Rebirth Page #9

Synopsis: A white-collar suburban father Kyle (Fran Kranz) who is surprised at his office by long-lost college buddy Zack (Adam Goldberg). Zack is as wild and crazy as ever, brimming with excitement about the self-actualization program he's just finished called Rebirth. He talks Kyle into going on a weekend-long Rebirth retreat,handing over his keys, wallet, and phone. Thus begins his journey down a bizarre rabbit hole of psychodrama, seduction, and violence.
Genre: Thriller
Director(s): Karl Mueller
Production: Netflix
 
IMDB:
5.0
TV-MA
Year:
2016
100 min
Website
173 Views


the contestant's won a million dollars,

but they don't know yet.

Kyle.

His first time, you know, he was so sweet.

He was so open and fragile.

I just wanted to give him

a massive Rebirth hug and be his mommy.

Everyone who was there was like,

"Yup, scared that one off." [laughing]

I mean, I honestly never thought

I was gonna see this guy ever again.

[sighs]

Hi, my name's Kyle Madison,

and I just finished my first Rebirth.

Is that all right?

[man] The next weekend, he comes back.

So, I'm like, "Okay."

Weekend after that,

we were in Cincinnati and Kyle flies in.

And, you know, that was it, that's when

I knew that this guy was totally hooked.

I mean, his Z.W. potentials just exploded.

Kyle had been on my team

for, like, five years, I think.

But he was one of those guys

who's always in the back.

A nice guy,

but never really initiated, you know?

Uh, but then, one Monday morning,

he came in, and it was like bam!

You know? [laughs]

Who is this guy?

Suddenly, I had Mark Zuckerberg

working for me, you know?

- Kyle's the man.

- The man's a god.

It just brings clarity. That's all.

There's the world before Rebirth

and the world after.

Everything unimportant just falls away.

You look at the world

and you just see reality.

Just like that.

He's killing everyone

with his perspectives.

Just murdering them.

And finally, I was like,

"Hey, what's the secret?" You know?

And he looks at me, and he says,

"What are you doing this weekend?"

Give it up for Chad!

[all cheering]

[laughing]

Right?

I knew he'd love it.

Pretty soon, the whole team loved it.

Then the whole company loved it.

[chuckles]

We're basically the Rebirth branch

of Wall Street now.

What Rebirth did for me was...

It didn't just show me how to escape

the cage I'd built around myself...

...it actually showed me

that the cage existed in the first place.

[Kyle] The first time

my wife did her own Rebirth,

I was a little nervous, I'll admit.

[chuckles] But that's because I was

clutching on to these zombie ideas

of control, mastery

and conditioned attachments.

And what you learn is

your marriage only hits the stratosphere

when you're both free to fly.

What people don't realize is Rebirth

is not just something you do

one weekend a month.

It's a lifestyle.

Right, Jill?

We want our friends to do it.

We want our parents to do it.

Our nanny, our neighbors.

We definitely want our pastor to do it.

[Mary] I want my brother to do it.

- I want my mailman to do it.

- [Kyle] Ha-ha-ha.

I couldn't wait to get our kids to do it.

Sometimes you're there to help

a couple fetuses burst out of the womb

and find the warrior within.

Sometimes, you think you're there

to deliver the fetus,

only to find out you're the fetus

and they're there for you.

It's like every time you go to Rebirth,

you're a different person.

So every Rebirth's different.

You never know what you're gonna find

behind a new open door.

It's not just the workshops.

It's not just the Phase Two

Life Activation Experience.

It's also the products.

[Mary] We don't even use the word "sell"

in Rebirth.

Because once you realize

how much better Rebirth's products are

than what you get in the store,

it just... It sells itself.

[Kyle] It's healthy.

It's natural. It's good.

None of this processed crap.

[Mary] Jill is at an age

where she's so picky about what she eats

and she loves the stuff.

I don't know what they put in it.

- Tell them your first Rebirth, babe.

- Oh, yeah.

[Kyle]

Heh. You weren't breathing properly.

You can breathe with your nose,

you can breathe with your mouth.

But there are other ways to breathe.

Everybody knows

there are no leaders at Rebirth,

because only you...

...can change your life.

But... [chuckling]

But we all know who that spark was.

[crowd cheering]

Zack 110 percent changed Kyle's life.

And mine too.

In the old days, people were afraid

something horrible would happen to them.

Now they're afraid

nothing will happen to them.

If Zack hadn't come into my life

when he did...

I really don't like to think about it.

I really don't.

[Mary] Zack is just one

of those magical beings

who can walk up to a stranger,

look her in the eye...

...and just immediately knows

her deepest, most intimate needs.

Zack was like a brother to me

and now that we share Rebirth,

he's like a big brother. [chuckles]

- He's the big brother to us all.

- Yeah.

[cheering]

You know, when I started Rebirth

in my garage,

you know, building it out

one weekend at a time

to the global force for good

that it is today...

...that was the easy part.

You know?

Why I get out of bed every morning

is knowing that there's other Kyles

out there.

You know what I mean?

You see him at the grocery store.

See him at the gas station.

The drugstore.

[grunting]

Right?

See him on the highway. [whistles]

Going to work. Going home.

Going to work. Going home, you know?

Doing the Z.B. Zombie Boogie.

But if you look him them the eye, man,

you'll see that they're dying,

dying for something better.

They know it's out there.

They just don't know what it is, you know?

So, let's bring him up here.

Kyle Madison, everybody. Come on, man.

[Zack] Sometimes, uh,

I feel like a hunter. [chuckles]

[laughing]

I got my gun, I got my bush hat on,

and I'm stalking

through the suburban savannah,

searching for my prey...

...and it's my job never to sleep, okay?

It's my job never to take a break,

never to stop, man,

until I share this

with each and every Kyle.

It's an obligation.

It's a duty.

Whew. [chuckles]

Oh, man.

That's what gets me going. Hmm.

Mm-hm.

Yeah.

That's what Rebirth means to me.

[crowd cheering and whistling]

[all chanting] Rebirth! Rebirth! Rebirth!

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