There is something that can happen to any of us. We all know this but we think about it from different points view. We imagine it happening to us in the future but we are still imagining it based on how we see ourselves in the present. But the point is that if and when it does happen we may never see ourselves in the same way ever again.
Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.
What happens here is that Jonah is going about the day to day task of living a rather ordinary life of quiet desperation when out of the blue a chance encounter with someone who is anything but ordinary yanks him into a chain of events that, among other things, changes everything.
Dasein on steroids as it were. That is, if the man even exists at all.
In fact, this is a particularly extraordinary rendition of it. In other words, while something else momentous may happen to change your life forevermore, it’s not likely to be this. Hell, the whole thing might just be a dream. Or a delusion.
Look for the part where everything is turned upside down. The next inversion. And [almost inevitably] the part where you’ll need to ask yourself, “what does it really mean to be free?” Then it’s up to you to decide where God and religion fits into it all. They pop up rather frequently here.
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[b]Described by director Sarah Adina Smith as a mix of “Donnie Darko” and “Bad Santa”.
Rami Malek’s identical twin brother Sami Malek serves as his body double. [/b]
at wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buster%27s_Mal_Heart
trailer: youtu.be/K9S9F5DRhbg
Buster’s Mal Heart [2016]
Written and directed by Sarah Adina Smith
[b]Jonah [as Buster the mountain man, aloud to himself in the forest at night]: It was a cosmic mistake that we got this far. One of us is a coward. I don’t think it’s me.
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Newscaster on TV: In other news, Buster is back and roaming the hillsides. The identity of the mountain man remains a mystery…The sheriff’s department believes this hermit lives off the land in the warmer months and survives the winter by breaking into empty vacation homes for food and shelter. He’s earned the nickname “Buster” from calling in to radio shows with wild rants.
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Jonah [as Buster the mountain man on the radio]: You’re all a bunch of goddamn sheep, you know that?!!!
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Pauline [Jonah’s mother-in-law]: You know this cartoon is a little pornographic.
Marty: It’s her favorite.
Jonah: It’s her favorite, right?
Roxanne [his daughter]: He doesn’t have any clothes on.
Jonah: I know. He’s free. He’s so free. He’s trying to escape the way everything works and do it his own way.
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Jonah [as Buster in a tiny boat on the ocean, aloud to himself]: Once you’ve seen inside the machine they don’t let you leave.
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Jonah: I’ll need a credit card and an I.D.
The Last Free Man: I don’t have either. I don’t believe in them.
Jonah: I can’t let you check in without an I.D…
The Last Free Man: Everything these days is designed to trap a man, don’t you think?
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The Last Free Man: What do you actually do here? What is your title?
Jonah: Concierge.
The Last Free Man: Concierge. Concierge comes from the Latin conservus, which means “fellow slave”. Don’t take that personally. Your not the only person trapped in the machine. In fact, there are very few free men left.
Jonah: Oh, let me guess, you’re one of them.
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Jonah: What do you do?
The Last Free Man: Computer systems engineer, consultant. See, um, for millions of years, man roamed free under stars. Only the strong and the lucky survived and procreated. It was absolutely brutal. All sex was rape. You know the drill.
Jonah: I don’t.
The Last Free Man: Until one day Eve flipped the script. She introduced Adam to her fruit, which is really just code for clitoris. And the whole system got rebooted. The first inversion. Little by little, we started to build civilization in a binary: logic, rules, inputs and outputs. But see there’s a catch. The better the system, the more a trap it is for the individual. We’ve walled ourselves in. Now, what I do for a living has to do with termite control. There’s a bug in the system. Not many people know about it yet, but they soon will. Ever heard of Y2K? Well, when we hit the year 2000, our computer systems are gonna fail. System reboot on a global scale. I’m talking economic collapse…it’s gonna be a bloodbath.[/b]
As close as any other explanation, right? Not counting Y2K of course.
[b]Jonah: I just gave you a dollar and you’re not gonna tell me your name.
The Last Free Man: I told you, I’m the last free man.
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Jonah [as Buster on the radio]: I’m not going to jail! I’m the last free man! I’m going straight up through the ass hole to the mouth!! You shits are gonna get fucked!!!
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Marty: What’s going on?
Jonah: Nothing.[b]
Uh-oh…
[b]Marty: You okay?
Jonah: No, I’m not okay. I’m tired. I work hard…so we can build this piece of land like we planned to and raise our daughter the way we planned to…You go out looking for apartments. You never told me you were looking for apartments.
Marty: I didn’t tell you because this is the way you act when I talk about it. What do you want? We are no where near having the amount of money we need to buy a piece of land. And what if we do get it? You don’t know how to build a fucking house. Are we going to pitch a tent? We have a two year old.
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Marty: My solution is we get out. We find a space of our own. We find a way to be happy outside of this fucking house.
Jonah: Oh, and we pay rent, month after month after month, for how many years, becoming what, slaves to the system, like everybody else. And Roxy becomes a slave too. She needs something different. We need mountains! We need dirt! We need air!
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Jonah: Don’t get me wrong, I’m so grateful for everything…for Mary…for Roxanne. I won the lottery with them. I just wish I could get some traction…
The Last Free Man: The machine’s designed that way. Dangles a carrot so you keep trying. But you’ll never taste it, no way. Not if you play by the rules.
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Sheriff deputy: This is 48 hour scat. He’s got to be close.
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The Last Free Man: If you want to save your family the only way is to send them through the wormhole early before the inversion. That way they’re ahead of the shift, and the won’t get lost in the undertow.
Jonah: Enough.
The Last Free Man: When the inversion happens, everything will seem upside down, reality shifts. What’s right, is wrong, what’s wrong is right.
Jonah: ENOUGH! Okay, just shut the fuck up. I can’t listen to this shit anymore. You’re not the prophet of anything. You’re a fucking lunatic.[/b]
Maybe, but he still upends everything. Just not in the way that was intended. Whatever that might have been.
[b]Detective [to Jonah]: So you let a homeless man stay in a room next to your wife and child?
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Detective: What time did you say that homeless man came in?
Jonah: It was late. After midnight.
Detective: Hmm. You see, we looked over all of the footage from the lobby security camera. We didn’t find anyone matching his description. As a matter of fact, nobody came in after midnight.
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Preacher [at the service for Marty and Rozanne]: The Holy Father has a plan for all of us. We may not understand His reasons, but we must never doubt that He has them. Now, at this time, I would like to invite Jonah to say a few words.
Jonah: It’s impossible. It’s impossible. I don’t believe it.
[he then walks out of the church]
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Buster [to himself as Jonah]: What did you want to tell me? God is not merciful. Just efficient. It was a mistake that we got this far. We are in the belly of the whale, my friend. With luck, he’ll eat one of us and spit out the other. It’s the only escape that I see.[/b]