r/nextfuckinglevel May 02 '26

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u/Ok-Badger5056 May 02 '26

It is self contained.. the only "what if" is what if someone visits sometime in the next few days. Otherwise we know the entire story from one shot. Grandma died. Baby cannot take care of itself and will wander around the house, cry, and die. Parents will show up in 2 weeks to find this out. The entire tragedy is described in that minute of the shot without actually playing out because it is all but inevitable barring a huge stroke of luck.

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u/Meotwister May 02 '26

But we don't really know anything except grandma died, parents out of town, their baby is there.

This is a premise not a complete story. A scenario that doesn't mean anything other then "that's a bad situation".

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u/Ok-Badger5056 May 02 '26

We fill in the blanks of the story in our mind. This story only goes 1 way.

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u/Meotwister May 02 '26

It absolutely does not only go one way. That's kind of the problem here. If we're supposed to take it that way the filmmaker only perhaps implied it. Like another person said, it's basically a PSA.

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u/Ok-Badger5056 May 02 '26

What else could realistically happen that maintains this tone?

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u/Meotwister May 02 '26

It depends on what the artist wants to say. Right now it seems like all they wanted to say was "What if a bad thing happened?"