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filmed throughout my last year of high school to nothing and everything we feel.
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00:20Quick, think of a number one to ten.
00:22Yes, you. All of you in the audience right now.
00:24Or maybe it's just one of you. Or four of you. Or a hundred of you depending on how successful this movie is.
00:28Whatever. Just think of a number one to ten.
00:32Got it?
00:34Is it seven?
00:36Chances are I'm wrong, but for about one out of every three of you, I just blew your goddamn mind.
00:40But one out of three?
00:42Not one out of ten?
00:46How is that possible?
00:58The End
01:00Here's my theory. First of all, no one will pick one or ten, right?
01:04Like that's just stupid, picking from the ends.
01:06And you didn't even specify that one and ten are included, right?
01:08So people wouldn't want to mess up the rules or anything.
01:10Like it would be embarrassing to fuck up choosing the number one through ten.
01:12Why do you think people choose the number seven?
01:14Well, I'm an Aquarius, so three gives off five vibes for me.
01:18Yeah, five, bro.
01:20Like that's just midday, yeah?
01:22No cap.
01:23Well, you see, Pythagoras actually calculated even integers are more predictable.
01:27Two and four feel a bit harmless, if you will.
01:31You know, back in my day.
01:33Three.
01:34Nine.
01:35Five.
01:36Four.
01:37Five.
01:38Four.
01:39Nine.
01:43And so there it was.
01:45Science has found that 33% of people will choose seven, and yet no one could quite explain why.
01:52Out of a seemingly random set of arbitrarily assigned values, out of complete and utter meaninglessness and nothingness came.
01:59Everything!
02:02I mean, think about it.
02:03We live in a world with so much uncertainty, with like climate change, civil unrest, and-
02:07The only thing on CERB right now is what college you're going to.
02:10Miles, it's really not that complicated.
02:11Go to a good college, get a job, and die.
02:13And what's with all that one through ten shit you say every day?
02:15Yeah, what's with that anyway?
02:16Yeah, what's with that anyway?
02:18How about your extracurriculars?
02:22Can you do service?
02:23Miles!
02:24Miles!
02:25Focus!
02:26Time!
02:27Miles!
02:28Miles!
02:29Focus!
02:30Time!
02:31Miles!
02:32You won't have much time.
02:33I'll be talking.
02:34I'll be talking.
02:35I'll be talking.
02:36I'll be talking.
02:37I'll be talking.
02:52Where do you want to go next?
02:57I don't know.
03:02I don't know anything.
03:07Try to remember.
03:12Memories with you?
03:17With me.
03:19We're fucking graduates!
03:22Woo!
03:23Woo!
03:25Woo!
03:26Get this fuck down!
03:28Oh my God!
03:30Woo!
03:31No!
03:32No!
03:33Oh my God!
03:36Oh my God!
03:37Oh my God!
03:38Oh my God!
03:40Oh my God!
03:41Hey, what's the…
03:46What's the…
03:49It's…
03:50It's…
03:51…
03:52…
03:53It's…
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03:56…
03:57It's…
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04:00…
04:01…
04:02Do you know what you're thinking about?
04:03It's too…
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04:10No, no, no, I just, right, if we, maybe, if we could, yeah, absolutely, what, what are
04:29you, yeah, okay, well, I should probably, I should probably get going, I just have some
04:38work that I gotta do, same, cool, um, but it was really nice conversing with you, Harper,
04:44precisely, have a great night, Miles, you too, all right, wait, do you want to kiss?
04:53I don't know, I don't know, it's like, yeah, like, obviously, door, door, door, yeah, yeah,
04:58um, but obviously, so should we drive around, yeah, let's do that, yeah, let's.
05:28Seven, it was also the first time I encountered the pinnacle of existence, death.
05:38Why do you think that raccoon killed himself?
05:56He didn't. Animals don't do that.
06:01But what if they have feelings, just like us? Maybe his wife died and he went through months
06:06of existential grief and rehab.
06:11Where's all this coming from?
06:15Mom, did Uncle Fred kill himself?
06:23You'll never have control over what you learn.
06:26I didn't.
06:27Why?
06:28How did he know?
06:29I don't know.
06:31You'll never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.
06:36Pick a number.
06:42One through ten.
06:46Oh.
06:47And now, you all are probably expecting a happy moral to the story.
