Day Night Day Night

Synopsis: A 19-year-old girl prepares to become a suicide bomber in Times Square. She speaks with a nondescript American accent, and it's impossible to pinpoint her ethnicity. We never learn why she made her decision -- she has made it already. We don't know whom she represents, what she believes in - we only know she believes it absolutely.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Julia Loktev
Production: IFC First Take
  6 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
61
Rotten Tomatoes:
69%
NOT RATED
Year:
2006
94 min
118 Views


Everybody dies.

Some fall from a window and die.

Others die when an air conditioner

falls from a window and hits them.

Some people drive and hit something and

die. Some people get hit by a car and die.

Some are knifed. some are shot.

some are strangled.

some bleed to death

with bare hands and die.

Some people die when

a neighbor is smoking and sets off a fire.

some people just die from smoking. Some

die from lung cancer. stomach cancer.

Some die from heart attacks. strokes.

People get cirrhosis of the liver and die.

Some freeze to death.

some die from pneumonia.

Some die from heat stroke.

some from getting bit by mosquitoes.

Some just die from throwing up.

Some people get bit by dogs and die.

Some fall off a horse and get trampled.

Some are trampled to death

by other people. Some get old and die.

I'v made up my mind. I have only

one death. I want my death to be for you.

Hello?

Go out the door on your left.

Hell pick you up at the bus stop.

OK. thank you.

- Excuse me. I'm gonna go to the rest room.

- OK.

Hi. Can I have

three vegetable egg rolls to go. please?

Thank you.

You don't have to heat them up.

Thanks.

- Please just stay in.

- OK.

Hello?

Please dont go outside again.

Close the window.

Oh. OK. I'm sorry.

Hello?

Hello?

Please take a look under the pillow.

OK.

Youre gonna take them into the bathroom.

put them on and wait.

Please dont come out until we call you.

OK. Thank you.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- How you doing?

- I'm OK.

Um... Stand up.

All right. now walk forward

towards the sound of my voice.

Don't worry. I'm not gonna let you

bump into anything. Come forward.

Keep coming forward.

Now turn towards the sound of my voice.

Good. Walk backwards.

Good.

Keep going.

Keep going.

Keep going.

Keep going.

Keep going.

Keep going.

Turn to your left.

Backwards.

Stop.

Turn around.

Place your hands on the wall.

Step your feet a foot apart.

Turn around.

Turn around.

Fall backwards.

Fall straight backwards.

OK. You can turn around now.

All right.

now why don't you have a seat on the bed?

You must be pretty tired.

You had a long trip.

Yeah. it was pretty long. actually.

I've never been cross-country.

so it was cool. You could see...

Is this all you brought?

- I have a little blue bag in the bathroom.

- OK.

OK.

Come on out.

- I will wait for the red light to turn green.

- Good. Again.

- I will wait for the red light to turn green.

- One more time.

- I will wait for the red light to turn green.

- OK. next.

If I think I've been noticed

or there's a small chance I may be caught.

I must execute the plan immediately.

even if there is no one nearby.

Again.

If I think I've been noticed or

there's a small chance I may be caught.

I must execute the plan immediately.

even if there is no one nearby.

Good. One more time.

If I think I've been noticed or

there's a small chance I may be caught.

I must execute the plan immediately.

even if there is no one nearby.

If you have any questions.

now's the time to ask.

I'm sorry. I want to do everything right.

but why would I do it if no one's around?

I want pizza.

Will you please eat with me?

I don't want to eat alone.

- Are those the only clothes you brought?

- What?

Are those the only clothes you brought?

- Um. no. I have a sweater in my bag.

- OK.

Do you want me to try it on for you?

- That's OK. Is that all you brought?

- Mm-hmm.

OK. what size are you?

I can fit into a 2. but not if it's. like.

over here. 'cause then it's too tight.

I can fit into a 3-4.

or if you have to pick between

small. medium and large. pick small.

- What about shoe size?

- Um. size 9.

Ready to make a video?

Watch where you point that thing.

Ready to make a video?

Are you ready to make a video?

Don't you want to make a video

for your parents?

My parents are dead.

Let me see the other one.

There you go.

Slide that in.

OK. Go ahead. please.

Help me with the top.

OK. Let's button this.

OK. look up.

- OK.

- Thanks.

Just take it off.

Here.

Good.

Good. OK.

Just zip this up.

There we go.

OK.

Close the flap.

Yeah. that's better.

Lift up your hands.

Put it down.

All right.

OK.

OK. Maybe she should put it down?

Hair down.

You want it down?

Just look straight up

and put your hands down.

- That's it.

- It looks good.

- No. Put it up.

- Why not?

OK.

Excuse me. could I have a Kleenex?

I feel like my nose is getting shiny.

OK.

Put this right there.

Kleenex.

OK. just look

straight ahead for me.

Hold this.

Put this hand right there. Hold that

and you want to keep this hand on it.

Hold it. hold it more this way.

This way. a little. OK.

Think she's all right?

- You've never held a gun before?

- Mnh-mnh.

No?

Can you hand her the paper?

That doesn't...

You're not gonna be able

to read that and look ahead. are you?

- I could try to memorize it.

- No. take this out. OK.

Hold it lower.

Maybe you can hold it right above

the camera so she's looking straight ahead.

- That's good.

- OK.

- Are you ready?

- Mm-hmm.

Go ahead. Action.

How can I know my motives are pure?

You'll see through me.

What if you see things I don't see?

Has to be for you. not for them.

Not for him. They'll think it's for him.

But you'll see. You'll know.

Don't think I'm doing it

for the wrong reason.

I don't think I am. but what if I don't know?

How can I be sure?

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Julia Loktev

Julia Loktev (born December 12, 1969) is a Russian-American film director and video artist. She was born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now St. Petersburg, Russia). more…

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