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This quirky, bizarre "Chick-flick" doesn't follow the rules of conventional Romance Comedy films. Zia (Patrick Fugit) commits suicide by cutting his wrists which sends him into a twisted after-life and onto an even more twisted plot. Entering Purgatory, Zia encounters and befriends other suicidals like himself and soon discovers his girlfriend had also killed herself a month after him. So, they set off through the desert in search of his lost love to make things right.
Everything exists in this Purgatory much like in our mortal world except, of course, everyone is already dead. Once this reality sets in, the film truly becomes a Dark Comedy more than a true Romance Comedy. The very idea we can still find love after death is quite a unique notion. And certainly "Wristcutters" is a unique film.
This quirky, bizarre "Chick-flick" doesn't follow the rules of conventional Romance Comedy films. Zia (Patrick Fugit) commits suicide by cutting his wrists which sends him into a twisted after-life and onto an even more twisted plot. Entering Purgatory, Zia encounters and befriends other suicidals like himself and soon discovers his girlfriend had also killed herself a month after him. So, they set off through the desert in search of his lost love to make things right.
Everything exists in this Purgatory much like in our mortal world except, of course, everyone is already dead. Once this reality sets in, the film truly becomes a Dark Comedy more than a true Romance Comedy. The very idea we can still find love after death is quite a unique notion. And certainly "Wristcutters" is a unique film.