I Am Mortal (2021)

Sean Gunn: The Pilot

Quotes 

• The Pilot : I am immortal. We at the machine are immortal. And you, all of you, can be immortal as well. Life as we know it is forever changed. I will not only give each and every one of you the gift of eternal life, but I will also give you the gift of freezing in time when you have reached your peak perfection. I will eliminate, through our applications, the bad and most ugly of our human emotions. And I will eliminate suffering from injury and illness and emotional duress. I am the Pilot taking you into this new world and I will always serve you.

• The Pilot : Mortal life was filled with pure, hideous suffering. War, disease, poverty, crime, hate, starvation, discrimination, evil. World leaders were more concerned with wealth and power than with their own people. I was just a geneticist in a lab, but I saw something in my own work that others failed to see. Would you like to know what that was? I saw possibilities. Hope. I saw a changed society. I knew that if I applied my research, I could solve the world's problems.

• Amanda : What about free will?

  The Pilot : Free will is responsible for every grain of suffering in human history. I watched many people die. People I cared about. And I saved everyone. I saved everyone else from experiencing that pain. Look at me. Death is nothing more than a looming black hole. There is no other existence on some other plane. No god, no angels. It's a fairytale, Amanda. It's fantasy. I created heaven in Alisandre. Right here, right now. Free will is responsible for every grain of suffering in human history. I watched many people die. People I cared about. And I saved everyone. I saved everyone else from experiencing that pain. Look at me. Death is nothing more than a looming black hole. There is no other existence on some other plane. No god, no angels. It's a fairytale, Amanda. It's fantasy. I created heaven in Alisandre. Right here, right now. Why should there ever be all that suffering? Why would Logos want to be responsible for this? I created him. I gave him life, safety, a... a place away from fear and uncertainty. They all are right here with me. I am going to save you from yourself, Logos.