Adult Life Skills Page #6

Synopsis: Anna is stuck: she's approaching 30, living like a hermit in her mum's garden shed and wondering why the suffragettes ever bothered. She spends her days making videos using her thumbs as actors - thumbs that bicker about things like whether Yogi Bear is a moral or existential nihilist. But Anna doesn't show these videos to anyone and no one knows what they are for. A week before her birthday her Mum serves her an ultimatum - she needs to move out of the shed, get a haircut that doesn't put her gender in question and stop dressing like a homeless teenager. Naturally, Anna tells her Mum to "back the f-off". However, when her school friend comes to visit, Anna's self-imposed isolation becomes impossible to maintain. Soon she is entangled with a troubled eight year old boy obsessed with Westerns, and the local estate agent whose awkward interpersonal skills continually undermine his attempts to seduce her.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Rachel Tunnard
Production: Pico Pictures
  5 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
Year:
2016
96 min
524 Views


when we were walking

home from school.

Yeah, of course I did

cuz I wanted to f*** you.

Do it now.

Wot?

Do it now.

- Here?

- Here!

Ow.

Ow!

Ah. No. No.

I.

No.

F***.

Where ya goin'!

Are you okay?

You can test

me all you want

I am changing

And you can taunt

me all you like

But I am sane

Clint?

You come for bed now.

I've got a nice story for ya.

This web page is not available

This web page is not available

What?

This web page is not available

Wot?!

YOUR CREDIT CARD DETAILS HAVE EXPIRED

Ah, sh*t!

Ah f***.

Oh!

How are you just a dream

How are you just a dream

Cuz you know I'll be

down this road

I know you know

But do I see far,

see far,

see far,

you all see far,

You all see far,

Ohhh.

Don't go crackers, Marion.

Keep a lid on it.

Wot on earth is goin' on?

Anna?!

Anna!

Calm down, Marion.

I am calm.

Anna.

What's up?

What do you mean wot's up?

Uh, uh, oh nothin', every-everythin's fine.

Perfectly normal.

I just fancied sleepin' in a tent.

Oh, shut up.

Get out!

Bloody!

- Get out this instant!

- Let go.

Let go Mum!

No, you let go!

Marion, please.

- Get out.

- Let go!

Get out!

Will you just stop it!

I've 'ad enough.

Can I tell you about that boat?

Mornin'.

Somebody's special day tomorrow?

Thanks very much.

Oh!

Get out o' the way.

Mind!

Mum!

Marion.

This somebody's...

had...

- Mum!

- ...enough of this!

Get!

Out!

Uh.

Oh my God.

Oh f***.

Anna!

- I can feel 'em....

- Anna?

Ah!

Ah!

Ah!

- What are you f***in' doing?

- Ah.

There are spiders on me!

No there isn't.

Go inside, Clint.

But I need to tell her

about that boat.

Not now, sweetheart.

But it's important.

Fine! Fine. Fine.

Show me the f***in' boat.

You little thief!

Hey!

This stuff... makes you look ridiculous!

Oh my God.

What's happened to

your hair, darling?

She did it!

No I didn't.

Yeah y'did, it's in your pot!

Wot?

Knew you were sad and angry

all the time!

Yeah, well maybe I just

didn't want to tell ya

that what's happenin' to your Mum...

will f*** up your life!

And you'll never be happy again!

Wot's up with you?

Nothin'.

Okay.

I wanna be alone.

You are alone.

Can somethin' exist elsewhere,

after it's stopped existin' here?

Like a parallel universe?

Like a website.

I dunno.

Are there parallel universes?

They don't know what's

out there for sure.

Know one thing that ain't there...

Wot is it?

Me.

Hello.

I was just callin' on you.

What're you readin'?

Ah it's...

It's just a pact me and Billy made.

We were...

formin' an alliance that lasted decades

and then we were gonna meet up

in our seventies and kill each other?

That's... sweet.

Yeah.

I should go 'ome.

I brought this for you.

I was gonna you flowers

but I was worried they'd...

die, and I didn't wanna make you...

So it...

It's got it's own pot.

- Brendan?

- Yeah?

Am I still a twin

if my twin's dead?

Um...

