Girl (2020) - full transcript

I'm so hungry, Mommy.

Well then you
should've brought some food.

You don't have anything?

Stop, unless you
want a slap.

Stop fucking complaining.

It's me.

Hi, baby, where are you?

When are you coming home?

I'm runnin' out of
eggs and Advil.

My back's
got me flopped.

I'll be back before
the food runs out.



Don't worry, Mama.

You in the woods?

What ya huntin'?

Did you find the letter, Mama?

Can you read it to me?

I ain't readin' it.

I told you what it said.

Can you read me the letter,
please?

The lawyer I sent

is harassing your daddy
for back payments.

Your daddy don't like it,

so the broke cheapskate's
gonna come and kill me.

He didn't say
nothin' about me?

No.



Oh well, I need
the return address.

You don't need that.

Yes, I do.

Why you need it?

I'll make it so you can
sleep again at night.

Yeah, how you gonna do that?

I'm gonna
make things right.

What are you talkin' about?

You don't know who
you're dealing with.

You ain't known him
since you were six.

You want to know him?

Take a look at
my broken back.

You stay away from Colton.

There's nothing good there.

I love you, Mama.

Man, I'd sure as hell

hate to be the one
you're gonna go see.

Why don't you hop in?

I can give you a ride.

No, thanks.

Then how 'bout, uh,

offer you a little water?

I-I-I'm not doin'
nothin' wrong, okay.

I'm just walkin'
down a road.

Well, I'm just
drivin' down a road.

Well-

Sorry.

It was just on the radio.

This song was just
on the radio.

I wasn't really-

But I like this song, hell.

How do I find out
where people live here?

Do you mean the phonebook?

A phonebook?

The book over by the phone.

So who are
you lookin' for?

You stay away
from The Brothers

if you plan on
stickin' around.

My private advice to you.

What brothers?

Where is she from?

She can talk.

Get her another.

On me.

I can buy my own.

Who are you?

Fuck off, Betty.

I used to be pretty once.

People used to buy
me drinks too.

Go to CW's if you
want a free drink.

You know CW?

He ain't been around.

Dodgin' you, like I am.

Hey, hey, come on!

Where's Root Road?

CW James!

Daddy?

Mmmm.

Daddy.

What the-

Who did this to you, huh?

Who?

I, I was gonna do this to you.

Look at me.

Look at me, Daddy!

Look at me, huh!

Because I'm all
grown up, Daddy.

Hello!

Hello?

Who wears this shit?

Why doesn't my cell work?

We're in the dark zone here.

The towers all miss us.

When does the
sheriff's office open?

The sheriff works
strange hours.

So then where
do I find him?

You mean the sheriff?

You need the sheriff,

your best chances are
sitting right here.

He's not here yet.

Need some milk?

That jacket lives
on Root Road.

You must be the daughter.

You know about me?

Go home.

Yeah?

He's dead.

What?

Who's dead?

I'm in Golden,

and I found him,
but he's dead.

Tell me it wasn't you.

Someone tortured
him I think.

It just doesn't
make sense, Mama,

Me gettin' here

and then somebody
already done that to him.

Didn't I tell you
to stay away?

You get out of
there right now.

Whoever done this
is still there.

I'm in town.

It's not
safe there either.

You come straight home.

I'm not comin' home Mama

until I find out
who did this.

You don't owe him nothin'.

You don't know that town.

There's somethin'
broken there.

Yeah and I'm gonna
find out what-

Oh, don't you
bother with that!

Get home now!

Okay,
I'll get on the night bus.

But when I come home
can I read his letter?

Just come home.

He's an egg.

I mean,
it doesn't say that anywhere.

Everyone
knows he's an egg.

Yeah, but how?
It doesn't say that.

Look, guy sits on a wall.

Ah, has a great fall.

All the horses, all the men
can't put him together again.

No mention of an egg.

Why else would he crack
open when he falls off the wall

if he wasn't an egg?

Why do you keep
staring at me?

Listen.

I don't know why but I
gotta tell you somethin'.

I gotta kill-

I gotta protect my
daughter from the monsters,

except I'm one of the
monsters and so is her mama.

I mean, you shoot her
with eight dart guns,

and she'll still
come runnin' at ya.

She got the drug endurance
of a woolly mammoth.

And she's the
more fit parent.

I mean, I think about my
baby girl bein' with her mama

or bein' with me,
and it, it hits me.

It hits me like-

I mean, she's gonna
get exactly what I had,

a dumb dad and
batshit mom

and a town that just
wants to swallow her

unless I do the impossible
and kill all the monsters.

