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- Two isolated sisters meet a stranger in a hazmat suit.
PANTSER is used with permission from Jan Verdijk. Learn more at janverdijk.nl.
A global epidemic has ravaged the planet, decimating much of the population. Amidst it all, two sisters, Roos and Mira, live in isolation in the woods, fending for themselves. Their parents left for help a month ago, but they haven't returned since.
Their hermetic world is ruptured when a stranger in a hazmat suit appears outside their home, promising them safety in a nearby underground bunker. The girls have a choice to make: to trust this stranger and strike out on their own, or stick close to home in the hopes that their parents return.
Written and directed by Jan Verdijk, this short thriller begins as a portrait of two loving sisters on their own, managing a difficult situation while navigating their increasingly ominous circumstances. It's a quiet, atmospheric film at first, focusing on the sisters and their sealed-off world. Telling details -- from the glimpse of a dead boy just outside the house, or choosing pickled vegetables or cat food for dinner -- tell us plenty about what's happened, and muted, eerie cinematography adds to the foreboding atmosphere.
But the focus in the first third of the film is on the relationship between Roos and Mira, with Roos taking the caretaker role of her younger sibling and quietly taking the measure of their situation. The performances here by young actors Nola Kemper and Femke De Booys are superb, balancing a fundamental innocence with an understated but growing uncertainty.
This quiet but ominous atmosphere is disrupted when the stranger appears. At first, he sounds friendly, but soon he begins asking questions, his tone becoming more insistent and appealing to the younger, more manipulatable Mira. His offer to escort the girls to a nearby underground shelter sounds appealing and sensible, but his manner is aggressive. The storytelling picks up the pace from here, propelling the girls into both a predicament and an ethical dilemma: do they trust the stranger and let him in? As the eldest sister, Roos must make a choice to manage a dire situation.
Roos's choice is drastic, and its consequence is laid out with truly nail-biting tension, each beat leading into a chain of choices that are riveting and shocking. Or perhaps not so shocking, especially in a world ravaged by disaster. PANTSER delivers a superbly crafted narrative that generates both suspense and compelling emotion. But, with a clear thematic connection to the real-life global pandemic, it also becomes a meditation on social trust and the effects of its erosion on ourselves. In times where survival seems certain, we retreat and shield ourselves from danger at all costs. But in the process, we become suspicious of others and sever our connection to the wider community. And, as Roos and Mira learn, it comes often at the cost of our humanity. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
You got to love short films it’s the intensity of each passing second balled up into less than 30 min. It’s nail biting!
how come he wasnt at the shelter
he would have known to take his suit off near the front door inside the plastic and not wear it indoors
they absolutely did the right thing
never separate
A very interesting point (the one about where he should've taken off his suite).
... and he failed to seal the plastic door behind him, which would have been a breach of the 'airlock' system they had ...
@@Jester-Riddle Exactly! I actually was wondering about that (he didn't seal it after he went in).
He might as well have shown up with the horse? His dialogue and demeanor was creepy enough not to trust him anyways.
Mistakes were made... There were many things this dude could've done to reassure two young, frightened girls alone in the middle of the woods that his intentions were noble. Everything he did made them MORE fearful and paranoid. He kind of sealed his own fate.
He isn't in the right frame of mind, he hasn't met anyone alive and had to pass by the bodies of men women and children each day, i too would be ecstatic the 10th child i passed by this week isn't on the pavement and rotting
There wouldn't be any uncertainty, tension, or plot if he did all the right things. Mind you, a plot that requires nonsensical behaviour like his is poorly premised.
The tension was really masterfully crafted here. Really well done!
They did the right thing considering the situation. Once he said, "At least I can save Mira..." all bets were off. What happened to saving them both? Just because he had a horse and it was alive doesn't mean he was telling the entire truth. They had a life or death situation and chose definitely not death.
The man represents the jab, unfortunately for him they were antivaxers
if the shelter exists, why is it out there? for me he was the 🦠
He said he only had one more suit. Then he would return for the older girl.
@@bjb7587 Yes, at first. Then later he says "At least I can save Mira." Not the same.
I think he mentioned Mira as she was younger and he felt he could convince her, i think he was going stir crazy because of the virus. But i still think the ending shows that he was supposed to be trustworthy .
Days before at the survivors camp: "we have a mission to find other survivors. You must be brave, have your own horse and most importantly... Be creepy as all hell"
Under the circumstances, the sisters did what they had to do. In dire situations its kill or be killed even if it turns out you were wrong.
Exactly. The man should've been smarter as well and immediately offed them both
But, were they wrong ? The man had a very strange way of interacting with them and said some very weird things that left a feeling of suspicion about his motivations ...
