
Shallow Grave
- R
- Year:
- 1994
- 89 min
- 380 Views
INT. DAY
A blurred image forms on a white screen. A horizontal strip of
face, eyes motionless and unblinking.
DAVID:
(voice-over)
Take trust, for instance, or friendship: these are the important
things in life, the things that matter, that help you on your
way. If you can't trust your friends, well, what then?
EXT. DAWN
A series of fast-cut static scenes of empty streets.
DAVID:
(voice-over)
This could have been any city: they're all the same.
A rapid, swerving track along deserted streets and down narrow
lanes and passageways. Accompanied by soundtrack and credits.
The track ends outside a solid, fashionable Edinburgh tenement.
INT. STAIRWELL. DAY
At the door of a flat on the third floor of the tenement. The
door is dark, heavy wood and on it is a plastic card embossed
with the names of three tenants. They are Alex Law, David
Stevens, and Juliet Miller.
A man climbs the stairs and reaches the door. He is Cameron
Clarke, thin and in his late twenties with a blue anorak and
lank, greasy hair. He is carrying an awkwardly bulky plastic bag.
Cameron gives the doorbell an ineffectual ring and then stands
back, shifting nervously from foot to foot until the door is
answered.
CAMERON:
Hello, I've come about the room.
Cameron enters and the door closes.
INT. LIVING ROOM. DAY
David, Alex, and Juliet sit in a line on the sofa directly
opposite Cameron, who shifts uneasily in his armchair. Alex
checks some items on a clipboard before speaking.
ALEX:
What's his name?
DAVID:
I don't know -- Campbell or something?
JULIET:
Cameron.
ALEX:
Cameron?
JULIET:
Yes.
ALEX:
(to Juliet)
Really?
CAMERON:
That's right.
ALEX:
(to Cameron)
What?
Cameron is not sure what to say.
ALEX:
(continued)
Well, Cameron, are you comfortable?
CAMERON:
Yes, thanks.
ALEX:
Good. Well, you've seen the flat?
CAMERON:
Yes.
ALEX:
And you like it?
CAMERON:
Oh, yes, it's great.
ALEX:
Yes. It is, isn't it? We alllike it. And the room's nice too,
don't you think?
CAMERON:
Yes.
ALEX:
Spacious, quiet, bright, well appointed, all that sort of stuff,
all that crap.
CAMERON:
Well, yes.
ALEX:
So tell me, Cameron, what on earth -- just tell me, because I
want to know -- what on earth could make you think that we would
want to share a flat like this with someone like you?
INT. STAIRWELL. DAY
As Cameron plods slowly down the stairs, his shoes striking out
against the stone steps, Alex's criticisms continue.
ALEX:
(voice-over)
I mean, my first impression, and they're rarely wrong, is that
you have none of the qualities that we would normally seek in a
prospective flatmate. I'm talking here about things like
presence, charisma, style and charm, and I don't think we're
being unreasonable. Take David here, for instance: a chartered
accountant he may be, but at least he tries hard. The point is, I
don't think you're even trying.
Cameron has reached the bottom of the stairs. He opens the main
door.
ALEX:
(continued)
And, Cameron -- I mean this -- good luck!
Cameron leaves and the main door closes behind him.
ALEX:
(continued)
Do you think he was upset?
INT. STAIRWELL. DAY
Inside the hall of the flat, David approaches the door toopen it.
Freeze-frame.
ALEX:
(voice-over)
David likes to keep spareshoelaces in sorted pairs in a box
marked, not just shoelaces', but spare shoelaces'.
David opens the door to the Woman.
WOMAN:
I've come to see about the room.
INT. STAIRWELL. DAY
Outside the door of the flat a young Goth girl, aged about
twenty, rings the doorbell.
INT. HALL. DAY
Inside the hall of the flat Alex approaches the door to open it.
Freeze-frame.
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