My good friend and highly talented director Ryan Turner has made an incredible, multi-award-nominated short film that shows how you could be dating by 2025.
I hope you love it as much as I do…
►► What do you LOVE or HATE about dating today? Leave a comment below…
With all the technology, we are losing our ability to talk to each other. A very sad day indeed!
I didn’t realize men get so scared . . . even when a guy told me he was scared . . . I kind of didn’t get it. I’m not scary!
A lot of people need that counselor. Though I hope we’re not drinking liquid pizza in 2025! But I get it. I live in a studio apartment but God help me I’m getting out of doors!
What I like about dating today? We keep on trying. Tech or no tech we are out there trying.
Great video! It completely reflects the impact of technology on us; being sometimes very useful and other times, just acting like a security blanket for people behind a screen, when in reality it prevents us from developing the social skills we actually need in order to build a proper relationship.
I hope Ryan decides to make a sequel of this pair, maybe this time directed towards how such dependency to high technology could also be affecting our way to solve conflict in already established romantic relationships. Wonderful work so far!
I absolutely loved this. I love the story – so fantastically…human:). I also love the way it was written, shot, directed (I’m an Actress and a Voice Over Artist so it especially impressed me:). I hope you make more movies on this (and if you ever need an Actress and/or Voice Over Artist to help spread your message – just let me know:).
People are already lonely with all the distractions of technology, but when people can use virtual reality to replace the real reality, we are going to have serious issues. We cannot replace human contact with technology; there is no substitute for physical human contact.
I loved the vídeo! A bit scary, though, with such a great impact on technology. My ex-boyfriend has an Amazon Alexa at home, on the sitting Room and in his bedroom. To tell you the truth I didn’t like him always asking questiona to a machine. I felt uncomfortable like there was someone between us. I was a bit jealous perhaps. I thought like he was getting on well with his Alexas and made me feel he was well but himself.
As for modern dating it is a bit scary
because it is difficult to know if se are dating the real self of someone. Trust is so important and we never know if people are lying. I had a Four month and a half relationship with that boyfriend my first online and was so in love with him when he suddenly broke up for no apparent reason. And it happened when I asked him the night before that my friends wanted to meet him and he actualky never introduced his. He immediatly shut himself and said we hadn’t reached the next level…
Thank you for sharing this amazing vídeo!
This is pretty interesting. What is strange is the AI thing; a virtual humanoid, not even real and we listen that?!
What I don’t like about dating, especially at this stage in my life, is that it’s not as easy to find suitable dates! I think some men may be frightened to really reach out to women…at All ages. I dislike when I feel I have to impress him on the date; I have to look like this, be like that, etc. The “impress-me game” is just…tiring!
Think the virtual porn and masturbation could have been left out.
Yes we need to connect with others in person!!
The last two years I did a lot of dating, mainly online and I can brag that I never had a bad first date. My secret was placing a profile that was relevant for who I was and what I wanted and be very selective with my contacts. Over 200 hits manifested in 5 potential dates. One of the challenges of dating in 2017 was encountering people that are more interested in a virtual reality ( just like the guy in the movie). My story has a happy ending because I’ve met an exceptional man and thanks to Matthew’s lessons from the retreat in Ft. Lauderdale, I’ve got the guy and I’m keeping him! Much gratitude to MH and his lovely family!
Love the idea of this… it’s an interesting irony that technology which makes it so difficult to make an initial IRL connection is used to engineer to the IRL connection here. Technology has finally had enough of our insecurities and fears — and itself tells us to get off our butts and off the computer to make a real connection. Cute, ironic, and a lesson.
Thanks for sharing–I love clever short films. I admit I had a visceral reaction to the pizza shake among other things. This film was hilarious, thought provoking and pretty too ;) Great job Ryan and crew–good luck at the festivals!
Hmmm, what I love about dating today…I do think that in some ways it’s easier to date because of technology. It’s easier to meet available people and to make that initial contact and even set up a date. What I don’t love about dating today is that it can be really energy draining because of the way things work with meeting online. I definitely prefer to meet in person as the initial interaction. I did appreciate the blog here on GTG about dating less [spoiler alert: dating more efficiently].
