Shane Bernard The film is a metaphor for "the rat race." Get it? That's why the rat imagery appears throughout the film. All over the film. The film is a rant against the rat race. The lesson, therefore, is the more obvious "hey, we need to stop and 'smell the roses.'" I found the film enjoyable, and I accepted the recurring scenes as they were intended: without them, you'd have no film. So I simply didn't let the repetition get to me. I looked for inconsistencies in the images as I watched them again and again; that is, I looked for changes during the recurring events. (No, I didn't see any.) But, again, the rat race metaphor is really very clever, and I didn't understand the rat metaphor (assuming I'm correct) until the film started its second cycle. I did not find the "product placements" to be intrusive -- which I'm sure is what the film makers intended.

cutter20 This short freebie movie is terrible. It is meant to induce seizures. Instead of releasing good movies available for instant streaming, Amazon.com is making preachy "original" films that just make me want to vomit. Movies shouldn't be a headache inducing experience. This one in particular is bad because it is an endless cycle of quick edits of a hellish experience. This movie is 100% devoid of entertainment value and is annoying as hell to boot.If you want the message of the movie it is "life is a hellish cycle of rushing from one appointment to the next so be sure to stop and talk to the crazy homeless people". Maybe Amazon should go back to the drawing board on offering free movies to visitors.

xpimdb Repetition is fine in theory, but this turkey should have been edited. We get the point already. To just drag us through it over and over without shortening the process is just plain pretentious. Where was the editor on this? And for what? Smell the roses?????? The assumption here is that the character is rushing because someone is in danger. Him? A loved one? We don't know. And that's okay. But to set that up and then say -- "hey, we all need to slow down sometimes and smell the roses" is just plain bunk (not to mention cliché sentimental crap). I'm exhausted watching this. And it was only a few minutes long. PASS. and PASS. and PASS. and PASS. and PASS.

TheFenderBender I won't pretend to be at all well-versed in short films, but David Slade's Do Geese See God? gets its point across well enough. Here, a man seeks salvation from mysterious instructions giving him arbitrary tasks. In the end, he realizes the foolishness in never stopping to smell the roses, shown here as him never, well, stopping to smell the roses.One could probably interpret it a few different ways, of course. As I described the tasks the man must go through as "arbitrary", I began to wonder whether the director might have intended a subtle jab at religion. The meaning, of course, would not change should this be the case: enjoy the pleasures of life before you waste it looking for something more. Who knows?Though the bit about the roses is a little heavy-handed, everything else is here. Take the 10 minutes out of your life to check it out, its worth the watch, and if it seems repetitive at times... I suppose that is just the point. 8/10, perhaps.