MYRTLE | Omeleto
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- A woman prepares her son's favorite meal.
MYRTLE is used with permission from Patricia McCormack. Learn more at patriciamccormack.org.
A mother from Indiana is preparing her son's favorite meal, going through each painstaking step, from the washing of her hands to the chopping, frying and baking. But instead of the warmth and coziness one expects in preparing a meal, the kitchen is cold, industrial and full of equipment that isn't the best.
As Myrtle prepares the meal, she reflects on her life, her son and her background, revealing a background of poverty and deprivation. She also comes to terms with just why she is preparing the meal and the fate of herself and her son.
Directed by Patricia McCormack from a script written by Megan Barker, this short drama is essentially a monologue delivered directly to the camera, offering direct access to an often misunderstood type of character. She mostly takes us through the recipe, but as she talks, she weaves in reflections of her life, from the economic deprivation she's endured all her life to the troubled relationship she has with her son. whose own journey is encoded in Myrtle's reflections.
The set of narrative elements is pared-down to one character and one location, but the film is richer and more dynamic visually than that set-up would suggest, with a moody, drab color palette and subtle yet revealing camera movements. There's also many small detail shots of the meal, from the careful layout of the ingredients to meat sizzling in the pan. Yet, combined with the pensive text and sometimes eerie lighting, these shots are far from evoking a sense of gastronomic pleasure. Instead, there's something almost surreal and unsettling watching these ingredients be mutilated and maimed in service of a meal.
The foundation of the film's power, though, comes from the writing and the performance that brings it to life. The script sticks to a telling specificity of detail, each small observation carrying immense weight in its ability to evoke a full character like Myrtle. Director Patricia McCormack plays the lead with sturdiness and an understatement that serves the film well, evoking Myrtle's stoicism as well as a certain thoughtfulness. But underneath this solidity of demeanor is a feeling of deep sorrow and pain, one that comes out as she prepares the meal, both as a gesture of unconditional maternal love and a farewell.
The final revelation of MYRTLE is less a reveal than a confirmation of what the audience has been suspecting. But it still accomplishes the work of a plot twist, as earlier details about Myrtle, her son and their background take on new significance. What begins as a gesture of motherly devotion also becomes a meditation of mortality, a portrait of the generational effects of poverty and an investigation into the meaning and value of human life. Myrtle is nourishing her son up to the very end, but in the end, we can't help but ask what one meal is in the face of an entire section of society deprived of security, safety and a sense that they matter. - Krátké a kreslené filmy
For a moment I thought she was cooking Brandon
omg so did I - the meatballs 😵💫
Stop watching Dahmer
@@marylevin9262 🤣
Well the Bumper Sticker reads FJB not Eat JB lol
Bumper sticker?
up until she revealed that he was gonna be executed, I was thinking her son was already dead and she was making his favorite meal because she didn't wanna except it, being in denial about his death. i enjoyed this.
*accept
Good point of view!
I thought the same!
She was in a prison kitchen. There is another short movie about the last of the last meal after (this custom was abandonned). Unfortunatly for me this wasn't a twist.
until the end I thought she was in prison because she committed the crime...killing Brandon her son. and she was still in a state of psychosis.
My son’s name is Brandon 🙁this look like the episode where the cooker does the last meal for a dead row prisoner
I thought she was cooking Brandon at first.
From the time she first mentioned the meat until she started talking about her second batch, I thought for sure she was cooking Brandon. I think I've been watching too many of these videos.
That's a big twist. I blame Omeleto and the creators, though. 😀
The one thing I may have noticed that others haven't mentioned is that it is indicated that Brandon killed his own father. She calls herself the former "Mrs Jackson" and references herself no longer being married, but doesn't mention her husband at all. It seems like classic PTSD suppression to me. She is cooking her son's favourite last meal before his execution for murdering his father - her husband.
You're sharp! You caught it! The name references applied to the mother triggered it for me & eventually how her son had killed his father/her husband. Very emotional. The son undoubtedly defended his abused mother & perhaps killed his own abuser.
I think she is a mental ward. He is in prison. She is preparing even tho she can not be with him, or prepare it for him herself.
I disagree I don't think Brandon killed his father.
Wow. I never would have made that connection between Father and Son. Makes perfect sense.👍
Shavua Tov, great description!!!
the way she cuts the onions...nail twisting
That's one hell of a last meal
Wow, powerful. I am teary-eyed. This actress is very talented, I am feeling her motherly heartache.
Now. that's a cooking show.
I called death row as soon as I saw the tray about 30 seconds in. That kind of ruined it for myself.
