second draft of my short film script

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EXT. FIELD - DAY
shot from above. A boy in glasses, in a shirt with short
sleeves tucked up in pants lies down on wheat in a field.
Suddenly he inhales and sits. Boy looks shocked above the
camera.
low POV of the boy. A blonde girl with bangs wearing a
vintage style blue dress looks at camera and gently smiles.
sky in the background.
GIRL
(friendly)
1 Are you new here?
BOY
(lost, worried)
2 Did I die?
GIRL
(Ironically)
3 Yeah you're definitely new. Come on
gives a hand to the boy to help him stand up. Boy gets up and
cleans his shirt from grass/dust
BOY
4 What's your name?
GIRL
(Ironically)
5 What's yours?
BOY
(Tries to remember)
6 I don't (pauses) know.
GIRL
7 Exactly. Nobody does.
long shot of a field. actors walk out of the frame in a

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distance.
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EXT. LAKE - DAY
boy looks on his reflection in the water
BOY
8 I'm young again.
GIRL
9 Earth is a brutal place and your body
reflects the weight of life. Age,
illness, wrinkles and a beer belly…
when you leave Earth your soul comes
back to the, I would call it prime
age. But not for a long time either.
boy looks at girl and then turns away to look at water very
thoughtfully.
BOY
10 I lost my sparkle long before I was
this old. I used to drik a lot. Bottle
after bottle after bottle...
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INT. BAR - NIGHT (FLASHBACK)
camera tracks a middleaged men from behind the table. the men
is putting down a bottle of beer. camera pans from right to
left. another full bottle of beer appears in the frame. the
men takes it and drinks it all, puts it down. Camera continue
to pan until it stops on the men sleeping with head on the
table surrounded by empty bottles.
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EXT. LAKE - DAY
boy looks at water
BOY
11 I'm just thinking how all of our lives
we are thaught to forgive other
people, but we're never taught to
forgive ourselves
girl looks at the boy thoughtfully
GIRL
12 What else do you remember?
boy looks at the girl trying to remember and turns away to
look in front of him.

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BOY
13 I remember Susanne.
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DAY (FLASHBACK)
edit of hand-held shots of Susanne in different locations
(field, forest, sea, room) laughing, going somewhere, lokking
in the camera…
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EXT. LAKE - DAY
BOY
(smiles/laughs a little)
14 It's funny, she looked very much like
you.
GIRL
(laughs)
15 Really?
BOY
16 Yeah. She must be still alive. She was
at my funeral.
boy looks in the distance
BOY
(with freezed stare)
17 And there was a (scene cuts)
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(FLASHBACK)
Edit of hostorical footage from different wars from WW1 to
Ukraine.
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EXT. STREET - DAY
boy and girl walking down the street
BOY
18 I can't believe all those people are
dead. Every each has someone who
misses them, puts their clothing in
boxes, walks into their room where the
smell is still the same. Now when

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we're all here I wonder what people
think about the meaning of life.
GIRL
19 Even if you'd ask, they wouldn't
answer.
BOY
20 What do you mean?
GIRL
21 This place is just a station between
life and death. It takes some time to
clean from the Earth form brfore
coming back to your ultimate one.
Slowy you dive into divine oblivion,
step by step forgetting all the
sorrows of the Earth life… and how to
talk, walk, think. And then… well I
guess it can't be described.
BOY
22 Wait, does that mean I will forget my
life?
girl looks at boy affirmingly
BOY
(stressed, angry)
23 No no no, i am not allowed to forget
all of those moments, all those years
I was trying so hard to remember. I
can't forget Susanne…
boy looks in the camera very serioulsly
24 I will write everything down.
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INT. ROOM - DAY
fast pace edit of boy writi ng down memoirs. Finally he
collects papers.
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EXT. PARK - DAY
girl lies down on the grass with closed eyes. Boy is
rearranging papers in his hands coming towards the girl.

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BOY
(while approaching, looking on papers)
25 I brought you something to read.
Girl doesn't react
BOY
(knwong the answer)
26 You're going there isn't it?
girl opens eyes slightly and smiles
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INT. ROOM - DAY
boy comes back to the room low-spirited. Sits in front of
table and tries to continue writing. Boy takes a pen to write
but sits without moving. After a moment of siting like that
he sighs, puts the pen down and walks out of table. Birds eye
shot of a bed. Boy lies down and looks up.
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EXT. LAKE - DAY (FLASHBACK)
boy looks in water and touches the water.
BOY
27 You know, all my life I was looking
for home. In drugs, in people, in
places. I think only now i have found
it
shot of hands and their reflection in water
BOY
28 Here
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INT. ROOM - DAY
Boy still lies down looking above. He closes eyes