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DISGORGE, MEXICO
Read the Script for the David Hall
Film Based On the Fuck the Facts Album..
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I
just finished watching Disgorge, Mexico, the film directed by
David Hall (director of Today is the Day’s Axis of Eden) and
based on Fuck the Facts’ album of the same name. What else can I
say besides simply tagging lines like ‘riveting’,
‘unforgettable’, ‘despicable’ and ‘disturbing’. It’s also one
of those films marred with epileptic edition, loud colors and a
blurry storyline that I would never try to interpret. I won’t
even attempt to play Roger Ebert here, but let’s say that if you
are into the bizarre, the surreal and the grotesque, but somehow
can swallow this along high production values, then this might
be the film for you. The soundtrack is obviously by Fuck the
Facts, the great Canadian grind band. That’s one more reason to
check it out and the DVD release is slated for December ’09.
There will also be a digital download.
Disgorge,
Mexico is produced by Handshake, Inc., David Hall’s company.
Hall describes Disgorge, Mexico as ‘a substance abuse art
house riff on the destructive and volatile nature of love’.
Below is the
script for the film…
"DISGORGE,
MEXICO"
Written by
David Hall, based on the album Disgorge Mexico, by Fuck
the Facts.
DARKNESS
We hear a
montage of random sounds: someone talking, a fork tickling a
plate, the chewing of food, footsteps, a heartbeat.
INT. JESS AND
HOLLY'S APARTMENT, BEDROOM - MORNING
HOLLY, a young
woman with vibrant-pink hair, opens her eyes suddenly. She
blinks. Stares in confusion at the WOMAN sleeping one pillow
over.
This is JESS.
A tall woman in her twenties with long, blond hair. Jess
fidgets slightly in her sleep; her mouth wrestling with the
beginning of a sentence.
JESS (mumbling,
through sleep) Disgorge...Mexico.
Jess says the
words with utmost disgust, and after a violent jerk that rocks
her whole body, she opens her eyes.
She sees Holly
staring at her. She opens her mouth and SCREAMS but we don't
hear it...
"NO RETURN"
..the opening,
filtered guitar of 'NO RETURN' begins.
And as the song
kicks into full gear, Jess hops out of bed.
With great
urgency, Jess opens the blinds in the room, digs a duffle bag
out of her closet, then begins filling it with clothes and
toiletries - the whole time Holly watches, completely confused.
She tries
talking to Jess, but is ignored.
Holly becomes
increasingly angry and irritated by the silent treatment, but
it's of little or no concern to Jess.
Finished
packing, Jess changes from her pyjamas into some casual clothes,
throws a coat on, grabs her duffle bag and leaves the room.
Start "ABSENCE
AND DESPITE" as EXT. DOWNTOWN, OUTSIDE JESS AND HOLLY'S BUILDING
- MOMENTS LATER
It's early
afternoon and the street is busy with pedestrian traffic, people
coming and going, and the regular buzz and drone of everyday
city life.
Jess merges and
quickly makes her way past and around people until she comes to
an intersection, looks left and right, then finally decides left
is the right way to go as...
BACK AT THEIR
BUILDING
HOLLY explodes
out of the lobby and out onto the street.
Wearing an
impromptu outfit under her parka, Holly quickly steals glances
from the immediate surroundings. We catch a quick glimpse of
Jess just as she disappears around the corner.
We move quickly
to catch up.
EXT. DOWNTOWN
STREET - MOMENTS LATER
We/Jess round
the corner and see Jess reeling down the street...she suddenly
stops, drops her duffle bag, then drops to her knees.
Holly sprints
to Jess' side - we don't hear what she says, but it's obvious
she really concerned.
Jess looks up
at Holy with tears in her eyes. It seems like maybe Jess might
just break down and relent a little bit - but that only lasts a
second.
Shaking off her
brief moment of weakness, Jess bounds to her feet, grabs her bag
and approaches the curb.
Jess stares
down the street and waves her arm - the cab she's trying to flag
slows down then stops in front of Jess.
She gets in the
cab.
The cab drives
off.
Holly stares in
disbelief at Jess's cab. It gets about a block and a half
before it comes to an abrupt stop.
We/Holly slowly
walk up the street towards the stopped cab.
