The trailer
starts with an establishing shot of the house. Then it cuts to a medium shot of
David taking a drink from the fridge. When he closes it, we see the fridge door
with magnets all jumbled up. There is then a tracking shot of him picking up
his props from the table before starting to leave the house in a shirt and tie
with a briefcase and coffee flask. When he gets to the door, he then looks over
his shoulder and shouts “See you later Love”, before it fades out to long shot
as he walks away. This fades in to a classroom where he’s teaching a science
class.
He is stood teaching biology to a sixth form class with a diagram of a
cell on a whiteboard behind him. He begins to talk about how bad cells can lead
to complications – “When a cell’s chromosomes do this…..complications can
arise”. He appears distant before a student asks if he’s okay. Then the
student’s voice fades out and everything becomes muffled. As a clock begins to
tick, getting louder and louder, the teacher’s face appears panicked and upset,
before returning to normal where he asks, “Where was I?” The scene then cuts.
We then see him sat on the edge of the bed crying. Once again, the clock
reads 11:57 and on the bedside table is a vase full of flowers.
The next scene, we see him in the school once again. This time he catches
a glimpse of something in the corner of his eye. He looks out the window to see
his neighbour leaving the school grounds, this peculiar because the neighbour
has no children of his own. Shortly after, he is called into the headmaster’s
office where she tells him she thinks its best he takes some time off after
everything that’s happened.
The next scene
shows him at the door talking to the neighbour. He appears a lot more
dishevelled (messy appearance and clothing) with a shirt sporting a stain and
pyjama bottoms. The neighbour says, “Look David, a lot of us are worried about
you. We know about the job and the” David then interrupts him with “I’m coming
love”, talking to someone in the house before saying to his neighbour “I don’t
know what weird, sick game you are playing but leave me and Lisa out of it”. He
slams the door. He looks down after shutting the door to find his letters have
been opened. He looks confused but suspects the neighbour.
In the next scene, we see him washing his face in the mirror and he hears
a man's voice saying, “You've got to move on, there's nothing you can do”. The
next scene shows him in the living room flicking through channel after channel.
It fades out and shows him doing it over a few days before music from a piano
seems to wake him up from the trance – clubbed to death piano solo. He walks
into another room only for the music to stop. The silence is then pierced by an
alarm clock with the number 11:57 visible. Behind David we see his neighbour
spying through the window out of sight of David.
Next we hear half of a conversation, “So what do you fancy doing today,
Honey? Just staying here? Sure if that's what you want” He then begins to hear
ticking again as it approaches the same time as in the school. He looks over to
the fridge to see the magnets arranged into words with a time underneath -
“It's your fault 11:57”. He panics and becomes frozen to the spot when the
sound of trash cans falling over snaps him out of it. He runs outside to see
what it is just in time to see his neighbour try and run away. He catches him
and asks what he's doing, when the neighbour replies, “Don't worry, you'll be
looked after”.
The next scene
shows him in the house. As he looks around, rooms begin to fade away until it
is just Lisa's room. To check he goes in to find it torn up and messy as if
there was a struggle. He runs outside just in time to see a car pull off.
The film begins to pick up pace showing various scenes of David breaking
down. These scenes are completely silent and in slow motion with the exception
of the song playing over the scene as he breaks down in the corner, smashing plates,
rips posters from the wall etc. We then see him in a room where the walls are
covered in photos. The music begins to slow down as the scene slowly fades out
and the stops completely. He wakes up in an unknown room where a nurse walks in
saying the doctor will see you now. In the final scenes there is a black
screen. We hear footsteps before it cut back in and his neighbour walks in and
smiles maliciously.
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