Original subtitles

- I'm going!

And there's nothing you can do to stop me.

Understand?

I'm not running anymore.

[wind blowing]

[grunt]

- Anything?

[fire crackling]

[ominous music]

[fire burning]

[sobbing]

[strikes] [screams]

[punches]

[wind]

- Today's the day. Come on.

Come on.

[laughter]

[clapping]

[laughter]

[creaking]

[latch opening]

[door opening]

[ominous music]

[fire crackling]

[wind blowing]

[hatchet strikes]

[fire crackling]

- If it serves no purpose, it has to die.

You know this.

- One day we could try again? Maybe?

- With what?

- Us.

- No.

- There is nothing left.

I'll take the boy.

See what we can find.

[wind blowing]

[coughing]

- Have you been this far before?

- Not for a long time.

We should stay off the road.

[fire burning]

- Do you know what it says?

- Don't remember.

[door creaks]

[ominous music]

[squawking]

Get it!

[wings flapping]

- Sorry.

[banging]

[laughing]

Are we the only ones left?

- There'll be others.

Somewhere.

[door opens]

[distorted baby crying]

[punches]

[grunting]

[choking]

[ominous music]

[beep]

[recording of baby sounds]

[groaning]

[slash]

[punch]

[groan]

[music crescendos]

[punch]

[crunch]

We go now. Come on!

Wait! Paper...

- We have to go back!

- No!

- I found something. We need it.

- We have to go, now!

- Wait!

- We don't know how many others there are, okay?

We have to go right now, do you understand me?

If I don't stop this bleeding soon, I could die.

If we don't build a fire, soon, away from here

we could die.

There are a lot of things in that house you won't understand

but I promise you, they will not help us.

We have to move. All right?

[groans]

[groans]

- Can we drink this?

- No. It'll just make you more thirsty.

- Are you going to die?

- Some day.

Not tonight, though.

- What are those?

- Books.

People used to read stories from them.

- Real stories?

- Sometimes.

Did your people never read you any?

- I don't remember.

- No. I guess most books were gone by then.

- Can you read one?

- Not anymore.

- Can she read one?

- She remembers less than me.

She was three, maybe. When it happened.

- What did I see back there?

- What did it look like?

- Like pictures in the air.

With babies and sunlight.

- You need food. Your brain's playing tricks on you.

- That's it!

This is what I saw.

And look, they're doing the dance and the sun's out.

Except the pictures were moving.

They danced and then the sun came out.

They were moving, and...

- It's a child's book. Nothing more.

- You cannot even read. How do you know?

- It's nothing. It's a tale. That's all.

- You didn't see what I saw.

- This... this is what keeps us alive tonight.

- No!

[groans]

- We need to sleep.

[fire crackling]

- I found something out there.

It was a sign. I know it was.

- He will not believe me.

Or he doesn't want to.

- Shhh...

- It was like nothing I'd seen.

I looked in the glass

and there was sun, babies

and laughter.

Like how things could be.

And they did not eat the rabbits.

They were there too.

- I don't understand

- It was beautiful.

I saw it again. In the books.

It has to mean something.

And the house we found...

...there were toys there.

For children.

- Do you think they had babies... since 'before'?

- Maybe.

- Shhh...

- Will he be well again?

- I don't know.

- You know why he's like this?

Because he burnt the books.

It's his punishment.

It must be.

[fire surges]

[gentle music builds]

[ominous music]

[screams]

Sun! Come on!

Sun!

Come on!

[Woman] You're up.

- It worked.

- What did?

- We were here, doing the moves

he saw in the glass

and the sun - it just came out.

And you are better.

- The sun's been out before, remember.

It doesn't mean...

It's not what brought it out.

- Let's just try, okay?

- Okay. I don't remember it all, but this is close.

- Is this going to take long?

One of us needs to get food.

- If we get this right, we won't need to look for food again.

You understand that?

We'll have animals, plants, sun, water, all we want.

- That's not...

- Just try. Please.

- Okay. So we start down. Like this.

Then we come up.

To the sky.

And then we look.

And we hear.

And then we look.

And we hear.

And turn around.

Wave your arms.

And we hear.

And we see.

And then we hear.

And put our arms by our sides.

And put our hands out like this.

