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Message in the Fortune Cookie

🎞️ Movie 30 min --
2016

As Joe and his five friends have just enjoyed their meal at a Chinese restaurant in lower Manhattan, he opens up his fate in a fortune cookie and discovers a message that shocks him into a stupor which leads all of them to ask themselves about the meaning of life. While his BFF, Tom, tries to reassure him in every ways, the other friends explain their various views, which correspond strikingly to their characters. Karim, influenced by existentialism and Albert Camus's idea of the absurd, thinking Joe has to embrace death instead of seeing it is as a bad thing. Rachel, a strong believer in God, urges Joe to be reconciled with God stressing enough that the end results of everything even beyond Galactic Center point is the God and have faith on God. Bert, an epicurean believes, Joe should 'live it up' and enjoy and consume himself every bit of life, especially food. Lastly, Maya expresses skepticism that Joe can know the future leaning towards Recurnation and thinks that Joe should always just keep doing whatever he's doing now. Joe becomes immobilized in terms of deciding how he's going to face his ending of life, even if it occurs today. Can a lotto jackpot detour an average Joe's death? Can Joe enjoy his luxurious life with money materials being a millionaire, even if he has no more nights, no more days and he leaves the world today?

Cast

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Ben Agro
Vocalist
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Allan Alon
Mr. Lee
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Blair Benson
Interviewee 6
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Evan Boutsov
Tom
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Keith Chi Kin Cheng
Interviewee 13
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Lisa S. Dyment
Rachel
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Shay Galor
Interviewee 2
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Aaron Kagan
Interviewee 11
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Steve Kasan
Interviewee 1
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Madhu Kathuria
Madhu
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John Cooke
Composer
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Jonathan Rabson
Composer
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Yasar Shaikh
Cinematographer