The Manual
- IMDb link: 6173346
- IMDb rating: 5 (409 votes) Search
- Genres: Sci-Fi, Short
- Director: Wil Magness
- Cast: 2 critic, Lauren Emery, J.J. Johnston, 3 user, Natalie McClure, Bowie Magness and others
- Release date: 20 Jul 2018
- Release year: 2017
- Runtime: 30 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: dystopia, dystopian sci fi, begins with a philip k. dick quotation, last man on earth, robot, father holding his baby, shack in the woods, orphan, lonliness, depression
Plot:
In the distant future, James is the last human on Earth. He is raised and protected by a humanoid robot, the Machine, who brings him up on a strange composite religion described in a handheld device called The Manual. The Manual's teachings fuse aspects of old-world religion and incorporate robots as spiritual beings in the afterlife, alongside and equal to humans. The man wrestles with loneliness and depression while the search for other humans becomes more and more futile. As his faith in The Manual is shaken, he sets out to test one of The Manual's core beliefs: reincarnation to the next life in the city of the Creator. What he finds could be described terribly as exactly that.
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