Strange that this one did not affect me nearly as much as the one with the woman cooking her last last meal. Based on Texas no longer allowing last meal requests. Watch that one called Last Requests
Yes, Last Requests was VERY moving too!!! That woman was something else. If you liked Myrtle, check it out!
Well done (no pun intended)! Just out of curiosity, did Patricia memorize the entire script beforehand, or in pieces? As someone with crappy memory, I always am amazed at the long monologues actors can deliver seemingly by rote.
😝😝😝😝😝😝👎🏼
They have nothing else to do for days but remember lines. And with so much rehearsing it comes easily.
As the DoP of the project i know that Patricia knew the whole scene 🙂
teleprompter?
Crazy she’d be the one to cook his last meal. I wonder if they gave her the option to have someone else cook, but she insisted.
That's a really interesting thought , i think you're right .. she probably felt she had to do this as his mother as her final gesture of looking after him if that makes sense.
I think she was forced to do it. Hence why she was alone in the kitchen with nobody else working or helping
@@gemstar7286exactly.
@@myboatforacar that’s a possibility I hadn’t considered.
@@myboatforacar this just gave rise to a lot more thoughts for me, i mean first off, the kitchen doesn't make it seem like she's at her home preparing the meal - maybe she pleaded the court for a separate kitchen to be given to her where she can cook? secondly, i kinda don't think she was forced to do it, maybe more like it would be the last interaction with her son, so she wanted to cook him the last meal. But the way she was talking makes it seem like she cooked what she knew her son likes, not as if her son made a last meal request. Or maybe the son made a request but when he heard his mom is going to be the one to cook, he said she'd know what i like so let her cook what she wants to.
ik this is quite big but yeah, it all just came to my mind when i read this comment
Brilliantly acted. Very well done, and devasting
Imagine having to cook your son his last ever meal , as he's about to be executed .. the heartbreak she must be feeling.
There really is something about this that hits me deeply. This is my 3rd watch. It may be the association of mother, food and death and my own severe ED. It may be the buried-down pain that Myrtle so clearly has, like my own mother. Not recognising her own child. I know my mental illness has taken my mum to that point. Or it may just be that portrayal or unconditional motherly care, cooking with effort for a child that has devastated her and clearly others so badly. A child about to die, not by illness, but lethal injection. Whatever it is, this is an incredibly moving short for me. This won’t be the last watch I suspect. Brilliant.
You have ED? erectile dysfunction?
@@jime6739 no an eating disorder.
I'm so sorry you went through all that love 💗 i truly wish you the best things in this world, you deserve happiness and feeling safe in your own skin. You're absolutely gorgeous inside and outside. I know that my words are not gonna change anything but i just wanted to say it.. You're so lovely. It may take a while, but let's heal and get better together, we can totally do it❤️🩹💫
I’m glad the ending was conclusive and didn’t arouse too many questions.
Why did brandon get executed?
@@TheSemtis He killed his mother (the woman in the film)’s husband
@@twindrill2852 is there a reason stated in the movie?
Not conclusive at all. Did the son kill his father due to him & his mother being abused or did he just kill him for no good reason??? The film doesn't answer this question. The law treats these 2 situations differently. Since the son was handed a death penalty then he appears to have been a very mean young man brutally killing his father for no good reason...death penalty deserved & given by law.
This is the only Omeleto short film I’ve watched twice. Something is mesmerizing about this one. Great job 💖
Very well done. I couldn't imagine having to cook the last meal for a close relative.
If a knife is blunt, don't push it down on what you want to cut, use it like a saw. Only a sharp knife can cut straight downwards, a blunt knife cannot. But even a blunt knife is sharper than a screwdriver and probably has some chips in the blade, so your chances are better that it can still work like a saw when you move it forth and back. You can see that she's doing that at 2:24 and this works way better.
This is similar to Last Request. It's VERY good too, so if you liked Myrtle you should check it out. Also Omeleto
Makes you wonder who ever prepares the meal, how they see it all, excellent
Every part of this made me profoundly uncomfortable (especially since I cook a lot lol). Absolutely riveting and so well done!
That was excellent! I hope to see more from Patricia.
Patricia McCormick you are amazing...
So her son Kenny McCormick? That's why he's Dead
@@tareklegrand7747 reality check it's only a movie short..
@@trublu2556 I have a better reality check it's only joke...
Great performance and writing, striking, heartbreaking, grabbing 👏
I think this is called a tour de force. She holds my eyes like few others.
I can’t imagine what it’s like being the parent of a murderer.