Then we go down to the ground.

Then we do it all again

[fire crackling]

- Come.

Eat.

- Not yet.

- Don't.

- It's a waste of time.

- How do you know it's wasted time?

The sun came out. You saw it.

- It's been out before.

- Maybe we did something right before.

- You know, people used to do this kind of thing.

'Before'.

They'd do everything they could to please things they couldn't even see.

Up above.

But they realised long before the end it didn't work.

- And look where we are now.

Maybe they should have carried on.

Maybe the world would be different if they had.

- It's time for sleep.

We've a lot to do tomorrow.

- Tomorrow we try again.

- No, tomorrow we get food, water.

We survive.

- You were a boy. 'Before'.

You don't know what you remember.

- He's right.

- No. No, he's not.

Tomorrow, things go back to how they were.

- I'm tired of just surviving.

This - this is how we live!

- I don't want to hear anymore.

Tomorrow, things go back to how they were.

- No.

You cannot tell me what to do.

- Go to sleep.

- No.

- Go to sleep.

- You do not control me.

You do not control me.

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- Who found you?

Who brought you here?

Who let you stay?

- If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't even be alive.

Either of you.

Go to sleep.

I'll get food.

- He said no rabbits.

So that the sun comes.

[soft music]

[music ends]

- What is that?

- Are you out of your minds?

- We do not do that anymore.

- What is this?

- In the glass, they let the rabbits live.

They lived with them. We cannot hurt them anymore.

- Where's the water? The fire?

- I didn't know how late it was.

- No apologies. This is more important than gathering wood.

- Stop! Please!

- If he wants to do this, he's not doing it here.

Look at it!

This needs to stop and it needs to stop now.

It stops now.

- We need to find water.

It hasn't rained in months.

If it doesn't rain soon, we have to leave here. Do you understand?

We need to survive, not play games.

- Please, let him stay.

Let him stay.

- Wait!

He saved your life.

Remember that.

- Eat.

- I'm not hungry.

I'm not.

- What is it?

No.

I said no.

We cannot bring life into this world.

You know this.

We've been over this.

[wind]

[door closes]

- We should all do it.

- What else are we going to do? We can't go out there.

We all need to do it. What part of that don't you understand?

- All of it.

- When you couldn't do it, it worked.

Now you are well again, you need to do it too.

- Is that so?

So sitting here, I'm condemning us to darkness, is that it?

Next, the storm will be my fault.

- Maybe it is.

- This is his fault.

[shouts]

No!

[grunts]

- Stop it!

Stop it!

Tomorrow we leave here.

All of us.

There's nothing left here.

And this all ends.

This won't bring the rain.

This won't bring the sun

It won't do anything but make you crazy.

It ends.

It means nothing.

Pack what you can carry.

[sobbing]

[fire crackling]

- Why not drink it?

It's our last night.

-No. It'll just make you thirsty

And there's no water left.

- You used to say we could drink our own pee if we ever got desperate.

Right?

This way we have something for the journey.

- That doesn't sound like a good idea.

- Yes it does.

It sounds like we'll have more water for the journey.

- That's not water.

- You know what I mean.

[ominous music]

- We should sleep.

- No sleeping.

- Again.

[music ends]

Don't look at her, look at me.

- I need water.

- There is no water.

- Then let me pee.

- We're going back to the house to find the glass.

You can either come with us and do what we tell you to.

Or stay here tied up against this wall. It's up to...

[slap]

- What are you doing?

- It's up to you.

[slap]

- We can't live like that.

And we can't let you have a baby.

We can't.

How many times can I say it? We need to hunt.

Find water.

- No. We need to find the glass.

Or a book.

Or do whatever it takes to bring the sun back.

- You don't remember life before

You weren't even born.

People didn't do any of this and yet every day the sun would shine.

- Until one day it didn't.

This is the only way.

- Fine. You want to do your dance

try and call out the sun with your...

...whatever it is.

You do that.

But while you're doing that. I'll be looking

for food. Water. Making sure we're safe.

- No. No. No!

We all need to do it.

They all did it. All of them.

So we need to do too. All of us.

- But it's not real.

- I'm sure you'll get free soon.

Just come nowhere near us when you do.

Let's go.

- Please, just untie me.

