Beneath the Green (2022) Movie Script

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[intriguing music playing]

[Caleb clears throat]
[panting]
[grunting]

[crickets chirping]
[calm music playing]
[twigs snapping]
[grunts in anger]

[insects chirping]
-[low rumbling]
-[wind blowing]
[low rumbling]
-[insects chirping]
-[calm music playing]
-[low rumbling]
-[wind blowing]
[faint crackling]
[eerie, high-pitched ringing]
[soothing music playing]
[rumbling]
-[Hunter unintelligible]
-[static playing]
[Hunter] Damn.
[insects chirping]
Are you with Houston?
[Caleb] What?
-Who are you?
-[Hunter] Aisles.
Hunter Aisles.
You got our messages.
[Hunter] Here. Don't!
[Caleb] Caleb. [grunts]
What happened?
[low rumbling]
[Caleb] I don't remember.
It happened so fast,
I must've blacked out.
Does the rescue team know
you're here?
[Caleb] No, I-- ye-- yes.
What is this place?
Memories of Anthemusa's past.
[Caleb] We're in the past?
[Hunter] Ancient past.
Before she became a desert.
I don't believe this.
Well, believe it.
The others need to know
that you're here.
[Caleb] "The others?"
[Hunter] Come on.
-[calm music playing]
-[leaves rustling]
[insects chirping]
[leaves rustling]
-[Caleb] Caleb.
-Peter.
[Hunter] Peter,
Caleb is here to rescue us.
That's it? Just you?
[Caleb] Well--
Right.
Hey, why don't we just
go somewhere and talk?
[Peter]
What's there to talk about?
[Caleb] Plan.
Get us out of here.
Wherever here is.
[Peter] There is no way out.
This is who they sent?
Houston is working on it.
Well, they're doing a fine job.
-Welcome to hell, Caleb.
-[Hunter] Peter.
[Peter]
We've been through this before.
Every time there's a plan,
it always ends in disaster.
Every time.
[calm music playing]
Sorry, Peter doesn't like
talking about it anymore.
Yeah, I got that.
[Hunter] You want some tea?
What is this place?
-Our cabin.
-[fireplace door creaking]
-[Caleb] You know what I think?
-Hm.
[Caleb]
I think I'm sound asleep.
And I think
I'm dreaming about you.
Even if you are dreaming,
you'd still be here with us.
[fireplace door creaking shut]
The truth,
as far as we can tell,
is that the planet
has ripped our minds
from our bodies.
Including yours.
We don't know how or why,
all we know
is that we're all stuck
in the same pot.
[calm music playing]
Everything you see here
are just...
fragments
of collected memories.
For us they hold meaning,
but for Anthemusa,
they're just objects...
without a name.
-[door clicks open]
-You saw her, didn't you?
Anthemusa. The real Anthemusa.
That wasteland.
You didn't know that
before you came?
No.
[calm piano music playing]
[Hunter] Our orders
were to set up a colony base
on Anthemusa.
Satellite data confirmed
a lush, vibrant world...
but when we got here we...
we thought we landed
on the wrong planet.
She was broadcasting old data.
[Peter] Like a-- a radio tower.
She was broadcasting
false signals.
Images of her past.
This past.
Lying to us.
[faint radio static]
[radio signal buzzing]
[Hunter] We learned the truth.
None of us were prepared.
Last thing anyone remembers
is falling asleep one day...
and waking up here the next.
Just glad the SOS made it out.

[insects chirping]
[Caleb] It kind of sounds
like paradise.
[Hunter] More like purgatory.
We didn't choose to come here.
But you did.
This just wasn't
what you were expecting.
At least you got
your lumberjack.
We're not together.
It's just...
[sighs] ...after so much time,
it's hard to be alone.
Well, I'd rather be alone.
This place isn't so bad
after all, huh?
[Hunter] Come see for yourself.

[insects chirping]
[Caleb] Is there anybody home?

[Hunter] Impressed?
[Caleb] This place
is incredible.
Hey, I think I'm gonna go
check the wine cellar.
You cool on your own?
Guess I have to be.

[tool rattling]

[paper rustling]

[Hunter] Naomi.
This is Caleb.
You with Houston?
About time.
[Caleb] We need to get back
to the planet.
What makes you so sure
you have a body to get back to?
If your suit was breached,
you'd be dead.
Sorry.
[Hunter] Dante. Where's Victor?
Bad news. Victor's missing.
Maybe he did it, Nai.
Found the door.
What're you talking about,
a way out of here?
[Naomi] Yes.
We've been searching for it...
but there's no proof of it
out there.

[Caleb] Meditation.
The mind's eye. Yes.
Like a doorway outta here.
Perfect.
So, where do I sign up
for the cult?
Look, man, now what exactly
were you expecting?
Anything but you telling me
just to sit here
and think about it.
Fine. I'll show you.
-Dante.
-I can do this, Hunter.
[Dante breathing deeply]
[waves crashing]
[quiet music playing]
-[Victor whispering] Dante.
-[radio clicks]
[Dante whispering] Victor.
[remote clicks]
Where have you been hiding?
[radio static]
[Victor] [echoing] Search.
[Dante] For the door?
Have you found it?
[static playing]
[Victor] Yes.
[static playing]
[Dante] I don't understand.
Where are you?

