Desperation Page #5
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- 2006
- 131 min
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I guess...
Guess you might say so.
In an unofficial way.
I like history.
Local history, especially.
Up until now, that is.
Well, this
should certainly...
Take care of
hunger in America.
It's sardines.
Not great, I guess.
Bet this boy and I'd settle...
for woodchuck pt.
Pass it around, David.
Would anybody mind if
I said a prayer first?
Sort of like a Grace?
Go for it, Davey boy.
God bless this food
we're about to eat.
Bless our fellowship.
Take care of us.
Deliver us from evil.
Especially my mom.
Please let her be OK.
Please.
Amen.
Amen.
You really believe
this, don't you?
Don't you?
Well, there's enough
for everyone.
Honest.
Appears he's right, ma'am.
We were headed to Tahoe...
when all the tires
went flat.
And then
he pulled up behind us...
and gave us
some story about...
a crazy in the desert...
who was disabling vehicles, and...
and shooting folks.
And... and then
he looked at Pie.
When he smiled at her...
Your...
Your daughter
dropped her doll.
Ellen couldn't
stop her from crying...
But...
David made her feel better.
He always could.
So how do we
get out of this?
I mean, do we just...
wait for the wind
to die down, or what?
Waiting's a bad idea.
Why do you say that?
Well, because...
somebody should've
gotten out of here...
and nobody did.
There's something...
Loose here...
and if we hang around...
I think it's... its
apt to eat us alive.
I'm not going anywhere
until I find out...
what happened
to my mom!
- No, David, no.
- No!
It won't do
your mom any good...
for you
and the rest of us...
to die trying to find her.
It's true, son.
It's a crock!
That's what it is!
None of you care
about my mother.
Not even you, Dad.
You know that's not true.
If we leave, it'll be
too late to save her.
I know that just like...
I knew how
to use the soap...
To get us out
of the cell.
Why don't
you pray?
I can't.
Right now,
I'm too pissed.
At God?
At Santa Claus.
Is that really how
it was, Mr. Billingsley?
All those white miners...
and Chinese miners
working together?
Pretty much, I guess.
Oh, come on.
They didn't call it...
The Chinese-American pit, did they?
Why don't you
tell us about it?
You think
you know it all...
Mr. High and mighty!
Why don't you tell it?
You're the big
storyteller.
I'll tell you about Vietnam.
You tell us
about desperation.
Talk about it.
Every... town has a sister.
And every town
has its secrets.
We're here. We want
to know about it.
Tell us about it.
Well, you'll all
think I'm crazy.
After what we've seen?
Anybody think Tom's crazy...
raise their hands.
An A.N.F.O. crew uncovered...
the old Rattlesnake Shaft...
while they were
shooting blast holes.
They dug the Rattlesnake...
a good 150 years ago.
It caved in
about three months later...
And the miners...
All but two of the Chinese...
were buried alive...
along with
whatever they dug up...
when they started working
the mine again last month.
Whatever they woke up.
I think it's...
a waisin.
An earth demon.
Now that the shafts
are open again...
All of those animals
we're seeing...
I think...
They're its eyes and ears.
Now, the Chinese
were treated badly...
in California,
but here in Nevada...
they were damn near
part of the community.
They were working to support
their families back home...
and to buy land
of their own.
Nobody forced them
down into the mines.
What about
the two survivors?
How'd they get out?
Well, they just
beat the cave-in.
Pure luck.
Then they left town, I guess.
And nobody tried to pin
the cave-in on them?
Now, why would they
try to do that?
Well, from my experience...
The best scapegoats
are those...
who can't
speak English.
You know, that's all
ancient history.
But they've been finding
some damn strange stuff...
down in that hole...
in the last couple of weeks.
Carvings and such.
I think...
something came
out of that mine.
Something that...
never died.
And never will.
Now, I know
how that sounds...
but you asked for it.
I...
I have
to take a leak.
I'll be back
in a minute.
Take this with you.
Thank you.
If you know he's
got a bottle stashed...
In the boy's room,
why didn't you stop him?
Because I think
he needs a drink...
to steady himself...
and one's all he's
gonna take, for now.
Did you used to drink,
Mr. Marinville?
No, David,
I used to drown.
It was a way
of putting out...
the dreams after the war.
David?
This god of yours
performed a miracle...
on your friend, right?
Yes.
Have you stopped
to ask yourself...
why god would want
to hurt a child...
to say hello?
I asked Reverend Martin
about that.
and I asked him how
to keep my promise.
What promise is that?
That if God saved Bryan,
I'd do something he wanted.
Anything he wanted, really.
And this is it?
That something?
You think this
is for the best?
That God is good and
this is for the best?
I don't know anymore.
It's so much harder now.
Reverend Martin says...
that faith isn't
just believing in God.
Believing God is sane.
I think I understood that.
But he killed my sister!
He took my mom!
We have to get
out of here, David.
That's what
I have faith in.
We have to.
What was that?
My, God!
It's the old man!
David!
Pie...
Pie, wait up!
Oh! Oh, my God!
Shoot it, Steve!
Blow its head off!
I don't want
to hit the old man!
Then blow its ass off!
It's killing him!
John Ford said...
"If you have a choice
between truth or legend...
print the legend."
Come on!
There's not much time.
Hey!
Come on!
Somebody get it!
Shoot it!
Kill it! I...
I can't get it!
Somebody
shoot this thing!
Get it off me!
- Shoot him, Johnny!
- Don't hurt Steve!
Somebody shoot
the damn thing!
Thanks, boss.
Where's David?
Where's my boy?
David?
David!
You, go find David.
I'll stay with him.
David!
David! Where are you?!
What if the cop's got him?
Why are you here?
For the same reason
everyone's here.
To love God and serve God.
What am I
supposed to do?
Look, David. See.
David?
David?
He's in there.
Oh, s-s-scared.
Oh, gosh.
Tom.
It's OK.
Please,
somebody help me.
Ellen, is that you?
Who else would it be?
Trouble with these bodies
is how fast they wear out...
but you should last a while.
Come on, David.
Come on back.
Tom is dead.
Mary's gone.
You think
it was the cop?
Course it was.
I just don't know why
he didn't trash us.
He's afraid of us.
And there is no "he."
It's a thing
from the mine.
Collie Entragian
is dead.
So is my mother.
David, honey, we
can't give up hope.
I have a lot to tell you.
Just don't want
to do it in here.
Yeah, it is
pretty creepy here,
But he... it's
out there some place.
No.
It's in the pit.
It took the head
of the assay crew...
That uncovered
the Rattlesnake Shaft.
His name was Cary Ripton.
That's how it started.
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