I have never been in that situation, however I am guessing that I wouldn't accept it. I reckon I'd be in super denial, refusing to believe that I raised a child to be a killer. In my eyes they'd always be innocent, because the alternative is accepting the fact I raised a murderer.
This is amazing, bravo!
When this started I thought I was watching a bad asmr video lol
I always wondered how a person felt when they were being sentenced to be executed but I never thought about how it affected their loved ones
Beautiful monologue, bravo!
Absolutely amazing! Just wow keep up the great work.
This is soooo American in so many ways ... and also very well done !
How do you mean? Other then her strong southern accent. Lol.
I figured it out as soon as she asked for another knife.
Patricia, so well made. Jolly good. I can't find anything else you have directed. Is there anything? If so where can i find it? And please do more.
I love these short films Omeleto
terrifying and heartbreaking. this is why the death sentence has to be abolished
Abolished even when a mean person slaughters a bunch of innocent people & even children? I don't like the death penalty either, but what kind of punishment do you believe a cruel dangerous killer deserves?
An eye for an eye
A tooth for a tooth
A life for a life
Me encanta tu contenido
Saludos desde México
Very good one!
Sad. But really good! She’s a fantastic actress.
What a twist
Well done 🤩absolutely greatest film ever!!!
I've seen this before..or is this the second one made with a Mother making her son's last meal in prison?
There was another great episode with a woman cooking for her last time the last meal for a prisoner as the program was being discontinued.
@@jamespaul2587 that was a good video as well
@@MTCali70 yes, I really liked how determined the woman was to use good ingredients for a proper last meal, while her helper and many others thought the prisoner didn't deserve it
@@jamespaul2587 like, we can still be human, even around the, perhaps, wicked...
@@MTCali70 exactly, she felt it was important to make one's final meal memorable, although I believe the prisoner she cooked for refused to eat and she brought it home
She did those onions dirty! 😅
Part Two, the Kid Finds the File in the Lemon Pie with the Handle disguised as a Spicy Meat a Balla. He heads out into the Night to catch the One Arm Man that He insist is the real Killer...
How could you even participate in that 🫤
Brilliant!
Im from the South, and for some reason when I hear someone faking a Southern accent its annoys me.
Yes, they should just NOT do it.
There aren't enough Southerners who choose an acting career. They have enough real life drama to bother with stage and screen acting.
Same here...actors butcher southern accents all the time sounding like cartoons & comics.
Brilliant
Brandon must have not enjoyed noodles with his sauce and meatballs. Interesting work of art.
I was wondering the same thing!
I cannot eat meatballs without spaghetti. This looks like an empty meal to me 😩
From the very beginning it seems like she's making her son his last meal bc she said she's been practicing and she was talking about the hygiene... she's in a prison kitchen. But from the comments I'm seeing that she killed her kid.. this should be interesting.
He's condemned to die. She's cooking him his last meal. She's clearly out of it. I would say, in shock, in denial, and all sorts of screwed up.
Thoughts and possibilities everyone? What did you see or hear others might have missed?
Just wondered if she cooked the lemon pie with the seeds because we never saw her take them out of the bowl.
@@moccalou ha I thought the same 🤣
I posted a theory under the top comment
@@myboatforacar We're not hunting it...takes too long.
@@curtischildress9580 understandable, have a nice day
There is a lot of ways this can be seen. This is my take... Brandon killed his mom. Mom is living in her own purgatory (prison kitchen) because she tried to find God and hadn't. Brandon is being executed for killing mom because she is making his last meal.
This is what I thought as well! Thats why she was alone in that huge kitchen. The whole thing wasn't real. If it was real it would be weird that she was burning the food and throwing away food nonchalantly yet no one came or said anything to her. I think Brandon was a leader in some religious cult (hence his name on the website?) and somehow got her mother killed. The mother was cooking for him in purgatory, showing how she still loves and cares for him even when he killed her
@@benjenstarkk -- Great acting. I had to watch it a 2nd time with captions on to make sure I understood what was truly going on. It is a thinker!
@skywatcher --- Technically neither of them are alive. Or maybe Brandon might be as he hasn't been executed yet. But when she refers to him in past tense, I believe he has been executed. She died by the hands of Brandon somehow. This is basically her ground hog day for the rest of eternity.
@@texas2079 that could possibly be why no one answered when she asked for a different knife!
also the way she’s acting so crazy while cooking could be the fact she doesn’t want to believe her son would do such a thing to her
I knew the plot from the get-go but still well done.
Wow amazing 💯
Great performance
Torches me
Bravo.
