EXT. LATE AFTERNOON. COASTAL PIER.Brutus is smoking a cigarette. There are empty beer cans around them, though looking at Brutus'eyes you can tell he's had the bigger share.BRUTUSSo, what's a nice guy like you seeing a shrink for?JOHANThey thought I needed a shrink BRUTUSThey? Oh right, let me guess... family.Johan shakes his headBRUTUS (CONTINUING)Girlfriend?Johan shakes his head againBRUTUSYour girlfriends family?Johan laughsJOHAN No.. no...the district nurse, then my G.P, then my counsellor, then my psychologist..then finally I had to admit they might be right.BRUTUSWhy? You look kinda normal, you don't have the crazy guy shuffle and you don'tseem to be muttering the lords prayer under your breath at post boxes and shit.JOHANI kind of am normalStands up and starts to pack his fishing gear awayBRUTUSAnd so your also kind of not..JOHANHuh?BRUTUSI mean... if you kind of are something, then you must also kind of not be the samething.Johan looks bewilderedBRUTUS (CONTINUING)Like it's default, you know... if you believe there's a heaven then you have to acceptthere must also be a fucking fucked up miserable hell...Johan starts to pack up his fishing gear.
JOHANWell yeah, I guess. But I'm supposed to keep my perspective. It's the triangle theory.It's the first thing Juno told me, to help..Brutus puts the lid on the bait boxBRUTUSTriangle theory?(laughing)Fucking triangles...trust me, there's only one cure for head injuries such asyours and it's got shit to do with triangles..JOHANReally? So what is it?BRUTUS No...no...I'll enlighten you after you enlightened me with the foreword of your life's story.JOHANThe foreword? I think we're a little further in then that, at least a third... if not morelike halfway.Picks up the empty cans and puts them into a carrier bagBRUTUSHow old are you?JOHAN27, 3 months and 24 days.BRUTUS27 huh? Well, the way I figure it.. you won't have remembered much of your life upuntil the age of say 8 or so, right? I mean that's when cognitive memory really startsfiling shit away or whatever. And how long have you been, you know, a fuck ball?JOHANI've been depressed about 6 years..1 month... 12 days..BRUTUS12 Days? Right. So you've just spent the past 6.1 years in a miserable state of oblivion right? Drugged up to the eyeballs. Therefore you've probably only used upabout 13 years of life actually living. In my opinion, that's a foreword. You've got atleast another..like 40, 50 chapters to goBrutus swings his rod holder over his shoulder and picks up the bait box.JOHANHow longs a chapter?BRUTUSWell, I guess that depends. Five years, a month.. a night if you meet the right bitch
JOHANWhat makes you think I've not got...BRUTUS Not being rude, dude, but you stink of single person syndromeJOHANSo let me get it straight, by your calculations, I should have another what?BRUTUSAnother bunch of decadent decades full to the fucking brim with cognitive,conscious, alive and kicking living to get through, that's what. So are you going totell me...JOHANTell you what?BRUTUSWhy you're seeing a shrink in the first placeJOHANIt's a good question. I've asked myself that a lot just recently. I don't know really. It just started out as a bad mood I guess.BRUTUSA bad mood? Mother fucker! What...let me guess, someone dropped a bomb on your country? Killed your friends and family? Made you work 20 hours a day making jeans for people too fat too look good in anyway? Oh no hang on, you don't look likeyou just got off the boat, and sure as fuck no ones looking after the mental health of those poor fucking immigrants.They start to walk down along the east side of the pier towards the beach, against the current of daytrippers. Brutus strides ahead, but it's crowded and difficult to converse with so many people aroundand Johan struggles to keep up.BRUTUS (CONTINUING)Some one spilt coffee on your Armani? Slept with your supermodel girlfriend?Keyed your Bee-ma?JOHAN No..no.BRUTUSSo the bad mood?JOHANI dunno..a bad day at work.. struggling to keep up at uni, my parents... girlfriends.. or rather the inability of said girlfriends to like me enough to want to spend a reasonablelength of time in the relationship before departing. It just started out with the smallstuff... Adverts..
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