Genre: Sci-Fi/Drama
Director: Steven Knight
Writer: Meirad Tako
Cast: Russell Crowe
Plot: X-26 is a big-blue planet in the constellation named Apus. Believed to have a large amount of diamonds, humans trying to get there and hoping to bring the diamond home. But, nobody came back after landed on the planet. Concerned about that, the NASA had warned people to stop trying to go there and started to recruit people to do a mission to discover what lies inside it.
George Moore (Russell Crowe) is one of the candidate, he is a not-quite-religious person, and a racist person. He was broke and needed money so bad to pay bills for his daughter that suffered from HIV/AIDS. He sold everything he have for her but because of his bad gambling habits and incapability to focus on working made his life harder.
He joined NASA's recruitment for the mission is because for a father or "The Backbone of the family" can get a special treatment that is as long as they in the training or mission time, everything that their family needed will be funded by the government, and that mean his daughter can still get the medicine despite of the condition of their financial.
He trained with the other candidate for six months and do the exam that include physical exam, and logical exam. He himself was surprised to get called to be the captain of the mission to go to X-26 and gain a nickname 'Phylia-00'
On the 26th may of 2080, he and his team fly to the X-26. The time to travel there is 3 months of Earth's time.
But before they can get into the surface of the planet's atmosphere, there's a sudden machine failure and made the phylia crew panicked. Before they can do anything, the engine exploded and tear the rocket apart then threw the phylia crew all over the place.
[Black Screen]
George opens his eyes, he slowly gets up and look around. It is a snow-like desert but with no cold, the sky's dark and show some stars. He continues to look around, he cannot remember why he's here and what does he wants to do here.
He glance to the left and see the wreck of the spaceship, he decided to approach it.
The spaceship torn into 2 big pieces and many small pieces, it's all black because of the fire from the explosion.
Inside the spaceship is a big mess with wires and material all over the place, there's also two people lying on the floor "baked" to death. He comments on the two bodies with another N-word and take something that looks like a walkie-talkie beside them.
He presses the button on the side of it, some hologram appear on the screen and welcoming him as the captain of the Pyhlia Mission.
While he was listening to the walkie-talkie, a shadow move slowly from a dark room near him.
He doesn't realise it until some metal fell and made some noise, he turned his head and saw a big shadow with 2 wide hole that shaped like eyes "stand" tall before him.
"What the fuck?" without any direction, he started to run away from it and it moves after him, he cannot find his way out. He certain that he ran to the way where he came in but because he couldn't find his way out. He decided to hide inside an opened-door room, he entered it and close the door while hoping that the thing that chasing him cannot find him.
Slowly, the shadow moved between the small gap of material that lying around the area. It moves inside the room, George was surprised and Turn on his suit's flashlight that flashes through the shadow's body.
The shadow's screaming while moved back and disappears.
After the shadow disappears, George fall on his knees and sits while trembling. He is frantic in mind, he is thinking about his daughter what will happen if he dies here. In the nowhere that cannot easily be access, she will never put any flower on his grave IF he is buried after been killed, what if he was eaten with nothing to remember?, what about his daughter?
Then he remember when he was a child the priest in his church always reminds him if he or anyone on the church is in a big trouble with no way out, seek the help from God, pray to Him. He will lead you the way. But he is ashamed in front of God, he is the one that made many sins. Where will he put his face in front of God? When happy he never think about God at all and now when there's a big trouble, he want to pray? Where's his vexation?.
He shakes his head and get up then get out from the ship. Just as he get out, the snow wasteland changed into some kind of forest with a very big dragonfly-like insect flying around. The tree grow high as if it's peak are in the cloud.
He walks slowly to discover another dead body with a very big wound on His chest and he just realized that he doesn't have lower body, he screams panicly while take a step back but he bump to a hard surface.
He turn his body to see 5 black crab-like creature.
They are roaring and he Screams then he starts to run as fast as he can.
But while dodging trees, branches and another thing. He remembered when he and some of his friend attacked a black man because black man should have a bad mind set and intended to rob their neighborhood. So they chase him until they caught him and attack him until he died and throw his body to the river.
He stop remembering things because he is out of road, he stand before a cliff that looked liked doesn't have end.
He looks back just to see the creature move closer to him. He doesn't want to jump, he doesn't want to waste his life because he had tried to suicide by jumping from a building but he was saved by firemen. He doesn't want to finish any problem with suicide.
While thinking, he glance to his left to see a rope bridge. Without thinking he straight run to it.
The bridge doesn't have a full step, some of them are already broken but he decided to walk in with hope that he can go to the other side.
He's in the middle of the bridge when the crab arrive on the mouth of the bridge. He looked back with a terror because they put their claws near the rope. "Pleas-!" before he can finish his word, they cut down the rope and George fell to the endless cliff.
He sees the cliff that moved further and further from him. He closed his eyes in defeat, He closed his eyes for a while but still no pain felt by his body.
He opens his eyes, he found that he is floating before his body touched the ground, but not for a while before his body dropped to the ground by an unseen force. He gets up and look around, it is an infinite white floor and some kind of fog around him.
"It is a planet with revelation, thou shall be punish upon thy sins. May the Gods forgive you"
After the voice from the sky finished it is followed by the surrounding that turned to a bright red-blood color.
[Zoom-in to George's eyes]
[Zoom-out from George's eyes]
George is lying in the bed with a pale face with white uniform with a name tag on his chest, some doctor are doing some kind of experiment with his body.
[Zoom-in to George's eyes]
"Revelation"
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