Sci-Fi Short Film "Heartless" | DUST
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- Young couple Anna and Gunnar are deeply in love but they live in a society where people are assigned a new spouse by lottery every seven years. As their final day together approaches, they grapple with the nightmare of being torn apart and facing life with another partner.
"Heartless" by Haukur Björgvinsson
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Young couple Anna and Gunnar are deeply in love but they live in a society where people are assigned a new spouse by lottery every seven years. Every other person in town is assigned a number. Anna receives a number but Gunnar doesn't, which means they have a chance of being matched together again. When the lottery starts, Gunnar is matched with a young man named Friðrik who is starting his first relationship. Anna is matched with the older Brynjolfur. "Training week" starts where Anna and Gunnar have to teach their new spouses how to love. This proves very difficult to Gunnar who isn't able commit to his new relationship with Friðrik. He runs away and tries to get Anna to join him before the townspeople catch him. The town's priestess gives both of them an ultimatum: Commit to the new relationship or spend seven years in a gigantic mythical egg. Much to Gunnar's horror, Anna agrees to commit to her relationship with Brynjólfur. Gunnar however, cannot accept these terms, rejects a relationship with Friðrik and decides to spend seven years in the horrible egg.
"Heartless" Credits:
Writer|Director: Haukur Björgvinsson
Producer: Tinna Proppé
Executive Producers: Kjartan Thor Thordarsson, Hilmar Sigurðsson and Rob Tasker
DOP: Ásgrímur Guðbjartsson
Composer: Herdís Stefánsdóttir
Editor: Úlfur Teitur Traustason
Wardrobe: Aleksandra Kolouder
HMU: Ísak Freyr
Set Design: Kristinn Arnar Sigurðsson
VFX: Rob Tasker
Sound: Aggi Friðberts
AD: Þórunn Guðlaugsdótti
Coordinator: Jana Arnars
Grip: Sissi Sissason and Siffi
Gaffer: Oddur Eliasson
AC: Benji
2nd AC: Thea Frimann
Best boy: Gunnar B Svavarsson
HMU Assistant: Viktoria Sól
Photographer: Hörður Sveinsson
Catering: Þórunn Elva Þorgeirsdóttir
Colorist: Ögmundur Sigfússon
Sound designer: Sindri Þór Kárason
Titles: Árni Gestur Sigfússon
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What happens in the egg? Wrong answers only
you get scrambled ;-;
they tell lots of bad yokes.
@@DeconvertedMan 😂
@@haukurbjorgvinsson5512 the man was not chicken for going in.
It nest you brand new.
If Anna loved Gunnar as much as she said she did, why did she throw him to the wolves? Go into the Egg together, be what may.
women ain't loyal enough for the egg
an allegory for Eve, who basically ruined everything for everyone by being disloyal to God. Or did she liberate Man by rebelling against Him? Depends on your point of view.
@@williamwilliamson1096 Watch the film BEFORE you read the comments.
@@TheVigilante2000 Oh, yes I forgot she had been in the egg. Good point,
It's because men are able to love selflessly and unconditionally. Most women are not. Sure, there are exceptions, but the majority of women are driven by hypergamy. When Anna compared the two situations that her choice would bring about, she chose the one that she felt would offer her a better deal. That and the pressure that she felt from her mother and pseudo father to procreate, and knowing that she is approaching the wall, the choice while difficult, was clear. Gunnar will be fine. Perhaps next time he will find himself a woman that actually means the words that were spoken at 1:11
Nope. I’m taking the egg before the dude! I’ll scramble it from the inside. 🇺🇸
Agreed.
Same here
Yep!
Blow it up from the inside. Plus find out what they used to send him in and destroy that.
Yeah, everyone is tough on the internet. I'm tough too! 🤣 But you still won't beat the laws. There's a reason people avoiding it. Otherwise majority would choose the egg before losing their love ones. It's probably like a solitude prison or something for 7 years.
Much to Gunnar's disappointment... the egg turns out to be a gay bar.
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Poor gunner has to enter in back of the egg
Lmao
FEAR is the thing in life that stop's us from trying.
a society where people are assigned a new spouse by lottery is a HORRIBLE place that I can't even imagine living in a world like this
Just the thought of that process jarred me to the core! Yikes! This film was very well done and wrought with emotion. It grabbed and I cried.
