Film / Sunspring

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Sunspring is a 2016 science-fiction short film directed by Oscar Sharp, written by an screenwriting A.I. named Benjamin and starring Thomas Middleditch of Silicon Valley fame.

It was produced as part of Sci-Fi London's 48 Hour film challenge and it's... well, it's kind of weird. It's about an affair, we think? And a guy commits suicide?

Either way, if you have ten minutes to spare, you could do worse than to watch it here on youtube.

This film presents examples of the following tropes:

• All There in the Script:
  • The main character, the rival, and the female lead are never named. The credits refer to them as "H", "C" and "H", respectively. Most other sources refer to the second H as H2.
  • The script appears to refer to C as Coffey and H2 as Hauk.
• Ate His Gun: H does this, although he does not kill himself due to being distracted by a black hole... in the floor.
• Arc Words: "I don't know what you're talking about", appropriately enough.
• Body Horror: H vomits up an eyeball at one point.
• Composite Character: In the script the final monologue is delivered by a fourth character called "T", unseen until now. The film has H2 deliver the monologue to the camera.
• Driven to Suicide: The main character, though it's not entirely clear if he went through with it.
• Dystopia: The first line in the movie sets up the world as this.
  In a future with mass unemployment, young people are forced to sell blood.
• Future Slang: Implied to be why everyone talks so funny.
• Love Triangle: Looks to be Type 4, with C and H2 in a relationship and H interested in H2.
• Most Writers Are Human: Averted. The script was written by a computer and is completely divorced from any sane person's conceptions of normalcy.
• Parental Abandonment: Implied.
  I was the one who got on this rock with a child... and I left the other two behind.
• Portmantitle: "Sun" + "Spring"
• Rich Bitch: Rich Bastard: The other main character has shades of this.
  We're going to see the money.
• Used Future: The first line in the movie sets up the world as this. Alternately, that may be the plot of the in-universe book Sunspring, which H picks up immediately before saying that line.

• Unusual Euphemism: "Well, I have to go to the skull!", although, it's not clear what it actually means... assuming it actually means anything at all.
• Word-Salad Humor: Played for drama. The plot includes such gibberish lines as "Well, I have to go to the skull!" It's also quite hard to figure out the plot because of the word-salad dialogue. Pretty much all that is distinguishable is that there is probably a love triangle between the three characters, one may or may not have gone to space, and he at least contemplates suicide.