User:Guido/Wishlist/Part 4: Difference between revisions

===WISHLIST PART 4===

''Intense rainfall. Thick layers of clouds darken a summer evening. Through the gloom, we can notice a caravan. It is a group of six vehicles (an ambulance and a couple of trucks stay in the center). Something has stopped them as they were siding a collapsed highway. The second truck is stuck in the muddy terrain. Its wheels are half-buried by its own weight. Eight small figures are running forth and back harnessing both of the trucks. The lights inside the cockpits show us the shapes of other people waiting in their driving positions''.

'''KAZUO''' ''is leaning to the dashboard'',

''the weather’s too wet for enjoying a cigarette''.  

 

(''He observes the rain with its usual trajectory, picking the bonnet of a car he should be instead driving by now''.)

('''MRS. HISHIKAWA''' ''knocks at his window glass''. '''KAZUO''' ''lowers it''.)

<strike>'''MRS. HISHIKAWA''' Don’t say you don’t like a thing because you have not tasted it yet.</strike>

'''MRS. HISHIKAWA''' “Make yourself useful. And come with me�?

('''''KAZUO''' frantically looks at his almost-empty package of cigarettes'')  

(''They leave the car, and join the small crowd around the second truck. However there’s something unexpected going on. Their methodical moves are disturbed by someone who has joined the party. Konoko is willfully trying to push the second truck from behind, together with two members of the expedition. The driver has turned on the engine, wheels on the rear spin into the mod, sizzling spurts in every direction. Konoko finally slips into the dirty.'')

(''She’s a desperate case''. '''KAZUO''' ''and'' '''MRS.HISHIKAWA''' ''drag her away''.)

'''MRS. HISHIKAWA''' There’s another way for buying our attention.

'''KONOKO''' (''wheezes'') I am fine… (''as she refuses their help''.)

'''KAZUO V.O'''.: DEAD DRUNK, ABSOLUTELY.

'''MRS. HISHIKAWA''' Please, take her to the ambulance, Kazuo. Give her what she wants and then send her off.  

 

(''Konoko looks even worse than ever. A soaking wet coat, a mass of filthy hair, a thin pale face with two questioning eyes.'' )

 

(''They let enter'' '''KONOKO''' ''into the rear of the ambulance, then'' '''MRS. HISHIKAWA''' ''leaves them for attending more urgent matters'')

 

'''KAZUO''': (''after he is sure'' '''MRS. HISHIKAWA''' ''cannot hear his voice'') Crusty woman.  

 

(''turns on the lights in the ambulance'')  

 

'''KAZUO''': (''to'' '''KONOKO''')Stop it! (''Konoko is like a filthy ragged spot raging a perfectly clean space''.)

 

'''KONOKO''': (''stops'') Can’t you spare a meal?

 

'''KAZUO''': Just tell me if I must consider you as a part of the of the solution or a part of the problem.

 

'''KONOKO''': freezes and sits down.

 

 

('''KAZUO''' ''and'' '''KONOKO''' ''are now sitting on separate benches, on the opposite sides of the ambulance''.)

 

(''She is devouring an improvised collection of snacks, medical rations, and hot drinks''.)

 

'''KAZUO''':…''Too many people carry their wounded to us- they beg us for some food and medicines. But we can’t afford all their requests''.

 

:(''chewing'')… your boss is a kind person after all.

 

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