![]() ![]() Over a billion people are starving, despite us having enough food for everybody. Where animals ran free, are factory farms where they are born and slaughtered endlessly for our satisfaction. Where there was water to drink, is toxic waste that stinks. Where there were trees that cleaned our air are now factories that poison it. They gave us money and in return, we gave them the world. Worthless pieces of paper we depend on to feed us, move us, entertain us. Money is simply the tool they use to control us. We build their cities, we run their machines, we fight their wars. And their most valuable resource is not in the ground. The elite who hide behind the logos of corporations. To us our path is unique, but together we are nothing more than fuel. Until a day comes when we are too old to do our job. So we work and work, left with no time to live the life we work for. Smart enough to do our job but not to question why we do it. Raised not to make a difference in this world, raised to be no different. Tested and graded like subjects in a lab. For years we sit and regurgitate what we’re told. We discover the world through a textbook. If you try and take what the Earth provides you’ll be locked away. There’s no food for us on trees, no freshwater in streams, no land to build a home. The very elements we need to survive are owned by corporations. Is this what it means to be grown up? To be free? But are we really free? Before our days were timeless, now our days are scheduled. Yet at one time each day was a new adventure. So what’s stopping us from doing what we want? Being where we want to be?Įach day we wake up in the same room and follow the same path, to live the same day as yesterday. This is Your Story, Their Story, Our Story.Īt this moment you could be anywhere, doing anything. Joel assures Ellie that he’s not lying, and Ellie agrees to drop the subject.The Lie We Live – Written by Spencer Cathcart – VIDEO 40+ languages It’s filled with coincidences and resolutions that rarely happen in real life. Ellie is a smart kid and realizes Joel’s story doesn’t make much sense. So, before she can give them a chance to build a life in Jackson, she asks Joel to promise her everything he says is true. Joel only wants to keep Ellie around, no matter the cost.Įllie’s survival guilt gets a tighter grip on the girl’s heart after she learns Marlene and the Fireflies died in the hospital. Joel is not concerned with Ellie’s autonomy, everyone else’s lives, or humanity’s continuity. Finally, Joel’s lies force a decision upon Ellie, who cannot choose for herself if she would be willing to sacrifice herself to save the world. He also ensures the girl will not rebel against him, as Ellie would most likely disapprove of Joel’s behavior. Ellie’s death holds the key to saving humankind.īy lying to Ellie, Joel imagines he’ll protect her from the harsh truth that keeping her alive condemned hundreds of people to death, directly and indirectly. ![]() That way, every person on Earth could also become immune, and society could be rebuilt. Marlene’s ( Merle Dandridge) plan is to cut Ellie open, extract the benign strain of Cordyceps from her brain, grow it, and spread it through every living human. Ellie doesn’t get infected because the Cordyceps think she’s already infected, which explains why she’s immune, even though she tests positive. The side effect of Ellie being infected at birth is that the deadly Cordyceps strain identifies the girl’s body as being contaminated, so it doesn’t try to take over control. ![]() As a result, Ellie developed a unique kind of fungal infection that didn’t take control of her nervous system. That’s why something snaps inside of Joel once he discovers the Fireflies will sacrifice the girl in exchange for a cure for the Cordyceps infection.Įllie’s mother ( Ashley Johnson) gave birth to her child moments after being bitten by an Infected. And while his mission to take Ellie across the country begins as a job like any other, the love they share now has finally allowed old wounds to heal. For 20 years, Joel has been carrying the pain of losing Sarah, an emotional distress that pushed him to become ever more violent. Joel’s confession gives us new insight into the broken man’s soul. ![]()
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