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Goran Dukic - Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)

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Sometimes we find beauty in the strangest places; and, remarkably for such a gruesome title, Wristcutters could probably be said to be a rather uplifting affirmation of life, hidden within a seriously quirky black comedy. Set in an afterlife reserved for people who commit suicide, it contains wacky nuggets of truth from oddball characters including Zia, searching for the love of his life, Mikal, an accidental visitor, Eugene, a Russian musician that electrocuted himself on stage, and the weird and wonderful Kneller, played by the ever-mysterious Tom Waits.

Zia (Patrick Fugit) slits his wrists and promptly wakes up in a world resembling this one, except that the colours are rather washed out and nobody smiles. He abandons his job at Kamikaze Pizza to search for his former love Desiree (Leslie Bibb), and soon makes close friends with Mikal (the much under-rated Shannyn Sossamon) and Eugene (Shea Whigham), who accompany him on one of the strangest road trips since Dorothy lost her innocence in The Wizard Of Oz.

What gives Wristcutters its edge, are the frequent, addictively interesting, and not immediately fathomable symbols that keep cropping up and nagging away like in any good movie that yearns for cult status - such as the black hole under the passenger seat where things just disappear. We just know that place - how many things have you lost there? Then there are people who are just far too weird to have been dreamt up on the back of a Hollywood paycheck: like the throat-singing mute, the dead-again messiah, or the policeman who still has a hole in his head.

There is a temptingly meaningful logic at work that will leave you fitting the pieces together long after the film has finished. Explaining how to perform minor miracles to the lovelorn Zia, Kneller tells him: "As long as you want it so bad, it's not going to happen - the only way it's gonna work is if it doesn't matter..." We soon start looking for clues to this crazy world and here Mikal looks like a good bet - but then so does anyone if you let your imagination run wild enough.

The religious orthodoxy behind the ultimate ideas of Wristcutters is a weakness, but it is put subtly and light-heartedly so will be inoffensive to most viewers.

If the stars in your sky have gone out for a while, maybe treat yourself to this zany and very well-produced story to set them on fire again. Wristcutters: A Love Story is at once touching, hilarious, thought-provoking and a hugely enjoyable ride.

eyeforfilm.co.uk

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The suicidal limbo of Wristcutters feels a lot like a Jim Jarmusch movie: nobody smiles, everything looks second-hand and you never know when Tom Waits is going to show up. Zia passes the time in this colourless world by guessing how his fellow sufferers have topped themselves, until the news that his ex has also killed herself gives him a perverse ray of hope. He immediately sets out to find her, with the help of a sex-crazed Russian punk rocker (Shea Whigham) and a grumpy hitch-hiker (Shanyn Sossamon) who claims to be looking for "the people in charge".

"A SANDSTORM OF QUIRKINESS"

Essentially a slacker road movie set in the land of the dead, Wristcutters is a film bursting with ideas that never quite come to fruition.

Dukic's vision of an afterlife where "everything is the same, only a little bit worse" is a wonderful concept, but one that is all too quickly buried beneath a sandstorm of quirkiness. Suicide itself is treated lightly, perhaps too lightly: most of the characters get their own humorous death-flashback, and everyone is essentially a hopeless romantic. There's none of the barbed contempt that distinguishes the best killing-yourself comedies - Heathers, for instance - but the film does have an attractively melancholic tone and a very sweet ending.

bbc.co.uk
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"Wristcutters" is simultaneously dark and sweet, always a difficult combination to pull off. It views its characters with both archness and affection, and even as it lovingly recalls films of another era it insists that the painful awkwardness of youth is perennial. It's a mannered movie whose vision is stark and whose emotions feel completely authentic, and for me at least that's irresistible. When two lovers in the film finally spend a tender night together, curled up on the beach (it's implied, although not definitively stated, that sex is not possible), they wake up at dawn to discover they've been sleeping on an expanse of used condoms and syringes. In the land of suicide you take love however you find it.

salon.com
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With its simple and richly ironic premise Wristcutters: A Love Story is a surprisingly fresh take on suicide. Rather than being doomed to eternal damnation these people are stuck living a remarkably similar life to their previous one, only now no one can smile, making life just a bit more difficult to wade through. But since everyone has already seen the ineffective results of suicide, they are practically forced to relive a life that previously made them miserable, in effect granting them a transcendental do over to fix their troubled and disappointing lives. And while at first glance your outlook on such a fate may be as dour as many of the characters are, this is not a world without hope. Families are reunited, love is found, and bona fide miracles are so common they are flippantly dismissed. The surface may appear bleak, but there is surprising depth and humanity lurking below the surface.

Wristcutters: A Love Story also boasts impressive satirical bite that makes for some outstanding and often times hilarious moments throughout the film, including a Black Hole gag that gets funnier every time you witness it, kinda like The Exorcist. Along with its wry humor Wristcutters: A Love Story boasts two of the greatest celestial characters of all-time. Messiah (Will Arnett channeling G.O.B. to the glee of Arrested Development fans everywhere), a magician equal parts inept and self-absorbed, who has built a cult following his efforts to reverse his suicide and return to his former life. And the enigmatic Kneller (Tom Waits) who leads the group that opposes Messiah as their de facto Patron Saint of cool. If the Almighty is prescient enough to employ one as hip as Kneller, limbo might not be so bad after all.
cinemafusion.com
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