Girl (Morvern Callar) works dead end job in supermarket. Girl (played by Samantha Morton) comes home to find that her boyfriend has bled out all over the kitchen floor, wounds self-inflicted, note tapped out prior and beckoning to her from the computer screen.
And then things get weird.
A book has been written. There's some cash left in the bank account. And the hard truths that nobody else knows don't have to be faced, don't have to be dealt with, do they?
"Be brave", says the suicide note. "I wrote the book for you", it says. And so we follow Morvern around, as she erases her past and springboards off of death into a new life that she will create for herself in the colors of sunset and flowers left for the dead, in a haze of cigarette smoke and "e".
It is a dark and beautiful movie, and when it works it is brilliant, and when it doesn't you just want to reach through the screen and give Morvern a good shake. Not sure if it is worth seeing, but it is definitely something different from the usual tripe out there.
Rating: three of a kind.
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