Thanks to Matthew Hussey and Co. for providing help, hope and humor for dating in the present :)
One more thing, I feel compelled to mention a couple of the most memorable short films I’ve seen in Seattle festivals, which happen to be about dating. I’m mentioning them mainly because they’re so memorable–I want to give them props for their entertainment value. Just a warning if you watch, I hope you don’t mind a little bit of “potty humor.” I just found them on youtube and realize it’s been over 10 years since I saw them–they’re that memorable!
Rent-A-Person: If you’ve ever been stuck in LA traffic you can appreciate this. I had forgotten it’s a musical! I learned from the comments that James Haven, the main actor, is Angelina Jolie’s brother. I would’ve never guessed. If you like this one, be sure to check out “Validation,” by the same filmmaker. I just watched it for the first time, it’s great! There’s also a scene from Rent-A-Person in it.
https://youtu.be/2w9cKFiCrSU
Full Disclosure: A short about a first date. I wonder what Matthew & Co. would think about this. I don’t think it’s the best advice, but there is something to it…anyways it’s kind’ve funny and has an actress you’ll likely recognize her face, if not her name.
https://youtu.be/XFXKcNMCRTM
My “secret” desire is that Matthew Hussey & Co., Ryan Turner and anyone else who reads this would watch one of the shorts and smile. Then I would feel “validated” :)
Great film❤️
The thing about dating today is that we mostly do it just for immediate feels, but as time goes by, we’re not in it to truly know someone or to understand and help them grow. We date just to be in the moment
Wow! I hope things won’t be like this in 2025. I don’t like the idea of having so much technology guiding your life. I am a very outdoors person so hope we don’t all live in a reclusive state by 2025!
I still write postcards and letters to people and like having meet ups, so will continue to do that. :-)
That was a good film ,it made me think and that year isn’t that far away,Thank you for sharing it with us the public xx
Kind Refards Bridget
It’ isn’t 2025 and I see myself as Daniel
Just moved to a new city – no friends except Cortana and Siri
I’m crying because I just go out of home to work and to my class and come back for VG and being with myself
omg I am a freak cancer cell
This isn’t “Dating in 2025” but “Dating in 2018″…men ARE afraid, as are we, but we keep believing, keep trying.
I recently read a study on this exact theme: the negative side-effects and dependence (like a drug!) created by regular use of technological substitutes for real human contact. What happens to men who get used to the effortlessness bahind “virtual” female contact? Men who seek (images of) women who never turn them down, who do not have a will of their own and are at their disposal 24 h/24 hr? What happens is that when faced with a real live, flesh and blood female, they have a distorted sense of reality.
I don’t have the solution, but its truly an addiction that needs to be addressed, and I hope that the male viewers of this short doc film will see themselves, and admit to having a problem. Unfortunately, to do so they will have to go against the tidal wave of social- and mass-media/commercial images and messages.
Ironic that, since the ’60’s our mothers battled against sexism and objectification of the female body and image. We haven’t really come a long way (baby!) much to the contrary… I’d like to believe that ts never too late…
p.s. there’s no such thing as a virtual kiss!
Just watched the future of dating!!! Very interesting and close to the bone!! The more we use technology throughout our life’s,the further disconnected we all become.Warfare is prime example.Human contact should be the easiest most instinctual process but we poison our minds everyday through various mediums with a false set of ideals and idols we are meant to resemble.Co existing is becoming harder let alone dating
I totally agree with you, Angela!
it doesn´t just affect romance it also affect ordinary contact with other humans in all ways. Lots of people in Sweden are afraid to talk to each other on the subway or in the coffe store. People are´nt polite to each other anymore because they are afraid to talk to a stranger. When you pull out a chair or open a door some people are afraid to look at you and say thank you. Soo sad. We all need human touch to stay healthy. A very deep film with a sweet but scary pith in the end. Have a great day! M
I loved this , I think couples need a little push and the counselor was perfect ( like the married friends-family and strangers that help)
I so much the policy of the guy doing the calling, talking, financing etc in a relationship. And I also hate when they(the victims) hide their true feelings. I’m a Nigerian, I don’t know if it happens in other part off the world.
Lack of connection
Online alternatives always there so zilch effort