Amnesia | Horror Short Film

[00:00:00]Life is made up of memories.

[00:00:04]Memories that [music] all exist within this very moment. In fact, there is no other moment in time that exists other than right [snorts] now. There's no future. There's no past. [music] Every thought, every plan, every intention may deceive you to thinking otherwise. But the truth is, the past is dust. And the future never truly comes.

[00:00:24]The present moment is the only thing that truly exists within our perceivable reality. All else is a dream within [music] a dream. All else is a story fed by the mind. All else is an illusion.

[00:00:36]And all else is a lie.

[00:00:39]I once had beautiful memories, but now I recognize none [music] of them.

[00:00:45]I become a prisoner in my own body.

[00:00:49]And though I live, breathe, and move, I now feel as if I'm slowly dying with each breath.

[00:00:58]I'm waiting to wake up from this nightmare.

[00:01:01]I'm waiting to wake up from this pain.

[00:01:05][bell] >> Morning. Need fresh coffee.

[00:01:22]>> That alarm. You have to change that.

[00:01:25]It's not healthy to wake up in a fried every morning.

[00:01:28]>> It's the sounds of nature. I read that it's healthy to wake up to sounds of nature. It's our favorite place to be, silly.

[00:01:35]>> Playing in the forest, picnics in the woods, listening to the sounds of the streams.

[00:01:40]>> It's just too loud. It's too loud.

[00:01:43]>> You must have had another nightmare.

[00:01:46]Your medicine is right there, too.

[00:01:49]>> Okay. Thanks.

[00:01:52]>> You're so cute.

[00:01:55]Don't forget to take your vitamins. When you're better, we'll take a trip and go for a long hike in the forest.

[00:02:00]>> Okay.

[00:02:02]>> Got to get ready for work.

[00:02:04]>> Love you.

[00:02:06]>> Love you, too.

[00:02:12]>> Hey, how you feeling?

[00:02:14]>> Better every day.

[00:02:15]>> Good.

[00:02:17]>> We're out of water.

[00:02:20]>> I can go get some if you like.

[00:02:22]>> You don't need to go outside. No, it's okay. It's fine.

[00:02:31]>> He shouldn't be walking around so soon.

[00:03:46]Hey, Mark. Hey. You okay? You all right, Mark? You all right? You all right? You have to take it easy. Okay. All right.

[00:03:56]You all right? Okay. What's What's down there in there? Nothing. Mold. Bad stuff. We'll get around to renovating it sometime. We'll make it whatever you want.

[00:04:10]All right. You all right?

[00:04:13]All right. Come on.

[00:04:26]>> Are you journaling?

[00:04:28]>> I am.

[00:04:29]>> Good. Remember everything I told you.

[00:04:32]All of our memories. They'll soon again return to you.

[00:04:38]I love you.

[00:04:39]>> I love you.

[00:04:41]>> Call if you need anything.

[00:04:44]>> Okay.

[00:04:49][snorts] >> [music] >> Uh, hi. I'm with Sun Solar.

[00:06:03]Holy shit. Mike Mike To.

[00:06:06]>> What?

[00:06:07]>> When was high school together in New Jersey?

[00:06:09]>> I don't know you, >> dude. Are you fucking with me?

[00:06:13]>> No, no, no. My my my my name's Mark. Um, okay.

[00:06:19]It's crazy. You look just like this guy that I knew.

[00:06:21]>> You know, people people look alike. You know, we're pretty much all related.

[00:06:25]>> Incest. Word.

[00:06:28]Uh, so are you interested in uh buying some solar energy for your own?

[00:06:31]>> Well, this isn't my home. I mean, I live here, but it's uh my girlfriend and her father's place. Um, but if you have like a a brochure, like a business card or something.

[00:06:39]>> Uh, yeah.

[00:06:42]Yeah.

[00:06:43]So weird.

[00:06:45]You don't have like a twin brother or anything?

[00:06:49]>> No.

[00:06:50]>> This is crazy. You You look just like this guy that I knew.

[00:06:55]>> I don't know.

[00:06:59]>> Oh, got my card. So, >> all right. Well, uh, have a good day.

[00:07:04]>> Yeah, you too.

[00:07:17]So, some guy thought he knew me today.

[00:07:21]>> What do you mean?

[00:07:23]>> This the solar panel dude. I mean, he thought he knew me.

