Wristcutters: A Love Story
(2007)
Starring: Patrick Fugit, Shannyn Sossaman
Wristcutters is dark comedy with no smiles, a story about life found in lost life. A brilliant narrative about the afterlife of suicide victims based on the novel "Knellers Happy Campers." As the opening credits role we watch the last actions of a man who has given himself the death sentence. As the last name flashes across the screen we see Zia, the broken hearted hero of our story, laying on the ground of his newly cleaned apartment bleeding out from his self inflicted cut wrists in a puddle of blood. Next scene is Zia apparently alive and well in a new world. We find that this new world is a world wherin every person that lives in it has "offed" themselves and in doing so is unintentionally damned to a life with no stars in the night sky, no smiles, no enjoyment, and perpetual unbearable heat. Along the way we meet many different characters, including the oddity of Tom Waits, and lose many pairs of sunglasses into a black hole in the passenger seat of Zia's roadtrip vehicle. Wristcutters is an intriguing, well executed story and a film i'd love to own.
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