Bye Bye Boredom (2024) Movie Script

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Feelings are like fireworks.
They explode and disappear as they please.
Most of the time it's dark
while I wait for the next bang.
Wait, or I make it happen myself.
MDMA is the best there is -
that's why you gotta keep it in check.
I take it max once a week.
I have a system. I put emojis into
the calendar on my phone.
MDMA/Ecstasy is a bomb.
Amphetamine is a horse.
Z is sleeping pills, benzos, and the stuff
you get from the youth psychiatrist.
I buy it in a chat group.
Nova gets it for free.
She can't say from who.
It all went down on the same day.
Timmy is going to prison,
he shot a guy with a shotgun.
At his farewell party,
I understand who Nova gets it from.
Nova says it won't matter in 10 years
what we do when we are 13, 14 or 15.
I totally get that we should stop.
But at least we follow this one rule.
We're never going to use alone.
How many babies will
I have when I grow up?
Shit, that's a lot of babies for you.
- Give me.
- Mmm.
How many babies will
I have when I grow up?
Take the horse, make sure
she doesn't eat the pills!
Come.
Timmy's going in tomorrow. We
want to hang out, it's his last night.
- Can you give us a lift?
- Who's us?
- Me, Nova and some others.
- Really?
- Do we have to walk?
- Yeah.
Where's your car?
I can go get the keys.
It's at the car mechanic's
over the weekend.
Where's Mum then?
She worked the night shift.
Looks like we won't be going
anywhere. It could be worse.
It would be easier if
I had an EPA-tractor.
I agree, but...
She won't allow it
before you're 15, right?
- Is it tough that Timmy's going in?
- I guess...
I'd have been more sad if you disappeared.
Hey, stand still.
Guess not.
Fuck this car.
Stop nibbling.
Hi Timmy!
- Hi. I fixed it.
- Cool!
- But we're staying here, right?
- Mum is pissed.
- Put it in the old stable.
- In there?
- Yeah. Hi, you good?
- Mm. You?
All good actually.
- Timmy, will you miss me a bit?
- Yes, a little.
- I miss you already...
- Yeah, sure.
- You sure the horse can stay here?
- Yeah, it's cool.
- So where are we going?
- You'll see.
What the fuck!
- What if someone lives here?
- What is this place?
You taking the lead?
I once found loads of dead
animals in a place like this.
Oh my God, I want some now.
Timmy, will you be okay
without Jackie for two months?
I will miss everyone except you.
How will you live there?
In a room like a small
construction cabin.
- How am I gonna survive that?
- Ask Ervis who's in the ebola house.
How many of you live in that flat?
Me and Dad?!
Two as far as I can count.
Where's the speaker?
- Where're we going?
- To the top floor.
Leftovers.
Take one.
- What is it?
- Tramadol.
Casper is here!
Jackie, fix this!
- Hi.
- Hello.
- Who's here?
- Me, Fred, Timmy, Nova, Ervis.
- I forgot your name.
- Jackie.
- Like Jackie O?
- The trotting horse. I know.
Jackie Onassis. You know, the US?
- What's your number?
- Cash.
Timmy, do you have cash?
Don't you fuck us.
Give us the real stuff.
Here.
Have you taken anything else today?
- You sure?
- Mm.
- What's that?
- The best.
So, what did you get?
Good... If you buy powder
it's not pure up here.
- What's that?
- Jackie, it's contagious.
Your last night of freedom.
You all have school,
you're not free either.
There's a difference between
school and a correctional facility.
- Did Casper say anything about me?
- He is an old fart, must be like 30!
That doesn't pack a punch.
Take the pink one.
You feel anything now?
It comes in waves.
Dunno.
My skin is tingling.
You're bleeding.
It sucks that life can't
always be this good.
What's up with you and Casper?
Are you fucking?
I tried to get with him,
he didn't want to.
- We have a game.
- Okay, what kind?
Tell me.
- I was named after a trotting horse.
- What?
- I'm not baptised.
- What?
Aren't you baptised?
You shall bear the name Nova
and bring light to the
darkness surrounding the stars.
