Two Strangers Who Meet Five Times by Marcus Markou 

Can you please add English subtitles? Would much appreciate it 🙏🙏🙏

Me encantó! Gracias por hacer un filme como este. Sería espléndido que tuviera subtítulos!

And well deserved too, can only imagine it will become much bigger than the current 200,000 views. Well done.

@@DebOnTheWebb Hi Debbie. I need to do this. Sadly, my Instagram account is only used for ironic purposes. And I'm wondering whether I should find someone with a big following that resonates with the film and get them to share it. But yes, will investigate!

@@phoenixpersonified3484 Okay, yes. I will look at doing a version that has English Subs... I am about to go shoot a feature film in June and its full on. But let me put this on the list.

OMG your story should be a short film too! I'm so thrilled for you & your story moves me deeply. Bless you & your family in this new year💖🥳

@@joanneweiss3864 Thank you. Happy New Year.

This was really inspiring ! Hope you have a good day ahead :)

I believe detiny, fate

You just never know, how your life touches others. I was in my early 40’s ending my long term first marriage (separated), and was finishing my last year of my bachelors degree. One Sunday morning (as a “reward” for doing my homework), I allowed myself to play Euchre on MSN game zone. I had already planned a leave of absence from my long term job, to pursue my masters degree in Kentucky. At the time I lived in western Canada. I clicked on a table of 3 players waiting for a 4th player. Out of hundreds of tables I choose it at random. My partner in the game, lived 5 mins from the university I planned to attend for my masters degree. We stayed and played most of the day (it was a Sunday) as partners . During the course of the day I found out he was the custodial dad of 4 kids, whose wife had deserted him with. His parents were helping him, so he could work full time. He’d been living 90 minutes away from his kids for 4 years, by the time he “met” me. I thought “here’s a man who stepped up to his responsibilities”, and had family helping him. I could use a friend, if I got accepted to university, and he lived less than 5 mins from campus. We had a long distance relationship, for a year, while I finished my undergrad. By that time, I was madly in love, and knew I would marry him. God works is strange ways. I finished school; sold my house on a handshake; received a year of severance to leave my job; sold almost everything I owned; moved to a new country; married him; took my masters degree on a federal grant; helped him finish raising the last two of his four kids; and was blissfully happy X 10 years. He passed away, very suddenly, following a relatively small surgery, and left me more money through life insurance that I knew he had. IF a tarot card reader had told me, everything “looks great until year 10, and then he’s going to pass away”, I would have still married him, to have the 10 years we had together. One of the boys I helped him raise, thanked me “for coming into their lives, and being with his dad at the very end, because he was sure my presence helped his dad transition”. I never in a million years thought the kids I’d help him raise would cleave to me after his passing, but they have, and I’m so grateful. So, sometimes, you just have to take a chance, listen to your internal voice, and be kind, because it’s always the “right thing to do”. God takes us in hand to show us “the path” we need to be on. You sometimes just have to trust him and “let go”, if the things you thought were important. Good luck to everyone, on this journey we call “life”. ❤️❤️

Thank you, regards Marcus

Goes to show even criminals are humans.

You're about the same age as my step daughter. I haven't seen her in many years. Last I heard she was homeless somewhere. I wish I could helped her.

God bless you! Prayers to continue to be blessed & a blessing.

Is that a song 🤔

@@isaiah6659 I donno mate

By the way, fantastic work on this Marcus, from start to finish. Innovative and well-constructed!

❤️

200% Truth

@@AnthonyMiyazaki sometimes kindness comes in harshness....

@@Cyberbanditmx That's incredible. ❤

Ever.

That's amazing

The ironys n life ,what your 1st perception of people ,I met this guy who was an enemy, obnoxious rude we have become best mates,yeah he still rude.Im his best man at his wedding my speech started with how we met and 2 have the honour 2 give an account of our friendship which left the crowd n tears and laughter...happy ever after

@@alamaamosa3801 who knows life can change upside down! One must treat others as he wants himself to get treated. Have a great life all☺️

kinda like when you make a "sound", Silence is broken

Eloquently worded. Journeys may alter the landscape views, the vehicle aged heavier from momentous gathered.

At 60, I feel the same. Thank you...

Thanks Phil. Good luck with all your filmmaking projects.

@@marcusmarkouGreat job man. Not many people can make something truly amazing out of just actors and settings nowadays.

I met a depressed clown more than five times near my house... does that actually mean something?

Seven. Seven people.

It’s more a message than a given I think..

I remember one that a meet two times

She is a girl and I know today she is completely diferent. Maybe someday we can meet a third time

..because it should guard against the danger of being tread into the wrong path in its evolution at every moment.

That's exactly what I thought!