(All will be revealed in a sequel ... not !).
Your sick. Let's hope nothing like this happens or we are done for. Instead of letting fear get to you how about people help each other survive. You should be locked up, your not to be trusted
Are the sisters wrong? Did he die?
The guy was acting super sketchy. He also was hyper-focused on Mira which magnified the creep factor by 1000%. Maybe he just had poor people skills but I think taking him out was justified given the available information.
ugh, no.
His fault. He should've seen it coming and taken them out first
@@sqd8r then what
I think he really wanted to help them/was telling the truth , the ending shows that with the horse being alive . The girls thought he was lying and that horses couldn't survive the virus. But because they got paranoid and didn't trust him , which yes is understandable .. but it's not justified to start attacking him with a baseball bat when he didn't do anything wrong. Ok be on your guard but don't start attacking 🤦♀.
Yep. Trying to circumvent the big sister by talking to the younger girl was a no no. That would have done it for me.
The guy was very aggressive so it was a survival decision.
Pantser is Dutch for armor.
A superbly crafted film, with a perfect storytelling arc. And only just the dialogue it needs. Very very very well done.
If I were that man, I would have understood the girls' hesitation. I'd have commended their not trusting strangers, and simply left the food at the door, for them to retrieve after I'd left.
He was gonna go and come back anyway, he coulda offered to go and get another suit, and come back for both of them at the same time, he could even have brought someone else back with him, like a woman for reassurance, I felt this guy was 'off' right away, he was far too weirdly interested in the younger sister.
@@Kazza_8240 the problem was he only had one suit and they were "the only one's he'd found in months" so nobody else to bring back. Him being 'off' while i agree didn't help the situation was somewhat caused hy his period of isolation
@@Kazza_8240, he had no intention of coming back to get the older sister. It seemed to me he was far too interested in the younger girl, and not in a good way...
@@georgemcmillan9172 What reason do you have to believe this? What did this man say or do to make you think that he had bad intentions?
@@treacherousjslither6920, one, the way he honed in on her from the start, and two the fact he wanted to take them one at a time, starting with her...
scared, angry, disappointed, betrayed, threatened... when tested, ones full nature, sometimes just for "self benefit", shines.
Wow really dark but well written and acted 👍
full of the usual holes in the science - I won't analyze that. It's obvious. Some beautiful details carried in the opening scenes: house is cold (kids wearing warmer clothes), no heat, no elec, no water pressure; obvious issues ignored in many such shorts. The kids are unarmed, tactically inept moving at night with portable lights on. Very realistic. Well-acted. Nice job mostly.
I think about what it would be like to be a lone survivor. Scary stuff.
People are missing the fact that they all were not used to be social(ized) and his awkwardness mirrored theirs. Inability to communicate effectively, making each other feel safe in each other's presence, led to this conclusion. His death was not justified.
Maybe not but definitely understandable.
“At least I could save Mira”
Seemed a bit noncy to me
@@tarnish8140she was the younger of the 2 i would offee to take her first too since the older sister would be more capable of staying alone until i save the younger one and also if they are starving (they are not but he had no way of knowing) the older would last foodless for longer
They should have sent another sane person to convince the girls to go to the bunker with the horse at least
It's the guy's fault for acting creepy. I wouldn't have trusted him either.
wonder if they sent a woman instead when their actions be any different?
No spoiler here because I've only seen halfway.
After that first conversation through the picture window, I don't trust him. If there's a safe place in the caves, why didn't he stay there? Either there is no such safe place, or they kicked him out. And if they kicked him out, what horrible thing did it do to get kicked out?
Lots of other, smaller things, but that's the main suspicion I have.
Right? Plus, he's only a two day ride away but he hasn't seen anyone in months? Ummm....
Better to be safe than sorry💀
his point was valid he really could have broken in and pretty easily it would only take the right tool and approach to the house keeping it safe of the virus and getting reed of the kids in the process asking nicely was completely unnecessary which really make me wonder his motivation. Nothing he really said made me suspicious other than the outrage over the horse. I would honestly take my chances letting him in but keep a really close eye on him.
Ok. Thought this was excellent, but... if you sealed up your house, you would use all the oxygen inside over a relatively short period of time. “Based on oxygen alone, estimates are that the average person could survive in a completely sealed, airtight room for 12 full days!” That’s one room, so maybe multiply that by 10 rooms & that’s 4 months for one person, unless there are lots of plants in there. Now to the sealed suit guy... how does he eat, drink & go to the bathroom in it if he can’t let the air touch his skin? And who covered the bodies? And without a decontamination option, touching his suit should have been deadly. All those queries aside, it really was a good short. Makes you realise how quickly your principles could be set aside in a life or death situation like that, sadly. And how much we have probably all thought about what we would be willing to do in a deadly pandemic, especially with the recent taste of that type of situation that Covid & shows like The Walking Dead have provided. I wonder if people from 100 years ago ever really considered the practicalities of it? Whereas it’s such a commonplace theme these days in our entertainment.
