The Letter Page #4

Synopsis: A playwright(Ryder) who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is at the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality.
 
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2012
92 min
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in the play ending.

Everyone was just quiet.

That night,

Raymond was out late.

I had a headache for two days,

so I looked for some aspirin.

I couldn't find any.

The next morning,

I went to meet a journalist I knew.

- Martine.

- Oh. Hi, Elizabeth.

You looked like

you were somewhere else.

Yeah.

- How are you?

- I'm-- I'm pretty good.

It's good to see you.

God, how long has it been?

- What, like--

- Well, let me see.

I-- the last piece I did on you was

January-- two years ago.

As she spoke,

it occurred to me that

I had no idea who she was.

I had recognized her name

when she called,

but I couldn't remember

ever seeing her before.

Like last time,

I'm just gonna record it.

- That's okay?

- That-- that's fine.

Okay.

Interview with Martine Jamison,

May 11th.

She wanted to know about the new play.

So it's-- it's a workshop, so-- so--

so things-- things change.

Everything is still trying to change.

It wouldn't surprise me if...

Um, same group that I--

same group that

I've worked with before,

plus Tyrone Devlin has joined us.

- I don't know him.

- Oh, he works a lot, I think.

He's-- he's really very good.

Um, very good.

Why would I poison her?

You tell me.

You're deluded.

There's, um,

a festival in Japan that...

There's, um,

a festival in Japan that...

really interests me.

Some people write letters to the dead.

And when you write a letter

to someone who has died--

And when you write

a letter to someone who has died--

in Japan, they put it

in this little wooden boat

and it drifts off.

So has the person

who's written the letter

spoken to the dead?

- I think maybe, you know--

- I mean, I'd say yes.

I mean, I'd say yes.

Their-- their minds,

through the letters,

en-- enter...

um, a world that's not living.

But the mind is alive if

and only if their writing is sincere.

And in this way--

and in this way,

that world-- the dead world--

is brought into life and it--

and so-- so it lives. Um...

I'm thinking of a new element.

- For the play?

- Yeah, for the play.

Do you know what

copper supplements are used for?

No, I don't.

Well,

copper is a--

it's present in the body.

It's an element.

You actually need it

for your body to function,

so people take copper supplements.

But if you take too much,

it-- it can--

If you take too much,

it can lead to schizophrenia.

I didn't know that.

Yeah, it's clinically been known

to lead to schizophrenia.

Yeah. Well, it's--

it's kind of a--

a specialized kind--

kind of knowledge.

I'm changing the names

of the characters in the play

to be the names of the actors--

the actual actors playing them.

I didn't want her to look at me anymore.

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