06:53Or some kind of, but wait, there's more ending.
06:55But there is none.
07:01There's no meaning to any of this.
07:04There's no meaning to any of your shitty follow-your-dreams valedictorian speeches
07:08or virtue signaling.
07:10We live in a society.
07:11Pinterest quotes.
07:12And definitely there's no...
07:14And definitely there's no meaning to my pretentious, nihilistic, and ending attempt at self-awareness
07:20for the sake of self-awareness.
07:39Will you remember me?
07:40Of course.
07:47I don't think I will.
07:54Yeah, honestly, I don't think I will either.
07:57No, like, I'll remember you.
08:00But in, like, 50 years...
08:01Like, we probably won't give a fuck about each other.
08:03Right.
08:03Let's be honest.
08:04Exactly.
08:04Yeah.
08:05I mean, maybe, though.
08:13Yeah.
08:15I'd like to think so.
08:17I'll be like, remember that Miles kid?
08:21I really liked him.
08:23He was really cute.
08:25He had nice eyes.
08:29I guess.
08:31It's a weird feeling.
08:32It's a kind of fleeting feeling we'll only really experience once.
08:37Like, we're not going to realize how good we had it until we're old and inevitably lose
08:42contact with each other.
08:43And then...
08:46And then remembering all of this will be painful.
08:54Do you think, then, that it would be better to remember or forget?
09:02Yeah, me too.
09:16We begin tonight with New Mexico, where thousands of firefighters are battling a colossal wildfire.
09:22The worst day in more than four years for him.
09:24There's so many random things happening in the world at once that don't feel like they make sense.
09:28What you're about to see is graphic.
09:30Okay, now I'm going to ask you, what do you think the meaning of life is?
09:33Just to have fun and don't care what anyone else thinks of you at all.
09:38Just live in with the journey, the experience, and find some happiness there.
09:43Honestly, just do whatever the hell you want.
09:45Because, I mean, in the end, none of this is going to matter.
09:48And these people that you think care right now, they really don't.
09:52I guess to focus on yourself and do what you want to do and not waste time.
09:56To help people to do more good than bad.
09:59So, how do you feel about the future right now?
10:01Oh, maybe.
10:02The world's kind of uncertain at the moment.
10:05Personally, kind of scared.
10:07Not great.
10:08I'm just kind of nervous about it.
10:09It takes a lot of work to do on this day.
10:12I don't know where I'm going to go to college.
10:14I don't know what I want to do with my life.
10:16And so, I don't know where I'm going to go.
10:18It's just such an unexpected thing.
10:19You can never know what's going to happen next.
10:22I don't think anyone really knows what's going on.
10:26As a family man, I, uh, sort of meaning is the happiness for all my family members.
10:31The future of the past, present, is all a gift.
10:35All right.
10:35It's been a day.
10:36Two.
10:37The future's really scary.
10:38I don't really feel confident.
10:40Would I be here?
10:42Best!
10:43I'd say sad.
10:44Only because there's a lot of things that I benefit from in this world that a lot of people don't benefit from.
10:48It's a surprise.
10:50I kept my trip last year.
10:51But it didn't work out.
10:52The future is very unprotected.
10:53The world's biggest spirit is the ostrich.
10:55It's the ostrich.
10:55It's the ostrich.
10:57It's the ostrich.
10:57But this self is a jerk.
11:00But we all try to find our seven to hold on to.
11:06Love everyone that you can.
11:07Just go find someone and abuse them with your love.
11:10You know, the people that you spend it with just live life and not just exist.
11:14It's just really big.
11:15And you never know what's going to happen.
11:17Because existing is just waking up, going to work here.
11:19We live and we die.
11:21That's all that happens.
11:24You're gonna do great things, man.
11:26Seriously.
11:27I'm not believing you.
11:28Embrace it.
11:30Embrace every moment of it.
11:32You live in terror of not being misunderstood.
11:34You're always here.
11:36Always.
11:37There's clarity.
12:01There's clarity.
12:07I'm Sondra, production designer.
12:27Today, I have water guns.
12:29Hey John, look at the camera.
12:30No.
12:37Whatever you want.
12:38Oh, I'm so lucky.
12:41You are my best friend.
12:46Oh, there's no one, there's no one that knows me like you.
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