Is Anybody There?

#anybodythere

A resident in the senior group home says, "If I was like her I'd shut my head in a gas oven." (0:02)

Young Edward finds magician Clarence unconscious in his truck with exhaust piped in through a garden hose. (0:16)

Clarence tells Edward, "If I want to top[?] myself, I can jump out the window.' (0:22)

Clarence opens a brochure entitled "Coping with Bereavement." (0:23)

Edward takes Clarence to a cemetery. (0:27)

Clarence tries to summon his deceased wife by repeating her name in front of a mirror. (0:31)

Wake. (0:45)

Edward's father Steve tells Edward, referring to Clarence, "He's going senile."
Edward: "I know what senile is." (1:09)

Edward takes Clarence to the grave of Clarence's ex-wife Annie. (1:15)

In the car at night Clarence talks to Edward's mother as though she were Annie. (1:20)

Edward touches Clarence's body then listens to an audio recording of the two of them he had made earlier. (1:23)

Bereavement | disorientation | senile dementia | suicide

Bill Milner, Anne-Marie Duff, Michael Caine 2008