Hence the title, "Heartless."
watch The Lobster
I would chose the egg.
I'm not homophobic, but I'll be damn if I had to be with a man. EGG Please and hurry up.
I immediately thought of the movie "The Arrival"
I thought the same thing.
"Arrival". There's actually a different movie called "The Arrival". But yes, I totally agree.
This is definitely one of the stranger DUST offerings.
Whaaat? It's one of the most realistic portrayals of women's ability to shut off her "love" - if it ever was real - as soon as it no longer serves her interest. Women will suffer in the burning pits of hell with her man, as long as it serves whatever goals she has.
Whew! It's a good thing that egg came along and gave us a perfect society! /s
I can't help wonder what's in The Egg now. On the one hand being alone is one thing, but the look on the couple's faces that just exited it, is scarier than seeing it. 😯
She said 7 years in the dark. It's probably similar to solitude confinement in the dark prison kind thing.
Spending seven years with the same person.
Would be, for many, a bigger sentence than spending the same time alone in the egg
God, what a brutal scenario. I can't imagine what happened to humanity in the story to have it come to that. And I'm dying to know what it inside the Egg! Fascinating!
Fear of the Egg was more powerful than love. For some.
Oscar's when are you going to recognise modern media
this is a masterpeice i hated ir
and loved it
enough to do a million comments
good work recognised
Took me forever to figure out that this is in my native language :D
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Parallels to divorce and remarriage. You see the one you loved with someone new. New portrait. New love. Even if it's awkward, and the intimacy over time is forced into a sudden new relationship. And the egg is being on the outside of that. Not diving into a new relationship. Sitting in the pain of the breakup. Or staying in the marriage.
Seven years, then you have to throw whatever you've built up in that time away and start again.
Is this to combat the clichéd seven year itch, I wonder?
I'd have walked to the egg myself, before being frogmarched, as it was apparent from the new pairing up she would never accompany him, regardless of her claims of loving him.
Faithless...a well named, thought out and acted film.
Kudos to everyone involved and thank you for uploading!
Gunnar is a REAL man💪💪💪
And that's how Gunner Gunnerson got in to the Egg. But he shall return as Gunner Gunnersonson
A world in which everyone is *gender fluid* --- where *family* is not deemed important, and where *feelings/emotions* or *loyalty* have no meaning. Yea, thanks, but I wouldnt want to exist in such a society --- let alone bring children into it. Sure, life revolves in *seven year cycles* --- but what happens if you love the other person and you wish to remain w/ them *forever* ???
Despite the overall feel that this seems like a *peaceful utopia* --- it evokes sinister undertones of *totalitarianism* .
Very well written and brilliant concept. The acting was stellar ---- you feel the emotions of each character, even when they come off as apathetic + detached.
Then you both enter the egg for 7 years, come back a new person and ready to obey the laws. LOL!
This world is definitely not "over easy", and has no "sunny side up". 🥚🍳
and sometimes things get scrambled 😉
Pretty bleak this, but great atmosphere delivered with just the right amount of chill. Thanks to all involved.
No just bleak maudlin and valueless
Great film, horrid community/society. But, it's a good commentary (intentional or not) on contemporary life here in the US and elsewhere, where, with increasing frequency, we are told what to think, what to believe, and how to act or we will face severe consequences for disobedience.
I like that you made that statement and posted it.. You said "Horrid community".. From our perspective that might seem unfortunate, and what would they think when they look at our society?? Horrid/fair/unequal/ gender inequality..??
I am happy that we allowed to express our perspective thoughts here.. This story reaches into our own past too, seemed familiar.. It made me think..
Thank you again to the OP! Wonderful. Sounds like an old way of thinking but is it..?
@@indigodream21 In terms of societal morality, the old ways are usually the best ways. No bacteria & feces ridden poop chutes for this old man.
The law is but violence, nothing more.
What's more sad is that a lot of people give up their freedom to be slaves of conspiracy theories.
@@commenter4898 Many of what were once considered to be conspiracy theories are now facts.
