![]() ![]() The apparition smells embalming fluid, which prompts Alan to remember a phrase that he had read in a book: "the dead travel fast". His apparition accompanies him in the car and warns him to not give his real information because there is something wrong with George. He is then picked up by a man who he realizes is George Staub. The apparition tells him that they are saving a place for him. Alan sees an apparition of himself come up through the ground. He walks through a cemetery and comes across the grave of George Staub, whose grave marker indicates that he died 2 years ago. He sees a billboard for the "Ride The Bullet" rollercoaster at Thrill Village, which triggers a memory of him standing in line with his mother to ride it, where he ultimately chickened out. Alan walks away from the incident shaken but alive.Īlan begins to hallucinate and has multiple experiences with the living and the dead. They narrowly miss colliding with an oncoming car, spinning out and landing in a ditch. He is picked up by a Volkswagen van that is driven by Ferris, an army deserter. He envisions the death of his mother, and then himself, with a devastated Jessica weeping at his grave. He makes plans to go home that night, giving the concert tickets to his roommates.Īs he tries to hitchhike home to Lewiston, Maine, Alan remembers the funeral of his father, Julian, when he was 6 years old. Alan gets a phone call that his mother, Jean, has had a stroke. The next day, when Alan is released from the hospital, Jessica tells him that he has a wall around him, and Alan realizes that Jessica really was going to leave him. She surprises him with concert tickets to see John Lennon in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Jessica says that she is angry with him for the "selfish" act he attempted to commit, but also tells Alan that she loves him. ![]() ![]() Alan accidentally cuts himself when Jessica and a group of friends startle him by coming in to surprise him for his birthday.Īlan wakes up in the hospital. Murals of people painted on the wall also appear to be urging him to kill himself. The Grim Reaper appears and tries to convince Alan to kill himself so that he can come to the other side. Alan gets high in the bathtub and begins to contemplate suicide. On October 30, his birthday, he thinks his girlfriend, Jessica, is trying to break up with him. Set in 1969, Alan Parker is a young artist, studying at the University of Maine, where his professor believes he is obsessed with death. ![]()
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