Then why are sittin'
in a bar drinkin',

feelin' sorry for yourself?

Ain't that what
you're doin'?

Well, I don't have a
little girl waitin' on me.

Well you got all the
answers there, don't you?

Lookin' for answers.

About what?

If someone bad dies
it's good, right?

Someone died?

Someone-someone
close to you?

Can I get you something?

No, but you can get
yourself another drink.

Or you can be a man

and get your daughter
the hell outta here.

To gettin' the hell out.

What if it
was a female egg?

What if he's
not an egg at all?

What if he's just like
some fool like CW,

and The Brothers threw
him off the wall,

and he cracked open all over
the floor and just cried?

We're not so different.

Why do you keep
hounding me, lady?

'Cause you got
your dad's eyes.

So you knew my daddy?

Knew?

Got an extra
t-shirt, if you need it.

Hmm?

All right.

Oh, I'm all for the skin,

but you better be careful
around here like that.

The men of this town
would fuck the does

if they could catch 'em.

You know, apparently most
of the whole town goes back

to like two or
three families.

If you think about it,

I mean, half these
jerk offs are shackin' up

with an aunt or an uncle
and they don't even know it.

There's a sick sense of love
that goes through this town.

That's my point.

What's your name?

Yeah, I don't like
tellin' my name either.

You know a face,
a person, a soul.

Shit, what do you
need a name for?

You're just like
passin' through,

on some kind of a hike or?

You let me know if I'm
over-talking, okay.

I'm very aware of myself.

You're over-talking.

Oh, all right.

Just gonna leave
you be now.

You know, I just wanna
know other people I guess, you know,

and I got a
knack for words.

My brother says
it's obnoxious.

You know,
if talk is wrong,

then I wouldn't
wanna be right,

because then I wouldn't be
talkin' with your right now,

would I?

Or talkin' at you.

If it wasn't for
you starin' at me,

I'd think you
were a mannequin.

Right?

Yeah.

I used to find mannequins
sexy as a kid.

Didn't say I was absent
from the sick sense of love

that goes through
this town, did I?

You are what you are.

Ancestry, hmm,
that's a good word.

Do you know that word?

No, oh, ancestry's
like that creek out there.

Okay, just because you're
your own arm in the river,

all your water still
comes from that same big,

fucked up chunk of ice,

and do you know,

that big fucked up chunk
of ice is chasin' you?

Did you know that?

Oh yeah, really, really
slowly but it is chasing you,

and it will catch you,
and you know it will,

so the whole thing
just feels stupid.

What the hell are you
even talkin' about, man?

No, mm mm.

I know you know what
I'm talking about.

It's written on you
like a face tattoo.

Running from the big
fucked up chunk of ice.

I don't think you
have all your screws.

Ah!

What,
you got like a thing for kindling?

Can see why you have
a knack for words?

Why is that?

Practice.

You want some, um,
rehydrated jerky?

It's boiled just
a baby bit,

It comes out like steak.

Hmm?

You eat that?

Yeah.

You're a strange guy.

Yeah, you like me.

I can tell.

What's with this hatchet?

It was my daddy's.

Hmm.

Daddy's girl, huh?

He taught me how to
throw it when I was six.

I stopped knowing him
when I was six so.

You any good at it?

Oh shit.

Shit!

I won some competitions.

I bet you did.

Can I feel it?

You can hold my knife.

Ah, shit!

Yeah.

Well, that's-

That's good.

Yeah.

Tight head.

Perfect weight distribution.

Any chance I get,

I'm in the woods with
my hatchet and my rod.

I really wanna live
out there one day,

but I can't 'cause I
gotta take care of my mama.

Take care of Mama?

Oh, you, yeah okay.

I made you blush.

- No, you didn't.
- Yes, I did.

Hey, can I, um, mm,

can I shake your hand?

I'm not asking for a kiss.

You don't like
how it feels,

I give you full right
just to chop it off.

Daddy's girl.

Ow, ow, ow, ow!

Stop punching yourself!

Stop punching yourself!

Ah, huh, oh!

No, no!

Ow, ow, ow, ow!

Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!

Oh shit!

Huh?

Still wanna fuck me?

Even more.

Hey.

Drop it.

But ,

he killed my daddy.

Look, he's got my
daddy's watch on,

and Daddy's dead
up at his house.

He killed him.

Well if that's so
I'll-I'll make it right.

You promise you'll
make it right?

Oh, you bet your
ass I will.

