Original subtitles

[ominous music plays]

♪

[narrator] Australia 2053.

Since the last war,

the crime rate has risen over 800%

causing a crushing influx on the prison system.

The government, not knowing what to do,

did what governments do best.

They created the Box Rehabilitation Program.

A system that at any other time

would have been considered inhumane.

They gave the prisoners a choice.

To live out their sentence isolated in their box,

stripped of their citizenship.

Alternatively, they can volunteer themselves

for instant extermination.

Once in the box,

food and water will be supplied to them

at the discretion of the citizens,

the very citizens they chose to betray.

Anyone caught trying to escape

or aiding in any attempts

will be dealt with harshly by way of extermination.

They are where they choose to be.

[chilling music plays]

[loud droning]

[woman speaks foreign language]

♪

[speaking French]

[metal clangs]

♪

[buzzer beeping]

[thud]

[low buzzing]

[distorted buzzing]

[shrill scream]

[foreboding music plays]

[waves crashing]

[wind whooshing]

[loud thud]

[low ominous music plays]

[grunts]

[groaning]

[keeps groaning in effort]

[buzzer beeping]

[seagulls squawking in the distance]

-[seagulls squawking] -[waves crushing]

[buzzer beeping]

-[shutter slams] -Oh, let me out.

[shattered breathing]

Let me out.

P-p-p prisoner 371113,

you have been tried and found guilty

by a jury of your peers.

You have been sentenced to seven years rehabilitation,

without the possibility of parole.

Food and water will be supplied to you

at the discretion of the citizens,

the very citizens you chose to betray.

Upon successfully completing your rehabilitation...

you will be allowed to return to the city

and to be reinstated as a citizen.

No.

You are where you choose to be.

[crying] No, please.

[screaming] I'm innocent!

No!

-No! -[electricity crackles]

No. No, I--

[whimpering] No.

No.

No.

[shouting] No! No!

[banging on door]

No!

Please, I'm innocent.

[screaming] No!

[faint clattering]

[buzzer beeping]

[waves crashing]

[electricity buzzing faintly]

[electricity crackles]

[electricity crackles]

[electricity buzzing faintly]

♪

[electricity buzzing faintly]

[electricity crackles]

[door latch clatters]

[electricity crackles]

[faint scratching]

[metal clattering]

[loud clatter]

[waves crashing]

[faint chirping of birds]

[distant droning]

[droning fades]

[shrill chord plays]

[disembodied whisper] Are you alive in there?

[clattering]

[electricity crackles]

[clattering continues]

[siren blaring]

[automated voice] Warning, warning, warning,

warning, warning, warning, warning.

-[prisoner screaming] -Extermination is imminent.

This is your final warning.

-[indistinct] -Extermination in t-minus

10, nine, eight...

-[indistinct shouting] -...seven...

[voice distorts] ...six, five...

[siren blaring]

...four, three.

[metal clanking]

[automated voice distorts] Two, two, two, two, two, two.

Two, two, two,

two, two...

-[prisoner panting, laughs] -...two, two.

-One. -[dramatic music plays]

[metal scraping]

[distant clattering]

[grim music plays]

[ship horn blares]

[water trickling]

[eerie music plays]

[water dribbling]

♪

Prisoner?

Prisoner?

You're new. No?

How long?

Seven years.

Seven years.

You must be political.

Water?

Live or die is at the will of the citizens.

No?

We, the citizens, will decide your fate

as we always have.

And always will.

You are not the first...

nor will you be the last

I'm innocent.

We will decide your future.

[waves crashing loudly]

[buzzer beeps]

[choking]

[suspenseful music plays]

[gasping]

[grunts]

[inhales deeply]

♪

[gasps and grunts]

[coughing]

[crying]

[sobbing]

[buzzer beeping]

[faint rustling]

[seeds clatter]

[melancholy music plays]

Why? Why? Why?

Why?

[faint rustling]

[faint thudding]

[buzzer beeps]

[electricity crackles]

[suspenseful music plays]

[buzzer beeping]

[shutter thuds]

[buzzer beeping]

[shutter rattling and thuds]

♪

[buzzer beeping]

[shutter rattling and thuds]

[distorted droning]

[droning fades]

[droning]

I am where I choose to be.

I am where I choose to be.

I am where I choose to be.

I am where I choose to be.

I am where I choose to be.

I am where I choose to be.

[birds chirping]

Hello?

What do you do?

I do what I have been sentenced to do.

Which is?

Rehabilitation.

Sounds like fun.

Then I must have not described it accurately.

I've been reading Shakespeare.

Have you heard of him?

No.

My mother used to read his works

before they were put on the list,

along with the others.

Can you read?

Yes, but I'm not permitted to

during my rehabilitation.

Well, how is it considered rehabilitation then?

I guess there's a method to this madness.

[elevating music builds]

Come closer.

Come, come.

Come closer.

