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…
Love this!! So much of our dating is done online nowadays that human connections are lost or fogotten. This just made it a point to say how much of actual human connection we need in our lives. Couldnt have been truer!!
If only we had more AI to give people a push to actually go out on a date! Miss the old days when people actually connected in person.
I can really see where the world is going and this brilliant filmmaker as nailed it!
Well done Ryan Turner⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I recently decided to take a hiatus from dating because having been with the same guy/married for 18 years (divorced about 2 years ago), I was completely unprepared for the realities of online dating. The main thing that I like about online dating is that it can put me in touch with men that I would not have met in the course of my daily life. I am a 49 year old woman living in a rural, retirement community who is employed mostly by women business owners. Hard to meet eligible men in the circle that I move in…
Now for the hate.
What surprised me the most was the disconnect between the image that some men present of being interested and wanting a relationship, and the reality that many of them have an agenda to just use women. Not just for sex, but there seems to be an emotional manipulation going on – saying all of the right things, wining and dining – and then poof! Gone. It’s fairly easy to weed out the obvious players & mentally ill, but I think that there is a new breed of “wolf in sheep’s clothing” that is intelligent, manipulative and difficult to see for what their true colors are until it’s too late, and I’m sexually and emotionally hooked.
I really don’t know exactly what their agenda is – it’s not just sex, although that’s a part of it, maybe they get some sort of power out of feeling like they’ve inflicted some revenge on women because of past hurts? Or maybe they simply don’t see women as people with feelings and it’s about gaining the pleasure in the moment and if it starts to seem more serious then that’s too much? Or maybe “I’ll leave and hurt you before you can leave and hurt me.” The thrill of the conquest is an end itself? Whatever the source, it really doesn’t make a difference – the behavior is the same…
I think that Hussey has good advice in being careful to not over-invest especially in the early stages of dating. And to not project too much onto some guy because he seems to meet many of your criteria… still, it was surprising to me. It is true – I have a hard time holding back, and become way to emotionally attached too quickly. I’m working on that… I’m a very open and honest person who has long-term healthy friendships and close ties to my family. I have a great career as an artist and educator and am very well-respected in my community. Well educated and intuitive. These qualities tend to work well for my friendships and for my business. I tend to assume the best in others – but as we all know – when you ass-ume – you make an ass out of u and me! And I hate feeling like I was duped – but there it is.
Recent dating experiences have left me reeling in confusion and hurt. I don’t want to expose myself to toxic men. It’s undermined my trust in men in general (with the exception of a my male relatives and a few male friends) but even more, it’s made me not trust my own judgement in not seeing these men for who they really are from the start. Taking time to heal. And finish writing my book about what it’s like to try dating after 18 years of being off the scene. http://www.melissaklein.com
I think the film made many excellent points about how we are starved for affection and real connection and how we use technology and medications to help dull the pain… It’s a hopeful movie and that’s a beautiful thing… I just wonder if those two will be able to handle the challenges of a real relationship. Seems like many people have gone so far down that path, they are past the point of no return.
Wow kind of scarry but true. I met my guy two years ago on line . a computer matched us and I really didn’t like the look of him but he kept coming up as a match . After our first date we really hit it off and we have been together ever since. It’s not perfect and I like Matt’s advise it helps, with communication and respecting each other’s differences. But wow the computers talking at the end was just crazy too much to the truth.
Wow kind of scarry but true. I met my guy two years ago on line . a computer matched us and I really didn’t like the look of him but he kept coming up as a match . After our first date we really hit it off and we have been together ever since. It’s not perfect and I like Matt’s advise it helps, with communication and respecting each other’s differences.
LOL Love the twist at the end.
Loved the concept of true connection. It’s a bit sad b/c it doesn’t relate to my life. I’m older than the beautiful young people in the video. I really hope that it brings awareness to the younger people as to how dangerously close this is becoming a reality.
The Future: a time where AI would be responsible for the survival of our species :p We can’t let it come to that!
WOW This was absolutely PERFECT.
I’m a relationship coach & work in the area of Mental Health. THIS WAS LIKE A FLY ON THE WALL spying on a huge number of my patient sessions. THIS FILM WILL SAVE LIVES, enrich relationships & unify families.
I want to share this film with as many people as humanly possible! … And what I’d give to meet & join forces with these geniuses, insightful & compassionate writers/producers. OMG I’m so excited to start sharing this with my patients ASAP.
THANK YOU for sharing & creating something so incredibly valuable & necessary to millions of beautiful souls.
Laura Canning
Clinical/Holistic Therapist.
Tranquil Mind Therapy.
Gold Coast Australia.
Great video feeling like a cell myself. Trying to regrow my confidence so may have to step out my shell more often x
How is this 2025? It’s most people’s lives right now but with less VR tech!
I loved it!
That was very cute. I enjoyed it.
Cool one… Love the concept
But can you rely to a situation that is sometimes confusing?
Too many rules to dating!!! I just want to go out with someone and be myself without being so contriving. It’s like you can’t be yourself…rules, rules, RULES!!! Yike!!!
I LOVED!!
It is evident that technology affects the quality of life. It has both positive and negative effects. The positive aspect is that technology has and will continue to positively enhanced long distance relationships. The negative impact, is that it allows for people to entertain themselves without having to venture out into the real world, providing a “safe” cocoon for shy/ introverted people, which ultimately affects their social skills and the formation of healthy relationships, as brilliantly portrayed in this short film. In short, it threatens real life connections.
Well,unfortunately this movie short really does give a glimpse of the future. Though such topics have been explored in movies since before Demolition Man; this one is more realistic of the possibilities. However, it must be said that the reason this is so sad a situation is that we as humans have fed into the media machine and have chosen this path. We could have chosen a more holistic, organic approach to life, we in the 1980’s tried real hard to keep it from going this way. Yet, people thrive on impulse and over stimulation. If movies like the Terminator and the Matrix didn’t warn us to be more careful with this path we have chosen, alas, it may be too late to turn back now. And now the future of the human race relies on a generation raised on entitlement and video games to lead us into tomorrow. As for me I am of a past generation and these future terms of dating do not apply to us. We face a different challenge. When you get up past your 50’s all the good ones have already been taken. Who wants someone who has been divorced one to many times or worse never been married at all and never had to deal with reality or even worse have never had any children so they never learned real responsibility. Maybe if you are lucky you might find that one gem still undiscovered. Now, I understand the things my mom told me in her last years and how true they are. All I can say now is “good luck to everyone, the future is now”.
That everybody is “too scared” to take the “leap of faith”. I took a leap of faith and am in one of the best relationships i have ever been in. I was straight up and called a guy out on “ghosting” . And he saw My assertive conversation as a leap of faith for him.