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…
The Future of dating, 2025; was fun to watch. Although a recent widow married 30yrs, I’m ready to date. Living in the Azores I attract men of all ages, up to as much a 30yr swing, just wanting sex No dates! Not how I want to start my dating experience off. Slim picking with Population being 15,000 that could fit into my reasonable standard…lol. Obviously lonely, affection deprived and sex deprived;Relating to film wishing for bodybuddy.
By the way Matt, I’ve been following you for 2 years knowing I would be in the dating world again. Wanted to be prepared for some fun. Might have to move back to California to make this happen. Who knows!
Really enjoyed this video! While the technology was disconcerting for me, it’s likely the way of the future and we have already started on that path (Alexa/Amazon).
What struck me was the reminder that we often trap ourselves in our own cells by our habits. We only see the same people at work, kid activities, grocery store, recreational groups etc. every week. Then we wonder why things stay the same.
If we want to meet new people, go on more dates, and make new relationships, then we have to take those risks, just like Daniel. And it’s scary, stepping out of the comfort zone – terrifying being in new situations with the potential to fail.
But just like Daniel and Amber, if we want to create the life we dream of, then we have to take the first step. We will fail many times, hoo boy, will there be doozies! But with failing, comes learning and more successes until we are competent and just enjoying the experiences of whatever comes and whomever we meet.
This video also is a reminder to be kind when meeting new people because chances are, they are just as terrified about the risk they took to meet us.
Thanks again, Matt, Stephen and Jameson, for helping me live my best life.
this is an excellent short – kudo’s to Ryan and his team for producing it.
just shows you that intimacy is a really scary proposition for a lot of us (including myself) and often we will stop ourselves from taking a risk of the heart.
I find people are so disconnected these days on every level.
thanks for sharing Matthew.
Very well done!
Thanks for sharing this video. It has an interesting concept, that is not far from our world today. We already have technology that impacts our life and we have already become rusty in real life interactions.
I honestly hope this is not the future, because I believe people need to interact with each other in reality, in real time, and in person. All the theology we have is helping us to avoid face to face communication as much as we can, and it is still perceived as okay. I think that we slowly lose our ability to communicate in reality. Technology helps us to keep on avoiding meeting and connecting with people in person. We tend to stay inside our fantasies of how communication in person looks like and feels like, and makes it even scarier in the process. As a result, when we do go out there and meet people, we are even more inept to communicating and even more frustrated when our expectations do not align with the reality.
Great film! Loves it… kinda like my life right now… Jamison is cute! He needs to get out in front of the camera more!
xoxo Antonia
This is brilliant! So many emotions got to me in such a short lap of time. I really laughed out loud, felt the desperation, the fear and the relief and satisfaction of being in contact with an other human being. The multiple faces of technology, helpful, harmful and manipulative all at the same time. Thanks for allowing us to see it! I loved it. What I love and hate at the same time about dating are the dating apps. I am an introvert and meeting new people gets a lot of energy out of me, so I need to be prepared in advance and know that I am not waisting my time. With dating apps, I know that the person I choose to meet at least has an interest and attraction. Thing I wouldn’t know with someone I would randomly meet in a public place. I also hate dating apps because a lot of people just use it to boost their ego, or are hoping for love at first sight and don’t take the time to get to know someone. We are, unfortunately, consumers. In everything even relationships. And we are having difficulties to own who we are so we need validation and those likes and matches are an illusion that we are worthy people. In a nutshell, that would be what I love and hate about dating.
OMG that was amazing and so scary. I think there is a real danger that we could end up like that if we continue as we are. We spend too much time in a virtual world already. Text, WhatsApp, emails. I make it a rule that I meet any new date within 7 days of connecting on line.
Great video! God, I hope dating does not come to that. That’s why I subscribe to you Matt. You give me the hope that I can be brave enough to meet men in real life situations and not sitting behind a computer screen. Since I’ve been watching you my new goal is to make genuine connections in real life, but darn it if it isn’t every bit as difficult as your friends video portrays. He’s encapsulated the true struggle of dating that all of us cells now face due to technology.
1. I would trow that know-it-all computer out of the window within a week.
2. I would want to date the Daniel guy :)
I think that triangle thing was Matthew Hussey:)
Great movie! Probably a true picture of our dating future.
I do love the technology that is available for dating now and being able to screen and meet people online, people you normally never would have been able to meet in your circle of life, opportunity for diversity in dating.
I hate about dating now, like the movie, technology gets away with emails and text back-and-forth, It can’t be fun at times but really impersonal and not real,. It can be very impersonal, doesn’t allow people to really get know one another.
Great creativity with the Counselor figure, which I would’ve liked to see as a rounded, less punctureable object. The alienation of humans is already very similar to the film’s depiction. Love the eating habits and virtual classroom representation. Graphics were done so cleverly.
Wow…that was both funny, silly and terrifying at the same time!! Glad to have had this opportunity to view it! Thank you!!
This is true even today in one way or another. Sadly we have all become disconnected. I honestly had porn destroy my marriage and relationship with my spouse. It took him outside the marriage and broke my heart. I have tried to keep going but how can I compete with things that are nothing more than fantasy?
I work from home every day, take online classes, shop with Amazon, use online dating, and talk in anonymous chat rooms… I can 100% relate to this! At times the hardest step in dating (and life) is getting out and meeting another human in person. Sometimes I find that I don’t leave my apartment for several days straight without realizing. I actually cried watching this because of how relevant it is in today’s world (or my world). We can become so disconnected. Thanks Ryan Turner for showing me my reality in an artistic raw way.
Hate fakes, liars, cheaters and players. Mostly what i come across.
I feel like this is ALREADY how dating is (minus the advanced technology). In my experience, guys just don’t want to put any effort into getting to know someone. They would rather be playing video games and watching netflix lol. I don’t have this experience with women/female friends; The women in my life and I do go out, we want to meet new people, go on dates and try new things. I wonder why it is so one-sided (in my experience)…
Totally adorable!! Loved it :-)
Wow!