Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) on Netflix
After taking his own life, Zia wakes in an afterlife for suicides and learns his ex-girlfriend Desiree is there too. He and Eugene drive off to find her.
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Plot summary
Zia takes his own life after Desiree ends their relationship, and wakes in an afterlife reserved for people who died by suicide, where the color is dim and no one can smile. He works at a pizzeria called Kamikaze and spends his time in bars with Eugene, a Russian guitarist who was electrocuted at a concert. When a former friend tells Zia that Desiree killed herself shortly after he did, the two men set off in Eugene's car to find her. The car has a black hole under the passenger seat and headlights no mechanic can repair. On the road they pick up Mikal, a hitchhiker who insists she arrived by mistake and wants to speak with the people in charge.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and Christian Death's "Deathwish" play in the first bar scene, both bands fronted by singers who died by suicide, and an arrangement of "Gloomy Sunday" comes later; all are songs about or associated with suicide.
- The film was originally to be shot on super-16 color infrared film produced specially by Kodak, whose color shifts were thought to enhance the parallel world feel, but that proved too time-consuming and normal filmstock manipulated in post-processing was used instead.
- The character Eugene is partly based on Eugene Hütz, the lead singer of Gogol Bordello, whose music is used throughout the film.
- Tom Waits, who plays Kneller in the film, also appears on the soundtrack with the song "Dead and Lovely", from his 2004 album Real Gone, over the opening credits.
- The film is based on Etgar Keret's short story "Kneller's Happy Campers", which also appeared as a graphic novel titled Pizzeria Kamikaze.
