Kirk Johnson’s documentary short follows two young men, one of whom is driven to distraction by a nearby dying smoke alarm, on their quest to make things right.
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00:00There's the deer then.
00:12Wow.
00:13It's...
00:15Can I sleep please?
00:30Did you hear it?
00:59Beep.
01:01Beep.
01:06What's the name of that?
01:07Misophonia?
01:09Okay.
01:10Let's talk about that.
01:12So the crunching is really annoying for him, like biting sounds, right?
01:16Or like chalk sounds.
01:18If I didn't use a knife properly, like when you're cutting in a plate...
01:21Oh, and it squeaks on the plate.
01:23I hate that.
01:24There's just like a lot of sounds that you have issues with.
01:26I mean, for sure there's one coming from like right there, like next door house.
01:31And then there's one coming from this, but like for sure.
01:34At night, when we open the window to go to bed, it's just like, it goes right in the window.
01:39It's this one.
01:40So there are three.
01:42Yeah.
01:43Maybe.
01:44I think it's four.
01:45But I think you could live with it and just get over it.
01:50No, I'm not telling you to get over it, but I think you could just like...
01:53Yeah.
01:54You could just like, if you, you know, embrace it, just let it be.
02:01I think you could move on.
02:03I think that we can just like go find where it is.
02:07Like we're neighbors.
02:08We should be able to be like, hey.
02:10Yeah, I agree.
02:11We can do it if you want to.
02:13Yeah.
02:23It's locked.
02:24I don't think there's anyone in there.
02:28Hello?
02:29Hi.
02:30Sorry.
02:31What's up?
02:32Yeah.
02:33We're your neighbors.
02:34We live right back there.
02:35Hey.
02:36Hi.
02:37Nice to meet you.
02:38Do you guys hear this fire alarm beeping that keeps going off?
02:39No, not today.
02:40Oh.
02:41We've been hearing it the whole time of venue.
02:43Is it bothering you?
02:44It's definitely.
02:45It's driving us crazy.
02:46It's driving us crazy.
02:47Or it's driving me crazy.
02:48Yeah.
02:51Definitely.
02:53I mean, I'm not going to like break and enter to get to someone's house.
02:57I have a question for you.
03:00I'm your neighbor.
03:01Have you been hearing the smoke alarm beeping sound?
03:06No?
03:07Hmm.
03:08It's just like, it's been really loud and I can't sleep.
03:14Yeah.
03:15Let's go around.
03:26That guy said number two has an alarm.
03:28Oh.
03:30He knew.
03:32He knows that he's number two.
03:33Yeah.
03:34It's number two.
03:35There's two inside.
03:38What do you think we should do?
03:39Should we just like write a note and then leave a battery?
03:45Like when the smoke alarm is dying and it goes beep, does it bother you?
03:48No.
03:49You don't care?
03:50Yeah.
03:51I've been in households where it just always says beep, beep.
03:53And I really got used to it.
03:55Yeah.
03:56You see?
03:57You can't get used to it.
03:58I can't get used to it.
03:59He's complaining to the neighbors.
04:00He's going around knocking doors.
04:01Is driving you crazy?
04:02He's complaining to the neighbors.
04:03You're going to have to live with it, brother.
04:05Can we just go in though?
04:08What does it say?
04:09Dear neighbors, anyone approaching apartment number five, if I do not know you, please
04:14do not disturb me.
04:15Do not know.
04:16Do not talk to me.
04:17Nosy neighbors, I am allergic to you.
04:19Stay away from me.
04:21What?
04:22I'm allergic to you?
04:23Okay.
04:24Do not get closer.
04:25They have a camera.
04:26They have two cameras.
04:27Okay.
04:28There's something off.
04:29I mean, they really, I mean, they don't want us here.
04:31Beep, beep.
04:32No.
04:33Beep, beep.
04:34So what I keep getting from everyone is that people think that having the beep in your house,
04:38means that your smoke alarm is on.
04:40That's working.
04:41Beeping is safe.
04:43Yes.
04:44It's like always.
04:45It doesn't go away.
04:46I don't know if you've heard it.