So she said, uh, you
killed her daddy.

Her daddy.

Sweetheart, how well did
you, uh, know your daddy?

I see you're a smart girl.

Let me introduce you
to this dude here.

He's my half-brother.

My mom was
prettier than his.

My mom was beautiful.

People around here like
to call us The Brothers.

And they
call me the Charmer,

because when I was 14-

Why don't you
just shut the fuck up, hm?

Where are you
guys taking me?

Where do you think?

To get the money.

What money?

The money your dad's got
hidden on his property.

What are you talkin' about?

Daddy never had no dime.

Well,
you saw the letter, didn't ya?

The letter that-

The letter that Daddy wrote?

That's the one.

How do you know
about the letter?

It's no little coincidence
that you come into town,

just as word gets around

that your old man's
got some money hidden.

Does your mama
know you're here?

How do you know my mama?

How do you know
about the letter?

Hey!

How do you know
about the letter?

Well, feel like a drive?

I do feel like
going for a drive.

How do you two
know about the letter, huh?

Shit, I love your spirit!

Hah, hah, hah, hah!

I feel like a nice drive too.

How do you know?

Where are you
guys taking me?

Come on.

Shit!

Fuck!

Now what the fuck am
I gonna do with you?

Well you are one crazy-ass gal,
you know that?

I kinda like you
a little bit.

You remind me of somebody,

somebody familiar.

I used to have
a kid sister,

just like you, wild.

Yeah, real wild ass child.

Poor thing, she
didn't know how to-

how to find the daylight.

She just kept
digging herself a-

a deep dark hole she
couldn't climb out of.

Drank so much she fell out
of the back of our pickup,

nearly paralyzed her.

What the fuck is this?

Hey, stupid!

Didn't I tell you
to bury this?

Yeah, I was gonna but
I-I had to do laundry,

so then I forgot
all about it, so.

Forgot all about it?

Yeah.

Just put the motherfucker
in the ground.

Yeah, yeah.

Now, I got one question
I wanna ask you.

Where's your daddy's money?

Did you try the bank first?

When it gets
all chilly like this,

my hands get all
swelled up and,

I can't close my knuckles,
you know.

They lock up.

My knuckles get swollen.

Oh shit, I wanna play!

Sweetheart,
your daddy didn't believe in no banks.

No,
my daddy also had no money,

'cause he was
a broke fuck!

What the fuck are
you doing here?

Taking a vacation?

Oh this is a real
nice vacation town.

If I told you you
wouldn't believe me anyway.

You know, this little thing
here could do a lot of damage.

To a pretty little
thing like you.

Where's your daddy's money?

I know where it is!

I know where the money is.

Talk to me.

It's-

It's in the tub.

Huh?

It's underneath the bathtub.

Under the tub?

That's where it is.

I said we should
look under the tub.

Well, go look under the
fuckin' tub, brother.

Well you go look.

No, I wanna look.

There ain't no reason that
me and you can't get along.

Ain't no reason why
we can't be friends.

We could work
somethin' out.

Hey.

Honey.

Mm.

I can't move that.

I can't move it at all.

It's too heavy for me.

Get that fuckin'
thing outta here.

Yeah, yeah, I'll
cover it with something.

Gotta protect
her virgin eyes.

This is a technique
called sonar tapping.

Blind people and
dolphins do it

to see things in the dark.

Ah, god!

Ah, that's good,
I got it, okay.

Ah!

Ah!

Ah, yeah!

Fuck!

Goddammit!

No there's nothing here!

She's got us on
a goose chase.

Shit.

Shit.

Oh!

It doesn't make
any sense.

What the fuck
happened to you?

You mind if I
warm up in here?

Nicest room I got.

What do you know
about some money?

Just rumours.

How did these Brothers
know about my family?

Do you know
where they live?

Whatever you got
going on with these guys,

it ain't good.

The Brothers and
their family,

they've been breaking
this town for years.

Well, we're broken.

And there ain't a damn
thing we can do about it.

I have to know
what's going on.

The one time I
knew what was going on,

I lost my toes.

That's The Brothers.

Knowing and not knowing
don't mean a damn thing.

There's havin' toes
and not havin' toes.

Do you think you're
making this place better

with all that toeless,
coward pussy talk?

There ain't no makin'
this place better.

You're the nicest person

that probably came
through here ever,

and you're waving
a hatchet around,

wanting to kill people.

Bus is comin' through soon.

You should be on it.

Are you gonna tell
me where they live?

You know, it's a fine line
between brave and stupid.