We name you Nova.
Nova? Hello?
Nova?
Nova?
Ey, Nova doesn't breathe.
Wake up, she's not breathing.
Timmy, Timmy, fucking wake up.
Nova isn't breathing, she can't breathe.
There's no pulse.
What are we supposed to do?
Maybe call someone?
You feel the pulse on the neck right?!
Call 911.
Why aren't you saying anything?
We'll talk at your parents' house.
We need to get a thing at Timmy's first.
What's so important
it can't wait?
Are you thinking with your pussy?
Where've you been?
What's happened?
It's Nova.
Same as always.
It's just, she's dead.
What did you say?
How are you?
What did you take yesterday?
What's that noise?
There is no noise.
- Yes, there's a sound. I can hear it.
- Jackie, what's wrong?
Why did she die and not me?
What is this damn noise?
There is no noise.
- Jackie, what have you taken?
- Mum, let go of me.
Leave.
Slow her down.
You decide over her.
When she pulls away,
shorten the rope.
Praise her only if she obeys.
You need to do something.
Go for a walk, hold a pony
lesson for the kids, anything.
If you just do one thing
I won't go on about school.
Hi, this is Nova, don't say
anything private or something here.
I will not listen anyway.
Ok, bye!
Hi, this is Nova, don't say
anything private or something here.
I will not listen anyway.
Ok, bye!
Jackie.
Did you hear that
Aston's horses escaped.
The train drove over two of them.
- Were they insured?
- I find that hard to believe.
This village is cursed.
People die, horses are run over.
There's nothing more going
on here than elsewhere.
It just seems that way when
everyone knows each other.
- How are things in school?
- I'm not going.
I thought of something.
If we all took the same,
why are we okay?
Maybe she didn't eat properly.
Like a bad drunken trip.
I guess it might affect
girls and boys differently.
- What about me?
- You're not the same.
You're like... real.
She bragged she could pull an
all-nighter and such.
Then she should have handled more.
- Casper said something.
- What?
Do you know who has the pills?
What if someone eats them by accident?
I don't have them.
I won't even take a paracetamol
as long as I live.
I think Timmy took them.
How will you dress for the funeral?
What about the dress you got for
Christmas? It should fit you now.
- But it's pink, isn't it?
- Just a bit.
- Pink is for lame girls.
- What do you mean 'lame girls'?
Girls that don't know anything and
just wait for others to do things for them.
- You don't have to decide now.
- Where are you going?
- Helping Timmy's folks with the tractor.
- Are they home?
You're not going anywhere, you
know that. Can't they do it themselves?
They don't know the hydraulics.
- Haven't you been drinking?
- A sip or cup...
- Goodnight.
- Goodnight.
You have the horses tomorrow, Jackie.
I'm going to bed.
- Hello.
- Hi.
- Hi.
- Meow.
- Is Jenny home?
- She's in there.
- It was different before.
- Printed T-shirts are on the receipt.
- Hello!
- Oh, hello.
- Jesus, you're thin. Don't they feed you?
- Yeah, they do.
She eats like a horse.
- I have to fetch a thing in Timmy's room.
- Go right up.
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
Catch a tiger by the toe
If he hollers let him go,
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
Fuck off!
Meow, I need the crapper.
Yeah, chill out!
I'm going home now.
Maybe we can talk on the way.
Jackie? Jackie, wait.
Jackie?
Hello.
Didn't she fall asleep on the sofa?
You think she's gone?
The police?
No, I'll be home in 15 minutes.
Don't call, I'll be home soon.
What?
Don't you have big pupils.
So, what do we do now?
Yeah, well...
Put yours in my snus box.
I don't have anything.
Christ, your jaw's going.
You have any gum?
No.
- Here, chew on that.
- What the hell? I'm not a fucking horse!
"It's just a half family now that
Nova's bright light is no longer with us."
"Nova was happy and
had no thoughts of death."
"She loved having fun and always
looked for parties, adventure and highs."
"Just like other kids,
Nova thought she was immortal."
"I hope you knew we were
there for you, but my thoughts race."
"What more should we have done?
