Lovesong Page #2

Synopsis: Neglected by her husband, Sarah embarks on an impromptu road trip with her young daughter and her best friend Mindy. Along the way, the dynamic between the two friends intensifies before circumstances force them apart. Years later, Sarah attempts to rebuild their intimate connection in the days before Mindy's wedding.
Genre: Drama, Romance
Director(s): So Yong Kim
Production: Strand Releasing
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
74
Rotten Tomatoes:
81%
NOT RATED
Year:
2016
84 min
$10,545
Website
669 Views


We've had a long day.

- Let's go play-

- Yeah, why

don't you girls go play?

- All right, you go

play for 10 more minutes

and then you'll eat food.

- Yeah, we're gonna

save the pizza and we're

gonna save the chips.

If you're hungry later, too.

- But I don't wanna eat.

- Okay, Jessie, go play.

- I don't wanna eat, either.

- My god.

- She's three, you know'?

- I know.

- It's like a cat.

- I know, but she's...

- I mean, I get it.

I get it, you're like...

- Like, it's the worst.

- I know, but you can't...

- Habits of...

She just screams any time she

doesn't wanna do anything.

- Yeah, but she's on the road.

She's like away from your house.

- She's like this at home.

- She's not, okay.

- It's hard because I have to

be the bad person, you know?

- Right.

- It's not like it's me and Dean.

- But you're also like

kind of uptight about it, too.

So you just kind have to, like,

pull back a little bit, you know?

- Yeah.

Mindy, what do you wanna eat'?

- I wanna, um...

- Oh, ma'am.

- Hamburger.

- You forgot your change, ma'am.

- You want cheeseburger or hamburger?

- Thanks.

Here you go.

- Thanks.

- Yep!

- Cheeseburger or hamburger?

- A cheeseburger.

- Two cheeseburgers and one hot dog.

- What are you gonna eat'?

- Go ahead.

- Hot dog!

- Okay, all right already.

What do you take on your hot dog'?

Hey.

- Oh, and two french fries.

- Are you riding here?

- I am later.

Is this your guys' first time here?

I haven't seen you guys here before.

- Yeah.

- I feel like I've seen you before here.

You've been here before.

- She does.

- Oh yeah, she's a regular.

- Yeah, you're a regular.

- That's Jessie.

- You guys wanna,

- Yeah.

- You want me

to show you guys around?

- We might eat first.

- You're gonna eat first?

All right.

- I think so, right'?

- Okay, yeah.

- Yeah.

What?

- Nothing.

- He was kinda cute.

- I don't know.

- You wanna see'?

You want me to introduce you'?

- Yeah!

- Jessie, you wanna

go say hi to some friends?

- You wanna go say hi to the animals?

- Do they talk'?

- Oh yeah.

They talk.

Tell 'em you're here, they'll talk.

See 'em?

- Let's go see the bulls!

I think they're starting, come on!

- See, these are my friends.

Wanna say hi to my friends?

- Yeah.

- Yeah, come on.

He said Jessie's coming today.

- Maybe don't put

your hands in there, Jessie.

- Like just to put certain...

- I wanna get my hat.

- Okay, Mindy?

Mindy?

- Mindy!

- Yeah?

- Can I get my hat?

- I'll come.

- You wanna come?

- Yeah, I'll come.

- Okay.

- Cool.

- Thank you.

- See you later.

- Hey yeah, take care.

- 68 points, he is in the lead!

What a great cowboy!

- Get ready!

- Oh my lord!

- He's gonna come out

at the end of the song.

- Cowboy gets his feet down on

both sides of the bull.

One hand in the air.

- Oh, no, no, no!

- Oh my god!

- Get out of the way!

- Oh my god!

Oh my god.

- I know, it's so crazy.

- Okay

- And at number 14 in the

American Professional Rodeo Association.

Close to the record,

she clocks in at 15.646.

How about a nice round of

applause for a great competitor?

- What are you gonna do?

- Wow, well tell me how

you don't feel about it, honestly.

Hey.

Hey.