It's a fine line
between coward and smart.

Last house
on Black Lake Road.

Beer for the road?

I'll take two.

I can't take
money from a dead girl.

Where you live isn't
any different from here.

All towns can't
be like this one.

No towns
are like this one.

I like your singing.

How do you know my family?

Never could get a
one night stand.

They always come back.

Just kiddin'.

That is why they
call me the Charmer.

Okay?

'Cause when I was 14,

I got in trouble for seducing
all my female teachers.

Got sent to the
principal's office.

And the principal
was a foxy female

in the brink of menopause.

Nine months later we had
a beautiful baby girl.

It's my superpower.

And you and I are
both helpless to it.

And what's between us
is bigger anyways.

It's historical.

What do you
mean historic?

We're like pit-bull litter-mates

just finding each
other years later,

lickin' each other's faces,

smellin' each other's asses.

How did you meet my mama?

Do you know that we
have memory in our blood?

Blood memory they call it.

How do you know my family?

Hmm?

Answer me!

How?

Do you know what you need?

What you need is a man.

That's why you're
behaving this way.

I mean, you think that
you need to be a fighter,

but you just need a
man to fight for you.

Your daddy should've fought
for you and he didn't.

Well I would fight for you.

Oh, I would stop at
nothing to fight for you.

You miss your daddy?

I miss my mom too.

Oh shit!

What did you do?

You piece of shit.

Shhhh.

So you're the other woman.

What?

There's only one man who
was never ugly with me.

But he was hung up
on another woman.

You.

You ain't even makin' sense.

Your daddy.

What'd you know
about my daddy?

I know one
thing about him.

You were the only
love of his life.

Why would you say that?

Yeah, yeah, right.

I don't know why your
daddy cared for you so much.

I never had nothin'
like that to care for.

You don't know shit.

You don't know nothin'
about nothin'.

You don't know nothin'
about what daddy did to me,

what he did to Mama.

Kicked us to the
curb when I was six.

And kicked Mama's
back so bad,

she still can
barely even walk.

And Mama couldn't work,

so she had to rely on all
these different men to feed us,

and these men, you-

So you say Daddy
loved me so much.

If he loved me so much,

then where the hell was he?

I'm sorry that
happened to you.

Look, I don't know what happened
between him and your mom,

but you obviously
don't know anything

about what he did after.

Damned fool driving
over an hour to work,

livin' on canned soup and six
packs to save money for you,

wanted to buy you out
of the life you were in.

"The Cycle" he called it.

Nights and Sundays he's
out lookin' for you.

Writin' letters all over.

Called every shit place that
knows anything about anything.

And no one knew a thing.

Na uh, no, he
sent that letter

because he wanted to
come back and hurt Mama.

So I was gonna
hurt him first.

And that's why I came
here to kill him.

You came to kill him?

Yeah.

What?

Why you think that's funny?

It's perfect.

Mission accomplished.

What are you talkin' about?

You killed your daddy
and you don't even know it.

Your daddy's love for
you is what killed him.

The money your daddy
saved for you,

that's what they
killed him for.

That's why your
uncles killed him.

My uncles?

You're-

you're sayin'

Sheriff and fuckface are-are
Daddy's brothers?

They're your mom's brothers.

Mama's brothers?

You don't know much, huh?

You're just-

you're just talkin'
out of your ass, lady.

I-I-I-I've heard stories
about Mama's brothers.

And those bitches
ain't them.

Your daddy was
a real fuck up

but he would never
hurt a lady.

No, all he wanted was
to do something nice for you.

So this letter

said Daddy wanted to give
me a bunch of money?

Really.

I told him not to
send that letter.

Bullshit.

Maybe it's all
just bar talk.

Maybe he never did
hide any money.

Nobody ever found it, right?

Maybe you should
just go home now.

Forget all about what-

What, why are you
just fillin' my head

with all these like lies,

like Daddy savin'
up money for me?

Bullshit!

And them being my uncles?

They're my uncles?

Yup.

Bullshit.

Bullshit!

Betty, you home?

Get in here.

Get in here, go.

Are you crazy?

Trust me.

Ow.

Where'd she go, Betty?

Bitch stole my
knives and ran out the back.

She knows
where the money is.

If the money's for her

he'd hide it
somewhere she knows.

You need to
get outta town now.

Okay.

Before you go,

your daddy carried
this around.

I stole it a couple of weeks
ago 'cause I was jealous.

He drove himself
crazy looking for it.

Come on, Mama.

Get away, I want Mommy.