♪

"These violent delights...

have violent ends

and in their triumphs, die.

Powder and fire

as they kiss consume."

Beautiful.

[Eyes] It's from Romeo and Juliet.

I hope to read it one day.

It's too good not to share.

No, please. No, I can't.

It's against regulations.

Who will know?

♪

It's getting late.

Maybe I can see you again?

I can read to you.

I would like that, very much.

Until then.

[buzzer beeps]

[thud]

[mouthing]

[dissonant chords playing]

[dramatic chord plays]

[toneless chords fade]

[faint crunching]

[buzzer beeping]

[shutter rattling and thuds]

[low ominous music plays]

[gentle music plays]

[Eyes] "I will kiss thy lips, haply some poison.

Yet doth hang on them

to make me die with a restorative."

[music fades]

[water sloshing]

[water sloshing]

[birds chirping]

[distorted droning]

[computer beeping]

What did you do?

How do you decide who to feed?

Normally I walk around

talking to as many of you as I can.

But given the weather,

I may have to cut it short.

How old are you?

Sixteen.

I'm a citizen.

Are you okay?

I had a sister your age.

You remind me of her.

She, too, was a citizen.

Had?

[dramatic tone plays]

[distorted droning]

[droning fades]

[ethereal music plays]

[faint, distant laughter]

"So, Romeo,

what were he not Romeo called

retain that dear perfection, which he owns without the title.

Romeo doth thy name and for that name,

which is not part of thee."

[indistinct whispering]

[faint, distant laughter]

[paper rustling]

[distorted droning]

[metal clattering]

[droning, clattering continue]

[computer beeping]

[droning fades]

[faint crunching]

[faint crunching continues]

Show mercy.

Mercy? For you?

Please, citizen.

I can't remember the last time I have tasted an apple.

[Apple] Does your rehabilitation require you

to have the taste of an apple in your mouth?

[prisoner] I'm incredibly hungry.

That's not what I asked.

I asked,

does your rehabilitation

require you to eat apples?

[prisoner] I beg you.

Yes, you already said that.

I will show you no mercy,

to you or any other of these animals

in their boxes.

If it were up to me,

there would be no rehabilitation.

Only extermination.

What they should have done

was drop you out there.

I will show you no mercy,

but...

I may be willing to trade.

[distorted chord plays]

[prisoner] Trading is against the law.

-It is punishable by-- -Do you want the apple?

How badly do you want the apple?

[Apple] Divino.

These apples are just...

delicious.

[waves crushing]

[loud droning]

[eerie music playing]

[alarm blaring]

[loud banging]

[metallic thudding]

[flesh squelching]

[gulping]

[shrill chord plays]

[alarm beeping]

[automated voice] Prisoner 371113.

You are in violation

of code 87173,

trading for food.

This is in breach of your rehabilitation condition.

Your punishment will incur a penalty.

Insomnia.

Seven days.

This will be your first and final warning

as your next breach will be dealt with

by way of extermination.

You are where you choose to be.

[shutter rattling]

[inaudible]

[alarm beeping]

[buzzer beeping]

[shutter rattling]

[beeping alarm fading]

[ominous music playing]

[alarm beeping]

[screaming]

[scream echoing] Why?

[metal thuds]

[tense music playing]

[metal thuds]

[metal thuds]

[melancholic music playing]

[metal thuds]

[metal thuds]

[metal thuds]

[metal thuds]

[alarm beeping]

[shutter rattling]

[buzzer beeping]

[beeping fades]

[alarm beeping]

[screaming in agony]

[crying] [indistinct]

[automated voice] Prisoner 371113

as you have suffered and endured

a wrongful conviction and unlawful imprisonment,

the citizens have granted you absolution

and order you be instantly released.

[enigmatic tone plays]

[enigmatic tone plays]

I recognize you...

but I don't know who you are...

[enigmatic tone plays]

...or what you think you are doing?

Wow.

You really let yourself go.

[enigmatic tone plays]

I must admit I did not see this coming.

-[slurping] -[enigmatic tone plays]

What the hell are you doing?

The world is like a ride in an amusement park...

and when you choose to go on it...

What the hell are you doing?

...you think it's real.

Because that's how powerful our minds are.

The ride goes up...

and down.

-[porcelain clinking] -Around and around.

It has thrills...

and chills.

And it's very brightly colored...

and it's very loud.

And it's fun for a while.

Many people have been on the ride...

for a very long time.

[enigmatic tone plays]

And they begin to wonder...

is this real...

[enigmatic tone plays]

or is it just a ride?

[echoing] Just a ride.

[echoing] Just a ride. Just a ride.

[laughing hysterically]

[crying in pain]

[laughing hysterically]

[alarm blaring]

[laughing hysterically]

[automated voice] Your social punishment has been completed.

You may now continue with your rehabilitation.

You are where you choose to be.

