Incendiary Page #5

Synopsis: Grief, guilt, and betrayal. In North London, a young mother dotes on her four-year-old son and lives in a modest flat with her husband, a cop in the bomb squad. The Arsenal football team is their religion. On May Day, a major terrorist attack brings tragedy while she is in the arms of a rich reporter who lives over the road. She wishes she were dead. In grief and guilt, she pursues revenge, faces betrayal, experiences delusions, and may be suicidal. Two men seek her affection: the reporter and a colleague of her husband's who imagines caravan camping with her on a beach. In London, the city of the Great Fire and of Hitler's bombardment, is there any way back to life for her?
Director(s): Sharon Maguire
Production: Capitol Films
 
IMDB:
5.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
22%
R
Year:
2008
96 min
305 Views


I wanted to give you something.

(Gasps)

(Groans)

Oh...

You have been in the wars, haven't you?

Oh, you lost your paw.

I'll fix that for you.

It's just a needle and thread.

You're a brave bunny.

- Let me walk you up.

- No.

- Will you be all right?

- Fine, thank you.

You're usually chasing bimbos

round red carpets up the West End.

- You want footage of May Day?

- For f***'s sake! Can you do it or not?

No, Jasper. I'm a sports reporter,

not Carl f***ing Bernstein.

But because it means so much to you,

lover man, I think I know a man who can.

(Helicopter passes)

(Man) 'We are here today

'to honour the dead and to pray

for their families and friends.

(# Choir singing)

'An act of terrorism

is unpredictable, arbitrary.

'Its purpose is to kill indiscriminately.

'Whether mother or father,

'sister or brother,

'parent or child.

- Run that again for me will you, Gary?

- Is this the one I copied?

- That I'm not supposed to have seen?

- Yeah.

(# Choir singing)

(Chanting)

(Explosion)

This book is my life, my reason.

But today I lay it down.

For Muslims and Christians,

words have no meaning.

Today, the dead have more to say.

Here, rewind that bit.

Zoom in and rewind it slowly.

Yeah.

Sh*t.

So if this is one of the bombers

and the police must know that,

why aren't they telling us?

Did you go back to the trauma counsellor

at the hospital?

Yeah.

He told me to write a letter

to Osama Bin Laden.

Did you?

I don't know his address.

Well, if you find out,

perhaps you would let us know?

There was a Muslim nurse

at the hospital.

Her God wasn't a bombing God.

It's not their God that bothers me.

It's the buggers that sell them semtex.

People fool themselves that

they can understand the mindset here.

At the end of the day, this is a war

between two different species.

I'm not paid to understand the mindset.

I'm paid to prevent.

You didn't prevent May Day, did you?

No.

- I've got to go.

- I'll take you back.

No... Thank you.

'He looks like you, I think.

He's got a funny head.'

(Lenny) 'Look, he's dreaming.'

(Woman) 'Hello. Hello, bubblechops.

(Buzzer rings)

(Woman) 'Mr Rabbit's getting dizzy,

isn't he? Isn't he?

'Yes, he is.'

(Lenny) 'You can see it. There it is.

Wait. Go on a bit... a bit.

- 'Go on.'

- (Boy) 'Pigeon. Catch pigeon.'

(Lenny) 'Ah, you chased it away.'

(Woman) 'Wave to Mummy.

There's a good boy.'

(Door opens)

I'm sorry. I know... I know you said

to leave you alone.

I would've died that day

if I hadn't met you.

But I need to understand

why this happened.

There's a man in the footage

of the crowds...

and I think he's one of the bombers.

All the people in those seats are listed

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Chris Cleave

Chris Cleave (born 1973) is a British writer and journalist. more…

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