasn’t even slightly entertained….
December 10th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
God is a dj
December 12th, 2007 at 6:01 pm
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December 15th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
This was titz on a ritz, Captain Spitz. I rocked with it from start to finitz. Well done, good camera work, editing, lighting, writing, and kung fu fighting.
No appreciative props lost on this pops.
latez
Clonewolf
December 18th, 2007 at 11:20 am
God is a DJ! I Agree LivePhat! : )
December 18th, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Show de bola! Pena que poucos brasileiros tenham visto. .. deveria ser veiculado! Parabens!
December 21st, 2007 at 11:55 pm
if he could slow time down, then maybe he could speed time up and hook up with that little girl when she’s old enough for him to rock out with his cock out.
December 22nd, 2007 at 8:25 am
That was the gayest thing my eyes have ever witnessed.
December 22nd, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Very cool. i live in Denver. Best city in the states! Very cool!
December 23rd, 2007 at 2:02 pm
Awesome.
December 29th, 2007 at 1:21 am
Brilliantly made short film and deserves every award it received. Not only was the storyline great but the quality of the filming was awesome.
Fixing the girls doll up at the end portrays what I believe the directors own perfectionism by not settling with near enough but rather going that bit further to make things perfect.
December 29th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
He was supposed to have been hit by the car at the end, now I have to dust off my sound system.
December 30th, 2007 at 7:22 am
This was a truly amazing independent film! If the makers of this film are watching this page, keep making art with film! Fabulous. :)
January 12th, 2008 at 6:41 pm
lv it, its great what more do i need to say
January 14th, 2008 at 5:53 am
Very Cool!!
January 15th, 2008 at 7:20 am
I want one of this, i can give any price for this awesome movie oh I need this to be mine, this is superb! oh yeah! best film ever! yeah! mmmmh! (fags!:)
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