Jess spills out
of the back of the cab, flings her hair to the side and vomits
violently.
The cab drives
off quickly.
Again, we/Holly
rush to Jess' aid.
Wiping the spit
and vomit off of her chin, Jess laughs it off, and stands.
This time, when
she starts to walk off, Holly grabs Jess by the shoulders, looks
her straight in the eye and says
HOLLY
Look. Wherever
it is you're going I don't care. I'm coming too.
INT. BACKSEAT
OF A CAB - MOMENTS LATER
Jess and Holly
ride silently in the back of this cab.
They're out in
the country now. A vast, flat landscape with the odd barn or
derelict house.
Holly
occasionally glances at Jess, but getting no response or
acknowledgment, returns to the window.
They drive. On
and on.
EXT. A BEACH,
PARKING AREA - DAY
It's a grey and
windy day. The beach looks like the surface of the moon: hard,
rigid sand, massive chunks of ice and snowbanks and brown-grey
sky.
Jess and
Holly's cab comes to a stop in the beach parking area and the
two girls get out.
Holly flips her
parka's hood up over her head and puts on a pair of gloves.
Jess, on the
other hand, takes her jacket off. She hands it to Holly, then
leads her up the beach a little bit.
EXT. A BEACH -
SAME
Jess comes to a
stop at a small patch of exposed sand, half-way up the beach.
Holly shoves
the jacket at Jess, urging her to put it on but Jess refuses.
JESS
You have to
stand right here. And you were holding my coat.
SUDDEN FLASH
FORWARD:
EXT. BEACH - DAY
We're far away
from Holly now and see her standing in the spot Jess instructed
her to, holding Jess's coat. Wavy lines of heat and energy
filter up from the ground.
END FLASH
FORWARD
EXT. BEACH - DAY
Jess walks
towards the shore as Holly watches. Jess looks blue from the
cold but doesn't seem to mind or notice.
Reaching the
water, Jess surveys the horizon for a moment, then turns around
and stares at us/Holly.
POV - JESS
From Jess'
viewpoint, we can see Holly, small and innocent, standing near
the start of the beach.
END POV as Jess
raises her left hand, and waves sheepishly at Holly. Holly
smiles weakly, and returns the wave.
Jess nods her
head slowly and
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
A blinding beam
of turbulent white energy shoots down out of the sky and engulfs
Jess.
Jess struggles
and screams inside the apparition. She is panicking.
Holly drops
Jess' coat and runs towards the beam of light. Tears are
streaming down her face as she races to save the love of her
life...
JESS POV
Chaotic and
bright flashes of energy bloom and pulse...from inside the beam,
the world looks extremely distorted.
But we can
still see Holly approaching us - afraid and determined.
END POV
Holly fights
the winds on the beach and moves rapidly towards Jess, but it
seems Jess might be losing the battle...
Jess'
struggling slowly loses intensity, and eventually, fatigued,
Jess merely falls to the ground.
The beam
increases in brightness rapidly as Jess hits the dirt.
FWHOOOOOOSH
Our eyes can no
longer take the intensity of the beam - nothing but pure white
light fills our vision for a few moments, before subsiding away
to nothing.
And Jess is
gone.
Reeling,
spinning in circles, desperate to catch any sight of Jess, Holly
now drops to her knees and starts to cry.
Where the hell
is Jess?
....
If you didn’t
get a clear idea of what the film is about, here is a summary…
A woman wakes
up and something is not right. Her lover is beside her but she
has changed somehow. The woman quickly packs some things but
quickly leaves her home. Giving herself to the streets with
reckless abandon. She hitches a ride and sinks into a come of
rotten nostalgia and bad memories. Sometime later she finds
herself on a cold and barren beach. Somehow her lover has
tracked her down and begs the woman to return home. The woman
knows there is a conspiracy at play. She runs. She drops her
coat and charges to the shore. Contemplates the icy water as a
surge of light and energy gathers in the sky above. Electricity
sizzles and scorches the sand as the woman , engulfed by the
sinister energy, disappears. She awakens three days later with
bloody hands in a strange and ruined town populated by a cult of
blind lesbians.
Check the trailer
here…
Hall has a couple of interesting projects in the works; one is a
feature film with Jucifer and also a documentary about Maryland
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