The Leap

Nice movie.

It would be great to make a feature film with the same actors.

Beautiful story and good actors and good director.

A movie you can watch more than once.

Excellent writing, acting, casting, cinematography, effects makes this short SF film an excellent calling card for writer/director Karel van Bellingen. Script cleanup by Sheridan Thomas may have contributed to a very tight result. Better than most of what comes out of Hollywood, the writing reminds me a bit of some of the best SF short story authors such as Heinlein who could create highly descriptive worlds and backstories with just a word or two. For example, "clubs" run by criminal syndicates offer services that include prostitution. The very lean dialogue manages to explain this in a couple brief sentences. Other plot devices are very tidy and efficient, but then they need to be in a 30 minute piece.

It's definitely a dystopian future for the left-behinds on Earth, with a murderously-repressive yet at the same time ineffectual central government.

Casting also stood out with just the right looks and screen personalities for the roles. The bland and ineffective bureaucrat spouting broad platitudes on the telly had the right look, accent and delivery for the role.

A clever twist and lots of morality play makes this a thoughtful and fun short. It's superbly well done.

A well crafted short Sci. Fi. But the virtue, the basic virtue of it is to give rich exploration of delicate themes, from the relation with past, illusion, second chance, duty, form of parenthood, love, sacrifice, new worlds as refuges and temptations and target. The acting is admirable, the story- more than beautiful. A superb film for the wise manner of making detail by detail.

In terms of stuff that you find on the DUST YouTube channel, it's outstanding. But that doesn't change the fact that it's only possibly directed, full of people chewing the scenery, and clearly the product of someone with too much production budget and not enough directorial ability. Various issues:

• There are 3 time jumps
• the film begins with an over long beginning sequence that acts as a prologue, but could've been a much better served later in the film as a flashback or even cut
• We hear -- not in graphic detail, but in far more detail than any reasonable director would include -- a woman doing her business. In the bathroom. We see her on the toilet. I do not need to hear someone tinkle.

The film is the better of the bunch in terms of science fiction on YouTube. But it still suffers from overwroughtness; the product of people who don't know any better thinking they've made some genius script. It's not an essential piece of work.

An excellent short, better than most movies I've seen of late. The lead, Simon Merrells. He puts me in mind of Andrew Lincoln 'Rick'TWD, Jurgen Prochnow, Cillian Murphy, and Matt King (Superhans).The story I won't reveal., I found the whole thing reminded me of of 'Moon'. I've seen a few shorts recently, most better than the big films. Production quality was 10/10. Backdrops exceed Bladerunner. Acting was spot on. I'm afraid Hollywood has just become a messy CGI mess.

I'm not sure, but the story line mirrors the plight of North African refugees to Europe, but in no way preachy; Guilt, repentance, and doing the right thing. All in all an enjoyable SF film.