FADE:
Do yourealise thatyourentire life isbeingcontrolledbyanimaginaryconcepteatingawayat your
hours…?
If youhaven’trealisedityetyoubettersoon,forotherwise…
Itll be too late
Clocks
FADE: showsa branch witha figure walkingpast,personbenddownonone knee topickup a
mixture of brokenwatches,he throwsthe watchesawaysteppingbackontoapiece of paper.
Pickingupthe piece of paperhe thenruns to pickback up the watch to putin hispocket.Hisfaced
concerned.
The character reads the letterashe iswalkingawayfromthe area andonto a walkway:
The sun risesinthe eastand setsin the west.Butin betweenthe 9hoursor so that the sun isup,is
whenwe live.Whenthere isasunin the skyour brainsare thinking,working,processingvast
amountsof information,obviouslythere are still thoserebelliouspeople whowill stayuptosome
whatf 1am to getthe rough essaycompleted.Butthe majorityof uswill thinkduringthe day,we
thinkaboutthe simplestthings,we thinkaboutthe thingswe wanttodo.The thingswe needto do,
the thingsthat we wishwe coulddo,the thingswe diddo, or the thingsthat we are doing.Even
whenimsayingthese wordsmybrainissendingmillionsof electronicsignalstomyhands,to my
legsto everysingle partof mybodywhichisallowingme todo the thingsthatim doing.Itsbrilliant.
Andthe bestpart aboutit,is that itsall done inlessthenseconds.Itsthisrushof energycoursing
throughyour cells,makingyousayanddo things.Lessthenseconds.Thiswouldtell alotaboutthe
time itwouldtake to do otherthings,well,whateveritis,ittakestime.Whateveryourtaskisitwill
take time.Time controlseverythingwe do,it’s ahuge unstoppable force pushingusforwardinour
patheticlivesthatitdrivesforus.We cant relive thatmemory,youcannevergoback to that time
whenyoustill hadsomeone,orsomething.If you’ve lostit,youhave lostit,time inthe endwill take
everythingawayfromyou,itwill take the small thingsthatyouwontnotice.Like astale relationship
or a personthatyouhave lost interestedin,we’ve all done it.Havingtime asthiscounterbalance to
howbad our life isandhowobsessive we are forsmall thingsthatwe take forgranted.Its like a
relationship,if youwantitto be longlasting,if youwantit to be special.Itwill take time.If youre
lonelyandyouthinkthere isnootherway youcan escape it,time will give youanoption.Iguess
time hasits goodsidesanditsbads. Like whatare we doingat nightwhenthe sunrestsand the
temperatureslower?Dreaming.Itswhatour brainsdowhenthere istime tokill.Dreaming.Itssuch
a weirdconceptbutit passesthe time Iguess.If you add all the time upthat youre dreaming,
imagine howmuchextratime youwill have?Youwill have more time tospendonyour
relationships,more time tospendtreasuringvaluedtime withpeople.Butyourbraindecidesthatit
wantsto waste yourtime by dreaming.That’swhyItry to stay awake foras longas possible.Idon’t
like dreaming,dreamingof the timesof whatcouldbe happeningbutneverhappens.Ispendmy
time upat 5am thinkingaboutwhytime consumesusinsuchaway thatit allowsusto,there is no
cheatsto it.There is justone rule for time,justkeepingmovingforward.Youmaysay that me
stayingupall nightthinkingabouttime isironically,awaste of time,butI have nothingelse todo.
Time has takeneverythingthatIhad away from me.It has destroyedmylife.Ihate it.Ihate every
secondthat tickson.I can feel itmockingme asI take stepsintothe depthsof hell thatI call a life.
AnythingthatI will dotogo back in time andtake back the thingsthat I had,the memoriesthatare
inside mypatheticheadare real.Theyhappened.Icantpretendthattheydidn’t.there wasatime
whenmylife washappyandwhenI didn’tcare about the time I had,I took all of it forgranted.But I
guessthishas made me realise that,youshouldnottake time forgranted,if youare inthe car with
your motherdrivingyouhome fromapointlessparty.Talktoher,converse.Because there willbe a
time where somethinglikethatcannothappen.Talkto yourfriends,roll inthe precioustime that
youhave together,treasure itforthingswill change,the inevitabilityof thingschangingisindeed
inevitable.Youcanthrowthat time awayif you wantedto,youcan embrace itand tell youtonever
letgo. Butin the end,itsall goingto disappearfrom yoursoftgrasp. For time hasno mercy.You
alwayshave a setnumberof days leftinyourlife.Youcant tell forsure,onlytime canknow.It may
be 5 days or 30,000. Youjust have to take ineverysingle momentthatyouhave withsomeone or
somethingandjustpreythattime doesnottake thisawaytoo swiftly.
The Character thenthrowsthe letterawaythencarrieson walkingdownthe path.He stopsto sit on
a benchto sit down,he thendropsthe watch he got out fromhispocketand standsup
The Character: I’mDone
He thenwalksawayfromthe camera
FADE

Clocks script

  • 1.