Spot on!

So true

Hahahaha

You just gotta find the right movies. Most people dont watch movies because of their deeper meaning...

I think that the mum comment at the sand pit is a good illustration of the ambiguity of our communications in our day to day lives - The mum's intention may be related to the idea of germs in a public sand pit, and not as a racial slur, the sowing of alienating seeds. How we hear and interpret are as important as what we say. I like this short film very much, it speaks much of human communication and relating. ❤️👍🌱

Doinf a 360 means he didnt change lol

@@juliahartshorn2473 I just assumed that that was meant to be the message based on the rest of the film...as he grew up to be a racist.

@@diona5370 180 then. Think most people got the gist of what I was trying to say.

@@supernova11711 im just pullin ya tail. Thoughtful comment your was, the video was beautiful

Very good. 👏👏👏

tyyy

It's nice to know that there are beautiful people out there still in this crumbling world in which we all live

I don't think that was some prejudice in their firsr encounter. I personally thought her mother said he might get germs because of the cold or something. You might be right tho

@@entertainmentbuzz944 I believe I'm correct, it would explain why the film maker waited so long to show the first meeting. still, it's all up for interpretation. ☮❤🅰️

The bigotry I saw in my youth wasn’t from my parents. It was from my peers. It’s easy to blame parents, and often correct to,, but I typically saw goodness and fairness in my childhood friends’ parents I didn’t see in them. So you have to ask where is that learned?

@@UncleJoeHikes I agree, environment and peer pressure definitely play a part. However, I wouldn't expect you to be privy to that type of behavior (as a youth) from adults, if it was present at all, as most people tend to guard their speech and behavior when their child has friends over.

Exactly.....the way v treat others actually reflects how v r ourselves.....so shud always b nice to others...

@@nailaaslam879 Sister it’s ‘we’ not ‘v’

Right? When we weren’t paying attention? 🍃

this is so crazy to think about

@@Caes3r_ it truly is, isn’t it?? Have a wonderful day!

From childhood it's amazing to think about it.

I had a childhood friend we used to play a lot then, i got far away as my father got transferred to other place, after 15-16 years we were in high school, and i got a glimpse from past i know this guy, then i met him again, but life was changed he remember me but not like old friends just a random person, i felt a little awkward and really bad. Then we passed from high school, and since then i never met him again!

Yes, it is definitely a master piece

BRAVO 4-19 ON THE WAY

I’m in here with tears 😭 😭💕💕

Mind blowing man what did i just watch. Heart mind emotions everywhere so touching man

@@TerryFreak389 me too😢

My parents lived in the same neighborhood as kids, they wen't to mass at the same church. They don't remember meeting back then... but they got married about 30 years later

My mom tells me that. Thanks for the reminder.

Absolutely true. Never, ever, burn a bridge.

Sometimes the bridges you burn light your way - rather: never be an a**hole to anyone…

For a couple of years it just bounced on the bottom of a the sea bed, just 20 or so views per day then suddenly at the end of March it started to blow up.

Same here 👍

Precious ❣

Just came through for me, too! I love it. Still, I guess it shows the power of the internet. I may be seeing this later than I would have if I had attended the local Film Festival, where I see it was a winner, but at least I get to see it. It really makes me wonder about the people I've crossed paths with.

Coz now u ready & it's time. Decided by utube or universe? Is the question.

Agreed!

Sometimes, the most simplest ideas are often the greatest. Too many try too much or too little. This filmmaker understands storytelling.

I have found this true in my own life. Where I've treated people the way they've treated me but even they have forgotten what they did. I've also found myself on the receiving end of the treatment.

I noticed that too and thought how insightful of the script writer to ensure that the act of kindness was genuine selflessness, not motivated by a desire for atonement with just that one individual. Edit: I'm referring to meetings numbers 4 and 5.

So true. So wise.

Thanks Kelly!

Me too.

Maybe we never found ourselves, in this our home

Well said.

That's right

Thank you Nuria, that is great to hear. Regards to all your students!

would be interested to join your class!

Thank you

yes they can but they could pay for their actions

No man ever steps into the same river twice.

