“Hey, what's this movie
like?” a man asks one afternoon. He waves the case for Breathless
in Fernando's direction.
“That is a very dark
caper movie about a woman who offs her skeevy husband to abscond with
a great deal of his money.”
The man squints down at
the case. “What's a movie it's close to?”
Fernando ponders for a
moment. “The Ice Harvest, maybe? I haven't seen this one
seeing as it just came out today so I can't say for sure. It reads
similarly in content to that one, though.”
“What's that one?”
“It's got John Cusack
and Connie Nielsen. They steal a bunch of money from a mobster or
something and they need to find a way to make a clean getaway. It's
been a while since I've seen it.”
“Oh.” The man looks
around the store. “That didn't really answer my question.”
“I'm sorry. I'm not
sure what other answers I can give.”
“What's a movie I've
seen that's like those ones?”
Fernando doesn't know
what the hell movies that guy has seen, so he pulls a good-sounding
answer from his ass. “Um...maybe Safe House?”
“Oh, I liked that one.”
With that, the man decides to rent Breathless.
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