You ready to go'?

- You wanna go now?

- Yeah, it's getting late.

- Thanks for showing us around.

- Oh, you gotta go, too?

- Yeah, it's past my bedtime.

- You're not going too, come on now.

- It was

nice meeting you, though.

- Yeah, yeah, you too.

All you wanted you could've had

Partly paralyze

Part of you is dancing

- Shh.

- Drink.

Whoa.

- Truth or drink?

- Truth.

- What's the worst

thing you've ever done?

- Oh my god, I mean, I don't even know.

To myself or to someone else?

- To someone else.

- Worst thing I've ever

done to someone else.

I broke into someone's house once.

- And I slept in their bed.

- What?

- And I stole some of their jewelry.

And I ate their food.

- What?

- And masturbated in their bed.

- What?

- Shush.

You need to be quiet.

- That's enough of that.

- Drink.

Truth or drink?

- Truth.

- Have you ever been fingered

when you have your period?

- I mean, of course I have.

- Really?

- I'm married.

- But it seems like Dean

wouldn't be into that.

- Dean's crazy.

- Really?

What do you mean he's crazy?

- I don't know, he's Asian.

- I thought that would

be the opposite of crazy.

- No, they're like crazy in bed, Asians.

He's, you know, I don't know.

I mean, I don't have much

to compare it to but I,

I don't know.

We have, like, one day a week

where we have anal sex.

- No way, it's

like, it's like it's a

day on your calendar'?

- Yeah.

- No, it's not.

- Yeah, Saturdays.

- No, it's not.

- I swear to god.

- That is so weird.

That is the weirdest

thing anyone's ever said.

- Anal Saturday.

I mean, we haven't had

sex in like months, but...

- Whatever, f*** him.

Have you ever had a threesome with Dean?

Okay, that means yes.

- No, no, no, I mean, it was nothing.

It was like...

- It's not nothing.

- This Brooklyn mom.

And it was his idea and

I just did it because

I felt like il I didn't, I don't know.

It was weird.

- God, you're just like blowing my mind.

I'm like, I can't even, I

can't even look at Dean now.

And like I don't even.

- I felt like I would

have been more into it

if it was like not his...

- Choice of a woman?

- Choice.

- No, you get to choose, f*** that.

Do you remember that one time

that we took the boy home in college

and you chickened out?

- I felt...

- What happened that night?

- I felt like, I don't know.

Like, I'd like, I felt like...

Really awkward and I,

it gave me a complex.

- Why?

A complex for what?

- Of like feeling like guys

wanna be with you more.

- No way!

No, that's not even, you

remembered it all wrong.

- No.

- That's just your insecurity.

- It's not.

I just, I could tell.

Like, he, like I felt

like I was intruding...

- Not even true.

I didn't even have fun.

I wanted you there.

It's okay.

It's okay.

What we're following

What we want sometimes

Where you're going to live

What we're following

Where we wander free

- Slow down!

That?

- Yep, that's where we're going.

- I don't like chocolate

- Yes you do!

- I do not like it

- Oh yes, you do.

- I don't like chocolate.

- Oh yes you do like chocolate.

You don't scream.

You don't scream.

Oh no

- Hello?

- Hello.

- Hang on.

- Dean called this morning'?

- Mm-hmm.

- And?

- He just...

Was calling to check on Jessie.

I think he feels guilty.

- He doesn't even care like where you are?

Who you're with?

- He doesn't ask what I'm doing.

I don't know...

- Do you feel guilty?

- I don't know.

- Is this a joke'?

You still love him?

- I don't know.

I'm just so confused.

I'm happy you came I don't

regret sleeping together.

- No regrets.

It's the best way to live, right'?

- Yeah.

I mean, I know it wasn't

like a big deal, but...

- Do you think I do stuff

like that all the time?

- No, but I mean, like, I know you

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So Yong Kim

So Yong Kim (born 1968) is an award-winning Korean American independent filmmaker. She has made four feature films: In Between Days, Treeless Mountain, For Ellen, and Lovesong. more…

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