Будет ласковый дождь / There Will Come Soft Rains (1984) [Eng CC]

This is a Sci-fi Russian Short Film called "There will come soft Rains". It was based on a 1950 Short Story by Ray Bradbury. There will come soft Rains (Будет ласковый дождь) was from Uzbekfilm Studio in Uzbekistan and it was released on Monday, November 26, 1984. The Plot for "There will come soft Rains" said, "An egg rolls down a chute and is grabbed and crushed by a metal hand. The yolk and egg slide out into a hot pan. The pan conveyorbelts to a table which is already laid, with four other egg pans, cups and saucers and a coffee pot. A nozzle dispenses water into the pot and retracts. The table rises up into the centre of a larger table which is surrounded by body-shaped chairs. Through apparently broken windows at the back of the room, it is dark, and snow is falling. As the clock chimes 0700, a large Snake Robot descends and announces in a metallic voice that it is now on duty. It waggles the claws beneath its snout. The Snake Robot sneaks to a door which opens with a beep. The robot announces that it is seven o'clock, time to get up. In the bedroom, body suits with Gasmasks hang lifeless on the wall - and two beds contain ash outlines of two adults. The ash wrist of one of them is wearing a watch. The snake robot beeps and the beds tip to help the humans rise - but they are ash, and the ashes slide to the floor, pouring into and around their shoes. The watch slides down, and is buried in the ash. The Snake robot goes to another bedroom and tells the children to get ready for school. The floor is littered with abandoned toys, and the two beds in this room contain ash figures of a boy and a girl. They too pour into and around their shoes. The doll held by the girl slides down, and is buried in the ash. An open window, with a curtain blowing in the breeze. A vase of flowers. An old-style phonograph playing an old record ("The moon was yellow, and the night was young..."). Next to the phonograph, a chair with a pile of ash. The Snake Robot sneaks in and greets Mrs. McClellan. It asks how she slept, then drags the chair out of the room. As the phonograph record comes to an end, the window, curtain and vase disappear - they were actually images projected on a viewscreen, which now retracts to the ceiling to reveal a real window, which is smashed and looks out on falling snow. The Snake robot drags the chair to the dining table, where other chairs slide in. The eggs pans are automatically slid towards the chairs. The Snake Robot pours coffee and announces that today, in Allendale, California, it was 31st December 2026. Above the Snake Robot, what appears to be a power or control unit begins glowing and flashing red. 8am, and the Snake Robot announces it's time to be off to work. Pans and chairs retract and the centre of the table descends. Four body suits appear from the walls, and the front door slides up to reveal snow falling. The Snake Robot head tells Mrs McClellan it is time for her morning prayer. Next to the calendar, a crucifix appears. The camera pulls back to show the emptiness of the house, and then slides outside to show the world: all around the house are the ruins of a city in darkness, as snow continues to fall. The world is destroyed; the snow is fallout. Midnight, and a banquet is served in the dining room. The Snake Robot head announced "Happy New Year 2027!" A small music box snaps open and plays "The Star-Spangled Banner". A Seagull squawks, and flies in through one of the broken windows. The robot challenges it for a password. Getting no intelligible response, it begins a security lockdown - all doors and windows are closed by steel shutters. The bird flew frantically around the room, unable to escape. Three pointed prongs appear in the Snake Robot's snout and it begins to chase the Seagull. The bird lands on the crucifix, and the robot stabbed at it, only to skewer the Christ figure, which falls to the floor. The robot continues to stab at the bird, always missing it, and causing more and more damage to the house. Finally, the robot penetrates the wall of the house. As it slowly retracts its head inside, its eyes clear. Beneath its eyes, like streaming tears, are bits of ruination from outside, including what appear to be body parts. The Seagull escaped through the hole the Snake Robot has made. The Snake Robot half-blindedly swung about the room, which is now completely devastated. As it rises up, it sees the flashing red of the power/control unit and makes a lunge for it. There is a flaming red fireball, and the house it immediately destroyed. After the fireball, there was a crater where the house once stood. The phonograph remains, rather battered, but when the bird lands on it, it begins playing, and the viewscreen window reactivates. Half-dazed, and surrounded by dense fallout snow, the bird tries to fly through the fake window, repeatedly bashing itself on the screen. As the camera pulls back, showing the bird to be the only living thing in this scene of destruction, a voice over reads Sara Teasdale's poem "There Will Come Soft Rains"." I think this poor McClellan Family in "There will come soft Rains" became Ashes when they died after the Global Catastrophe that I felt sad about. On the other Hand, that Post Apocalypse is not real, it's just a Myth. An Urban Legend. And that means I'm a smart Person.

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