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third july | midnight
"I can't help it, I enjoy the company of murderers, rapists and child molesters."
Tonight I stayed up late, drinking red wine and watching Cecil B. Demented. When it was over - and when I was a little drunk - there was another movie on called Criminal Lovers. I stayed up to watch this as well.
Actually, I watched it with the sound off while listening to disc one of Suede's Sci-Fi Lullabies on repeat. It was a French film, so there were subtitles to clue me in as to what was happening.
A teenaged Arab boy was bragging to his friend about how this girl would be waiting for him in the locker room at a local fitness center. There would be no one there, so they would be certain to get it on: this is where my wandering attention first took notice. The two - the other being an elvish blonde with shoulder-length hair - ended up on the tiled floor of the locker room. Then another boy's face peered around the corner. He and the girl exchanged a conspiring look. Then he took out a switchblade and frantically stabbed the Arab boy, besmirching the green walls with large irregular circles of red blood. The boy and girl then wrapped the body in a towel and packed it in the trunk of the boy's mother's Mercedes. Then they left town.
They spent the night in the woods, where they buried the body. Then they found a small wood cabin, where they were taken hostage by a man who locked them in the basement. There they found that the man had dug up the Arab boy's body.
Upstairs, the man began to read the girl's diary. She wrote about reading Un Saison en enfer in poetry class. There was much talk of The Void. Then the Arab boy gave her a conspiring look. After class she caught up with him in the hall. There, they decided to fuck.
Excited, she went back to find her boyfriend. Luc was his name. "Do you trust me?" she asked, en Francais. "Oui." "I need to kill someone. Help me?" Luc would oblige. But now he was locked in a basement.
The girl realized that they would be going to prison. She smiled.
The man took the boy out of the basement, but left the girl in. They took turns bathing in a small basin. Then they went out hunting, the boy with a short rope leash around his neck. The man caught a rabbit.
Back in the basement, the girl watched a spider do its patient work.
The boy and girl are lying on a red blanket. The girl is explaining about how she messed around with the Arab boy, even though she didn't want to. Then he and his three friends raped her. And took pictures. Thus the motivation for the killing is revealed. "I need you Luc." "I need you Alice." Alice; that's her name.
The man only seemed interested in feeding Luc. Alice would have to go hungry. Wait, no she wouldn't; Luc fed her while the man slept, on the sly.
"You piss wrong," the Arab boy tells his friend.
"Is that the virgin?" the friend asks, indicating Luc.
Luc walks toward Alice standing in the door. Meaningful looks are exchanged. Cut. Meaningful Look. Cut. Meaningful Look. Cut. Now people are boxing.
Luc loves it when Alice takes charge. There is a red filter on the lens. Alice wants sex. Luc doesn't. He pretends that she hurt his penis. "Don't be surprised if I go elsewhere," she says.
"Why did you dig up Said's body?" Luc asks the man, in bed. The man is wearing long underwear and a beard. The man grabs Luc's penis (off screen).
"We can't just do it. We have to plan for it."
"Why wait? We know he wants to fuck me."
The man feeds Luc eggs from a fork.
Luc grabs a knife from off the wall. Meaningful Look: it was all a rehearsal. The tear on the cheek. Held Captive By Jealousy. The man overpowers him and he is locked in the basement again, with Alice.
Thirsty. Luc encourages Alice to seduce the man. Like they did with Said.
Alice came to him in boxing gloves.
She really wanted them to do it. She'd been tormenting the virgin about it. But now the pictures were missing.
"He wanted to fuck me. He deserved it."
"You were wonderful. The best thing anyone's done for me."
If I was the wife of an acrobat would I look like the living dead, boy?
You're on the wire and can't get back, let's talk about the living dead
Could have had a car, could have had it all,
Could have walked in the sky but we stare at the wall.
Alice walks through the woods in just panties and a nightshirt.
She sneaks up behind the man and Luc. The man grabs Luc around the throat. He begins to choke him.
Luc puts his shoes back on. In slow motion.
The man lies in bed, covered in a yellow pastel wash. Luc lets Alice out of the basement. Knife in raised fist, she attempts to stab the man. Luc stops her. As they flee he stops in the door. Meaningful Look. The man goes back to staring at the ceiling.
It's the same old show, he's a killer he's a flash boy oh
He's a killer he's a flash boy oh
Hey, a waterfall scene!
Youthful nudity. Cleansed by flowing water, sun, rocks.
Erm. A bear trap?
NINJAS????????
With machine guns. Bye bye Alice.
Luc, in the back of a police van. Meaningful Look.
Fin