Backlight Page #2
- Year:
- 2010
- 90 min
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Even though you're wearing a shirt
saying "I love dick"
For your information, Philip K. Dick is the
world's greatest science fiction writer.
God, you're so ignorant.
All I want to know is
how you got ahold of a cell phone
I found it ok?
I found it!
Why are you making calls
from it if it's not yours?
It's complicated. Ok?
And I don't want to talk about it.
Well, it can't be more complicated
than you're life's gonna be...
... if you don't tell me every
single detail of that story
Where do you think you're going?
I do not talk on the phone in class
if that's what the principal told you.
Well, he says you do.
Otherwise he wouldn't bother me with it.
Well, I don't
I mean...
How could I?
The phone doesn't even work.
Say it again?
The phone is broken.
It doesn't work.
It never did.
If it doesn't work, why do you have it?
I mean, that is even more puzzeling to me.
Do you just pretend to
talk on the phone in class...
...to look cool or to
piss off the teachers?
Is that the deal?
No.
So what do you do with it?
The principal was
...being seen using
the phone in class.
Are you saying
they made that up?
I just listen to it.
You listen to what?
The phone
You listen to the phone?
Yes.
Didn't you just say the phone is broken?
Yes, I did,
But sometimes,
I get it out of the bag
and put it to my ear.
What for?
I hear things.
Oh, God.
What things?
Words.
Words?
You mean it plays the radio?
No, it's not that.
It doesn't work at all. I told you.
So how do you hear words?
Actually, it's just a single word
each day.
I don't get it.
I just...I hear one word. That's it.
Every day I hear one.
Lucy, you're not making any sense.
I knew you wouldn't understand.
That's why I didn't tell you.
Okay!
You found a cellphone which is dead
Caput! No signal.
And you hear words coming from it.
Yes
And these words, what are they?
Clues.
Clues about what?
Promise you won't freak out?
Lucy, you're scaring me.
You have to promise.
Ok, I promise.
Each word is a clue about
what can save me every day.
That's not funny.
You're joking, right?
Does it sound like I'm joking?
This is serious but I don't want you
to get all freaked out about it either
C'mon, Lucy. How am I
supposed to react to that?
Just listen to the rest of what I
have to say and be cool, alright?
I'm listening.
Remembered the fire?
How can I forget?
That was when it started.
What do you mean?
the street that morning
and I realized it wasn't working.
So I kept trying to figure out
why it wasn't working
because it looked new.
I turned it on and off and then
I put it to my ear to check for sound
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