How I Live Now Page #4

Synopsis: American teenager Elizabeth "Daisy" is sent by her estranged father away from New York to the countryside of England to stay with her Aunt Penn. Her distant cousin Isaac welcomes her at the airport and drives her home. She is introduced to her cousins, seventeen year-old Eddie and young Piper and to their friend Joe. However Daisy is a resentful, needy of love and aloof girl who believes that she is cursed and that bad things happen wherever she goes since her mother died in her delivery. Aunt Penn is a busy woman who is studying the war scenario in England, which is on alert due to an imminent terrorist attack, and needs to fly to Geneva. However, the next morning, a nuclear bomb explodes in London and the authorities of the United Kingdom declare a state of siege. Meanwhile Daisy and Eddie fall in love with each other, but they are separated by the military, which sends girls to one camp and men to another. Daisy and Eddie promise to meet each other again. In a country at war, Daisy
Director(s): Kevin Macdonald
Production: Magnolia Pictures
  1 win & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
68%
R
Year:
2013
101 min
Website
951 Views


No no no, it's fine. It's fine.

I'm sitting in front of it.

If you tell me your thoughts,

I will give you

a rough estimate. Yeah.

Uh, Daisy? Daisy,

don't worry about anything.

My friend Sally's gonna come up

and look after everything

while I'm away, okay?

All right. Good night!

Yes.

Come back quickly.

Hey, um...

we're gonna go swimming

before Sally gets here

and makes us eat vegetables.

Do you wanna come?

I don't swim.

It's like

a really special place.

You'll love it.

It's your last chance

to have some fun

before the fascist regime.

U h-huh.

Maybe next time.

Okay.

Stop stop.

Stay away from distractions.

Take risks.

Step out

of your comfort zone.

Physical shortcomings.

Find the goal of your life.

Hey.

Hey.

What?

I can't change my mind?

Oh no. Not her!

N.B., just because

I'm attending

doesn't mean I'm participating.

There will be no swimming.

Yeah, we'll see.

- Hey, Jet, come on.

- Come on, Jet.

- Jet!

- Come on, baby.

Cool.

Come on, let's go.

Come on.

- Come on.

- Jet!

Can't catch me!

Hello. Good dog.

Come on, let's go. Hey.

Don't go near them.

Come on, let's go.

Are those cows or bulls?

Hey, guys?

They're cows... cows!

Cow-cheese cows!

It's fine. You go on.

- They won't hurt you.

- I know.

I'm... I'm fine.

I'm just gonna go home.

I didn't really wanna ...

go swmmng anyway, so.

Wait here.

No way.

How'd you do that?

- Oh ow! Ow sh*t!

- You okay?

Aw, f***ing dirty fence.

- You're bleeding.

- It's cool.

- It's not a big deal.

- Let me see.

It's really fine.

We'd better catch up.

- Piper!

- Look, I did it!

Look at this! Come on!

Oh, it's cold!

It's cold! It's cold!

Whoo!

Jet, oh, come here.

- Joe, come on in.

- Come on, Jet.

- Catch! Catch, Jet!

- It's freezing.

Seriously, man,

it's not that cold.

Hey! Oh, careful!

Do you have any idea

what kind of bacteria

lives in river water?

Not this water.

Come on, Daisy.

No one ever comes here

and doesn't go swimming.

Yeah well, there's a first time

for everything.

Whoa, saved your life.

- Daisy, come and look at this.

- What?

Just come and you'll see.

Quick.

You're gonna miss it.

Look, can you see it

right there?

- No.

- Look. Just right there.

Look. Right here.

- Right there. Look.

- All these rules...

you think you've got

to obey them.

What are you talking about?

All that noise inside your head.

Dumb baby.

Stop it.

It's in your head.

You f***!

He loves me.

He loves me not.

He loves me.

He loves me not.

This is how you make

the best marshmallows.

Place it in quite

a small place

and make sure

it's quite a hot place.

Don't put it in

for too long.

Try some of this.

- Mmm, do I have to?

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Meg Rosoff

Meg Rosoff (born 16 October 1956) is an American writer based in London, United Kingdom. She is best known for the novel How I Live Now (Puffin, 2004), which won the Guardian Prize, Printz Award, and Branford Boase Award and made the Whitbread Awards shortlist. Her second novel, Just in Case (Penguin, 2006) won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians recognising the year's best children's book published in the U.K. more…

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