Thought of that too
Presumably something from the outside has to get in. How is the rainwater they collected getting in the house otherwise?
Interesting that I never even thought of killing him or knocking him out to take his suit until the girl said to Mira “We can save us both. I need your help” 🤔 Anyone else find that? I think I’d be more inclined to keep a weapon close until I learnt more about him & if he made one wrong move towards my sister, then I’d attack. But no one knows until they’re in that situation I guess.
Me too, when she said that and I realised what she was thinking, I was thinking 'why didn't that occur to me as an option'? He was weirdly far too interested in the younger sister, and I thought he was 'off' from the very start, you're right, you don't know what you'd do unless you're in that situation.
People in industrialized countries do not know hunger..Real hunger, there is going to change everything..
Same on this point, but I would never have let my younger sibling go with a stranger without me. Absolutely no splitting up in this situation
Bad P.R. he should have brought the horse and the map! What a dope! Demanding and creepy guy who didn't bring more than one suit if he was looking for survivors?
They acted rightly.
It's a very contrived plot, making a saviour behave intimidatingly in order to create uncertainty and poor choices.
More please! Fantastic actors ❤
new subscriber. ive been binge watching these for an hour now.
What a nightmare situation!
If he leaves them, they won't last much longer. Their parents aren't coming back, they're down to the last of their food, and no armor for the outside.
If he takes Mira, it is very possible he won't come back for Roos. Either because he won't risk the journey back again, or something happens to him and/or Mira along the way.
If I were Roos I would consider maybe leaving Mira to go with him, watch him closely on the journey, and if there is that bunker, have him give me both suits and I backtrack to get Mira myself.
OR what they did. It was really the safest move but damn that would be a hard decision to make. I would want to trust him, but to ensure the least amount of risk for Roos and Mira, they would have to take him out. He had a lot of suspicious red flags, but even someone acting innocent could just be an act. In desperate situations like this, Roos did the smartest thing she could have done to give them the best chance of survival.
Awesome short film.
*this is true horror* ... better than any "Friday the 13th" I remember from my old times
Another beautifuly made short movie. Very touching. Great stuff.
Good stuff. And a short film from Dutch soil too. Great!
Sisters are survivors. Exactly correct decision.
Extremely situation require extremely decisions.
Who can blame them.
Except a bit unrealistic this was a good production - well produced.
Had he offered food instead of asking if they had any , things would not had been the way they were
These two girls gunna make crazy actors one day
The contamination would have entered the house on his suit.
I can't blame then. Why dud he want in if he new of a place for them to take them? He could of just gone himself. Whar was he going to do once in? That he kept asking let me in, that troubled me 😰
3 days to get there or something
If he had all of these he could've shown it to them. A grown man against two children? With all the words trying to lure them rather convincing he wanted to help? They acted right by attacking first. I wouldn't buy it either. If the first strike was his by any chances, they'd be not only dead, but probably abused. Those who think the older sister was wrong, it's just shameful that you'd trust your little ones to a total stranger.
Part 2 pls
This girls have watched The Walking Dead.
Holy Moly! I guess you gotta do what you gotta do😳
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I can see it happening in NYC before 2022 is over.
Why do people keep saying they won't survive?? Now they have a horse they can go into town and look for more food, and they had food in the bag that the guy left, and they have gas suits.
Plus they have a map to the caves to see if there really is a shelter there. And a nice easy two day ride - three at the most. Except for the slight fact they can’t eat or go to the bathroom without exposing themselves to the air... hopefully there is a water connector to the gas mask. Of course they can survive.
@@allisonjames2923 exactly
luna moon ... Because they have no idea how to ride a horse, they are Dutch for god sake, not cowboys.
They could eat the horse ... !?! 🤣
@@martinwebb1681 the need to survive, will make you learn a lot of things, I'm sure they would try, I'm afraid of horses, but to save my ass, I would try to ride one.
Very suspenseful. How could they eat or drink outside and survive without taking their mask off? 100 miles on horse is a long way. Yes they did the right thing under the circumstances and he did everything wrong to reassure them, poorly planned on his part.
I thought the same thing. How are they able to eat or drink? Where would they stop to take off the masks?