[00:07:29]>> So weird.

[00:07:34]>> But he was like he was really convinced.

[00:07:40]You know what I'm convinced about?

[00:07:43]>> What?

[00:07:45]>> This stop stop.

[00:07:51]Do you ever feel like do you do you ever feel like like you don't know who you are?

[00:08:04]Like you're just living in someone else's story?

[00:08:09]You were in a horrible car accident, Mark. Just be patient with yourself.

[00:08:14]It's a miracle that you're even alive.

[00:08:55]What are you doing?

[00:08:57]>> Oh, I I just wanted to I just wanted to check something. Is your computer broken?

[00:09:02]>> No, it's it's downstairs.

[00:09:05]>> I'll be in bed soon.

[00:09:07]>> Okay.

[00:09:47]>> [snorts] >> I need to talk to you.

[00:10:20]>> I told you this is is not my house.

[00:10:22]>> It's not about that. Can I come in?

[00:10:26]>> Yeah.

[00:10:31]I told you that this was you.

[00:10:35]Whoever's trying to conceal your identity did a damn good job because I couldn't find anything on you at all.

[00:10:40]>> I I don't understand. I was in an accident.

[00:10:44]>> Obviously, whatever these people have told you is not true. They're hiding something. I suggest you get the fuck out of here. You can you can come to my house if you want.

[00:10:56]I have to go. Call me if anything.

[00:11:12]Hey, I need to talk to you. Just uh call me back. Okay.

[00:11:34]Hello.

[00:13:19]Oh, fuck me.

[00:13:25]Let's go.

[00:14:17]Hey, are you My dad's working late tonight. We can order in.

[00:14:45]>> What are you hiding?

[00:14:48]>> What are you talking about?

[00:14:50]The basement. What's in the basement?

[00:14:54]>> Babe, you're freaking me out.

[00:14:56]>> I heard someone down there.

[00:15:00]>> You were in a really bad car accident.

[00:15:02]>> Tell me the truth.

[00:15:04]>> I'm telling you the truth. You're scaring me.

[00:15:07]>> Everything you've told me is a lie, and I want to know why.

[00:15:09]>> I don't know what you're talking about.

[00:15:11]>> Rick Rick told me everything.

[00:15:12]>> Who the fuck is Rick?

[00:15:14]>> I went to high school with him.

[00:15:17]The police are on the way there. There's nowhere for you to go.

[00:15:20]>> Mark, you're being crazy.

[00:15:21]>> No. My entire life, I thought my life has been a lie. And I was right. I was fucking right.

[00:15:31]I want you to hear for yourself what he told me. So you know that I know.

[00:15:36]I mean, what did you think was going to happen? I was just wasn't going to find out.

[00:15:40]>> Mark, >> shut up.

[00:15:52]Everything's going to be okay. Mark, >> that is not my name.

[00:15:56]>> No, that's right. It isn't your name.

[00:15:57]And I'm going to tell you everything, but you cannot harm my daughter.

[00:16:02]Just drop it. Drop it.

[00:16:08]>> What am I about to tell you, you cannot use against me or my daughter.

[00:16:13]>> I'm sorry. I'm so sorry.

[00:16:16]>> What did you do?

[00:16:17]>> A few months ago, my daughter did something very foolish. She was at a college party. She got into a car accident and she hit you guys and your fiance and your two friends.

[00:16:29]Your two friends are dead, but I was able to save both of your lives. I wanted to call 911, but by the time the ambulance got there, they wouldn't have been able to help you. I was fortunate enough to have my surgical supplies with me and I stopped the blood loss and I saved both of your lives. It's because of me that you're both still alive. I couldn't call the police. My daughter would have gone to jail for the rest of her life. She's a good girl. The system the system is so corrupt. The lesson learned here isn't imprisonment. It's feeling the depths of sorrow for what you've done and accepting it.

[00:17:06]Learning from it. The ultimate punishment is genuine compassion. I'm sure you can understand why I did what I did. My daughter took care of you. She slowly fell in love with you. She nursed you back to health. We brought you here.

[00:17:21]We brought you here to take care of you.

[00:17:24]And we were going to tell you everything when you were ready.

[00:17:29]We didn't want the painful truth to impede the process.

[00:17:33]>> Mark, I love you.