- What are you doing?

He cannot come with us.

- Thank you.

- We're never going to convince you, are we?

No.

[stabbing]

[groaning]

[soft music]

[distant thunder]

[rain]

[thunder]

[laughter]

[wind]

- We have to eat!

- Come on!

Let me see.

We can't have them.

[sobbing]

- Do you think it was a test?

To make sure we really believed?

- Yes. I think it was.

- The rain came. So it must be. Right?

- I think he wanted to test us.

And I think his death will save us.

All of us.

- It's not the one.

- We don't want to hurt you.

- I know this.

Come on.

This is it.

[ominous music]

- It's nothing like what I saw.

Not at all.

- It must mean something.

Maybe this is what we are missing.

Who is this?

- He looks like you.

- Maybe he was right.

Maybe it means nothing.

Don't say that.

Don't ever say that.

- There is no sun.

Until the end.

It's the baby.

It brings the sun.

Do you remember him telling us about these people who were

trying to please things they couldn't see?

Maybe these 'things'...

Maybe they are the things we cannot see.

- We should go.

- No.

- Tomorrow. We should find somewhere else.

- We wait here.

They showed us what to do.

They won't let us down.

- Let's get started.

[percussive music]

[music ends]

[humming softly]

- We need food.

The baby needs food.

The food will come.

[sobbing]

- I want to go home.

- No.

We're staying here

Please!

[soft music]

[sobbing]

[crying]

- You wanted to leave me.

I heard you.

It's getting late.

We should start.

We need to do more.

No breaks. No food.

Put it out! Put it out!

All of it! There is no fire in the book.

None!

If they tell us to suffer, we suffer!

We live just like them.

Put it out, now. Put it out!

- Put it out!

[screaming]

- We need some fire.

We need a fire.

We need a fire.

We should go.

I'm going.

- He was wandering in the valley

- You didn't say there were others.

- It's just us.

It's okay.

[shouts]

He'll be staying with us for a while.

Sit.

Get some water.

It's been a long time since we've had a man with us.

It's nice.

- Why should I trust you?

The boy should go.

- He stays.

- Do you have any food here?

- But we have something better.

The truth.

Show him.

It brings the sun.

[laughing]

'The bear was sad because the tiger would not play with them'.

- What does it mean?

- You can't read?

- What is it? What does it say?

The book says...

'A prophet will come from the wilderness and

you should listen to every word he says.'

- A what?

What does that mean?

- It doesn't mean anything.

- You're lying.

- How did you two survive so long?

- Tell me what it says. What it really says.

- It doesn't say anything.

Don't listen to him.

- Tell me.

- I might have known you'd be crazy.

[screams]

[coughs]

[choking]

- It's the only way.

[soft music]

- I won't do it.

- Yes, you will.

You are ready.

It has to be yours.

The book tells us so.

- No.

- He was right. We cannot bring a baby into this. It's not right

The book is not...

- That book is all we have.

- The book is not who we are.

- You have a purpose. And you'll serve it.

What are you doing?

[moaning]

How could you?

How could you?!

- The book is not what I saw in the glass.

- Shut up!

- Wait!

You'll see - nothing will change.

I saw none of this in the glass.

None of it.

And there was no killing. Where did you see that?

And where's the rain?

Where is it?

Maybe it's not about what we do but how we do it.

In the glass they did everything together.

Maybe that's all we needed to do.

- You're just like Him.

- No.

I believe in what I saw. I just don't believe in this.

- It has to be this way.

- Then I'm leaving

- You are not.

- Yes I am.

- Do not move.

[Woman] Put it down.

You can't survive without me.

You know this.

- We could start again. We can do it how it should be done.

- No. No! No!

What have you done?

[crackling flames]

[coughing]

[sobbing]

- I'm sorry.

I have to go.

- I'm sorry too.

[screams]

[crying out]

[impact]

[groaning]

- I'm going!

And there's nothing you can do to stop me.

Understand?

I'm sorry I ever found the glass.

I'm sorry I ever let things get this far.

I'm not running anymore.

And I'm sorry.

[screams]

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[punch]

[grunting]

[hit]

[groaning]

It doesn't have to be like this.

[screams]

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[crunch]

[hitting]

[rain falling]