[Dante] What is this?
[indistinct whispering echoing]
[Naomi] Dante...
are you okay?
Yeah, yeah.
Fine. Fine. Fine.
Maybe you better
show him, Hunter.
I gotta catch my breath.

[insects chirping]
[Hunter] We've all had
visions of a door,
but none of us
have actually seen or found it.
Try to picture
something specific.
Something personal.
What do you see?
It's hard to see
with my eyes closed.
[Hunter chuckles]
Okay, then feel.
[Caleb] There's gotta be
an easier way out.
No, there are no shortcuts.
Why don't we just go
and find it?
There's no door.
We each hold the key
to our own jail cell.
You still believe that?
[Hunter] Well,
what do you believe?
It's hard to believe
something I can't see.
This is foolish.
[Hunter]
So are your expectations.
You need to let them go.
Try again.
[low rumbling]
[Hunter] [echoing]
The door only comes to us
when we remember the past.
Old memories.
A sound.
An object.
A smell.
Feeling.
Something that connects us
to a moment in time.
[mysterious music playing]
[remote clicks]
[Hunter] Well?
[Hunter chuckles] Strange, huh?
One mystery after another.
[insects chirping]
It looks like a postcard.
It's how I remember it best.
But even good memories
can be painful.
When you know
you can't ever go back.
[insects chirping]
[mysterious music playing]
[Anthemusa] Show them.
Show them all.
The only way. Kill.
Kill.
Kill them.
Show them all.

[grunts, shouts]
[grunts, pants]
[insects chirping]
[static playing]
[rocks rattling]
[menacing music playing]
[Victor] Caleb.
I can't see you.
[static playing]
-[Victor indistinct, distorted]
-[low droning]
[Victor indistinct, distorted]
[Victor indistinct, distorted]
[radio static]
[Victor indistinct, distorted]
[Victor] Don't be afraid
of looking back.
No.
[leaves rustling]
[Victor] Dante.
[whispering] Victor.
Victor, where are you?
[Victor] I'm here.

[Anthemusa] Show them all.
[Dante] Thanks, Pete.
[Peter]
What did you see, Dante?
Well, I was meditating...
and I spoke with him.
We were connected.
He showed me a tunnel
and... a door
somewhere inside.
Then... nothing.
But if we find Victor...
we find the way out.
-So where is he?
-[Dante] That's the thing.
I couldn't tell where we were,
we were just...
-We were just connected.
-[Caleb] Look.
I don't have time for this.
If I found him before,
I can find him again.
[Peter] Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Out of my way, lumberjack.
Even if you are right,
what are you gonna do
once you find him?
Going in alone
isn't the answer.
If it was,
you wouldn't be here right now.
None of us would be.
Look at us.
How did we all lose each other?
It's been so long
I can't remember.
Maybe it's my fault.
Maybe it's Victor's.
Either way,
we need a better plan.
[mysterious music playing]
[Caleb panting]
[panting continues]
[wind whooshing]

[static playing]
[bell ringing]
[Victor] Hungry for a horizon.
Slowly dimming.
Land of glass
to grow the rotten seed.
The bounty of a harvest
fills no belly.
Shadow swallows figure.
Night chases day.
Under my tongue,
the sharpness dulls.
Copper blood stains
the satin tooth.
A thousand birds
crippled by the storm.
-[Hunter] Where was he?
-[Caleb sighs]
[insects chirping]
It's nothing.
Can't find him.
[Hunter]
And so what if you never do?
Can you live
without getting what you want?
Can you accept that?
Because I have.
And I won't feel one way
or another
if there isn't some magic door
at the end of all this.
[calm music playing]
But I am open
to the possibility
and I am willing to try
and help you find it.
But you have to let go and...
trust the steps
you haven't taken...
because you were so caught up
in thinking
about the wrong ones.
[Caleb] Oh! [grunts]
[Caleb grunts]
[Caleb] Stop!
[both groan]
I'm not letting go this time.
-Stop thinking. Feel it.
-[Caleb grunts]
[Caleb gasping]
[mysterious music playing]
[static playing]


[wind whooshing]
When your time this right,
you'll know where to find us.

