Opening shot is a girl riding a bicycle on an idyllic country road, a farmhouse passing by in the background. She's smiling, standing slightly in the pedals as she rides. She's probably thirteen, wearing a school uniform. "This is a Song" by The Magic Numbers plays over the scene. The girl looks happy, the kind of happy that you're tempted at first to think of as foolish and naive until it makes you ashamed of your own cynicism and you begin to suspect that she knows something you don't, some secret of true happiness that you missed in your upbringing. She looks innocent.
He is overwhelmed with the dread that the movie is going to ruin this girl somehow. Irrational tears well up in his eyes and he has to leave. He doesn't even say anything to his friends. He just winces back tears and stumbles over feet and purses out to the aisle and he walks out.
In his car he wonders what came over him. He has driven past the edge of town and is speeding down a country road he's never been on before. There's something lacking about it, something less than idyllic. Up ahead he sees a billboard for cigarettes. He fumbles with the radio stations, but no one is playing The Magic Numbers, of course. She was just some actress. She wasn't real.
And this is a song
And these are the words
I don't wanna hear it, don't wanna hear it
I don't wanna hear it, don't wanna hear it
Opening shot is a boy speeding a car down a scrubby country road, a billboard passing by in the background. His eyes look like he's been crying, but he's smiling now. He's probably nineteen. "In Between Days" by The Cure plays over the scene. He looks happy, the kind of happy you recognize.
Hello, friends. How are you today?
Later. Love.
