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.

Great short story. Music was awesome and fit to the core. Acting was superb, the whole story and production just top notch. They need to do a kick starter, I would donate to see this get developed more !!!!

Great movie too short but ok .. I liked the movie so much... a good movie everyone can enjoy....

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.

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.