Life Tracker Page #8

Synopsis: Dillon stumbles on a little known news story about a company called Life Tracker Limited, which claims it has discovered a way to predict biological events in a human's life by looking at their DNA. Everyone views the story as a modern day form of palm reading that will go nowhere, but Dillon keeps turning on his camera when he finds articles on the Internet or hears about it on the news. The story keeps getting bigger. People all over the world are paying tons of money to see if their DNA shows any trace of disease, or future children, or when they'll die. With little to no resources, Dillon is left to guerilla style street interviews and filming the reactions of his small group of friends. When Dillon, his best friend Scott, and Scott's girlfriend Bell all get their futures predicted their lives start to change... along with the world itself. Nothing is physically changed in any single person's day-to-day life, but the ideas that have been put in people's heads convince them to flip
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director(s): Joe McClean
Production: Moxie Lady Productions
 
IMDB:
5.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
100%
NOT RATED
Year:
2013
109 min
Website
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Really?

Can we say catfight?

Yeah, come on.

I entered the last three years

on my own.

It just felt weird not to,

but dude,

don't worry about it.

We're going to get

some kick ass equipment

and we may even want

to reconsider

reshooting some things.

This is awesome.

So, you're going to

use the money

to produce the film, right?

that is great news

because now you can give me

my $25 back

and we can write this off

as a business expense.

Yeah, okay.

Here we go.

When is Scotty going to die?

All right.

Lemmings.

All right.

We're holding.

Done?

Okay, okay.

I...

Get on with it.

It's not me.

Hold on.

Here we go.

Death date.

June 8th, 2015.

That's not right.

Come on.

What does it say, babe?

I knew this was a bad idea.

Babe, what does it say?

You probably...

You know,

I put the wrong number in

or something.

I mean...

Okay.

Yeah,

yeah,

that's got to be a mistake.

It's got to be.

You know what, Jay?

Maybe just turn

the camera off.

I don't think...

No, no.

It's just...

It's great.

It's... I'll be gone

and you two can magically

fall into each other's arms.

Congrats, man.

Dude.

You're going to have

a perfect little family.

Scott?

Jay, turn the camera off.

Scott?

Dil?

Yeah, Jay.

Yeah, please.

I apologize

that life tracker limited

is taking up so much

time and energy,

but with the possible threat

that ltl raises,

no precaution

is considered too great.

If you don't know by now,

the justice department

stopped fighting the release

of the ltl death date

information.

We simply needed to make sure

that the technology

and the information was safe

before we allowed it

out to the masses.

However, now that

have been released

we are faced with

another problem.

Now, fortunately,

this is a problem

that we have faced before.

I'm sure many of you remember

the turn of the century

and the y2k phenomenon.

Of course we all had

a little chuckle

when we woke up

on January 1, 2000

and we had found

that our computers

had not all rebelled

against us.

Well, here we are again.

In the 72 hours

since these death dates

have become available,

two major predictions

have been made by this ltl.

The bigger and the more

dramatic of the two,

that the end of the world

is coming.

A staggering 99.9% of all

people who have gotten

their death dates predicted

including mine,

it's all on the same date.

It's June 8, 2015.

Now, I'm fully aware

that I sound like

I am reading

from some sort of comic book,

but I know that this is

going to cause a media stir.

And I assure you we are

completely confident

that this is not a prediction,

but a company's sick ploy

to achieve worldwide

sensationalism.

My office will be taking

every measure conceivable

to prove ltl false

and to protect

every American citizen.

Believe it or not,

a major part of the solution

lies with the second

big prediction.

The second prediction

made by ltl

since Tuesday's release

that every single person

in or associated

with belfast, northern Ireland

that they've received

this death date

and it's been predicted

that they will all perish

on September 22, 2014.

I'm telling you all this

not only because

you're going to hear about it

in the media anyway

but belfast is going

to be our proof

that ltl is nothing more

than a party game.

And then on September 23, 2014

when the good people

of belfast, northern Ireland

wake up safe in their beds,

my hope is that this fear

of looming worldwide doomsday

will fall by the wayside.

For now, you must know

that the president,

of course,

is being kept up to date

to everything

that's coming in

and all pertinent information

as it unfolds

we're going to

immediately pass it on

to the American public

and to the world at large.

Please remember the world

is the same as it always was

before anyone heard the name

of Richard 'rocko' hutchensen

and life tracker limited.

I can assure you that

the only thing we need

to do to get back on track

is to simply worry

about the present.

And we'll be working hard

to prove all of this to you.

I have time for

now, what if we had

a collection of data

that would allow us

to foretell an epidemic

before that epidemic happened?

I think public is fed up

with everything digital

from credit cards

to our iPhones.

We are literally tracked

night and day.

We only think

we live in a free society.

Well, why does it matter

if people know

where you are,

what you're doing, Abigail,

if you're not doing

anything illegal?

Are you listening

to yourself?

Ladies, we are out of time

on this subject.

Are there any last words

you'd like to leave?

20 seconds.

I'll be quick.

Yes, I would like

to say something.

I don't think giving up

a little bit of our personal

privacy is too much to ask.

When we're talking about

a technology

that could conceivably

help with world health,

world hunger,

and world peace.

And world domination.

Uh, here.

Take this.

I have to say something.

We're still shooting today,

right?

I can't work on

this project anymore.

Because of

the death date thing?

I just...I think I need

to work on my own stuff.

But this was your stuff,

our stuff.

Listen,

I appreciate you

bringing me in on this, man.

I just...

I don't have any reason

to believe any of it

and I definitely don't think

I can keep an indifferent eye

while hosting this sh*t.

This sh*t?

I thought you were...

Sorry, not the doc.

Just this.

All this, this sh*t.

And talk to people

about doomsday.

I mean you don't think

that's worth shooting?

Exactly.

Doomsday.

Doomsday?

So, I'm doing it alone again.

Listen.

This doesn't change anything.

You're still my bro.

Honestly, this is...

I'm just afraid that if I keep

working on this,

we're going to lose that

and it's not something

I'm willing to...

You know.

Yeah, okay.

I don't agree, but I get it.

But you owe me today.

You owe me today

or I'm having sex with bell.

Go ahead

and stand right up here.

Cool.

We good?

Great.

So, you had your print read?

Yeah, everyone I know

already had one.

So, I figured why not?

Did you pay

for the death date upgrade?

I kind of figured

that was a waste of money if

everybody gets the same date.

Yeah, I'm just stocking up

on water bottles,

batteries, you know,

that kind of thing.

So, you were chosen then?

Chosen?

Like the matrix?

That's weird.

Anyway, I'm not.

My print says I'm goners

just like everybody else, so...

In hindsight,

I sort of wish

I hadn't got my own date.

So, we decided not to get his.

Sort of an ignorance is bliss

kind of thing,

so, how do you feel

about the idea

of using the belfast track

as a test

to prove doomsday wrong?

I think it's a little sick,

how so?

Well, it's sort of like

having someone test your meal

for poison

before you take a bite.

I mean, okay,

so what if belfast does tumble?

What then?

Mass hysteria?

Cats and dogs living together?

Have you heard about

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