A Ghost Story Page #2

Synopsis: In this singular exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife.
Director(s): David Lowery
Production: Ideaman Studios
  11 wins & 17 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
84
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
R
Year:
2017
92 min
$1,594,798
Website
17,979 Views


and so on, and so on.

And then there's gonna be

one big-one big tectonic shift.

Yosemite will blow and

the western plates will shift,

and the oceans will rise,

the mountains will fall,

and 90 percent of humanity will be gone.

One fell swoop. This is just science.

Whoever's left will...

go to higher ground

and social order will fall away,

and we will revert

to scavengers and hunters

and gatherers,

but maybe there's someone...

someone who one day hums

a melody they used to know.

And it gives everyone

a little bit of hope.

Mankind's on the verge of being wiped out,

but it keeps going a little bit longer

because someone hears someone

else hum a melody in a cave

and the physics of it in their ear

make them feel something other

than fear or hunger or hate,

and mankind carries on

and civilization gets back on track.

And now you're thinking

you're gonna finish that book.

But it won't last.

'Cause by and by, the planet's gonna die.

In a few billion years

the sun will become a red giant

and it'll, uh,

eventually swallow Earth whole.

This is a fact.

Now, maybe by that point,

we'll have set up shop on some

completely different planet.

Good for us. Maybe we've figured out a way

of carrying with us

all these things that matter.

They've got a photocopy

of the Mona Lisa out there,

someone sees it, mixes a little bit

of alien dirt with some spit,

paints something new,

the whole thing keeps going.

[Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony" playing.

But even that doesn't matter.

Because even if some form of mankind

carries some recording

of Beethoven's "Ninth Symphony"

all the way into the future,

the future's gonna hit a brick wall.

The universe will keep expanding,

and it'll eventually

take all matter with it.

Everything you've ever strived for,

everything that you and some stranger.

On the other side of the planet

share with some future stranger

on some entirely different

planet without even knowing it,

everything that ever made

you feel big or stand up tall,

it'll all go.

Every atom in this dimension...

will be pulled apart by force

as simple as...

And then all these shredded particles

will contract again...

and... the universe is gonna

suck itself back into a speck

too small for any of us to see.

So, you can write a book...

but the pages will burn.

You can sing a song and pass it down.

You can write a play and hope

that folks will remember it...

keep performing it.

You can build your dream house...

but ultimately none of that

matters any more

than digging your fingers into the ground

to bury a fence post.

Or... or f***ing.

Which I guess

is just about the same thing.

Thank you, O Lord,

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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