We'd do everything to have you back."
I can't like this, right?
God, what if this was my own kid.
Speed up softly.
That's good.
Good girls, do as you please.
Jackie?
What's this?
- It's not yours, right?
- No, I don't do that.
Jesus, Jackie.
Are we here again?
- Where'd you find it?
- Are you just like Nova?
I thought you were smarter than this.
Can you tell me what's going on with you?
With me? Or with you two?
Jackie!
Jackie, come back!
Casper?
You the EPA-tractor girl?
I think you like cold bubbly
like the girls in town.
Sure...
I can tell by your petite wrists.
What happened there?
I scratched myself...
- Did you do it on purpose?
- Like Nova would have done.
Did she say anything about me?
Did you hang out a lot?
What happened to her?
You said some pills were stronger.
It could have been
a blood vessel that burst.
It can happen to anybody.
Some can't handle it.
There's a weakness in them.
Like a curse, you know?
Hi.
You want ketchup?
Mmm.
Shoo! Go away!
There's something about you.
What are you going to do later?
- You'll do something else.
- Other than what?
Than run around the village
with us, a bunch of idiots.
You'll be a film star. In Los Angeles.
- What the fuck would I do over there?
- What's that?
It's just wildfires over there.
What music do you listen to?
I shift a lot...
- But not this EPA, right?
- No...
You must have a go-to song?
Big Behemoths
Magical parties
Is this yours?
No...
I want to love you, until it ends
The creator is in love with me
And I'm in love with you
I just wanna love you
Until it ends
The night is my enemy
The day is just the same
I just wanna love you
Until it ends
Did you sleep?
It mostly flickered.
I'll drive you home.
Do you have breakfast?
This way.
I didn't know anyone lived here.
When did you move here?
May 17th. Norway's National Day.
Must be, like, five months now.
I knew Felix who lived here.
I met him at a thing.
He told me this place was empty.
They were lacking a postman here.
Just chance...
I meant to stay a short while
before I move on.
Keep it on. There's something
wrong with the heating.
Here.
You almost done?
Mm.
I have to deliver the mail soon.
Hello? Are you still here?
You're out of washing powder.
I thought when I drove
past your parent's place.
Do they know where you are?
It was like that for me too.
I didn't know where to go...
I slept on sofas.
But it's good, you can be free.
You didn't scratch yourself.
What?
- It's scabies.
- How do you know?
You don't want to know.
Here, let me see.
Do a lot of people come here?
No. I don't really know anyone.
- Don't you even have parties?
- Should I?
- It has to stay on for a day.
- A full day?
Yes.
Goodnight.
Do you have something to take me down?
I have Imovane, Propavan...
This is like Terralin.
Here.
Do you have a glass of water?
Swallow with saliva.
- Shall I make the bed here?
- No, I like the sofa.
Okay.
I start here.
It's always the same route.
Here, they're happy if they
get the paper before lunch.
At home they would've
called and complained.
- In order.
- Surname?
And depending on the route.
We can do the first three.
Larsson?
Merabi.
Olander?
This guy is drowning in debt.
It won't be long before they take
his house away.
Look, he hasn't opened a letter in weeks.
- What if he's dead?
- No...
There are other things he doesn't leave.
Blow...
Snow, Molly, Chalk...
Skittles, Pixies, Snaps, Amps, Speed...
Wake-Ups, Pep Pills...
Bennies, Pastillas...
Hearts...
- What?
- Potato patties?
Yeah! It's real food.
Sure.
- You want anything?
- Cheez Doodles.
Cheez Doodles? They're Cheese Curls.
- No.
- Yes.
- What? No...
- Never heard of Cheez Doodles.
You want anything else?
- These?
- Those.
- These ones?
- You call those Cheese Bullets then?
No, Cheese Balls.
These?
Is that all?
Hi.
- Hello.
- Hi.
- How are you? Everything good?
- Yeah, fine. And you?
- We're living.
- When are you coming back to school?
- I'm dropping out.
- Are you serious?
Don't you want to
hang out with us instead?
I can't right now.
I'll see you around.