I'm trying
to be a good dad,

but you're making
it really difficult.

Mommy says you're shit.

Leave me alone!

Can you please
just talk to me?

Oh shit.

I can hear your
heart beating.

You know, I know what
you come from, girl.

Just like you, I saw the face
of my old man at the end too,

the fear on his face.

They always get
theirs in the end.

Then we're left behind.

That's why you
are what you are.

I understand.

I understand you gotta
do what you gotta do.

So what are you gonna do?

Where ya goin'?

You know, sweetheart,

we aren't in control
of a goddamned thing.

It's the man upstairs.

But I guess, uh,

he ain't lookin' down
on the two of us.

Back when I had religion,

and I was a preacher,

I built that goddamn church
with my own bare hands.

I married your mommy
and daddy there.

It's when your momma was
done with your daddy,

she didn't want
that church alive.

With all this crazy shit,

made up all these lies.

It hurt my name,
hurt my reputation.

So where's the money,
sweetheart?

I swear.

I really don't
know where it is.

You better find
this goddamn money

before your mama gets here.

Why is Mama coming here?

So you're my uncle?

I'm sorry I
missed all your birthdays.

Ah!

You are your
mama's daughter.

Come on, come on.

Come on.

Daddy.

I'm sorry.

What'd you do, baby?

What'd you do, Mama?

I see you found it.

Where is it, Mama?

Right there.

Not the money,
the letter, Mama.

The one Daddy
wrote for me,

and not-not that
bullshit fantasy letter

that you made
up in your head

about him comin' down
there and hurtin' you.

The real one.

The one about him
looking for me.

About this stack of cash
he had hidden away for me.

You know, the one you sent your
darlin' old brothers out here

to just pay him a visit.

That letter, Mama.

I want to read that letter.

I left it at home.

What really happened
to your back?

You know all about it.

Your daddy kicked
us to the curb and-

The truth, Mama!

He kicked me in the back!

Oh, I know the truth!

You fell out of the back of
your brother's pickup truck,

because you were a drunk,
stupid little girl.

You raised me on lies.

My whole life is one big
old thing of bullshit

and so is Daddy's life!

Now you shouldn't have
done that to us, Mama.

Us?

You knew.

So your daddy wanted
to give you some money.

So what?

He should've been givin' me
that money all these years,

so I could buy you
books and shit!

Oh, you think it means
he loves you, don't you?

You don't know nothin'
about nothin'.

You're just a
blind stupid girl

who wants her
daddy's love so bad

she's willing to buy
a bunch of horse shit.

Who went without so you
could have your Fruit Loops

and your spaghetti and
your fuckin' chicken thighs?

Who took care of the boys who
always threw rocks at you?

Who visited you in
juvie every week?

Was it your daddy?

He show up?

It was your mama!

But I gave my
whole life to you.

I gave you everything.

And yet you love him more.

Let's go home, baby.

I don't care
about the money.

We can just split it.

Go look at him, Mama.

He's in the garage.

I'd rather not.

You're right
about one thing.

Oh, you are right
about one thing.

I have been a blind,
stupid girl, Mama,

Because you put
all this together,

didn't you, Mama, huh?

And you knew

my Daddy and your brothers
would destroy each other,

and then you could come over
here and pick up all the money.

Daddy's dead
'cause of you.

You'd never
hurt your mama.

I just need to know
one thing, Mama.

Why'd you keep him from me
for all these years, Mama?

You're gonna kill me.

Why should I tell you?

Because I need to know, Mama!

I need to know the truth,
goddammit, please!

Because he cheated on me.

At least I thought he did.

That's all?

My family holds a grudge.

Look at you.

You're about to
kill your mother.

My parents have
been dead for decades,

but they're still
fighting in my head.

Your daddy and I are
fighting in yours.

No, you're not fighting
in my head no more, Mama.

I'll see you at home?

I don't know, Daddy.

I can't live here.

And I can't go home either.

Shots?

No, I'm-I'm good.

What are you having?

Coffee.

You know what your
dad once said to me?

The only real
revenge is living a good life.

I didn't listen to him.

Campaign contributions.

I, uh, I think there's an
opening for a new sheriff.

We can only
afford one seat.

She can sit on my lap.

I took your crazy advice.

You're probably gonna tell
me I'm doin' it all wrong.

This girl's gonna have
her own bedroom,

at least her own bed.

Gonna work some shit job,
I don't care.

Just gotta get her
away from here.

You want one?

I got an extra one for her.

It's extra.

Thank you.