It certainly suggests that we’re capable of change…

@@akizmetkat999 that’s makes no sense to me what are you trying to say

@@solutionquickie1569 They should pay if its immediate. Nobody should have to pay for something they did over a decade ago (unless its something that had a huge impact)

That's genius!

to be fair he was playing in a dirty sandbox

@@nocolaarssmith8719 Well we only assume it was dirty cuz it's a sandbox, but we don't actually know it is, I mean it looked clean I believe. I'm not saying it is, I'm just saying it could be. Plus they are kids, plus they didn't put it in their moth, I dunno it was still a nice movie

Not really working. In a world were all white people is racist and adults are smart because they are educated yes, but not all white people is racist and education doesn't make people smart, many modern parent doing the opposite what their childrens need, they don't let the children's immune system develop, they don't bestfeed their baby and so on. Yes, I think it is about racism but I don't think it's working. First calling someone in a name what is most representative to their kind is normal, germans were called Fritz americans were called Tommy in the second war, russians were called Ivan. Second, many mother is stupid enough to not let their children play in the sandbox for stupid or selfish reasons. This story could work better without implementing the white guy was a racist.

@@Zodroo_Tint I like the way you think, and I agree with you too. Well sayd

And that man was me 👍❤️

@Chxotic 😀

@Chxotic by watching this video

@Chxotic u seems to be a curious soul

@Chxotic it's by chance 😀, everything is interconnected , mind it

Thank you, that's a beautiful message.

So much more than that. Neither one remembers how much their actions and reactions affected the other. Innocent throughout, but unconscious until awakened to their affect on others.

Wow

Are you also taught to be racist as a kid lol

Do I know you?

Hahahahaha

You were right on not giving me that job

Agreed. That was to be my comment also. This is brilliant! ❤

❤

For sure and now you make me smile. Thank you.

It all starts in the kindergarten. Parents and teachers sometimes are unaware of the huge responsibility they carry and the footprint they’ll leave on young souls.

You are absolutely right Ari's, my father did that to me with the (n) word.I hope he regretted it later on.Thank God it didn't stick.

Thank you, Marcus

sweet

Your thinking too much into it. The meaning of the story is be kind when u meet someone cause u don't know under what circumstances or when you may meet them again Brainwashing and rascism/ islamophbia isn't just from parenting it's also from media/ news outlets and fed to small minded people that need a TV box to tell them how to think, act and what to buy

@@ricknaughty1016 the creator liked my comment so I'd say I'm thinking just enough. Thanks for your input tho.

A man's walk through life.

@@mlight6845 ..as Sherlock Holmes once said.." you are not in yourself luminous, but you are nevertheless a conductor of light! " M.Light 😁

Yes, James

@@jamespsyfer I have learned we do emanate near infrared light just beyond the visible spectrum.

@@dellacalfee touché 🤣🤣🤣

Thanks Sara... that's a beautiful comment to read. Marcus

Thank you!

Watch two distant strangers on Netflix!

Your right but alot of racism is taught at home

...early on in life! That way they learn the pattern, make any needed adjustments and implement it early on.

100% did.

Yup, I did

The Prophet mohamed piece be upon him said, "None of you will have faith till he wishes for his (Muslim) brother what he likes for himself."

Wow, well said top to bottom, I think you hit the mail on the head. I really enjoy connecting with others which I have on a few occasions out of the blue and the interactions have stayed with me because they were so special. I can only hope they felt the same but regardless I am forever grateful for the interactions, every one of them. Many of my interactions were with others of a different race, gender, religion etc and it didn’t matter because it all goes back to the old school way of treating others the way we want to be treated. The interactions were something else though for me, they were so authentic, flowed seamlessly, and I think part of it was we were not listening to respond but listening to understand perhaps. Personally I try to choose grace over ego more which can be very hard at times but that’s where just being honest with ourselves helps but boy the cold hard truth can sting and hurt sometimes.

@@izzywizzy685 true, true.

@@mewho6199 no. I’m glad that’s what you took from the story tho.

@@gamecop2191 damn, I’m proud of you! If that were me I would’ve been pissed

beautiful and touching story my friend. Spot on. This goes straight to the heart of this video. Thank you for sharing.

Thank you Chris - filmmaker here

I think it’s guilt by the homeless man. Racial slurs… 😰😰😰

Thanks Jeffrey - that's very kind of you. Marcus

Thank you!

That's such a lovely message to read. Thank you, Marcus

​@@marcusmarkougreat art inspires❤

Why do you fall back on hate?

Bullshit

Hi 😇

BECK, i agree, this should be required in elementary schools.

No, every baby is taught to share, tell the truth, etc. Humans fell away from God and only Jesus can make us whole again and give us a new nature!

Thank you too

Thanks!

Thank you. I should send you a "Two Strangers..." Tee shirt for that level of commitment!

I am seeing this film for the first time and I agree with you. We need more peace and kindness in our world. Stay strong!

Sending you love ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you!

Agree

Maybe it's blowing up (you know, popularizing) now because it's a gift we all really need right now? 🌞

No….Thank YOU!!!! Likewise in tears

@@marcusmarkou it's amazing , decent elegant touchy and interesting

You just nailed it 🔨 so well put, haunted indeed 😔