I found this channel can make content like something out of Hollywood with small budget. I dont they lack budget or dont want to, but they presents something new all the time.
This channel is just that...a channel and not a studio.
Independent film makers submit their work for consideration.
If *Dust* thinks it will appeal to their subscribers and any chance viewers, then they post it, in the same way a tv channel would broadcast a programme..
Luckily for us *Dust* specialises in posting short movies.
The content that I have seen come out of this channel beats anything that I have seen come out of hollywood.
@@redpillaware5101
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Ain't utopia wonderful? No hard decisions, no problems, no future, no self.
Gunnar chose self, so at least there is still a choice in that nightmare of a society.
@@redpillaware5101 If they lock you in a room with a pistol tonight and tell you that if you're still alive in the morning you'll face a firing squad, and you think that's a meaningful choice, you're already dead.
@@asc_missions3080 It's still a choice. Take your analogy to the extreme and you could argue that your choice to get out of bed today to live your life is not really a choice either since you are eventually going to die some day.
As much we are all freaked out by the concept. That community would have the strongest ties...
No on earth it wouldn't. The family unit has been the strongest stabelizing element of humanity since we could walk.
The only part i dont like is that its 7 yrs. I think if it was 2 yrs itd work better.
Not according to Gunner, the only one of the cast who showed integrity.
I'm not sure what the practical reasons for making people switch up partners every seven years would be - for those who are unhappy, yes it would definitely work, but I don't think it would serve any community to break up happy couples. One of the candidates for the switch also seemed to be a father who then had his child taken away from him, so don't really understand that and don't really understand the status of children in this society i.e. who do they 'belong' to and who takes care of them??. Also, I think forcing people who are either heterosexual or homosexual or other to enter into relationships with people of a gender they do not have any attraction to also makes absolutely no sense - I can't see that it would work at all.
Yeah matching him with another man, I was like WTF!
That's what the egg is for. You don't like it, you become the egg lol.
There is one practical reason why such a society would make sense. If humanity were to die out, such a system - the exchange of partners every 7 years, ending with the birth of a child - would provide two benefits: 1. Rapid reconstruction of the human population, 2. Ensuring maximum genetic diversity in a small society.
But one question remains - what is the point of rebuilding humanity without rebuilding its greatest asset?
"I think i'll take an egg. Make us a couple eggs."
"You and Tony Egg again..."
I don't think the woman was heartless, she was scared. She knew that people came out of the egg looking like empty shells (no pun intended).
The society they lived in was heartless.
Why was it necessary to change partners every 7 yrs? What sense did that make for their society?
And what was the egg? Was it just a metaphor in the film for power, abuse, control or what?
@@RPRosen-ki2fk I agree, it makes for good conversation when a film leaves you thinking and wondering. This one certainly did.
YUKKKKKKK!!!!!
Such an accurate example of "art imitating life." Fellas, don't ever feel secure with a woman. If her goals or interests ever shift even slightly and you can't adjust or (the WORST) don't realize you needed too, you'll be tossed to the side like baggage from an overloaded boat.
Think about it, if you've been with a woman for any amount of time, how often does she "NEED" to repaint the living room or bedroom or just rearrange a room that was just fine before.... The same principles apply to relationships.
Disgusting to force a guy into that type of relationship for 7 years. I would have rebelled also.
Then you choose the egg, they did give you an option LOL!
@@lovemoviesful2 I think some people are confusing this short film for advocation of a society like this. They are panicking and hoping the idea doesn't gain traction.
@@lovemoviesful2 No, I choose not to comply with such an absurdity and the egg must go away.
@@WhiteDragon689 Yeah, that's the egg option. So you'll be an egg lol! And the egg is not going anywhere lol!
@@lovemoviesful2 Ok then you can go into the egg then. Or maybe you'll like such a relatioship. I would not comply ever. I wonder why people are such sheeple... being told what to do and comply.
Wow, absolutely terrific!
Just goes to show that some people and relationships are so very shallow, no matter when nor where!!
And that's the story of Gunnar's time at the Hawthorn Football Club.
honestly this is like that black mirror episode, but without any reasoning for what's happening
They have to change partners every seven years or enter the egg, either as a couple or as a single person and spend the next cycle (seven years) inside the egg.
