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Synopsis: Kris is attacked one night, and hypnotized, using a grub with hypnotic properties, administered by a thief. She follows the thief's instructions to give him everything, even taking out loans. After the worms are extracted, she wakes up to find her life ruined. She's lost her job, her finances are destroyed. Years later, she meets Jeff whom she may have a lot in common with.
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Shane Carruth
Production: Independent Pictures/Metrodome Dist.
  5 wins & 34 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
81
Rotten Tomatoes:
86%
NOT RATED
Year:
2013
96 min
$415,067
Website
1,124 Views


I picked up an MBA.

That's what the, that's what the firm does.

It has a commercial half, the

other side's personal wealth.

Where is it?

It's, you can actually see it.

It's a high rise.

The Palomar Building, C&L Crowne, that's us.

Why do you take the train?

Why do I take the train?

Yes, it's just everyone

that takes the train is either homeless

or had their license revoked or you know.

Do you want to see my driver's license?

No.

That's a gift for us.

See there's this path forward

where I wait to tell you

and you either use it as an excuse

or maybe you don't but, I don't know.

I was diagnosed about a

year ago and I take these

and I take those and it's fine.

It seems fine.

It seems fine to me.

So there's that, and...

I think I saved us both three to four weeks.

Alright.

Thank you.

I'm going to get the check and we can...

...get out of here.

I'm sorry.

That was stupid.

I don't know what I'm meant to say to that.

What do I say to that?

I don't know.

Why don't I-I'll tell

you something and then you,

you don't care at all do you?

It's not- yeah alright.

Before we pass this trash I'm

going to tell you something.

Um...

I am divorced.

That's not good right?

It's not great.

Yeah.

Where's Michel?

We have clients with ten times this revenue

that don't have near

the tax liability you do.

So we can have another conversation about

how screwed up the code is,

or you can take the charge

against and solve it.

[straw paper rustling]

[Bricks falling echoes]

[Echoes distorting]

[Distortion becomes low frequency waves]

[low frequency sound raises in pitch]

[Brick sound distorting]

[File sound distorting]

[Distortion becomes high frequency noise]

[Plays tune with frequency noises]

[Tune continues]

[Turns engine off, music stops]

[Car door squeaks]

[low humming noise]

[Humming noise becomes a tune]

[Tune continues]

[Water babbling]

[Noises and tunes running together]

[Noises and tunes become hollow and fade]

[Machine whirring loudly]

[Faucet running]

[Water babbling]

[Material scratching]

[Machine whirring]

[Plays tune]

[Tune continues]

[Machine stalls and squeaks]

[Copy machine runs]

[Sewing machine buzzing]

[Tune plays in headphones]

[Box cutter clicks]

[Click, all sounds stop]

[Pigs oinking and squealing]

[Police siren]

Does your wife take any medications?

No.

Does she have any health problems?

Asthma.

[Sirens]

[Heart monitor beeping]

[Pigs snorting, oinking]

Just want to say that I hope today's better.

I made a list of the things

I want to try harder at.

I love you.

Those are just words,

they don't fix anything Jill.

[Clicking]

It's not a short I'm going to

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Shane Carruth

Shane Carruth (born January 1, 1972) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter, composer, and actor. He is the writer, director, and co-star of the prize-winning science-fiction film Primer (2004), which was his debut feature. His second film, Upstream Color (2013), was an experimental science-fiction film which he wrote, directed, produced, edited, designed, and starred in. He also composed the scores for both films. In recognition of Carruth's idiosyncratic and, at times, bizarre filmmaking technique, director Steven Soderbergh told Entertainment Weekly, "I view Shane as the illegitimate offspring of David Lynch and James Cameron." more…

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