A Picture Worth a Thousand Words Page #2

Synopsis: Noted director, David Perlman loses a loved one and detaches from the world, his family, and himself.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Year:
2011
21 min
563 Views


If I do say so myself,

I thought that the Antarctica submission

was pretty good. Have you read it?

Absolutely not. Why would I do that?

Let me explain something to you.

All your best books have everything

you need to know in the first five pages

and the last five pages, okay?

Here we go. Woman meets man.

Pregnant. War. Alone.

War over. Baby older. New man.

Happily ever after. Bestseller.

Wow.

Did you prepare the conference room?

Yeah. PowerPoint's all set up,

nobody knows a thing.

Okay. Well, get out of here.

Everyone here is familiar with Dr. Sinja.

Dr. Sinja is the most popular

nondenominational religious leader

on the planet.

He's a holistic healer

and a New Age dispenser of wisdom

with a following in the tens of millions.

This guy can fill up

a football stadium on a Tuesday.

Our conventional spirit guides

always ask the seeker,

"What do you want?

I challenge you to ask yourself;

"What does life want from me?

"What does the greater purpose

want from me?

Look at this guy's attendance figures.

He's outselling Cline Dion, U2,

Billy Graham and Hannah Montana!

What's his actual philosophy?

"In quiet, there is truth."

Some sh*t like that. Something like that.

Just your typical New Age bullshit crap.

That's what my Aunt May used to call it.

New Age bullshit crap.

And if anybody can sell

some New Age bullshit crap, it's me.

Jack, it's a spiritual movement.

Yeah, I have a spiritual movement

every time I eat a bran muffin.

- God!

- All right, all right, Jack.

Assuming you can actually

get an audience with the guy,

you're not the only agent in town

who has this information.

What makes you think

you can talk Sinja into signing with you?

I'm Jack McCall. This is what I do.

Hey, I can talk anybody

into doing anything.

Help me sing it

Breathe in.

And release.

Quiet your mind

until there are no thoughts.

Then you can see your true nature.

Your face

before your parents were born.

"Your face

before your parents were born"?

That's a great title for a kids' show.

It has many names.

Nirvana, kensho, bliss,

divinity, illumination.

Let's call it the Blue Pearl.

It's okay. Our truth can be painful.

Pain is the touchstone of growth.

- That'd be a badass T-shirt.

- It's okay.

Laugh, cry. They're close cousins.

Just let it out.

He sees the Blue Pearl.

It's okay. It's okay.

Students meditate for years

and never see

what you have seen today.

Your inner self.

That makes you

a very special person, Mr...

McCall.

Jack McCall. Thank you so much.

Sorry, I don't know what happened.

I just got overcome with emotion.

I'm sorry.

My years and years of focused silence

just finally delivered me to...

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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