Those that went in become changed...subdued, more compliant.
I'm guessing it isn't stimulating inside the egg, possibly even very boring.
a lot of DUST shorts like this are appearing here
@@lowtekmnemonic I'm not impressed
Awesome way to deal with the seven year itch.
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Life and society are a complicated weave, and the rules don't always make sense. Maybe there is something better. Great screenplay and photography, thank you.
Are the local stuff
Wow that was different, very dark. Enjoyed watching. 😎
Puts a new spin on the 7th year itch
Disturbing, but done extremely well. I would like to see a larger production of this for sure.
Gunnar returned to his egg. And from the egg he shall return.
Very sad, but tragedies make great writing sometimes. If it wasn't written the way it was, it wouldn't have had the same impact on me.
serial monogamy is a horror story all its own
The wisest words I've read in years.
@@zhinningenge1754 how about a date?
So what happens to the other guy? Who has his partner in THE EGG?
What happens inside the EGG? He get SCRAMBLED.
the rp is strong with this one.
I vet his decision was hugely influenced by the fact he was paired with a man when he's not gay and she at least got a regular male.
Who in there right mind would live in such a reality? That egg would had cracked and scrambled. A long time ago.
That was good! Very dark, but good...
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A great twist would be if Gunnar entered the Egg and was taken to a place where he'd have a whole hareem of adoring wives for 7 years. (His reward for being a real man in a messed up society.) That would explain why anyone leaving the Egg would come back miserable!
I've seen a number of Icelandic indy films and they tend to have a very beautiful aesthetic.
Oh frak! That was eerie & amazing at the same time... yes, enough material for a longer one..
Maybe that was the reason 😆
The cold, cruel heart of a woman. Professing her love for you one day, but the next, she wants nothing to do with you.
I don't think it's that Anna wanted nothing to with Gunnar, since it's obvious that she cared for him and enjoyed his company, but rather her hypergamous nature made it easier for her to abandon him, and choose the better deal. Women are simply wired differently than men are and once you understand this the hurt that you feel, as a man that gets abandoned by the woman that he loves, does not hurt near as badly. Women just simply can't help but follow their biological programming.
@@redpillaware5101 I didn't say she didn't enjoy her time with Gunnar. Its clear that she no longer wanted anything to do with him though. If she did, she would have entered the egg with him. She gave in to her fear of the unknown and chose what looked to be a boring, yet predictable, life for seven years.
@@MacandArney You are looking at the decision Anna made from a mans perspective. Just because Anna is in thrall to her hypergamous nature doesn't necessarily mean she want's nothing to do with Gunnar. Men can easily make decisions based on unconditional love, regardless of consequence. It's this very thing that women rely on whilst trying to find themselves someone that will provide. Women do not make their decisions the way men do. She chose what she thought was the better deal because that matters more than feelings. Men love unconditionally. Most women do not.
@@redpillaware5101 men absolutely do not qll love unconditionally you idiot napkin .
I dated a dude for 6 years who dumped me because I had depression soo, cool story .
DUST just went from 3.03 to 3.04!
Very interesting short. Good work. Would love to see a longer, more involved version, with some of the things eggsplained better. 🥚
what else needs there to be explained? they perfectly fit everything need to be told into those 15 min
@@gabrielgermann9148 Read it again. It was meant to be a pun.
It would be fun if Gunnar had been drawn by Anna's mother.
Finally!
The egg or a stupid life. He chose with his heart.
Most men do.
We live in a very narrow nitch of reality in a material world, we forget how very different cultures and customs, etc... there are even in real life on this plane we call Earth but there is always a percentage, tho very few sometimes who do not conform to the expected paradigm of society we belong and many times pay the price but some will gain a bond of greater immortality together in eternity as beings beyond the material world.
Certified Gold!!!!!
Women are cruel! Lol That was one of the best shorts I’ve ever seen. Great story telling!
Because she didn't want to be in an enclosed space for 7 years?
Heartless was a good title Betrayed would have been more appropriate. She was lost on what love is he was not. They rest of these folks have no love nor do remember what it was like. The hell with that Egg i would rather die than do what she did& especially what they want him to do.
