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Watching that video was an awful lot of work for very little pay-back. What was the point? Is there a point?

Kevin Harold | 7 months ago
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English teacher

The film’s openness to interpretation makes it a good one for discussion. At first, I thought that the theme might be about jumping to conclusions and judging people inappropriately. The woman seemed to be very familiar with the host family and their home or she wouldn’t have been wandering around in the private areas of the house. I thought she might have been retrieving something she had lent to the hostess or something she had left at their home on another occasion when she spent the night there. In that case, the man should have said something to her when he saw her seemingly steal the clock. It would be a terrible injustice to mistakenly label someone as a thief.

Becky Cooper | 7 months ago
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Party Guest - The Responsibility

Had to watch twice to get what happened. Film is good but very dark and hard to make out what is happening.

Pat Saunders | 6 months, 4 weeks ago
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Thou shall not steal

I thought this was a good little film that gave me what I’ve been looking for in a viewing that has been lost for quite some time…a moral! Although someone else had commented that everyone knows right from wrong, I believe that although we may have this conviction not all people continue to choose to do what they know is right. It has become far to easy these days to justify our actions by convincing ourselves that the little things won’t hurt people. I feel just the opposite. What if that clock was a momento from a mother, famiy member, or good friend who had passed away & that was the one thing left they had to tangibly remind them of the joy in that relationship? She may very well be invited back only to steal again, & he could’ve made a scene about it…but the way he handled it showed maturity. She noticed the clock was not in her pocket as she turned to exit the vehicle after being rejected & this was probably the best way for her heart to be humbled and ashamed over her untrustworthy behavior. In turn, this will hopefully make her check her motives and correct her ways. Bravo!

Jamie Gutierrez | 6 months, 3 weeks ago
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MAYBE?

I know this MAY not even be correct. BUT just a theory. MAYBE it was her clock, she borrowed it for some unknown reason and she saw it and realized it was hers. But also it was a cheap looking clock so why steal it? Of course it may have been that she felt she could get away with it, it was the thrill of it. Well if she is a friend and the hostes comes to her house one day and sees it, she will be IN TROUBLE.

Melissa | 6 months, 3 weeks ago
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At least we know why Carl is single.

The story hinges on an assumption that may or may not have been correct; Carl has no idea why Sarah swiped the clock.

Consider: The clock is not the most valuable thing in a typical bedroom (although maybe the cheap jewellery reference tells us there wasn’t all that much else) , and it would be missed right away – you glance at the clock several times a day and they’ll probably notice it missing before they go to bed. There are other things she might have gone after that would have gone unnoticed for much longer, such that the owner(s) would have had no idea what had become of them. Even a watch is often more valuable and less obviously pilfered if it goes amiss.

Though Sarah did seem to be searching for something, there could have been any number of explainations.

Perhaps the explainantion would have been that she was kleptomaniac.

Perhaps she was indeed a klepto, but her host (and other friends) knew about it. She always swiped something very obvious from, thus satisfying her compulsion but making it very easy for the victim to recover the item. (After all, this seems to be a longtime and dear friend, even if they haven’t seen each other for a bit.)

Or maybe it’s a game she and her friend play with each other, and have since college.

Or maybe… well, you can come up with a range of possibilities, innocent or not.

So, the flaw is actually in Carl, at least that’s the only one we can be certain of. If the theme is responsibility, the responsibility here is his.

Perhaps she’s so disgusted by his assumption at the end that she just doesn’t even bother trying to defend herself.

Carl could have (we might say, should have) said he couldn’t come up, but offered to meet Sarah for lunch later in the week, and at that lunch told her what he’d seen, then given her a chance to explain.

That’s how I think the film should have ended. Just after she realizes the clock is gone from her pocket, and it sinks in, he could say, “But, if you’d like to have lunch, say, Thursday.” She could have accepted, knowing that she had some splainin to do. Or that at least he was willing to hear her out, that she wasn’t just condemned for this one act, even if the worst-case is true. (And there are worse things.)

Maybe they would have had a great anecdote for dinner parties in years to come (now that the grizzly story’s getting a little old).

Maybe he just helps her with her problem. Maybe he just listens.

Seems a bit absurd to torpedo this possible relationship over an assumption without giving the other person a chance to explain.

And that, my friends, is why Carl is single.

Because, as it is, she’s wise to steer clear of the guy.

It seems a typical approach for academics, who mostly seem to think they’re just there to observe, and never have to actually do much of anything but think their marvellous thoughts. Get involved, dude; you’re not exempt.

Well made, though.

Claire | 6 months, 3 weeks ago
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@Wayne

I think the woman acted irresponibily, and the man acted more responsibly. I believe that when he went up to get her coat he then removed the clock from her coat, and put it back to on the dresser. He brought the coat down to her, whcich she was clearly surprised about, so that he could have the oppurtunity to return the clock.The woman was still a thief, and not acting responibility at all.

To Wayne | 6 months, 2 weeks ago
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The Responsibility Project

I believe the gentleman who refused to accept the invitation was absolutely right! He knew right from wrong and followed one of the Twelve Commandents; “Thou shalt not steal.” and “Thou shalt not not covet thy neighbor”. I would not want to have a friend that would steal from me. Unfortunately, I have been stolen from….by “so-called” best friends and family.

Kay S Glenn | 6 months, 1 week ago
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Why Hollywood doesn't make good movies any more.

This is a self indulgent, pretentious (to what I wonder) bore with no meaning to be read into it.

Morgan Paull | 6 months, 1 week ago
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Guilty!

Perhaps he felt dissapointed because it made him soul search so deep that he felt his own guilt for things he had done. He probably left the clock behind because he knew it was wrong. I would like to think when she discovers her prize is missing, they both talk about it and they help each other change.
I found this short film to be really interesting. Really made me think. Thank you.

Gordon Powers | 5 months, 3 weeks ago
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