#Wristcutters: A Love Story

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[ajthecinephile]

Wristcutters : A Love Story

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[3feetfrompeace]

Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)

[bitter-sweet-coffee]

don’t mind me, just posting one of my favourite scenes from my favourite movie that makes me fucking burst into tears. because i’m totally doing fine hahahaha

[gagesfall]

Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, "You're crooked. You've always been crooked and you'll continue to be crooked. But look at me! Look at me!" said the straight tree. He said, "I'm tall and I'm straight." And then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, "Cut all the straight trees." And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange. (Wristcutters: A Love Story, 2006)

[justletmereadmyfic]

Introducing the Sandman/Wristcutters: A Love Story (the indie movie) AU that I may but probably won't get around to writing.

Dream (given name, Murphy) is the socially-awkward, clinically depressed middle child of a senator and old money socialite, and a complete disappointment and disgrace to his parents, not the least reason for which is that he got his high school girlfriend pregnant, and then chose to keep the child and stay with the mother to raise it together rather than quietly aborting it before the press caught wind.

(It didn't even matter, in the end. Two-year old Orland choked on a small toy and died, and Calliope moved back to Greece with her family after the funeral. She never forgave him for the fact that Dream was supposed to be watching Orland when it happened.)

After Dream is kidnapped for ransom, which his father refuses to pay on the basis that he "does not negotiate with the criminal element" (Dream is eventually rescued by SWAT, but not before losing an ear and a finger) and Dream is told by his father, "Thank Christ it was only you and not your older brother," (who is following their father into politics), Dream decides to step in front of a train.

Only to discover that suicides go to a purgatory that is almost exactly like the world they were trying to escape, but somehow marginally worse in every way (some key distinguishing features: colors are duller, there are no stars in the sky, and everyone has physically lost the ability to smile).

Dream now finds himself working at a video rental store to make rent at his tiny apartment that he shares with Matthew, a boisterous guy who got extremely drunk at a party celebrating a friend's promotion, and gave into the intrusive thought, "what would happen if I just yanked the wheel really hard right into that guard rail?" while driving home.

After running into an old acquaintance from school (suicide after losing his life savings to crypto speculation) and learning his sort of girlfriend Kiana committed suicide about three months or so after he did, Dream decides to go looking for her, assuming that she killed herself in order to join him in the afterlife.

(She did not. She joined a suicide cult run by a man calling himself Sto-Oa, given name Stewart, and killed herself to join him, as he promised he would be King in the afterlife, and she his queen. But Dream won't discover that until later.)

Dream and Matthew head out on a roadtrip to find Kiana in Matthew's shitty van, and along the way pick up a hitchhiker named Hob, who is insistent he is not a suicide and doesn't belong here (he died of an overdose after taking adderall that had been laced with fentanyl), and is looking for "whoever is in charge here" to make his objections.

I am partial to the idea that the other Endless, or some of them at least, do exist as members of the Endless in this "Dream has always been human" AU. Possibly Destruction as Kneller (he does love his dog, after all), or Delirium sneaking into this part of the afterlife to hang out at Kneller's camp. And of course Death will need to make a cameo.

[ana103]

Zia: I'm not going out tonight. It just makes me depressed.

Eugene: So, what you gonna do? Kill yourself?

[idletongues]

Turned an old friend into a meme. We still have the same sense of humor. Totally post Tumblr vibes.

[ketamineprincxss]

look at me look at me said the straight tree said i’m tall and im straight

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Actress Shannyn Sossamon from the film Wristcutters: A Love Story poses in the portrait studio at the AFI FEST 2006 presented by Audi at the Arclight Hollywood November 7, 2006 in Hollywood, California. Photo by Mark Mainz/Getty Images for AFI...

[bitter-sweet-coffee]

you don’t understand. i love. fuckin. symbolism. and like. little things. in lore. that MEAN THINGS!!! EVERY LITTLE THING MEANS SOMETHING IN WRISTCUTTERS OH MY GOD. like. the concept of a second world full of people who off’d themselves but it’s a slightly shittier world. but then. THE ENDING. AND THE REASON WHY. AND LIKE. THE FACT THAT A MOVIE THATS PURPOSEFULLY DREARY AND MONOTONOUS AND ABOUT DEPRESSION AND DEATH HAS A HAPPY ENDING BECAUSE LIFE CAN BE GOOD IF YOU CHOOSE TO FIND BEAUTY IN IT. AND HOW WHEN YOU’RE IN A DARK PLACE YOU DONT REALIZE HOW MUCH WORSE IT CAN GET WHEN YOU GIVE UP ON YOURSELF. BUT IF YOU MISS THE WAY THINGS WERE YOU MIGHT FIND PEOPLE OR THINGS THAT REMIND YOU OF WHEN YOU WERE HAPPY AND THAT IT’S NEVER TRULY OVER FOR YOU. AUDJDNEKFOO

like i’m not saying anything too specific because this is a movie you need to see yourself. you can’t read the summary beforehand and then go in because you will not understand the impact of the ending if you don’t watch it and get all the little bits that build up gradually throughout. so please. go watch this movie it will fix you and then we can talk about it