Wristcutters - A Love Story

So, yesterday, I had a few hours of nothing-to-do time between midnight and four, so I went looking for something to fill my time. I stumbled across this movie and had an emphatic feeling of "What the hell." I was a little skeptical about it cause it seemed like it would just be a wasted hour and a half of me watching some emo bullshit and I would regret it seriously afterwards. I mean, with a title like Wristcutters what else could I have guessed? But since I had the opportunity to watch it free, and I didn't see anything else on that was relatively interesting, I put it on and was ready to turn it off if it turned out to be guys in WAYtootight pants and those reverse-mullet haircuts. I was pleasantly surprised to find a smart sort-of-romantic comedy movie that made me think.

It starts with a scene of a depressingly messy apartment. The main character, Zia, is laying on his bed and when he gets up, he starts to clean the room up. After a short montage the disheveled room is neat and tidy, and Zia has changed from a dingy shirt to a dressy outfit. He walks into the bathroom and it cuts to him looking into the mirror with a slack and painful face. He looks at himself for a minute before collapsing onto the floor with his face resting in a pool of blood from his cut wrists. The camera flows from this gruesome scene to a picture of a beautiful girl on his desk. Zia starts narrating about how he thinks she cried at his funeral before falling for another guy. Then he says that after he killed himself he got a job at Kamikaze Pizza. It goes to show his new world, inhabited only by those that have offed themselves, and just how much more depressing this world is than the one he just left. Everyone has a sign of how they killed themselves, everything from scars to gaping bullet wounds, and when a new substantial character is introduced a short clip of just how they killed themselves is shown. While Zia is at his haunt of a bar, he meets Eugene. Eugene is a East European rock-star that Zia becomes good friends with after a short while. After a time in this dismal world with inhabitants incapable of smiling, he comes across one of the people he knew during life while grocery shopping. He informs Zia that the girlfriend who he loved and who drove him to suicide had also killed herself and that she was in this purgatory-ish place. Zia recruits Eugene into joining him on a road trip to find her. They travel in Eugene's beater and pick up a hitch-hiker named Mikal. Mikal claims that there is some mistake and that she should never have come here because she never committed suicide, and so she is looking for the people in charge. This trio of lost souls forms an uncommon bond, road-tripping through the afterlife and meeting many memorable characters along the way.

It's a very interesting watch. If you feel so inclined to see it, then you can see it for free at the link at the bottom of this screen. Enjoy.



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