FREE ON YOUTUBE Wristcutters

FREE ON YOUTUBE  What does a life after death look like without considering heaven or hell? The intermediate realm looks like a run-down industrial area, where nothing works, where there are no jobs and the food doesn't taste. Everyone who lives there has committed suicide. It also looks like nobody has sex there! Possibly for theological reasons? How could a child be born in the land of the dead? How would he learn to love his father with a hole in his skull? Wristcutters: A Love Story is best cast with Patrick Fugit as Zia, who was abandoned by his girlfriend Desiree (Leslie Bibb) and cut his wrists. A wristcutter. But life played a trick on him: He didn't die, but ended up in the same life as before, only more desolate, surrounded by suicidal people. One of them, Eugene (Shea Whigham), becomes Zia's new friend. Eugene used to be a Russian rocker who once pissed in the audience and died of an electric shock. Now Zia hears that Desiree also killed herself, so she has to stay on this side of "life" as well. Zia and Eugene hire Mikal (Shannyn Sossamon) to search the whole land of the dead. A road movie of the not quite dead! At least on the Road To Nowhere there are guys like Tom Waits, who heads a commune of the outcast... The idea of fraudulent afterlife has something fascinating about it: The misery doesn't stop, but only really begins after the suicide. After all, Zia has a job waiting for her at Kamikaze Pizza. Mind you, Wristcutters is not a comedy in which you want to laugh out loud. Everything here is bittersweetly tempered and driven by melancholic humour. Goran Dukic has invented his own genre and his own type of death: Post Suizidal.