Heartless Page #6

Synopsis: Jamie Morgan, a young man with a large heart-shaped birthmark on his face, discovers that there are demons on the streets of East London.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Director(s): Philip Ridley
Production: Lionsgate
  6 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
76%
Year:
2009
114 min
$2,033
Website
165 Views


I was gonna pay it back!

If you hadn't f***ing told...

She had never have found out!

You stupid whore!

- I'm not a whore!

- Don't lie!

You're a whore

and he's just another f*** for money.

- No!

- What?

I just did this to help Lee.

I love you, Jamie.

Tia, please...

Please don't...

He needs to get the jewellery

to pay back the gang.

If he doesn't get it by tonight,

we're all dead.

Don't look at me like that,

If you'd opened the safe

when I first asked...

none of this

would have f***ing happened.

It's She!

Just open it! Open the f***ing safe!

Lee! What are you f***ing doing?!

Get the f*** off!

Tia! Tia! No, please...

No, please...

Oh, God...

What have you f***ing done?!

F***!

No! Please, God!

No! Please, God, no!

Please! God, no! Please...

Jamie!

You're gonna f***ing die!

Jamie!

Jamie!

I'm sorry.

She said he'd kill you all, one by one.

Burn you alive...

like he burnt Gran.

What?

He's lying!

Jamie...

- Demons! Run!

- Jamie...

- Run!

- Don't let them hurt me! Jamie!

Keep running! Keep running!

Dad!

Belle, you have to go.

Go! Go! You have to get out!

I'm not leaving you!

They're not interested in you, okay?

It's me that they want.

You have to go, you can be...

you can happy somewhere else!

- Dad...

- Just go, Belle, please. Just go!

No! I won't ever be happy

without you. Not ever!

We all lose people, you understand?

OK? But we have to let them go.

We have to.

I love you, Dad.

If you love me,

then you'll let me go.

Go on, let me go. Yeah?

I had this birthmark,

right across the side of my face.

Just disappeared, you know?

It was like magic.

You're beautiful.

Come on... Come on!

Come on! F***ing come on!

F***ing come on, then!

Come on!

Well, these kids, this gang, they came out

from nowhere. Sounded like wild animals.

They were throwing

these burning things at them.

And the man and his kid just went up

like that! The screams... Jesus!

Sir, did you see the faces of the gang?

No, no. They were wearing these masks,

these demon masks.

They weren't masks!

They were mask,

and it's got kids petrified!

I'm not afraid of you any more.

No?

No.

Don't work unless you're scared...

old son.

You're gonna f***ing die!

Jamie...

Jamie!

Keep still.

Oh, that'll be a lovely photo.

Have that framed.

Put it in the front room.

Would you like that? Huh?

- That boy's face!

- Come on.

Have I ever told you about

the night I slept in a forest?

I was only a little bit older

than you.

I'd gone there with Dad

to take some photos.

I'd never been out of the city,

not at night, I hadn't.

So we made this little camp, yeah?

And that night I looked up...

Cor... Stars!

I'd never seen so many.

Sky was blazing with them.

Dad explained,

you need real dark to see stars.

Because in the city there's

too many street lamps and stuff,

see, so...

But when things, uh...

are really dark,

as dark as they can get,

you see so much more,

so many wonderful things.

Sometimes, old son...

things are gonna get darker for you

than they do for the rest of us.

But you've got to...

You got to see those moments

as something special.

Because they're showing you things.

A way of looking at the world

that no one else will ever,

ever understand.

That's a blessing, Jamie.

That's not a curse...

Does that make sense?

I love you, Dad.

I love you, Jamie.

I'll always love you.

It'll never go.

Come on, old son, let's get you home.

Your mum will be waiting for us.

Oh, Dad...

Dad, you're right.

You're right!

It is beautiful.

When I woke up this morning,

the trees didn't work

Birdsong had turned to gunfire

and the stars were in the dirt

Snow feels like a heatwave

Sunshine feels like rain

If a feather touches my skin,

it causes me pain

Come back, come back

And make the world work again

Come back and put an end

to all this mess

Come back and prove

the world's not heartless

The air is thick as tar

and my skin is bruised and stung

I try and talk

but no one understands my tongue

With every passing second

I age a million years

When I fall and graze my knees

The universe cheers

Come back, come back

And make the world work again

Come back and put an end

to all this mess

Come back and prove

the world's not heartless

When I call your name out

It turns to shrapnel in my mouth

And the last time I looked up

the north star was south

Come back, come back

And make the world work again

Come back and put an end

to all this mess

Come back and prove

the world's not heartless

Heartless

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Philip Ridley

Philip Ridley (born 1964 in East London) is an English storyteller working in a wide range of artistic media. In the visual arts he has been cited as a contemporary to the 'Young British Artists', and had his artwork exhibited internationally.As a novelist he has created fiction for both children and adults, and has had particular success and recognition as a children's author.In the field of cinema he is perhaps best known for his award-winning screenplay for the 1990 film The Krays (1990), a biopic about the Kray twins which was directed by Peter Medak. As a film-maker in his own right he is recognised for creating a loose trilogy of horror films; The Reflecting Skin (1990), The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995) and Heartless (2009) for which he has acquired a cult following.As a playwright he has been cited as a pioneer of 'In-yer-face theatre', with his debut play The Pitchfork Disney (1991) considered by many to be a seminal work in the development of the style, with one critic even dubbing it "the key play" of the 1990s. A great number of his plays for adults have been perceived as controversial, being met with both condemnation and high acclaim upon their initial reception. As a writer for the stage he is also recognised for creating an ongoing series of plays for young people (The Storyteller Sequence) and has written theatrical works for children and family audiences.As a songwriter he has created songs for his cinematic and theatrical works, frequently collaborating with composer Nick Bicât. He and Bicât have also formed a music group called Dreamskin Cradle with singer Mary Leay. Ridley has also written songs for composer Anna Meredith, particularly operatic work.Ridley is also a poet, photographer, and performance artist and has written drama for radio.Although Ridley creates stories through a wide range of media he dislikes his work being categorised by the medium in which it is told, often referring to them belonging to each other as "different peaks of the same mountain." more…

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