I'll be right back.
- What's up?
- Not much. There's a party tonight.
Nice. What do you want?
What do you have?
Mostly uppers.
Speed, Tina and some really strong Molly.
Thanks. How much do you want?
The first is free.
- Okay?
- Okay.
See you around.
They turned out like this.
- It hurts.
- Of course it does.
- What's the trick?
- Not minding that it hurts.
- Some girls can't do that.
- Lame girls.
I've had girls like that.
Was Nova a girl like that?
Her jewelry is here.
- Maybe she was here at a party.
- You didn't know anyone.
- No.
- What did we get from you?
- You didn't get any weird shit.
- You're lying.
- She dropped it.
- What, when you were playing?
- You're not like her.
- You don't know me.
How long have we known each other?
A day or two. Of course I can be like her.
Okay.
But you walk like a cat.
Get on your knees and be a cat.
Jackie!
- Come out!
- It's stuff like this...
- Open the door.
- Fuck, no!
- Are you keeping her locked up?
- What the fuck does she think?
I'll sort it out.
Come out now.
- How did you know I was here?
- You are done playing around.
- What did you say about us?
- Nothing.
You don't know how lucky you are.
You can see in just one second
if a parent really wants their child.
You can't be here anymore.
You have to go home.
Say, "Meow".
Meow.
You're a kitten.
The floor is lava.
Leave.
What is it?
I can't sleep.
It's Nova's funeral tomorrow.
Why didn't you tell me?
I don't know if I'm going to go.
Of course you should go.
Nova's mother wants to
speak to us afterwards.
She...
She really wants to know
how she was those last hours.
Whether she was happy, or...?
You're the only one who knows.
- This moment won't come again.
- Leave me alone!
- What are you doing?
- You don't know anything about my life.
Is that so weird?
You never say anything.
You never ask.
You just ask if I've taken anything.
Have I really made that many mistakes?
- I ask how you are, how are you feeling?
- I guess I'm fine.
- Fine?
- Yeah.
People who are fine
don't run away from home.
Why are you living with the postman?
I'm not living, I just am. I'm just there.
- And what do you do?
- He takes care of me.
He's really good. We cook, he works.
- We watch films.
- And take drugs?
Maybe I'm not the only one in our family
who takes drugs.
Listen, I...
I'd thought of talking to you
about that, but...
He'd never have done that
if he was your real dad.
I'm sorry.
Okay, maybe everything's my fault.
Leene, stop it! Cut it out, stop it!
How long is your lease?
I'll be crashing on your sofa.
Smells old in here.
This is Mange, Bobbo and Freddy.
- Hi.
- Eddie.
Yeah, Eddie.
This is Jackie.
Hello, Jackie, my name is Frodo.
I'm the world's sweetest dog.
- And I'm found.
- "Found".
- Goodbye, Jackie!
- Mange was just getting some stuff.
Bobbo, give me the lemon.
Seriously, when the
fuck are you coming home?
I'll probably be staying a while.
I get it.
Jackie, leave!
Come here, there's room.
No, she won't have any.
Go to the kitchen.
What kind of gentleman are you?
Come here. Come on.
Come here. Here, come here.
Frodo, come on. Yes, yes.
Yeah, come to Daddy.
Yes, it's fine. Come on...
- Bobbo, hand it to me.
- What?
- Hand me the syringe.
- What? No.
Give me the syringe.
Do you want some or not?
- What's up with Frodo?
- It's cool.
What have you done?
How the fuck can you do that to a dog?
What are you...? Hey, what
are you doing? Let him go.
Frodo... Come here, Frodo.
- Jackie, wait! Where are you going?
- Away from here!
- What's up?
- You're fucking crazy!
- What's that?
- You should know.
Did you take all of them that evening?
Go on, take it!
- If there wasn't anything wrong. Take it.
- I can't. I've taken stuff with Mange.
Then I'll take it.
Have you taken anything else today?
No.
Then it's okay.
I asked you whether you'd taken anything.
Did you check with Nova?
I didn't do anything to the dog.
Just so you know.
Can I be here?
Yes.