In The Fall

A short hand-drawn animation created in Adobe Flash and After Effects about one mans reflection on his life. Music by Guided by Voices

[edwardealdseaxe]

The reality of this is more terrifying than anything.

[atticussamora]

He realizes he’s wasted so much precious time, and so he decides to not make the mistake again. He lights a smoke and enjoys the moment for all it is.

[ludwigvanmichael]

As someone who is not happy in their early twenties, and is missing the amazing experiences that everyone else is having, this animation gives me a lot to think about...

[Nate-ozkp]

“Don’t live the same day for 75 years and then call it a life.”

[phaseb]

Is he happy at the end knowing his suffering is finally ending?

[creepyclown]

This is what I'm afraid of, end up living like this... even if I'm just 21

[pedrohenriquesouza]

Some people find this sad but I actually find it scary. We only live once, and reviewing your whole life in your last moments and realizing it wasn't worth it must be the worst thing ever.

[philipp]

oh yes that was really good for my depression.

[raprecluit]

When he realizes that he wasted his life until that moment he start to feel good because in his last moment he was happy not doing the usual boring routine, so he enjoyed his last moment free. The message i got form this is that we start to live our life only when when realize we are free, but sometimes it's too late

[flufferusgoobus]

It has been 9 years since this man died, and we are still here.

Edit: 10 years now..
Edit 2, September 4: 11 years, only now i realized that
Edit 3, September 20 2023; 12 years now.

[CGP]

This video is terrifying. Wasting my life away is one of my worst fears.

[Cellidor]

Fun tidbit: The reason your life tends to flash before your eyes before you die is because your brain is desperately searching memories for a potential solution to the problem you're facing.


Edit: It's been over 4 years now, and goodness there have been so many replies. I feel I should clarify something. I believe I wrote my initial comment with too much absolute certainty. In truth what I wrote is just a hypothesis to try and explain why some people experience seeing their life flash before their eyes when they encounter a near-death experience. Given that testing this, by its very nature, would require someone to be in a life-threatening situation...needless to say it isn't as deeply researched or well-documented as one might want. It's simply a hypothesis that I found quite compelling and fascinating.

[culturedweeb]

Fun fact: To make him fall for 70 seconds from 0:23 to 1:33, the skycraper must have a height of about 24 km.

[PaperThePenguin]

When you realize that he sat at a desk for 1/3 of his life...

[citizenoftrone]

I think his smile is inspiring. He is not afraid of death anymore and it gives us hope that in the last moment we will be as cheerful as this guy.

[MillizCreative]

So Steve Cutts was 16 when he created this?


A creative genius

[mariyam]

Imagine investigating a case where someone fell from a building, thinking it's most likely suicide, and finding a fricking banana peel up there

[dandan]

1:05 no wonder he’s crying, he can’t work because they forgot to give him a keyboard

[rayzorduality]

Wow, this captures life so accurately, the vitality and fun of youth, the responsibility and duties of adulthood, and the shattering of reality when you learn it's all just one big cycle that claims all of us sooner or later. The loss of innocence, the weight of doing what you have to do to get where you want to go, the crushing defeat of not getting there like you wanted to...

[kyledy]

Man, you just gave me more Depression than I have.