Gerald's Game Page #2

Synopsis: When a harmless game between a married couple in a remote retreat suddenly becomes a harrowing fight for survival, wife Jessie must confront long-buried demons within her own mind - and possibly lurking in the shadows of her seemingly empty house.
Director(s): Mike Flanagan
Production: Netflix
  2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
77
Rotten Tomatoes:
91%
TV-MA
Year:
2017
103 min
3,663 Views


With me?

[panting]

How did we go so wrong?

Mnh-mnh.

Jess, we were happy once.

Of course.

- Weren't we?

- Yes.

- I mean, weren't we?

- Yes.

What?

[gasps]

Gerald?

- [gasps] Oh, my God.

- Honey.

Hey, that's not funny.

[moans]

Gerald?

- [gasps]

- Gerald?

What's... Gerald?

- [moans and gasps]

- Hey, hey! What's happ...

Oh, my God.

[whimpering and panting]

Honey?

[crying]

Come on.

[blubbers]

I can't...

Gerald! Gerald!

Hey, baby, look at me.

Wake up, Gerald.

Gerald?

[thuds]

Ger?

Where... Gerald.

Gerald, say something!

Please!

[yells]

[groans]

Oh, God!

Wake up!

Wake up!

Help!

Sound more real now, huh?

You wanna try again?

Just get back up here.

You can do anything you want.

I mean it.

Anything.

Help!

Help! Somebody!

Help! Somebody!

Help.

Help. [sniffles]

Wake up.

Just wake up.

It's time to wake up, honey.

It's time to wake up.

[branch snaps]

Hello?

[leaves rustling]

Help.

It'll be dark.

In an hour or so, it'll be so dark.

[gate clangs]

Hey!

We're back here! He's hurt!

Nate, Kelly, is that you?

[soft footsteps approaching]

Sh*t.

Hi.

How was the steak?

It's $200 a portion, you know.

I don't suppose you're a rescue dog.

I didn't think so.

Hey.

Hey.

Back off from him.

[snaps fingers] Hey!

- [stammers]

- [whines]

Hey!

Hey!

Get away from him.

Back off!

Bad dog!

Bad dog!

Hmm...

Hey!

Bad dog! Go away!

- [shouts] Oh, God!

- [growls]

Oh. Uhh... [grunting]

Get the f*** away!

Get the f*** away from him!

[gasping and panting]

No.

[wails and moans]

No.

[gasps]

[groans]

- [gasps] Gerald?

- What the hell?

Oh, my God. Thank God.

I thought... I thought you...

My goddamn arm!

- [stammers] I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

- The dog, right?

- You were so right. I was so wrong.

- The one you fed.

Uncuff me and hold me. I'm so sorry, baby!

The goddamn dog.

That goddamn dog.

The goddamn dog you had to feed.

Smelled the blood, did what dogs do.

F*** you, roadkill! I hope you choke!

Should've let you cut up all the steak.

Maybe it would've filled him up.

But I guess they always smell

fresher meat.

Do you remember the joke I told

at Christmas last year?

You came up behind me.

I was, like, four or five

into the night already.

I was loose but not slurring yet.

It was Tom Reynolds I was talking to...

in this low and conspiratorial, in that

very specific "guys only" f***ing tone

that says, "You'll appreciate this,

brother, but only you."

You didn't hear the beginning

of the joke, just the end...

"And what is a woman anyway?"

And I waited.

That cocky little pause I take

before a punch line

that really makes me proud of myself,

and Tom said, "What?"

like he already knew the answer,

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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