04:47I haven't heard it a lot.
04:49Okay.
04:50Okay.
04:51Wait.
04:52What?
04:53Do you?
04:54It doesn't beep in this house.
04:55Yes.
04:56It doesn't bother you.
04:57No.
04:58Okay.
04:59But in this house.
05:00Okay, so I think it's enough.
05:01Yeah?
05:02That's good.
05:03Perfect.
05:05It's enough.
05:07If you, if you have the, if you hear the beep, can you change the battery?
05:13If I give you a battery, will you like change the, change it so it stops the beep?
05:19Okay.
05:20You got a picture right here.
05:21Huh?
05:22No.
05:23Okay.
05:24We'll move the lock.
05:26Okay.
05:27We're moving.
05:28No.
05:29Okay.
05:30We are.
05:31Okay.
05:33What?
05:34Did that make you uncomfortable?
05:38Clearly you were making him uncomfortable.
05:40Wait, but I couldn't, I just, I didn't understand if he had a beep or if he didn't have a beep.
05:47Oh.
05:48I just heard a beep.
05:49Did you hear it?
05:50Oh yeah.
05:51Have I unlocked Pandora's box?
05:52Like now that I hear, I've heard this, I can never stop hearing it.
05:54That sounds like hell.
05:55I can't do that.
05:56Maybe you need to talk to her therapist about it.
05:57Maybe you need to talk to her therapist about it.
06:12Maybe you need to talk to her therapist about it.
06:16and talk to your therapies about it.
06:27Did you hear it?
06:28No.
06:39Careful, careful, Sam!
06:41Did you... I'm telling you.
06:46Oh, there's one here.
07:07Okay, let's go.
07:11I think that's the cost of living here.
07:13If we want to be able to afford this,
07:15we want to be in a street where there's no parking,
07:17that's full of trash, and there's beeps.
07:21Like, that's...
07:23It's gonna happen.
07:24That's the cost of it.
07:26Should we just, like, print out some, like, signs that you stick in the yard
07:29and, like, go down the street and stick them in the yards
07:32and just, like, tape batteries to them and just say, like,
07:34if your smoke alarm is beeping,
07:36take one of these batteries and change the battery and it will stop.
07:40Sam, what are you talking about?
07:42Well, if they don't understand that the beeping is the battery dying,
07:48then we're actually helping them.
07:50It's not like we're coming in and, like, hurting something.
07:53Do you think these people want to be helped?
07:55Literally, when we talk about it, they don't care.
07:57I don't care.
07:58Like, I do understand that you want to help the neighbors
08:00not get their house in fire and just, like, great, but that's...
08:02I actually don't.
08:03I just want to be able to sleep.
08:04Okay.
08:05You just want to sleep.
08:06I get it.
08:07But it's just, like, also, like, how long have you been in this neighborhood
08:10to, like, be, like, a person that has a right to complain about stuff?
08:14Do you really...
08:15It's, like, a bigger conversation.
08:18It's, like, when you travel to another country or...
08:20You just do what people do there.
08:22You just don't want to come here and be like,
08:23hey, let's do the things how I do them.
08:27Yeah, that's true.
08:28It feels like we're taking over and that's literally gentrification.
08:33I'm sorry. I'm not calling you a gentrifier.
08:35No, but I'm actually literally a gentrifier.
08:39Yes, we are gentrifier.
08:40I'm also gentrifier.
08:41So many people are.
08:42And that's part of the problem is, like, how do you live in this city
08:46and, like, make it without being a gentrifier?
08:49Like, every neighborhood you move to, except for, like, fucking Beverly Hills
08:54and Silver Lake or Bel-Air.
08:57We're forced to become gentrifiers because we could not afford living
09:00in the neighborhood where we were, I guess, supposed to be living or whatever.
09:04Right. So then what...
09:06Then we end up in these neighborhoods...
09:09Yeah.
09:10...aware of the privilege, aware of being gentrifiers,
09:13and then what is...
09:16What do you do?
09:18Well...
09:22You adjust. I don't know. Like...
09:25It's not my neighborhood, you know? I just moved in.