Well acted, but the pacing was a bit slow for me. I am sure others enjoyed the slow intensity. I bumped the play back speed to 1.5
Something's definitely not right. In a professional kitchen (not a prison kitchen), but can't cook. 😆
Wow! Now THAT'S an actress. Bravo!
Who gave her that meatball recipe?!!!
Someone with big ideas...
The Mucinex man, because eww…they were slimy af.🤢
This is a very good actress.
Lotta y’all have me worried… the mom is cooking for her son who is on death row for murder. The son killed someone , mom is cooking his last meal… are some of y’all ok?
YUCK she grated into that lemon way too far! You only want the zest, the outer most thinnest layer, which is the darkest yellow. You aren't supposed to go past the top layer into the rhine(when it starts getting lighter in color) because that'll make anything extremely bitter. Lol you don't want to push it into a grater like that, only a couple light grates over the top to get the zest.
Towards the end she was getting sloppy and semi-violent with the food.
But it’s not HER recipe! Ha
Have you actually tried this, or just been told? I’ve never been that strict. Works for me.
Go to a cooking channel and comment. Her son is scheduled to die that day. Have you cooked a loved ones last meal
I think the grater was dull. On account of the safety and well-being of both her and the meal.
I'm taking notes 😭
The actress is amazing!
Predictable but maybe because of the previous video with Dale Dickey. She was great.
Does anyone know what happened to "The One Note Man" on Omeleto?
Very nicely done
Wow. I caught the name references. The son killed his mother's husband/his own father...and undoubtedly did this to defend her from abuse & perhaps himself from abuse. Very emotional if so. If the father was a verified tormenting abuser of both his son & wife, then a jury wouldn't have dealt the son a death penalty. Since the son received a death penalty then the son committed a verified premeditated murder deserving of a death penalty. Still, very wrought with emotion. The actress did a rather poetic job delivering her performance. As for the film in whole? Just enough holes in the story to leave viewers feeling unsure & cheated as to why the murder happened...was it outright murder or self-defense? When it comes to the death penalty the law views these 2 situations very differently. If this film was created to gain sympathy toward preventing the death penalty even when it's deserved, then the film falls flat & fails.
The dialogue and presentation were very good, but I was seriously creeped out the entire.
What was the crime?
ah the victim is long forgotten and now it is poor poor son
I’m confused
Son brutally killed his father getting the death penalty. Mother is cooking her son's last meal before being executed in prison.
0:39 Naughty America (Mom edition)
Hey may have deserved it, but a mother sometimes can't let go of her own flesh and blood...even if he took another.
Makes me think, did she take up the job with the intention of cooking his last meal at the end of the day 🤔
World best omeleto all videos
I was getting a purgatory vibe from this at first. Camera angles were uncomfortable, interesting use of colours and atmosphere. Great job at making the viewer feel something!
Predicable but well done.
Well played! I was grateful the woman didn't turn out to be an android.
I don't like much. This I liked, Story, Acting, directing, well done 👏
Amazing acting.
It’s the onions.
Great Acting 🎭 . Well, it did make me cry 😢. But 1 thing I didn't get why his son was being executed? 🤔
P.S I chop Onions like that too. Really slow. 🤭
Killing his father...reason not clear in the film, but he got a death penalty which means he cold heartedly killed his father.
it's sad...
Wow 5 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Prison; after 7 min in
Too early in the comment section.. be right back
Hello! Please create Russian subtitles!
Thank god I’m english
You can click on auto-translate. She is speaking clearly enough.
Putin don’t allow that happen 🤷♀️
@@JamaicanRain he’s she’s asking for a Russian language that means English is not his:her first language🤷♀️ and is not an option on the auto translation 🤦🏽♀️
I hate death penalty... Even if know bla bla bla, I hate it...
Meatballs without Italian bread, come on man. Let's go Brandon.
Onions in spaghetti sauce?
@@glennparker5516 Always!
Many woman face the death of their children, most often their children are innocent of all crimes and wrongdoings.
This was so very sad.
Oh, the cross contamination!
Nice vid I’m an npc!
I don’t understand the emotion. Obviously this person murdered someone. His victim didn’t have another 20 years to live. His victim didn’t get to it their last meal.
"I don't understand the emotion."
Incipient sociopathy spotted.
Thats his mother. Mothers often love their children unconditionally.
Why is the hamburger brow?......it made me sick to think it was old burger....
I feel like this woman doesn't know how to cut onions
It would seem so...perhaps a less sophisticated family with a lower income not used to a great many cooking skills.
que agoniaaaa
Wastage of food disturbs me deeply.
her son was a fly?
Yes, at the beginning her son fries after eating the meal raw..