Some black mirror vs. arrival? Also, Gunnar could've outran them, he has +10% logistics
Gunnar is the name of my left egg.
in a heartbeat
Dope. Character-driven relationships paired with a compelling sci-fi backdrop. Great stuff!
Amazing!
Need a part 2 or something longer.
Thats what she said .
8:42 A perfect day starts with Breakfast? SCRAMBLED EGGS ????
This is such a horrible way to live! Excellent short!!can someone tell me about the egg at the end. My vision is bad and I can’t see things in dark settings
So "The Egg" is punishment for "non-woke" ones?!
"Screw you guys,I'm going home."
*Cartman
the whole point was the lack of a gender binary- even a different girl would have gotten the same reaction from Gunnar
@@nandfednu3502
Yeah...no.
There is absolutely no premise for why this happens, no even a poor reason.
Eggstraordinary!
This was incredibly uncomfortable to watch.
We are living equally horrible things right now, that sadly, many people defend.
I get the concept of the movie, but throwing somebody from a heterosexual relationship into a homosexual relationship I imagine will be very scary I know personally I couldn’t do it, especially since you don’t know what really happens in the egg, who says the egg is actually a bad thing I guess we’ll never know.
Go back to what the mom said about the egg. It's why everyone avoid it. And the mom experienced both relationships. I guess people don't paid attention to the film at all.
You lose 7 years from your life and have nightmares, nothing happens.
In this world I'd finally have somebody. Just don't give me a man. And don't give me a big fat chick.
they come to snub the rooster ... ah yeah ... here comes the rooster ... no he ain't gonna die
Brutal.
the simplistic egg shape will be a decent idea for spacecrafts
It shell be so .
The Grimdark Destiny Prequel.
Eggs up, Guardians.
Maybe this short should belong to Omeleto, haaaaaaa! xD
I'd choose the egg as well.
What happens to the gentlemen who is left alone? Does he spend 7 years alone?
it's sick!
Totally not fair. Gunnars not gay, so he could never love that guy like he did the girl. At least she just got put with some old guy who seemed to be a decent sort.
Uh...did you watch the movie?? The mom already explain it, gay or not, it's their rule of laws, as the mom has been put into that situation already. Her first partner was a man, then a woman, then a man again. It's not even about fairness. Everyone get the same treatment through chances. 🤦♂️🤦♀️🤦
Well, that's pretty messed up. Doesn't society do this already in it's own sick ways(?).
That egg wouldn't stand a chance in reality.
I would take the egg also instead of another man.
Talk about bad luck, Gunnar gets set up with another dude........Yuck!
Loved it, the atmosphere....
A yorgos lanthimos movie effect ❤️❤️
If she had wanted to go into the egg with him she'd of done it in the first few minutes.
I don't understand language.
One half of subtitles is not visible; why?
Well with dubtitles I cannot read I don't understand plot. Shucks
They have to swap partners every seven years.
If they refuse they go inside the egg for the seven years.
The guy thought the girl would opt for the egg, but she didn't, leaving him to face the egg alone.
People change inside the egg, they give up the fight and accept the terms enforced upon them.
@@billyandrew Thanks
With me not understanding plot it seemed like she rejected going with her lover.
It still is that, but if she knows the egg would change her personality there is a different perspective possible.
Perhaps she refused to enter the egg because she feared becoming a different woman...to no longer be in love with him.
Such would be very sad because when he returned he would no longer love her, but she'd still love who he used to be.
Interesting concept. Would never like to be in a society where I cannot choose my own partner or choose each other more like. But the guy that was assigned to Gunnar after was actually pretty cute and innocent, I would have given him a chance.
Perhaps the work should be retitled, 'Utopian Equal1ty...dialed to 100%'.
Because no one should be alone.
/sarcasm
Cool as video 👍
The movie is frankly delusional, how can this be, why? What is the point of playing the spouses in the lottery? It makes no sense. And then, any idiotic ban can be bypassed, a couple of bribes to the right people and the right numbers will miraculously fall out. The situation when one of the pair who swore love backs out and pitifully bleats "I am sorry" is not unusual. I felt bad for the guy, betrayal always hurts. I would have added a few shots of anna's karmic payback for her betrayal and lies
Uff, heavy stuff.