09:28I mean, if you want to drop it and you want to, like, leave it alone,
09:33then we... that's totally fine. We can do that.
09:36Okay.
09:42I don't know.
09:47I'm not the only one that...
09:48I don't know if I'm a parent.
09:49I don't know if I'm a parent.
09:50How many people do that?
09:51I don't know if I'm a parent.
09:54I don't know if I'm a parent.
09:56I just know if I'm you're an adult.
09:58And then I think that's just a reward for the only one...
10:00What are you doing?
10:22Sorry, I'm just filming.
10:30Hey, they're right there.
10:41You can see them.
10:43Hola.
10:44Hola.
10:45¿Cómo estás?
10:46Bien.
10:47Los smoke detectors, las alarmas, anti...
10:50¿Es tu vecino?
10:51¿Quién es?
10:52Sí, el vecino de ahí.
10:53¿Y por qué no lo cambia?
10:54¿Ah?
10:55¿Por qué no lo cambia?
10:56¿Qué le vale verga?
10:58No le importa el...
11:00What?
11:01She says that he doesn't care.
11:03He doesn't mind, he doesn't care, he doesn't give a fuck about nothing.
11:06About the sound.
11:07That shit is annoying, the noise.
11:09Do you know who it is?
11:10Yeah.
11:11Should we give him a battery?
11:12Yeah.
11:13Jorge.
11:14Jorge.
11:15Jorge.
11:16Aquí viene el muchacho que vive en el apartamento ese.
11:21Ah, el que tiene la...
11:22Alarma.
11:23¿La alarma?
11:24Sí.
11:25The guy that has the battery.
11:27¿Podrías poner la batería en el fire alarm?
11:30En el smoke alarm?
11:31Perfecto.
11:32Muchas gracias.
11:34¿Llegas?
11:36¿Llegas?
11:37Si te la...
11:38Aquí.
11:39Ahí.
11:40Ahí.
11:41Gracias.
11:42Gracias.
11:43Let's just see...
11:44Let's see if it sucks.
11:45Can I stop now?
11:46Because whenever you put the battery in and you reset it, I think it goes like...
11:50Beep, beep, beep.
11:55Somehow...
11:56Somehow it doesn't feel good.
11:59It's...
12:00It doesn't feel good.
12:03Because now I just feel like this whole building hates us.
12:09And...
12:10I'm going to get in bed tonight and I'm going to feel guilty.
12:13And I'm just going to lay in my shame.
12:15No.
12:22That's the three beeps that I was talking...
12:24That I thought would happen.
12:26They fixed it.
12:27You see he's friendly.
12:28He's calling.
12:29It's fine.
12:30It's okay.
12:31It's okay.
12:32Okay.
12:33Good job.
12:34You did it.
12:35Hi.
12:36Hi.
12:37Hi.
12:38Hi.
12:39Hi.
12:40Hi.
12:41Hi.
12:42Hi.
12:43Hi.
12:44Hi.
12:45Hi.
12:46Hi.
12:47Hi.
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12:49Hi.
12:50Hi.
12:51Hi.
12:52Hi.
12:53Hi.
12:54Hi.
12:55Hi.
12:56Hi.
12:57There's the...
12:58Your passion function is huge.
12:59It's huge.
13:00It's huge...
13:01It's doing super well.
13:02It's insane.
13:03Look at...
13:04Oh, look at how much is growing.
13:06Do you have so many?
13:07Yeah, it's a lot of men in the room.
13:08Wow.
13:09Look at us, we're getting all this passion for free.
13:13For free, for complaining.
13:18Wait, I did now.
13:20Oi!
13:24That is.
13:25Right, thank you.
13:33Okay, come on.
13:36Listen.
13:45It's incredible.
13:50No beeps at all.
14:04I heard two.
14:11Yeah, it's fine.
14:13It's a million times better.
14:15Okay.
14:19Okay.
14:45I have no idea.
14:48I have no idea.
14:50And you look excited it out.
14:51Are you.
14:52No.
14:53You're a little girl.
14:54No.
14:55No.
15:04No.
15:05No.
15:06No.
15:07No.
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15:10No.
15:11No.