Disarmed

My cousins used to play this odd little game; they were about five and three years old at the time. The older one would pick up the remote control to the TV, point it at her sister, and say "Turn you off"--she'd obligingly fall to the ground and play dead. Then the remote changed hands, they'd change places, and the game would begin all over again. It was carried out with the solemn gravity of an execution by firing squad.

This short is a grown-up version of the same game, played with a grown-up weapon...

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Film & Animation

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• roof
• nicholas
• fox-gieg
• foxgieg
• animation
• animated
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[Grotok]

This proves how short and vulnerable life is, and that we can't escape death. Life is a game with no cheats.

[lightningdrag]

if u want to find out what this film means, simply look at what happened. A man and a woman walk together on a roof top. The man pushes the woman against the rail, steps back and pulls a blank. The man feels bad and checks on her. But the woman pretends to die. Then the woman smiles and takes her turn, except this time the man sences fear and yells NOOO! as she pulls the trigger. To me this means that we do not see ourselves as the enemy; we see ourselves as the victim.

[emomooc]

@Grotok right trigger left trigger a x b up down up down left right. yeah no cheats my ass XD gotta love being shitfacted

[ubertomadachi]

Amazing....

[NatashaTyschenko]

@lightningdrag very insightful and wise. thank you

[hoboweasel]

Wat?

[TurboBabyPuncher]

Oh, yeah, and anyone who knows the song should definitely tell us. It'd be great.

[TurboBabyPuncher]

Agreed.

[xxl00t3xx]

Just read what PhaatPaat said beneath this.

I completely agree. He admitted his meaning towards it, leaving many untied strings, making people interpret whatever they want about this video, but for people to post there interpretations is stupid, because in the description it tells us the clear meaning to the video

[linaya12]

good direction but i feel it has a more feminist feel. the girl toke the shot not nowing the gun was loaded. when it was the guys turn he saw that he was in a problamatic position he desited not to trust the girl. nowit is up to the viewer to desided if the gun was loaded. i think not.

[cornyking1992]

but thats not really anything to do with what i said i mean you took the time to write how it was pointless as to how you felt about it but never said how it made you feel?

what about the foxhole manifesto?

[PhaatPaat]

Yeah i agree with what you're saying, it just feels pointless writing how this makes you feel, when the actual meaning to this is completely different. This particular video however, makes me feel no emotion at all, yet other videos by n1ckFG give some affect on me