BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

eteacher-74415 I have read nearly all what the former reviewers said. I agree with much of it. What can I add?First, I'd like to say that there is a lot of symbolism in this movie. The producer meant every thing he did in it. Nothing is done randomly. For example the choice of black and white (no colours) states clearly that our lives can shift within these two colours Black (sadness) and white (smile-happiness). They have to exist together. they fight each other. We are the ones to choose which side to take. This is the old philosophical debate of good and evil.Second, I think that the movie tells us that what ever our social class, our financial situation or where ever we are we can either influence others positively or negatively. We have seen the cheerful park attendant turn many sad people into happy one, from simple citizens to countries'presidents and also the opposite: we have seen the same person turn the same people from happiness to sadness because that is what he was living at that moment.H just communicated it. So Every one counts in this world.Thirdly, He made happy many people but he didn't succeed to make the photographer smile. What ever he did. However, she smiled at him at the end and he didn't even know how she did it. This episode teaches us no to give up but continue our fight because thing change in a way or in an other.To conclude, as I am a teacher of English language, I will try to use this video in classroom, and I hope it will bring a lot of my student to this web site and post their reviews.

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) This goofy little short-film directed by Kurt Kuenne starring T.J. Thyne from Bones teaches ourselves should not miss any occasion for a nice warm smile and always inspire others around us to keep smiling. While it initially starts as a feel-good movie about a parking attendant who gives his very individual kind of validation to his customers, it ends up turning into a cute little, initially tragic, love story. The one person he wants turns out as the only one whose lips he seems incapable of putting a smile on.The fact that it was in black and white added a lot to the charm for me. I'd recommend this short film to everybody who wants to end his day on a high note after a stressful day at work. It will make you smile :)

jen lewis I really enjoyed this short film, "validation". I thought that it was very unique, clever, and made the viewer fell happy afterwords. I liked how he was always so positive throughout the movie and had a good reason for what he was doing. I thought the needing was very cute too and came together nicely. i thought the main idea of the film was very interesting and the fact that they put in a person who would not smile at all but then later would which made him upset then even more happier was a good idea. Afterwards this short film left me feeling happy and excited for some reason and i would suggest it to anyone who likes feeling that way!

Ted Gianopulos I had the pleasure of seeing this gem at the Phoenix Film Festival and I have to say that there are probably less then 1% of all short films made have the ability to make the audience well up with tears of happiness. That is precisely what this film did to me. Not only that. Whenever I tell someone about it I get the sense of welling up again just from re-telling it to them.T.J. Thyne is perfectly cast as Hugh Newman, the uber-naive parking booth guy who works at the end of a darkly lit hallway and validates customers parking tickets while validating their lives at the same time. Just like any protagonist in a movie, he hits his roadblock and loses his mojo for a while but soon finds himself again, after he finds life taking him in another direction and gets back on the trail of making people's lives better. He finds out in the end that the good deeds had been doing for people in the past, that he thought were not changing anything or anybody, actually changed the lives of even the most hardened hearts and in turn find him the complete happiness that he had been searching for the whole time.Kurt Kuenne did an AMAZING job with this film, period. From the finger-snappy acapella soundtrack to the directing, editing and cinematography; all of it is perfectly fit into this beautiful story. I only wish I could buy this movie on DVD. I've told so many people about it and wish I could show them! Hopefully soon!