Technically...

I don't think so, no.

Mum?

Mum?

You have one new message.

First

new message.

Anna,

Clint's been missin' all day.

We need to find 'im,

it's, it's rather important.

We're all out lookin' for 'im.

(? garbled ?)

Clint?

Clint!

Clint.

Clint, can you 'ear me mate?

- Clint.

- Echo:
Clint.

- Can you 'ear me?

- Echo:
Can you 'ear me?

Clint!

Clint?

Clint!

Clint!

Clint!

Clint.

Clint!

Clint!

Clint!

Clint!

Huh. Oh.

Ahhhh!

I've really f***ed up.

Cuz you shrunk my jumper?

I thought he'd be 'ere.

He'll come.

Wot if 'e don't?

And what'll I...?

Wot if something's happened,

it'd be all my fault.

Don't be daft!

Said some really sh*t things to him.

And...

I just want to say that I'm sorry,

but I don't know how.

Yeah, you do.

No I don't.

Yeah, you do.

No I don't.

Who are you talkin' to?

Uh...

No one!

What lookin' at then?

Nuthin'.

Ask 'im.

Go on.

This is your chance.

I don't want to.

Nyeah.

But you will.

Huh.

I need ya to blow up my shed!

All right, then.

Can I tell you about the boat now?

Yeah.

There's this man...

who made a boat...

kept sailin, and sailin' it.

Every time he sailed it,

it got old.

And it keeps breakin'.

And he keeps gettin' a new bit,

every time it breaks.

Then one day, he realized...

there was nothin' left of the old boat,

it was only new bits.

That he thought in his head...

if it were the same boat?

So wot's the answer?

Isn't one.

It's one of them questions

but you have to think about.

What do you think?

I don't know.

Is that your dam?

Yeah.

It's rubbish.

Cheers.

I got ya this.

Can I have 'is bike instead?

Right.

Let's get you across.

It is said

That you cannot be found

Under rocks or broken skull

I will lay down

I will lay down

I can be found

beneath the rose

beneath the rose

Alone

It is said

That you cannot be found

Under rocks or broken skull

I will lay down

I will lay down

I can be found

beneath the rose

beneath the rose

I know what I wanna do for my birthday.

I want Clint to blow up my shed.

I'm sorry.

You all right?

Anna?

There's a young man here to see ya.

I'll leave you to it.

(? He's taken ?)

You can come in.

Nice shed.

They look like Stanley Kubrick's boxes.

He used to keep everything

from his films in boxes,

like meticulously,

all sorts of sh*t.

And people said,

it was a sign of his genius, so...

Let's just hope it doesn't mean

you f*** up your next film

by denying the audience

what they want.

What do they want?

To see Nicole Kidman's...

chumba-wumbas.

Did you actually just laugh

at something I said?

And there's no one here to witness it.

That is annoying.

I brought you a present.

It's not a deformed carrot is it?

No, it's not a deformed carrot.

ADULT LIFE SKILLS

LONE TWIN:

Thank you.

Well I don't know where I'm going

But I sure know where I've been

Hanging on the promises

In songs of yesterday

An' I've made up my mind,

I ain't wasting no more time

But, here I go again

Congratulations.

(? You've won a coat. ?)

Here I go again

Tho' I keep searching for an answer,

I never seem to find

what I'm looking for

Oh Lord, I pray

You give me strength to carry on,

'Cause I know what it means

To walk along the

lonely street of dreams

An' here I go again on my own

Goin' down the only

road I've ever known,

Like a drifter I was born to walk alone

An' I've made up my mind

An' I ain't wasting no more time

I'm just another heart

in need of rescue,

Waiting on love's sweet charity

An' I'm gonna hold on

For the rest of my days

'Cause I know what it means

To walk along the

lonely street of dreams

An' here I go again on my own

Goin' down the only

road I've ever known,

Like a drifter I was born to walk alone

An' I've made up my mind

I ain't wasting no more time

But here I go again

Here I go again

Here I go again

Here I go

'Cause I know what it means

To walk along the lonely

street of dreams

An' here I go again on my own

Goin' down the only

road I've ever known,

Like a drifter I was born to walk alone

An' I've made up my mind

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