Why didn't he bring the horse to the house?
It's all about survival.
I'm not mad at them. He had the option to just leave and he wouldn't.
"You interested?"
"No"
"C'mon, you sure you're not interested?"
"No"
"I'm gonna wait over here while you think about whether or not you're interested"
............................
"So having thought about it, you interested?"
"No"
His persistence forced them to choose between killing him or trusting him, and well...
And to think all they needed was a paper mask...
They got creeped out cause the man wasn't so handsome.🤷🏻♂️
They were planning on killing him anyways, its just general untrust and idiocy by the girls, that's however why people in the comment still try to say that he was a nonce and that he was gonna abuse them even after it got revealed the poor man was just ecstatic he met a living human ulike the many cold bodies of people snd even kids he had to passby each day and didn't wanna let these 2 die
No Good Deed goes Unpunished.
Communication.
Hey, just found out that you’re also the “did you know that in…” guy. Saw that his profile picture looked oddly familiar to yours and that you’re both from Taiwan. The fact that you’re him is shocking
"Solidarity in the pandemic"
Sometime the ulterior motive is altruism.
Awesome
How to have real guilt for the rest of your miserable life !
I would be susicious because, he says there is shelter with food and a lot of people (did he say hundred people). Why would these people wanna share their food with more people? The less the better right? And what type of food? How long would that food last? So no I would not trust that info
I don't get who they were watching at the end. Their dead brother or the dead corpse of the "suspicious man". Anyone can help?
I think the man? Since their brother had been covered in a sheet by someone & that body was covered in a blanket. Although it could have been their brother they were saying goodbye to.
Without looking at it again, what I remember is them looking at their house, kind of mentally saying goodbye to it. It's likely the only home they've ever known, and it represents their parents, their childhood, their lives up until now.
they put a blanket over their brother.
Deep
also why didnt he bring the horse and the map to prove it
i dont blame entirely fr fr he was acting sketchy asf
Either way they probably won't survive
Why not? They have a horse, food, water & a map. As long as the horse stays nice & chilled, even if they’ve never ridden before they can figure it out. The guy came from somewhere that was sealed up. He couldn’t survive long in a sealed suit otherwise if he couldn’t let the air touch his skin. Even though there are water bottle connections for gas masks, he’d have to be able to take it off to eat & go to the bathroom. Plus they’ve shown they’re willing to adapt & do anything they need to. All says survivor to me 🤷♀️ Just because they’re young means nothing.
Agreed they will not survive, they wouldn't have a clue how to even start to ride the horse, being Dutch I doubt very much they have even seen an horse that often if ever. With the few tins of food they may go back to the house and survive an extra few days at most.
@@martinwebb1681 true they might figure it out it was a pretty good film what it was bassicakky saying that it is better to be safe than sorry
Good thing its just acting...
where is your sister? LOL
The horse was dead. Maybe he wanted to make dinner of the girls since the horse meat was contaminated. Mira would have become veal.
This doesn't make much sense. How did the guy eat while in that suit? Also, when he came into the house through the multiple enclosures, there was no decontamination protocols. Finally, if the house was really air-tight sealed, I didn't see any plants in there to generate oxygen. They would have suffocated. Interesting concept, but not realistically executed.
will the older girl have an increase chance of catching the sickness after using the guys breathing mask?
Left too many loose ends unless there will b a part 2.
super sketchy from the get go lol foh
So weird how I can understand this language very similar to Afrikaans 🙆🏽♀️
The Dutch colonised South Africa ... and Boers is a Dutch derivative language.
Not at all strange. Afrikaans evolved from Dutch.
An 11 hour old thriller.
Not positive as to the language
My guess is German
But it is another language
Maybe Danish or Welsh
Norwegian or Finish
I really have no idea...
Great work...
Mira and Roos are stuck
The house is contaminated
And the cave is a 100 miles away.
Food will run out
They are as dead as the rescuer
It’s Dutch
That was my next guess but I gave up.
Thanks for the intel
Its defenently not Danish or Finnsih or Norwegian lmao
They killed the one person that would've saved them 💀💀💀. Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
True, but we know that only with 20/20 hindsight.
can anybody pls. STOP analyizing this movie in the sense "well, the guy looked creepy" or "I would have not let him in" ... bla bla --- man! this is an ultimative HORROR STORY! well done, well commited, I can't sleep tonight.
Are We to Make the little ones Suffer for our {ADULTS} GREEDY, DESTRUCTIVE,DELIBERATE, CRUEL MISTAKE 😢 😔 😞 😢
STAY HOME 😎
The guy was telling the truth or no?
At least partly...