[00:17:34]>> Stop. I mean, how I mean, how crazy are you people? I mean, how how inhumane can you be?

[00:17:39]>> If you had a daughter, you would do the same thing.

[00:17:41]>> Your daughter killed people.

[00:17:43]>> I know I messed up. It haunts me every day. But I couldn't go to prison the one time that I screwed up. Everyone deserves forgiveness. I heal people now.

[00:17:51]I work in an addiction facility. I get to help save lives every day.

[00:17:54]>> This has to be a dream. This has to be a dream.

[00:17:56]>> You're right. It is a dream. Relax and take a deep breath. Let Let her go.

[00:18:02]Listen to me.

[00:18:06]Everything he says is a lie. Run. Run.

[00:18:16]>> I told you.

[00:18:18]>> I TOLD YOU TO WATCH WHAT YOU SAY.

[00:18:22]>> MARK, come back.

[00:18:24]>> Daddy, I can't lose him.

[00:18:26]>> You won't lose him.

[00:18:35]>> [music] [music] >> Look, I'm not going to hurt you.

[00:18:50]Everything's going to be okay.

[00:18:54]My daughter loves you. I love you like a son.

[00:19:00]Mark.

[00:19:07]Mark.

[00:19:58]I can see what he's done.

[00:20:03]I can see what we've done.

[00:20:06]I'm trapped in here.

[00:20:09]There's no getting out.

[00:20:15]You can find home within the breath.

[00:20:19]Close your eyes and breathe.

[00:20:57]lowering oxygen levels.

[00:21:00]Lowering pulse.

[00:21:10]Terminating consciousness. Are you sure you want to terminate life?

[00:21:15]Ending life. Confirmed.

[00:21:17]>> You can find home within the breath.

[00:21:22]>> Malfunction.

[00:21:24]Termination failed.

[00:21:34]>> [music] [music] >> You killed my daddy, didn't you?

[00:22:02]I'll miss him.

[00:22:04]But not as much as I'd miss you.

[00:22:08]It all worked out.

[00:22:11]Everything I planned. Daddy has a very big life insurance policy and now we're okay.

[00:22:20]>> What did he do to me?

[00:22:22]>> I want to tell you the truth now.

[00:22:25]Is that okay with you?

[00:22:28]>> Rick was my boyfriend, but he got greedy. He fed you what I wanted him to feed you and got you to do what I couldn't do.

[00:22:34]>> No, he wasn't lying to me.

[00:22:36]>> There was partial truth in what he told you.

[00:22:41]Mike, you weren't in a car accident.

[00:22:46]You were a volunteer for my father to operate on your mind. He invented a machine that can find where consciousness is located and manipulated.

[00:22:55]>> Consciousness can't be seen, but in thermal energy, it can be detected. His goal was to manipulate it and to heal the mind of all its pain and suffering.

[00:23:03]His purpose, his intention was to cure the worlds of their sickness, to remove the black, decaying collective disease within the mind and fill it with bright interconnecting light.

[00:23:13]>> You sure it wasn't to find whatever lights left within your fucked up souls?

[00:23:16]>> You're right.

[00:23:18]My light was lost a long time ago when my mother died.

[00:23:22]My once vibrant flame withered and decayed with her last breath.

[00:23:28]And then I met you.

[00:23:30]You were just a starving artist looking to make a buck. You were so hurt and so lost. You thought that the world had given up on you, but really it was you that gave up on yourself.

[00:23:42]But I saw promise in you. Daddy saw promise in you, too.

[00:23:48]Your name is Michael Tamo, and I do love you. I fell in love with you, and I did all of this for us.

[00:23:57]So, if you're going to kill me, I want your eyes to be the last thing I see before the holy kingdom of God.

[00:24:09]You betrayed me, liar.

[00:24:14][screaming] >> [screaming] >> Mark, I love you.

[00:24:33]Mark, [screaming] daddy.

[00:24:42]Daddy, please.

[00:24:54]>> [screaming] >> And there I sat, sitting still, focusing [music] on my breath to the sounds of nature, opening my eyes from a story that I was fed, a story that I was telling myself, a story that I [music] was perpetuating. And for the first time in my life, I was finally awake. For the first time in my life, [music] I created something beyond myself. For the first time in my life, I created something out of nothing. And if this is [music] only just a dream, then I must simply let it be.

[00:26:15]Hello.