Love Wants Us Dead (2025)

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The small desert community

of Lancaster, California is reeling

after the dismembered body

of a man in his mid-30s

was discovered early this morning.

This marks the third m*rder

of its kind in the area

within the last six months,

raising alarm among residents

and authorities alike.

Again?

The victim was near

an abandoned tractor,

deep in the arid stretches

of Lancaster Desert on Sierra Avenue.

A local passerbyer made

the horrifying discovery

after noticing the

seemingly deserted vehicle

and investigating further.

What he found was the

mul-mutilated remains of a man,

brutally dismembered with

his body parts scattered

around the site.

The motive behind the

crime remains a mystery,

but investigators are considering

a possible connection

between the two murders

and the two previous killings.

All three victims were found

in a remote desert location.

Their bodies dismembered

in a similar manner.

Residents of Lancaster,

a usually quiet and tight knit community.

(water pattering)

(Anais sighs)

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Are you okay, kiddo?

Yeah, yeah.

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Can I ask you a question?

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Uh, sure.

Who is she?

Who?

The girl staying in the back.

(items knocking)

She's nobody.

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She showed up one day

looking for a place to stay,

offered good money, no questions asked.

Hey? Don't say anything about it.

Sure.

Some people, they're just

passing through this world.

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Yeah, aren't we all?

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(Anais panting)

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How much is there?

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That's all I got.

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She is cute.

She has not changed a bit.

Can't touch her.

- Ah.

- Can't touch

the other one either.

Hear about the new murders?

(sighs) Too busy for gossip.

Two new bodies showed

up. I don't like this.

Stick to your thing

and let everything else handle itself.

Right.

Here.

Don't show anyone,

and by no one, I mean no one, understand?

I understand.

Do you understand?

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Do you need help?

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Do you like moving pictures?

Um, yeah.

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I liked it.

You must have hours and hours of footage.

What pushes you to do it?

Time.

Time?

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The passage of time,

where I'm from, is different.

Different how, like a kind of nostalgia?

Something like that, I suppose.

I like documenting the

impermanence of things.

How fragile all things are here.

I know it sounds strange, but...

No, um, on the contrary,

it makes total sense.

I think that film can capture things

that we don't usually see.

Like the slow opening of a flower

or the fast movements of a

leopard chasing its prey.

I've always found film to

be a fascinating medium.

It can bring back the ghost of the past.

Yeah.

Well, I have to go,

but thank you for showing me your film.

I really enjoyed it.

Thank you.

I guess I'll see you around.

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There we go there.

Big step up.

(patient groans)

Okay.

Good job. Good job.

Okay, one second.

Now those feet.

There we go.

Okay and up, up.

Up, up, up.

There we go.

(patient groans)

(blanket rustling)

Good.

(container clacking)

(pills rattling)

Okay, can you take these for me?

Good, take a big gulp of water.

There you go.

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Hi.

Hi.

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I've been thinking about

the films that we watched.

What about it?

The way that you spoke about time

reminded me of something.

I thought that you might appreciate this.

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Maya Deren.

You mentioned capturing

moments outside of time.

That's what Deren was doing decades

before anyone else understood.

This retrospective explorers

how she manipulated time

and space and meshes of the afternoon.

She created a reality outside

of our normal perception.

You understand.

More than you think.

When you film with your mirrors,

you're doing something similar,

creating fragmented realities

or suspended moments.

This is yours. I can't take it.

No, no. I want you to have it.

It's rare that I find someone

who sees things the way that I do.

I'm going to a place

tomorrow in the desert.

The quality of light there is different.

Would you like to come?

I already packed my boots.

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Look at my hair.

The wind was not my friend.

I think you look charming.

There's something mysterious

about capturing time.

Don't you think?

Memories are precious.

Sometimes it's all we have.

Yeah.

The desert looks so beautiful here.

Also kind of, I dunno, menacing.

The desert is also unforgiving.

It reveals truths we prefer hidden.

I'm glad that we did this.

It was fun.

Yes.

Sorry, excuse me.

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Hey.

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(Anais groaning)

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You okay?

(Anais whining)

I got you. (Speaking indistinctly)

I need to go.

Okay.

Come on.

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(Anais whining)

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(Anais panting)

Why don't you wanna go to the hospital?

I can't do anything about it.

Did you k*ll all of those people?

What are you?

I don't know.

I need to go home.

No, no, no, no.

You cannot go anywhere like this.

Just stay here tonight.

I'll take you back in the morning.

Are you sure?

It's a long way home.

And it could be dangerous for you.

I'll take my chances.

How long can you go before feeding?

About a day.

Okay, okay, we need to

find a way to contain it.

I can't have you or whatever it is

running around k*lling people.

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My phone's not working anymore.

Technology fails as we get closer.

Closer to what exactly?

A threshold.

A place where reality fades.

Is that where we're going,

to the threshold?

We must cross it to get there.

You're not safe with me

if I don't feed.

I know.

Beyond the threshold,

everything changes, even time.

Maybe that's what I'm looking for.

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Can I get that pack of razors?

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What do I owe you?

Things don't seem what they are,

but certain things remain in the dark.

We have to be careful about

throwing too much light

to places we can't see.

For every light casts a shadow

and without a shadow there's

no light, simple mathematics.

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(Rose gasps and pants)

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What is this?

What have you done?

You needed it.

You didn't have to.

I wanted to.

No one has ever done this for me.

Does it hurt

when you need it?

Like hunger, (panting)

It paralyze you.

Your whole body screams in pain.

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(Anais panting)

What does blood taste like?

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This is as far as we can get with this.

We are on our own now.

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Don't you wanna get your things?

Nothing works beyond there.

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You sure you wanna do this?

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