[fireworks booming]

[automated voice] In celebration of welcoming the New Year,

a general amnesty has been granted

to all incarcerated.

All excluding political prisoners.

[cracking loudly]

[blood trickling]

-[waves crashing] -[birds chirping]

[metal clanking]

[wistful music playing]

There was a time...

where I, too, was in your position.

Fifteen years.

For fifteen years,

my rehabilitation shaped me

into the person I am today.

[metal clanking]

I hate the person I am today.

[birds chirping]

[serene music playing]

[Prisoner 371113] Let me guess.

You love what I have done

with the place.

Sleep talking again?

You're real?

You risked a great deal...

doing what you did.

"Good pilgrim, you do wrong your hand too much.

Which mannerly devotion shows in this.

For saints have hands that pilgrims' hands do touch.

And palm for palms, holy palmers kiss."

"Have not saint's lips...

and holy palmers too?"

You've been a naughty girl.

After all...

how can this be rehabilitation?

Now I must leave.

Bye.

[waves crashing]

[distorted tone playing]

[waves crashing]

[whispering] Are you alive in there?

In the box.

Are you alive?

[Prisoner 371113] What are you doing out there?

We want to save you.

[metal rattling]

We can liberate you...

to live out your sentence in our care.

Safe,

and without the restrictions imposed on you

by the state.

[machine whirring]

[alarm blaring]

[automated voice] Prisoner 371113,

interference has been detected.

This is in violation of your rehabilitation conditions.

and if not rectified, you will be exterminated.

[alarm blaring]

[buzzer beeping]

[indistinct shouting]

[waves crashing]

[buzzer beeping]

[shutter rattling]

[somber music playing]

With child?

How much of your rehabilitation time

is remaining?

Four years.

Quite a lengthy stay.

Quite the lengthy stay, indeed.

If I choose to show you mercy...

would you have the capacity to recognize it?

Look.

Over there.

That there is mercy.

A quick death...

is all you should ask for.

[water dripping]

[shrill tone playing]

[waves crashing]

[ominous music playing]

[ominous music intensifying]

[groaning]

[groaning in pain]

[groaning in pain]

[baby crying]

[automated voice] Warning, warning.

Warning, warning, warning.

Warning, warning, warning, warning.

We have detected an unauthorized soul

at your ground zero.

Warning, warning, warning, warning, warning.

Prisoner 371113.

Warning, warning, warning, warning.

This is in direct violation

of your rehabilitation conditions

and must be terminated immediately.

-[alarm blaring] -[baby crying]

[blood trickling]

[grunting]

[grunting]

[breathing heavily]

My baby.

[crying] My baby!

[screaming] Give me back my baby!

[whining]

You fuckers!

Where's my baby?

[crying] Give me back my fucking baby!

Give her back.

[whining]

Give her back!

Give her back!

Give me my baby.

I want her back.

I really want her back.

[waves crashing]

[shrill tone playing]

[sinister music playing]

[alarm beeps]

-[bones cracking] -[screaming in agony]

[heavy breathing]

[thunder rumbling]

[thunder rumbling]

[panting]

[thunder rumbling]

[alarm beeps]

[groaning in agony]

[loud crunching]

[thunder rumbling]

[loud crunching]

[thunder rumbling]

[thunder rumbling]

[thunder rumbling]

[thunder rumbling]

[Prisoner 371113] Love is heavy and light...

bright and dark.

Hot and cold...

sick and healthy.

Asleep and awake.

It's everything except what it is.

[automated voice] Prisoner 371113,

an interference has been detected.

This is in violation with your rehabilitation conditions

and if not rectified, you will be exterminated.

Warning, warning, extermination is imminent.

This is your final warning.

Extermination in T minus ten.

Nine.

Eight.

Seven.

Six.

Five.

Four.

Three.

Two.

["Ave Maria" by Schubert playing]

♪ Benedicta tu in mulieribus ♪

[laughing hysterically]

♪ Mulieribus ♪

♪ Et benedictus ♪

♪ Fructus ventris ♪

[laughing hysterically]

♪ Ventris tui ♪

♪ Jesus ♪

♪ Ave ♪

♪ Maria! ♪

[laughing hysterically]

♪ Sancta ♪

♪ Maria ♪

♪ Mater ♪

♪ Dei ♪

♪ Ora ♪

♪ Pro nobis ♪

♪ Peccatoribus ♪

♪ Ora, ora ♪

♪ Pro nobis ♪

♪ Ora, ora ♪

♪ Pro nobis ♪

♪ Peccatoribus ♪

♪ Nunc et ♪

♪ In hora ♪

♪ Mortis ♪

♪♪ In hora ♪

♪ Mortis nostrae ♪

♪ In hora ♪

♪ Hora mortis, mortis ♪

♪ Nostrae ♪

♪ In hora ♪

♪ Mortis nostrae ♪

♪ Ave ♪

♪ Maria! ♪

♪

♪