Saturday, July 2, 2011

what's the name of the short film about a suicidal girl called sally who becomes an assassin?

i was watching this on 'diva universal', but the channel guide didn't
list the film nor did the film itself have any opening title etc.
stupid me didn't bother to take down any of the credits (director,
producer, etc), thinking it'd be easy to find it on google later but
alas, no luck.

it starts with this girl called sally (played by an actress who bears
a striking resemblance to kirsten dunst) calling a suicide helpline,
in a decrepit basement of filled cereal bowls and a random cat running
about. during her mostly one sided conversation, she sings a
children's tune - i cant rlly remember the exact words but it ends in
'9-10, sally has no friends'. well anyway, she doesn't kill herself
but instead, takes the advice given to her and goes out. she greets a
fellow neighbour (a young girl) who sprays water in her face and calls
her a weirdo. feeling even more dejected, we find her in an office
talking to some guy about suicide. he's in a wheel chair, possibly
from a botched attempt to kill himself and speaks rather cynically
about how if she wants to end her life, she ought to do it the 'right
way'. he asks her, is there anything, anything at all in life, that
makes her feel alive. sally answers with despondent 'no'. he then
reveals a board with various black and white pictures on them; points
to one guy, starts talking about him. poor sally asks, rather
hopefully as she swats away matted oily hair on her face, 'as in like
a date?' - or something like that, thinking the guy's trying to set
her up. the guy carries on, revealing that the guy in the photo is an
awful character who runs a kittyporn ring? (idk) and that he has
abandoned his wife and children and in fact, said wife is set on
killing said husband. mr. wheelchair then proposes to sally a win win
situation that she can go out with a bang, by contributing to the
greater cause of killing the guy as well. sally, visibly freaked,
leaves.

outside, she breathes in the fresh air, relishes the sun on her pale
sallow skin - only to have it interrupted by a lovely dollop of bird
poop on her face. she wipes it off, lip trembling but like the trooper
she is, soldiers on. once again, the fates is cruel to sally and she
steps in dog crap, slips eagle-spread on the hard concrete ground. a
silhouette approaches her. she reaches out a hand thinking the man's
gonna help her but he just steals what little money she has. utterly
p'oed, she marches back in to the wheelchair guy and declares 'i'm
in'.

scene cuts to a restaurant. sally's target comes in through the back
like some big hot shot vip (c'mon, the restaurant looks some cheap
steak joint, how vip can u get) and gets a reserved table. he's
accompanied by two equally douche-y friends. enter sally, all dolled
up, with eyes never wavering from the guy she's supposed to kill. she
orders to most expensive stuff on the menu, constantly watching the
three a-holes pick on the waiter. we hear fleetingly about the guy
mentioning his wife and the kid and impending divorce plans. sally
then goes to the bathroom, weighs a pill in one hand and a gun in the
other. after one last look in the mirror, she pops the pill in her
mouth and goes out to do what she's set to do.

she does a big round the table, movie goes into semi-slo-mo. when
she's in front of their table she pulls out the gun, only to have the
three men react with pulling out guns of their own. sally's face
freezes with fear - of course, she's never done anything like this and
now she's gonna die for stepping into shit she knows nothing about.
camera focus on her face, we hear shots, she flinches after each one.
however, finally, we realise the three men are dead and in fact, sally
came through after all.

the words of the man in the wheelchair come back to her. has anything
ever made u feel alive? sally cracks a smile for the first time. one
that is as deranged as it is comical. too bad she's gonna die right?
fatal pill and all.. oh wait, nope, we see that between her teeth,
she's holding the pill that she was supposed to swallow and end her
life.

show ends with sally singing a similar tune we heard in the beginning
just that now it's all badass and non-suicidal. once again, cant rlly
remember all the words but it ends with 9-10, say hello to my little
friend.

fin.

lol sorry if i went overboard on the details (i tend to do that :()
but yeah, i need to find out what this film is called. merci beaucoup!

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