World of Tomorrow (2015)

Julia Pott: Emily

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• Emily : That is the thing about the present, Emily Prime. You only appreciate it when it is the past.

• Emily : Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.

• Emily : Now is the envy of all of the dead.

• Emily : I am very proud of my sadness because it means I am more alive.

• Emily : One day, when you are old enough, you will be impregnated with a perfect clone of yourself. You will later upload all of your memories into this healthy new body. One day, long after that, you will repeat this process all over again. Through this cloning process, Emily, you will hope to live forever.

  Emily Prime : I had lunch today.

• Emily : This is your future, Emily Prime. It is sometimes a sad life, and it is a long life. You will feel a deep longing for something you cannot quite remember. It will be a beautiful visit, and then we shall share the same fate as the rest of the human race: dying horribly.

• Emily Prime : You missed him.

  Emily : I do not have the mental or emotional capacity to deal with his loss, but sometimes, I sit in a chair late at night and quietly feel very bad. When the night is at its most quiet, I can hear death. I am very proud of my sadness, because it means I am more alive. I no longer fall in love with rocks.

• Emily : We mustn't linger. It is easy to get lost in memories.

• Emily : Emily Prime, there is another reason I have contacted you today. You retain an early memory that I have forgotten, that was very important to me. I wish to retrieve it from you before I die. I shall extract this memory from you now.

  Emily Prime : This is me. And mommy. This is me and mommy walking. This is me and mommy walking.

  Emily : Thank you, Emily. This will bring me great comfort in the days ahead.

• Emily : Our grandfather's digital consciousness currently resides in this cube, where I upload the latest films and books for him to enjoy every week.

  Emily Prime : Grandpa!

  Emily : We're also able to download correspondence from him. Over one thousand letters were received during his first hour in storage, as this was approximately four years time inside the cube. I will read one of his letters to you now: "Oh, oh God. Oh God. Oh God. Oh my God. Holy mother of God. Oh, oh, oh, oh God."

• Emily Prime : Look, I drawed a triangle!

  Emily : I drew a snake boy.

  Emily Prime : But some... some day, you have to not make a snake boy because even I, yesterday, I didn't see any snake boys. But you made one.

• Emily : But the robots were too expensive to remove. To this day, they are in perpetual movement across the sunlight, with no work to do, no more tasks to accomplish, still living in constant fear of death, and occasionally sending us depressed poetry.

• Emily : Time travel is very often unpredictable and still extremely dangerous. Emily, I shall now use time travel to bring you to my current location in time.

• Emily Prime : Did you miss me?

  Emily : Yes. At birth, I had inherited from you the memory of myself meeting you right now.

• Emily : Their dead bodies burn as they return to earth and now light up our night sky.

  Emily Prime : What's this up in the sky?

  Emily : Dead bodies!

  Emily Prime : Look, another one!

  Emily : Yes, it is very pretty.

  Emily Prime : They're OK?

  Emily : No, they're all dead.

• Emily : I don't understand what you're saying.