    FADE: Do yourealise thatyourentirelife isbeingcontrolledbyanimaginaryconcepteatingawayat your hours…? If youhaven’trealisedityetyoubettersoon,forotherwise… Itll be too late Clocks FADE: showsa branch witha figure walkingpast,personbenddownonone knee topickup a mixture of brokenwatches,he throwsthe watchesawaysteppingbackontoapiece of paper. Pickingupthe piece of paperhe thenruns to pickback up the watch to putin hispocket.Hisfaced concerned. The character reads the letterashe iswalkingawayfromthe area andonto a walkway: The sun risesinthe eastand setsin the west.Butin betweenthe 9hoursor so that the sun isup,is whenwe live.Whenthere isasunin the skyour brainsare thinking,working,processingvast amountsof information,obviouslythere are still thoserebelliouspeople whowill stayuptosome whatf 1am to getthe rough essaycompleted.Butthe majorityof uswill thinkduringthe day,we thinkaboutthe simplestthings,we thinkaboutthe thingswe wanttodo.The thingswe needto do, the thingsthat we wishwe coulddo,the thingswe diddo, or the thingsthat we are doing.Even whenimsayingthese wordsmybrainissendingmillionsof electronicsignalstomyhands,to my legsto everysingle partof mybodywhichisallowingme todo the thingsthatim doing.Itsbrilliant. Andthe bestpart aboutit,is that itsall done inlessthenseconds.Itsthisrushof energycoursing throughyour cells,makingyousayanddo things.Lessthenseconds.Thiswouldtell alotaboutthe time itwouldtake to do otherthings,well,whateveritis,ittakestime.Whateveryourtaskisitwill take time.Time controlseverythingwe do,it’s ahuge unstoppable force pushingusforwardinour patheticlivesthatitdrivesforus.We cant relive thatmemory,youcannevergoback to that time whenyoustill hadsomeone,orsomething.If you’ve lostit,youhave lostit,time inthe endwill take everythingawayfromyou,itwill take the small thingsthatyouwontnotice.Like astale relationship or a personthatyouhave lost interestedin,we’ve all done it.Havingtime asthiscounterbalance to howbad our life isandhowobsessive we are forsmall thingsthatwe take forgranted.Its like a relationship,if youwantitto be longlasting,if youwantit to be special.Itwill take time.If youre lonelyandyouthinkthere isnootherway youcan escape it,time will give youanoption.Iguess time hasits goodsidesanditsbads. Like whatare we doingat nightwhenthe sunrestsand the temperatureslower?Dreaming.Itswhatour brainsdowhenthere istime tokill.Dreaming.Itssuch a weirdconceptbutit passesthe time Iguess.If you add all the time upthat youre dreaming, imagine howmuchextratime youwill have?Youwill have more time tospendonyour relationships,more time tospendtreasuringvaluedtime withpeople.Butyourbraindecidesthatit wantsto waste yourtime by dreaming.That’swhyItry to stay awake foras longas possible.Idon’t like dreaming,dreamingof the timesof whatcouldbe happeningbutneverhappens.Ispendmy time upat 5am thinkingaboutwhytime consumesusinsuchaway thatit allowsusto,there is no cheatsto it.There is justone rule for time,justkeepingmovingforward.Youmaysay that me stayingupall nightthinkingabouttime isironically,awaste of time,butI have nothingelse todo. Time has takeneverythingthatIhad away from me.It has destroyedmylife.Ihate it.Ihate every secondthat tickson.I can feel itmockingme asI take stepsintothe depthsof hell thatI call a life. AnythingthatI will dotogo back in time andtake back the thingsthat I had,the memoriesthatare inside mypatheticheadare real.Theyhappened.Icantpretendthattheydidn’t.there wasatime
  • 2.
    whenmylife washappyandwhenI didn’tcareabout the time I had,I took all of it forgranted.But I guessthishas made me realise that,youshouldnottake time forgranted,if youare inthe car with your motherdrivingyouhome fromapointlessparty.Talktoher,converse.Because there willbe a time where somethinglikethatcannothappen.Talkto yourfriends,roll inthe precioustime that youhave together,treasure itforthingswill change,the inevitabilityof thingschangingisindeed inevitable.Youcanthrowthat time awayif you wantedto,youcan embrace itand tell youtonever letgo. Butin the end,itsall goingto disappearfrom yoursoftgrasp. For time hasno mercy.You alwayshave a setnumberof days leftinyourlife.Youcant tell forsure,onlytime canknow.It may be 5 days or 30,000. Youjust have to take ineverysingle momentthatyouhave withsomeone or somethingandjustpreythattime doesnottake thisawaytoo swiftly. The Character thenthrowsthe letterawaythencarrieson walkingdownthe path.He stopsto sit on a benchto sit down,he thendropsthe watch he got out fromhispocketand standsup The Character: I’mDone He thenwalksawayfromthe camera FADE