Mercury Plains Page #2

Synopsis: A troubled young man runs away to Mexico, where he is recruited to join a paramilitary group of teens fighting the drug cartels. Isolated in the desert, he proves himself by becoming The Captain's top soldier, but questions the group's true purpose. As the Mexican police close in, he realizes that his only way out is to escape back to America, but first he must outwit The Captain.
Director(s): Charles Burmeister
Production: Number 5 Films
 
IMDB:
4.3
R
Year:
2016
102 min
45 Views


Come on!

Line up!

Come on!

Come on!

Four mile, double time hike.

I don't want any talking,

belly aching, or grab ass.

I'll see you in the mess.

Camarillo, get Mitch an outfit.

No one goes in the big house.

OK.

What's this for?

That's your weapon.

Am I supposed to

hit somebody with it?

It's your rifle.

Am I supposed to

shoot somebody with it?

You will get a real weapon

Whenever you earned it.

So, how'd you get here?

Just came down.

Aren't you gonna

ask how I got here?

- You Want me to?

- Yeah.

How'd you get down here?

My daddy stole me out of

Oklahoma, away from my mama,

who had no right to me.

They say I'm on a milk carton,

but I don't believe them.

Your daddy?

The Captain's my daddy.

Stole me away.

Say he'd Waited a year,

then couldn't Wait no more.

That's quite a

story you got there.

That's why I made you ask me.

Break.

So how long you

all been at this?

Forever.

Where's it going?

Around the tree,

all the Way to the corral.

What's it for?

Protection.

Protection against What?

It builds character.

OK, back to work.

Back!

You can't mean him right?

Everyone!

Stop.

Stop.

Hey, we can pick up the pace.

We're not gonna miss one saw.

We have orders.

You ever been bit by a scorpion?

There's a lot of things

worse in war than scorpions.

This isn't f***ing war.

We're just digging

a f***ing ditch!

Paul!

Sir.

If this soldier talks back to me again,

you silence him.

Paul, you touch me

and you'll see What happens.

Money says it's on, it's on.

Benito, go back to cutting.

Don't move.

Discipline the soldier.

Don't do it, Paul.

Now!

Jack.

Jack.

I can see you.

No you can't.

Come on Jack, let me out.

You know I can't.

- Is it piss or Water?

- Water.

- Are you lying?

- Smell it yourself.

Do you have any food?

Mitch.

Yeah.

Thank you.

Attention!

God bless, let's eat.

Mitch.

I Want my money, I'm going home.

Mitch, I can't

keep building fences,

knowing they ain't gonna hold.

That's not 5,000 dollars.

You're lucky you're

still breathing.

I Want What was promised to me.

You Want to be great?

You are great.

It's itching inside of you,

just Waiting to get out,

but there's no Way to prove it.

There's no playing field.

You go back up

to the States now...

no one will ever know it.

But here...

When you look out on the

desert, What do you see?

You see sand.

I see shimmering horizons.

I see silver and gold

that flow like water.

You see a mirage,

I see mercury plains.

I see women, I see music.

I see love,

and I see a whole lot of money.

There's no money down here.

Oh, that's Where

you're wrong son.

There's more money down here

than all the banks

in Texas combined,

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