Yeah he was probably telling the truth and it upset them at the end but the sister did what she had to to try and save both of them instead of trusting her little sister with some creepy dude that kept screaming about how lonely he was. The whole point is it may have been innocent and he mightve just been starved for human interaction, but he might have also had sinister intentions for the younger girl and the sister wasn’t taking the chance.
@@laurenc4138 either way, they both won't survive now
@@Omgits7ito they've survived this long
He seemed to be telling the truth about the caves, horse, food etc. Doesn’t mean he wasn’t planning on satisfying some “biological urges” with the girls before they left though. If he’d been legitimate, he wouldn’t have insisted on staying the night before leaving, especially on the second day when they presumably made contact with him in the morning. He also wouldn’t have been creepy as hell
It didn’t help once he took the mask off. Not at all.
Why?
❤️❤️❤️
Desperate times call for desperate measures who raised these girls? Who can blame them for having trust issues?
Gripping
Does this movie take place in the future where they’ve created magic plastic zippers where viruses can’t come inside as long as you’ve zipped up?
Covid with Man.
A much worse, virulent situation here, and now we know how many people will not cooperate as a society and instead believe in lies and not facts and science. We are lucky, so far, that covid was not nearly as bad as the situation depicted. I have been hugely disappointed in humans of late. When I was young, we all took shots against polio, etc. No one denied reality nor went against the general good. This film should be a warning, imo.
You are right - it has been absolutely shocking how many people went full anti-science even to the point of mandating an experimental therapy and threatening others with loss of jobs and livelihood if they didn't become guinea pigs for big pharma, which of course was exempt from liability in case of injury or death. You are also right that there was a lot of lying too - claims that if people took this experimental therapy, they couldn't contract or spread the illness, and so forth. Complete lies coming from ignorant and authoritarian political manipulators.
Same with climate change, people keep using super polluting airplanes, eating processed meat and consuming everything at an alarming rate, ignoring the warnings of all scientists
We are lucky, indeed, that the rona has had a 99.99% recovery rate :)
Covid vaccine mandates are unnecessary. Many people lost their jobs for no good reason.
@@jstnhnh for sure, better survival rate than the jab!
So. The cure to the pandemic will be derived from the blood of that horse, right?
That was Brilliant deduction!!!!!
If there’s anyone still alive to create it 🤷♀️
@@allisonjames2923
Deep!!
A Trojan Horse.
@@williamboston309
Perhaps Will..
Okay, this may be a film now bt its gonna be the future...
Then we’re all doomed, because unless you have a filtration system to let clean air in, or loads of plants, you’d die of lack of oxygen living in a sealed up house, probably within 4 months for one person in a house with 10 rooms. “Based on oxygen alone, estimates are that the average person could survive in a completely sealed, airtight room for 12 full days!”
@@allisonjames2923 how they going to eat wearing those suits and masks? the guy said the cave they have to go to 100 miles away
deadly PANDEMIC. HOW ORIGINAL.
Lesson is,, don't help anybody 👹
To all those saying "he could have just left the food there" or "he could show them the horse" etc. Why couldn't at least the older sister have asked these very things of him to test him? Do you realize how ridiculous it is under these circumstances to accept that just killing the man was justified?
Not ridiculous at all, he was acting totally creepy, got kind of irritated whenever he was even slightly questioned, violently told them that "if he wanted to break into he could", while hitting the glass wall, which is an outright threat, and in every interaction he didn't want to reason with the older sister, instead he was circumventing her to creepily try and convince the little one. What they did was 100% justified in this situation.
👌👍👏👏👏🥇⚘
This is how women on Facebook Marketplace make me feel when I sell things. Pro tip:If you think all men are bad just stay home and feed your cats.
The problem is you all look the same. Meaning, sometimes it's difficult to tell by looking at someone what kind of personality they have. So forgive me for airing on the side of caution, but I'm wary of most of you because of that select few. It's called survival
@@juliesvendsen6393 So like I said stay home and feed your cat.Don't INITIATE a contact where you are visibly shaken by someone's gender.
Man, try to help a lady out and what do you get? No appreciation at all!
Good short, kudos!
😂
Men are so creepy. I’m glad they took his suit.
I guess that you are a Misandrist ?
Guilty till proven innocent when your a man. poor man
Particularly when you refuse to go away.
That was awful
This is the worst ever
What makes you say that? The outcome? The logic flaws? I thought it was actually pretty good. Very enthralling tension.
@@allisonjames2923 lol 😆
says “this is the worst”, refuses to elaborate
It cant be that bad, yours is the only negative comment I've seen 😂
No dont let the man in he is acting weird and strange