This memorable short film has all the answers about a man’s life
Why are we here? What’s life all about? Is God really real, or is there some doubt? A young man named Nathan (played by Australian actor Daniel Lissing) finally receives some answers to at least a few of those questions in a short film by Michael Goode entitled, appropriately enough, The Answers. The movie comes with an intriguing tagline: “Every question you’ve had about your life in 8 minutes or less.” At the film’s outset, poor Nathan has died and finds himself in a white, featureless void of an afterlife. Coming to terms with this predicament, the film’s protagonist decides to ask a whole series of trivia questions about his own life: how many times he masturbated, how many waves he surfed, how many times he said the word “fuck,” etc. Satisfyingly, Goode’s movie provides him with exact answers to those and other queries, even cutting away to flashbacks when necessary. It’s like the ultimate Google vanity search, only with way more accurate and personalized results.