Hey, hey.
[grunting]
[both grunt]
[both grunt]
-[Naomi] Stop! Stop!
-[Caleb and Peter grunting]
What the hell is going on here?
He was meeting with Dante
behind our backs.
[Naomi] About?
About this.
It wasn't supposed
to happen like this.
[mysterious music playing]
[Naomi] I didn't see anything
that looks like this here.
[loud clattering]
[panting]
Look, there's something
I should tell you.
I didn't come
to Anthemusa to save you.
I'm just a junk dealer.
I came looking
for something like this.
Anything else?
[Caleb grunts]
You never came here to save us.
I'm sorry.
I should have told you
when we first met.
I want to know
what happened at the lake.
You disappeared.
[clicks tongue]
Beat me and I passed out.
What do you remember?
[sighs] It was cold.
And warm.
Both at once.
[Hunter] Did you see
anything around you?
-I can't.
-Well,
don't worry about seeing, then.
Did you feel anything?
Fear.
Darkness.
The stars.
The...
smell of the wind.
Dirt.
Fire.
[ominous music playing]
[Hunter's voice] Don't!
It's a map.
Well, it ain't no land map.
There's your door.
[water dripping]
[water dripping]
Peter.
We're going after Dante.
Fine, go.
I don't see the point.
[Hunter]
What's the point of all this?
You're out here
killing yourself
-one day at a time.
-It's not about time.
Hunter...
it's about...
feeling.
The...
the wood, the grain...
the axe.
I can feel this in my hands.
It's the first thing
that's felt real in...
I don't know how long.
[Hunter]
Stop trying to hold on...
to who you used to be.
Or how you used to feel.
What do you do now, Peter?
[water dripping]
[static crackling]
[Anthemusa] Kill.
-I'm here--
-[Anthemusa] Kill.
[crackling intensifies]
[crackling stops]

[whispering] What is this?
[static crackles]
[rumbling noise]
[static crackles]
[static crackling loudly]
[Anthemusa] There is no
such thing as death.
[crackling resumes]
Kill them.
Maybe I was wrong about
this whole star map theory.
There's nothing out here.
I mean, there are ferns.
And there's trees.
Well, that's great.
How do we know
we're not walking in a circle?
There's another tree,
there's a fern.
I can hardly see
the three stars.
And if I could, how do I know
which way we're supposed to go?
We're supposed to go this way?
Maybe it's that way?
Maybe it should be this way?
-How do we know which way--
-[Hunter] Shut up!


I don't recognize this.
What about that?
[Anthemusa] The only way.
Show them.
Show them all.
-[Dante screams]
-[sound distorts]
[Anthemusa] Kill them.
Show them all.
Incredible, isn't it?
-[Anthemusa] Sacrifice.
-Folded time.
One memory on top of another.
The distant past combined
with the here and now.
All in one.
[Anthemusa] Kill them.
It's just energy moving
from one space to another,
back and forth.
We're going home. Even you.
[Anthemusa] There is no
such thing as death.
[whispering] We just
have to make a sacrifice
when the time is right, Caleb.
[Anthemusa]
Sacrifice. Kill them.
[Dante] There's no
such thing as death.
I can show you the way,
it's easy.
[Anthemusa] Show them all.
Sacrifice. Kill.
[Caleb] Dante...
I don't have any more time.
[all grunting]
[Hunter] Go, I got this!
Go! Now! Just go, I got this!
[both grunting]
[Hunter grunting]
[ominous music playing]
[Victor] Help us.
[both grunting]
[both grunting]
[Hunter screams]
[Victor] Caleb.
Victor?
[both grunting]
[both screaming, grunting]
[Victor] In our dreams...
the missions...
is the only thing...
-[Caleb grunts]
-[Victor] ...that matters.
-[Hunter grunts]
-[Victor laughing]
[Dante] Let go.
-Let go.
-[Hunter screaming]
[panting]
[Victor]
Hungry for our lives and--
[shouting] Let go!

[panting]
[Anthemusa] Kill.
Kill.
Kill them.
Sacrifice.
Show them all. Kill them.
[Peter] Dante.
[Dante thuds on ground]
Hey, Pete.
Howdy.

[static crackling]
[static crackling]
[water dripping]
Are you okay?
I'll be fine.
I don't remember this.
Yeah, neither do I.
[Peter] And where's Caleb?
Somewhere back there.
And him?
[Hunter] Let him soak.
[static crackling]

[disembodied male voice]
I am you
You are me.

[distorted wailing]
[Hunter] Peter.
-Don't.
-It's okay.
It's okay.
Peter, don't!
[music booming]
[static crackles]
[Hunter gasps]
[Victor]
We are connected with her.
Do you remember?
[distorted,
high-pitched ringing]
Don't be afraid
of looking back.
-[static crackles]
-[music stops]
[wind whooshing]
[static crackling]
[crackling intensifies]
[crackling intensifies]
[crackling lowering]
[low droning]
[Victor]
We are connected with her.
To her sky.
To her trees.
To her soil where we died.
[ethereal music playing]
[whispering echoing]
[female voice whispering
in alien language]
[Caleb] Who are you?
[female voice whispering
in alien language]
[whispering continues]
[Caleb] Yes.
[whispering continues]
[Caleb] Where are we?
[whispering continues]
[fire crackling]
Peter?
You were out pretty cold there.
Little shot
I never heard anyone, Peter.
Naomi, where are, um--
Who?
Another dream of yours, Hunter?
[Hunter] Maybe.
Want some tea?
Tea.

[female voice whispering
in alien language]
[wind whooshing]
[female voice whispering
in alien language]

[female voice whispering
in alien language]





[wind whooshing]